Linux-Hardware Digest #624, Volume #13 Sun, 24 Sep 00 17:13:08 EDT
Contents:
My Modem.... ("Rooty")
Enabling higher memory (Arun)
RH6.2: how to mount ATAPI ZIP drive automatically at startup? ("Typhon")
Re: linksys lne10/100tx HELP! ("david")
Dell I5K, Mandrake 7.1, and Win98SE, oh my! (Alan Raskin)
Olivetti M4 Modulo P75 ??? ("Pierre")
Re: My Modem.... ("Rooty")
Re: My Modem.... (Tony Curtis)
Re: My Modem.... (Bartek Kostrzewa)
Re: My Modem.... (Tony Curtis)
Re: linksys lne10/100tx HELP! ("david")
Re: RH6.2: how to mount ATAPI ZIP drive automatically at startup? ("Steve Wolfe")
Re: which modem is better? ("Dirk van Tonder")
Re: Lexmark 5700 under linux (Alexander Newald)
Re: Best sound recording under linux SB PCI128 with Ensoniq 1371 (Sreekant Kodela)
Re: Dell I5K, Mandrake 7.1, and Win98SE, oh my! (Bruceh)
Re: Dell I5K, Mandrake 7.1, and Win98SE, oh my! (Bruceh)
Re: RH6.2: how to mount ATAPI ZIP drive automatically at startup? (Bartek Kostrzewa)
Re: My Modem.... (Bartek Kostrzewa)
Re: My Modem.... (Bartek Kostrzewa)
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From: "Rooty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: My Modem....
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 15:16:15 -0400
Can anyone tell me how to detect my modem?
I'm running RedHat 6.2 an Win 98 on a Toshiba laptop. I looked at my specs
and the HOWTO, and it is supported, but I didn't understand the HOWTO. My
modem is on COM Port 2. I am fairly new with Linux, so would someone mind
explaining to me what I have to do?
Thanx
--Rooty
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From: Arun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Enabling higher memory
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 03:17:21 +0800
Hi
Can somebody tell me how to enable higher memory . I am running red hat
6.2 with 128 mb of memory. But the OS recognises only 62 MB of memory
Thanks
Arun
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From: "Typhon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH6.2: how to mount ATAPI ZIP drive automatically at startup?
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 19:18:21 GMT
Hi guys. I am trying to mount my internal ATAPI ZIP drive automatically at
startup.
I use RedHat 6.2, a basic installation from a RH6.2 CDROM. I use Gnome as my
X-Window application, and Enlightenment as my Window Manager.
I know that my ZIP drive is named hdc4.
I have added these lines to/etc/fstab:
/dev/hdc4 /mnt/zipdos vfat noauto,rw,user,sync,mode=0777
/dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip ext2 noauto,rw,user,nosuid,sync
I would like to be able to mount the ZIP drive automatically when I start
Gnome (by typing startx).
Any ideas?
Many thanks.
Kind regards,
Eric
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From: "david" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linksys lne10/100tx HELP!
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 15:27:37 -0400
netdriver package?
i have that but i cant get it to work could you tell me the command to use
i have linux version 2.2.14
the dist is suse64
i get an error mesg that says the kernal and module version wont match
kernal is 2.2.14 module is 2,2,14-5
what ever that means
please help
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:Ywoz5.15673$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : mine isnt working at all
>
> What version of the netdriver package are you using?
>
> --
> Jeff Gentry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "You're one of those condescending UNIX users! ...."
> "Here's a nickel kid ... get yourself a real computer."
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From: Alan Raskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.sys.laptop,alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Subject: Dell I5K, Mandrake 7.1, and Win98SE, oh my!
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 14:25:35 -0500
I've encountered a strange problem trying to convert my Inspiron 5000
laptop into a dual-boot Windows/Linux system.
The automatic installation for Mandrake Linux 7.1 worked fine, with the
hard disk partitioned for 8 MB for Windows and 3.5 MB for Linux, and I
even managed to manually configure XFree86 3.3.x for the 1400 by 1050
LCD screen. (The wheel on my OED Logitech mouse and my internal Lucent
WinModem remained DOA, though.)
However, after about a week, when I rebooted the system, after the
"stage1 stage2" message I was kicked out to the "grub>" prompt, as the
master boot record seemed to have become corrupt. The first time this
occurred, I ran the Dell diagnostics, but didn't find any problems, and
booting up on the rescue diskette worked fine; I could see the hard disk
OK, but trying to run Windows generated a "VFAT Device Initialization
Failed" error message.
I phoned Dell that Friday evening and quickly received a "fix": fdisk
/mbr. This restored the master boot record, but of course I had to
re-install Linux.
Just over a week later, the same thing happened. This time, I had run
Norton AntiVirus 2000 before shutting down Windows, to check the MBR; no
problems were reported. Again, I was kicked out to "grub>", until I ran
fdisk /mbr.
Is there anything else that I need to do to get Windows 98 SE and
Mandrake Linux to co-exist, or am I just SOL? Does Win98SE write to the
MBR at shutdown every once in a while?
Thanks for you assistance.
- Alan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Pierre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Olivetti M4 Modulo P75 ???
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:25:52 +0200
Hi,
I am trying to install linux on a serie of old Olivetti pc M4 Modulo P75 but
I am quickly stopped. I tried ReadHat 6.1/6.2, Suse 6.3 and Corel and I
always got the same display problem very soon during the installation.The
display is not updated anymore and nothing is diplayed on the screen while
some activity remains on the cdrom ( a few seconds). The embedded display
adapter is a "Trident 9685/9680/9682/9385/9382/9385-1 PCI" (info coming from
Win98).
Does anyone knows how to solve that situation ?
Thanks for any inputs
Pierre.
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From: "Rooty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My Modem....
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 15:34:13 -0400
Actually, I looked under the dev directory, and modem isn't there. What do I
do now? Do I have to install somethign?
--Rooty
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From: Tony Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My Modem....
Date: 24 Sep 2000 14:39:53 -0500
>> On Sun, 24 Sep 2000 15:16:15 -0400,
>> "Rooty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Can anyone tell me how to detect my modem? I'm running
> RedHat 6.2 an Win 98 on a Toshiba laptop. I looked at my
> specs and the HOWTO, and it is supported, but I didn't
> understand the HOWTO. My modem is on COM Port 2. I am
> fairly new with Linux, so would someone mind explaining
> to me what I have to do?
A good place to start might be:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/#specific_models
where you'll probably be able to locate the laptop model
and see if the modem has a supported chipset.
hth
t
--
Namaste!
And an "oogabooga" to you too!
-- Homer Simpson
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Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:41:00 +0200
From: Bartek Kostrzewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My Modem....
Rooty wrote:
>
> Can anyone tell me how to detect my modem?
> I'm running RedHat 6.2 an Win 98 on a Toshiba laptop. I looked at my specs
> and the HOWTO, and it is supported, but I didn't understand the HOWTO. My
> modem is on COM Port 2. I am fairly new with Linux, so would someone mind
> explaining to me what I have to do?
>
> Thanx
What do you want to do with your modem? It doesn't display under /dev ,
that's normal. It's on com 2, that's all.
>
> --Rooty
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From: Tony Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My Modem....
Date: 24 Sep 2000 14:43:51 -0500
>> On Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:41:00 +0200,
>> Bartek Kostrzewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> What do you want to do with your modem? It doesn't
> display under /dev , that's normal. It's on com 2,
> that's all.
Yes it does.
$ ls -l /dev/modem
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jul 11 17:06 /dev/modem -> ttyS14
hth
t
--
Namaste!
And an "oogabooga" to you too!
-- Homer Simpson
------------------------------
From: "david" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linksys lne10/100tx HELP!
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 15:53:21 -0400
will there be some sort of problem if i download through windows
its obvious that i cant download through linux to get the package
i head that win and lin download things differently
"david" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8qlkjm$q71$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> netdriver package?
> i have that but i cant get it to work could you tell me the command to use
>
> i have linux version 2.2.14
> the dist is suse64
> i get an error mesg that says the kernal and module version wont match
> kernal is 2.2.14 module is 2,2,14-5
> what ever that means
> please help
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:Ywoz5.15673$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > : mine isnt working at all
> >
> > What version of the netdriver package are you using?
> >
> > --
> > Jeff Gentry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > "You're one of those condescending UNIX users! ...."
> > "Here's a nickel kid ... get yourself a real computer."
>
>
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6.2: how to mount ATAPI ZIP drive automatically at startup?
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 13:45:06 -0600
> Hi guys. I am trying to mount my internal ATAPI ZIP drive automatically at
> startup.
>
> I use RedHat 6.2, a basic installation from a RH6.2 CDROM. I use Gnome as
my
> X-Window application, and Enlightenment as my Window Manager.
>
> I know that my ZIP drive is named hdc4.
>
> I have added these lines to/etc/fstab:
>
> /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zipdos vfat noauto,rw,user,sync,mode=0777
> /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip ext2 noauto,rw,user,nosuid,sync
>
> I would like to be able to mount the ZIP drive automatically when I start
> Gnome (by typing startx).
>
> Any ideas?
Take a close look at those lines in the /etc/fstab, see if anything
jumps out at you. You know, like the "noauto" option. ; ) Take that out of
there, and it will work.
steve
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From: "Dirk van Tonder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: which modem is better?
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 22:01:58 +0200
I use my 3Com 56K ext. Faxmodem with linux(RedHat 6.1 and Corel 1.1) and
have no problems what so ever.
As for V.90 and X2 support, I think that you will just have to check the box
a little better. Myne support both v.90 and x2.
Dirk van Tonder
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"larry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am running Mandrake 7.1, not that it will make much difference.
>
> I want to buy locally and the two choices I have are both external.
>
> 3 COM 56K Faxmodem
>
> Bestdata 56K
>
> the box on the 3Com says itsupports x2 is this an older model?
>
> the Best says it has the lucent chipset...
>
> many thank you's for your response
>
> Larry
> Beach Volleyball Maui
> http://www.maui.net/~lmccarty/start.htm
>
>
>
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From: Alexander Newald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lexmark 5700 under linux
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:15:33 +0200
Dan wrote:
[Problems with lexmark 5700]
Ups,
What gs do you have. I think GNU Ghostscript 5.50 (2000-2-13) is
required.
Alex
-- =
Alexander Newald Internet presentation & Network solution
Wunstorfer Stra=DFe 72 =
30453 Hannover - Germany Information: http://www.newald.de/service
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Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 22:33:01 +0100
From: Sreekant Kodela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best sound recording under linux SB PCI128 with Ensoniq 1371
> Hi me again
Anyone with some helful thoughts on the above.
Thanks
sreekant
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From: Bruceh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.sys.laptop,alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Subject: Re: Dell I5K, Mandrake 7.1, and Win98SE, oh my!
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 20:46:03 GMT
I have an I5000 and dual boot Mandrake & win98se. Though I haven't had
exactly the same error messages, I've had similar problems.
Every once in a while when booting up my Norton Disk Doctor
(similar to Scandisk) says that the MBR is corrupt. I tell it not
to fix it because I'm not sure what it would do. Everything seems
to be fine. I can still boot either Win98 or Linux.
My initial clue that something was wrong was when I ran
fdisk and my Linux partitions that I created in the extended
partition was no longer there (even though linux boots ok).
I recently purchased PartitionMagic and found that there was
a problem with one of the linux partitions was not linked
correctly in the extended partition. I was told that the only
solution would be to rebuild it. I have yet to do that.
Hope this helps.
-bruceh-
I just purchased Partition Magic (which I should have done initially).
Alan Raskin wrote:
> I've encountered a strange problem trying to convert my Inspiron 5000
> laptop into a dual-boot Windows/Linux system.
>
> The automatic installation for Mandrake Linux 7.1 worked fine, with the
> hard disk partitioned for 8 MB for Windows and 3.5 MB for Linux, and I
> even managed to manually configure XFree86 3.3.x for the 1400 by 1050
> LCD screen. (The wheel on my OED Logitech mouse and my internal Lucent
> WinModem remained DOA, though.)
>
> However, after about a week, when I rebooted the system, after the
> "stage1 stage2" message I was kicked out to the "grub>" prompt, as the
> master boot record seemed to have become corrupt. The first time this
> occurred, I ran the Dell diagnostics, but didn't find any problems, and
> booting up on the rescue diskette worked fine; I could see the hard disk
> OK, but trying to run Windows generated a "VFAT Device Initialization
> Failed" error message.
>
> I phoned Dell that Friday evening and quickly received a "fix": fdisk
> /mbr. This restored the master boot record, but of course I had to
> re-install Linux.
>
> Just over a week later, the same thing happened. This time, I had run
> Norton AntiVirus 2000 before shutting down Windows, to check the MBR; no
> problems were reported. Again, I was kicked out to "grub>", until I ran
> fdisk /mbr.
>
> Is there anything else that I need to do to get Windows 98 SE and
> Mandrake Linux to co-exist, or am I just SOL? Does Win98SE write to the
> MBR at shutdown every once in a while?
>
> Thanks for you assistance.
>
> - Alan
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Bruceh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.sys.laptop,alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Subject: Re: Dell I5K, Mandrake 7.1, and Win98SE, oh my!
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 20:47:54 GMT
BTW, I'm boot using LILO.
-bruceh-
Bruceh wrote:
> I have an I5000 and dual boot Mandrake & win98se. Though I haven't had
> exactly the same error messages, I've had similar problems.
>
> Every once in a while when booting up my Norton Disk Doctor
> (similar to Scandisk) says that the MBR is corrupt. I tell it not
> to fix it because I'm not sure what it would do. Everything seems
> to be fine. I can still boot either Win98 or Linux.
>
> My initial clue that something was wrong was when I ran
> fdisk and my Linux partitions that I created in the extended
> partition was no longer there (even though linux boots ok).
>
> I recently purchased PartitionMagic and found that there was
> a problem with one of the linux partitions was not linked
> correctly in the extended partition. I was told that the only
> solution would be to rebuild it. I have yet to do that.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> -bruceh-
>
> I just purchased Partition Magic (which I should have done initially).
>
> Alan Raskin wrote:
>
> > I've encountered a strange problem trying to convert my Inspiron 5000
> > laptop into a dual-boot Windows/Linux system.
> >
> > The automatic installation for Mandrake Linux 7.1 worked fine, with the
> > hard disk partitioned for 8 MB for Windows and 3.5 MB for Linux, and I
> > even managed to manually configure XFree86 3.3.x for the 1400 by 1050
> > LCD screen. (The wheel on my OED Logitech mouse and my internal Lucent
> > WinModem remained DOA, though.)
> >
> > However, after about a week, when I rebooted the system, after the
> > "stage1 stage2" message I was kicked out to the "grub>" prompt, as the
> > master boot record seemed to have become corrupt. The first time this
> > occurred, I ran the Dell diagnostics, but didn't find any problems, and
> > booting up on the rescue diskette worked fine; I could see the hard disk
> > OK, but trying to run Windows generated a "VFAT Device Initialization
> > Failed" error message.
> >
> > I phoned Dell that Friday evening and quickly received a "fix": fdisk
> > /mbr. This restored the master boot record, but of course I had to
> > re-install Linux.
> >
> > Just over a week later, the same thing happened. This time, I had run
> > Norton AntiVirus 2000 before shutting down Windows, to check the MBR; no
> > problems were reported. Again, I was kicked out to "grub>", until I ran
> > fdisk /mbr.
> >
> > Is there anything else that I need to do to get Windows 98 SE and
> > Mandrake Linux to co-exist, or am I just SOL? Does Win98SE write to the
> > MBR at shutdown every once in a while?
> >
> > Thanks for you assistance.
> >
> > - Alan
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 23:01:57 +0200
From: Bartek Kostrzewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6.2: how to mount ATAPI ZIP drive automatically at startup?
Typhon wrote:
>
> Hi guys. I am trying to mount my internal ATAPI ZIP drive automatically at
> startup.
>
> I use RedHat 6.2, a basic installation from a RH6.2 CDROM. I use Gnome as my
> X-Window application, and Enlightenment as my Window Manager.
>
> I know that my ZIP drive is named hdc4.
>
> I have added these lines to/etc/fstab:
>
> /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zipdos vfat noauto,rw,user,sync,mode=0777
> /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip ext2 noauto,rw,user,nosuid,sync
>
> I would like to be able to mount the ZIP drive automatically when I start
> Gnome (by typing startx).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Eric
Hmm... what does NOAUTO mean?
startx is a script, so just add the line
mount /mnt/zip to it
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Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 23:02:46 +0200
From: Bartek Kostrzewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My Modem....
Tony Curtis wrote:
>
> >> On Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:41:00 +0200,
> >> Bartek Kostrzewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > What do you want to do with your modem? It doesn't
> > display under /dev , that's normal. It's on com 2,
> > that's all.
>
> Yes it does.
>
I didn't mean this link! He obviously wanted to see his particular model
in the list.
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Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 23:04:08 +0200
From: Bartek Kostrzewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My Modem....
Tony Curtis wrote:
>
> >> On Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:41:00 +0200,
> >> Bartek Kostrzewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > What do you want to do with your modem? It doesn't
> > display under /dev , that's normal. It's on com 2,
> > that's all.
>
> Yes it does.
>
Oh, and this link just doesn't exist by default, but it has become
practice to add it to configurators for simplicity.
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