Linux-Hardware Digest #639, Volume #13 Wed, 27 Sep 00 17:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: HELP: SiteCom PCMCIA ethernet chip? (root)
Re: 486 DLC 40 Server
Adaptec 29160N and Slackware v7.1 (Dennis van der Meer)
newbie question: can I read my DVD discs with linux default s/w ? ("tom")
Re: What platforms can linux run? (John)
Re: Canon BJC-2100 (John)
Re: Motherboards with 5+ ISA slots (Trent Piepho)
Re: Asus A7v M/B compatible? (Robert Fox)
Re: What platforms can linux run? (Lew Pitcher)
Re: IMWheel for Scroll wheel (John)
Tape Backup drives ("John Bald")
PROMISE parallel card ("John B")
Re: What platforms can linux run? (Lew Pitcher)
Strange NVIDIA_kernel 0.9-5 instalation problem... please help ! (John Labbat)
Re: Tape Backup drives (John)
Re: What platforms can linux run? (Malcolm Beattie)
Re: What platforms can linux run? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: What platforms can linux run? (John)
Re: newbie question: can I read my DVD discs with linux default s/w ?
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Motherboards with 5+ ISA slots (jwk)
Re: What platforms can linux run? (John)
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: HELP: SiteCom PCMCIA ethernet chip?
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 14:20:55 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i would try the rtl8139 module. worked for my pcmcia 10/100 netgear
card.....
McManus Leo Root DSP Consultant wrote:
> I have a SiteCom PCMCIA 10/100 ethernet card on my TravelMate 4000M.
>
> I have contacted SiteCom in the Netherlands, but get no reply so am
> unable to find out what ethernet chip it is using. There is seemingly no
> information in the manual or on the card itself.
>
> It has a Redhat 6.0 driver and has a module called lna100.o but I am
> running SuSE6.3. I have tried to use the module, but I get no reports on
> the detection taking place and if I try an INSMOD, it reports it cannot
> find the module. If I do an IFCONGIG I see no eth0.
>
> Has anyone got any idea what chip/driver would be on this SiteCom card
> or any pointers to move forward with this. I have to option to return it
> if I cannot get it working and only have 10 days left!
>
> Thanks
>
> Leo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: 486 DLC 40 Server
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 18:19:29 -0000
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000 09:29:56 -0400, G. Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>take a look at http://freesco.org this may be just what you want... and it
>has been running fine on a 486 dlc 50 here for about a year
Slackware is just fine for a DLC/40.
The big issues for any 'real OS' are disk space and RAM.
4M is a bit cramped for anything short of GEM.
>
>Andrew Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:8q5mpg$12js$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> I am a newbie to linux red hat... I was wondering whether it be possible
>to
>> install linux on a 486 DLC 40 with 4 mb ram. I only want dos based
>server,
>> the pc only has a 40 meg hdd.
>>
>> Any suggestions would be appreciated....
>> Ryan
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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make it better.
I need another lawyer like I need another hole in my head.
-- Fratianno
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From: Dennis van der Meer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Adaptec 29160N and Slackware v7.1
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 20:31:21 +0200
Reply-To: Dennis van der Meer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
I have recently bought an Adaptect 29160N SCSI card and it works
perfectly under Windows 98. But I want to move to Linux as much as
possible so I need my SCSI CD burner and CD-Rom drive. The only
problem is, is that I can't get my SCSI card functioning with
Slackware. I search for similar reports on mailinglists but all I
could find were people saying that you have to use the AIC7xxx driver
and the card is automatically recognized. Well, I tried that and I get
the following errors (when I compile support for that in the kernel):
(scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7892 Ultra 160, SCSI host adapter> found at PCI
0/9/0
(scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs
(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 396 instructions downloaded
scsi: <fdomain> Detection failed (no card)
NCR53c406a: no available ports found
sym53c416.c: Version 1.0.0
scsi0: Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.28/3.2.4
<Adaptec AIC-7892 Ultra 160/m SCSI host adapter>
scsi : 1 host
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi0, channel 0, id
0, lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - resetting
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0
SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 0) timed out - trying harder
The last 3 commands are repeated for about 20 times. After that the
whole system locks and only the reset button will work. When I compile
it as a module and load it it immediately locks the entire system and
I'm left with the same option: reset
I've got an AMD Athlon 800 Mhz with 256 Mb Ram,
An Adaptec 29160N scsi card,
Plextor 32x cd-rom drive,
Plexwriter 8x/2x/20x,
Soundblaster Live Platinum,
IDE Creative 6x DVD drive
Right now I can only use the IDE drive but I wanna use my SCSI card.
Can anyone help me, please???
Thanks,
Dennis van der Meer
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From: "tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: creative.linux
Subject: newbie question: can I read my DVD discs with linux default s/w ?
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 19:35:09 +0100
newbie question: can I read my DVD discs with linux default s/w ?
many thanks
tom
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From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What platforms can linux run?
Date: 28 Sep 2000 02:17:57 +0800
Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> and s390 is IBM's S/390 mainframe architecture (yes Linux can run a
> real mainframe <g>)
Actually, last I read, only a virtual one. Runs under VM/390 or whatever the latest
incantation is called.
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From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Canon BJC-2100
Date: 28 Sep 2000 02:13:39 +0800
Ville Huuskonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My printer doesn't work.
> I did
> #insmod parport
> #insmod parport_pc io=0x3bc,0x378,0x278 irq=none,7,auto
> #insmod parport_probe
> and edited /etc/conf.modules
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7
> I have compiled
> <M> Parallel port support
> <M> PC-style hardware
> <M> Parallel printer support
> [*] Enable loadable module support
> [*] Kernel module loader
> My kernel is 2.2.12
> System is unstable Debian i386
> Printer is Canon BJC-2100
> Thank you
And what, might I ask, does your computer say about what you did?
What do you mean, "doesn't work?" It's so vague a term as to be almost without meaning.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trent Piepho)
Subject: Re: Motherboards with 5+ ISA slots
Date: 27 Sep 2000 11:48:17 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Philip Juels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyone know where I could find a Pentium style motherboard with 5 or
>more ISA slots?
5 ISA slots is pretty common for older AT form factor pentium boards. Check
ebay or local usenet forsale groups. You can probably pick one up for a few
dollars. More than 5 ISA slots will be a little more work to find.
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From: Robert Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
Subject: Re: Asus A7v M/B compatible?
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 21:05:51 +0200
Newbie here . . . . What's the procedure to apply the patch?
Heiko Hafner wrote:
>
> In article <8qqdst$np7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > In article <8qq06d$bsg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,>
>
> Hi,
>
> >> working perfect here. You just need to apply the ide-patch from
> >> ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hendrik(?) to your
> >> kernel (2.2.16/7) or use a 2.4.0-testx kernel to get the promise
> >> driver. I had problems with 2.4.0-test8,so I recommend
> >> using 2.4.0-test7 or a patched 2.2.17....
> >>
> >
> > ...and will this patch allow you to boot off the drive attached to
> > the Promise ATA-100 controller?
>
> yes, I`m booting off my IBM DTLA 307030 at the ATA-100....
>
> > Does RH 7.0 include this patch?
>
> I don`t know RH 7.0, sorry. There is no distribution which
> supports the promise "out of the box" *AFAIK*. (Well, my SuSE
> 7.0 which is very new doesn`t.)
>
> cu
>
> Heiko
>
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>
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> sheets of glass. Or plastic. And that smelly blue stuff that
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> ([EMAIL PROTECTED] in c.o.l.d.s.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: What platforms can linux run?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 19:20:08 GMT
On 28 Sep 2000 02:17:57 +0800, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> and s390 is IBM's S/390 mainframe architecture (yes Linux can run a
>> real mainframe <g>)
>
>
>Actually, last I read, only a virtual one. Runs under VM/390 or whatever the latest
>incantation is called.
The IBM source port runs under VM/390 or the "Virtual Image Facility
for Linux" (which is a stripped down VM/390)
However, IIRC, MIT also had a Linux port for S/390 that _didn't_
require VM.
Lew Pitcher
Information Technology Consultant
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IMWheel for Scroll wheel
Date: 28 Sep 2000 02:31:46 +0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi there, I'm using Readhat 6.2. I installed this module called IMWheel,
> which is supposed to add scroll function for my scroll mouse. But after
> installed it, i have no idea how to use it. How do I activate or configure
> it? Can anybody help?
RHI has issued a security alert saying, "Don't use it."
gnome has native support for it.
Netscape can be hoodwinked, but I can't see how I did it;-)
So can tcl stuff; I have it working with exmh, but I don't know how I did that either!
You DO need this in XF86Config:
ZAxisMapping 4 5
and somethng like this maybe:
buttons 7
No, I'm using XFree 3.3.6. I've not tangled with 4.0 yet.
The wheel counts as two buttons, three if it doubles as a button as well.
I have a Kensington Turboball; it has four buttons and a wheel.
There IS a detailed help page for wheelie pointers, some place in France.
I can't remember where that is either. Must be getting old;-(
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From: "John Bald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tape Backup drives
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 19:32:17 GMT
Can anyone recommend a tape backup drive in the $250-$350 range that works
well under Linux? I'm currently running Suse 6.3. Any drives to stay away
from?
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From: "John B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PROMISE parallel card
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 19:40:32 GMT
Has anyone tried the Promise dual parallel Plug-n-play card under Linux?
Thanx,
John
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
remove 'nospam' toreply
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: What platforms can linux run?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 19:49:24 GMT
On 28 Sep 2000 02:17:57 +0800, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> and s390 is IBM's S/390 mainframe architecture (yes Linux can run a
>> real mainframe <g>)
>
>
>Actually, last I read, only a virtual one. Runs under VM/390 or whatever the latest
>incantation is called.
Actually, if it can run under VM, it can run on the bare machine.
Take a look at http://linux.s390.org/ for some details and links.
BYW, in a previous post, I said that I thought MIT was involved. I was
wrong; it was Marist College (the IBM port) and Princeton University.
Lew Pitcher
Information Technology Consultant
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Labbat)
Subject: Strange NVIDIA_kernel 0.9-5 instalation problem... please help !
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 19:50:25 GMT
Hi all,
I am running redhat 6.1 with XFree86 4.01 . The video card is
a Geforce DDR. My current nv_drv.o , wich came with the redhat distro,
works fine.
I installed NVIDIA kernel 0.9-5 src rpm ( had to build
because of kernel mismatch... ) , took care of old mesa files and
links , then installed NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-5.i386.rpm . I changed the
xconfig so it would call driver "nvidia" , then when I would start x,
and get an error saying it could not open /dev/nvidia0 ( my /dev dir
does contain that file..) and a message that my NVdriver kernel
appears to not have been installed properly !
lsmod list the NVdriver as used by (autoclean) ... I also made
sure the line alias char-major-195 NVdriver is in my conf.modules
file. I then tryed to install the NVdriver again by using the
tarball.. . same result ..
If anyone has could help me out I would greatly appreciate !
Dan
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From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tape Backup drives
Date: 28 Sep 2000 03:04:08 +0800
John Bald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a tape backup drive in the $250-$350 range that works
> well under Linux? I'm currently running Suse 6.3. Any drives to stay away
> from?
I'm using a Seagate Tapestor 8000; (Mine was made by Conner, but the box says Seagate)
Apparently it's still on sale.
Mine has no hardware compression; I got that answered by Seagate pretty promptly
so I'd say it's worth asking them if you're considering one of theirs. Why not ask S
for
THEIR recommendation;-)
Because it lacks h/w compression, I only get about 4000 Mbytes to a tape. However,
there
is at least one big brother (Travan 5) and I suspect that may be in your price range.
Oh; Mine's SCSI. There were IDE versions too when I bought.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Malcolm Beattie)
Subject: Re: What platforms can linux run?
Date: 27 Sep 2000 19:54:54 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> and s390 is IBM's S/390 mainframe architecture (yes Linux can run a
>> real mainframe <g>)
>
>
>Actually, last I read, only a virtual one. Runs under VM/390 or whatever the latest
>incantation is called.
Incorrect. It runs on any reasonable modern esa/390 architecture.
That includes a "bare metal" S/390, an LPAR ("hardware partition")
of an s/390, a virtual machine of a 390 by running VM, VIF (a special
cut-down version of VM for running multiple Linux instances), a
similar "virtual machine" product whose name I forget (from Russia
I think) that runs under OS/390 and other vendor-equivalent versions
of some of these that run on non-IBM ESA/390 implementations
(including Hercules, a 370/390 "emulator" that builds and runs under
Linux on any architecture, including x86).
--Malcolm
--
Malcolm Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Oxford University Computing Services
"I permitted that as a demonstration of futility" --Grey Roger
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: What platforms can linux run?
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 20:03:17 GMT
Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: BYW, in a previous post, I said that I thought MIT was involved. I was
: wrong; it was Marist College (the IBM port) and Princeton University.
Marist makes a lot of sense -> it was probably IBM people or related
people, as it sits just a few miles from their Poughkeepsie plant (which
does a lot of S390 stuff IIRC)
--
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: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What platforms can linux run?
Date: 28 Sep 2000 03:26:02 +0800
Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 28 Sep 2000 02:17:57 +0800, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> and s390 is IBM's S/390 mainframe architecture (yes Linux can run a
>>> real mainframe <g>)
>>
>>
>>Actually, last I read, only a virtual one. Runs under VM/390 or whatever the latest
>>incantation is called.
> Actually, if it can run under VM, it can run on the bare machine.
Not so.
To run under VM, i only needs to support one of the many kinds of disk drive available
for S/390;
it may well only support the VM minidisk which is not a real disk drive at all.
Similarly, it only needs to support one kind of other hardware device, leaving it to VM
to map whatever Linux supports to the real hardware.
That is one of the major points of VM.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: creative.linux
Subject: Re: newbie question: can I read my DVD discs with linux default s/w ?
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 20:29:52 GMT
Not yet. You might need to get a kernel patch and some software. There
is a mini-howto on that.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jwk)
Subject: Re: Motherboards with 5+ ISA slots
Date: 27 Sep 2000 20:48:50 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:06:01 GMT, Philip Juels
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyone know where I could find a Pentium style motherboard with 5 or
>more ISA slots?
>
I've heard isa cards can also be used in eisa slots. If that is true
(and you'd better check it first!!!) then you could consider buying an
old eisa server from e-bay or some site like it.
Good luck,
Jurriaan
--
'To start with, there's the Pale Men,' said Winter steadily.
'They're not real, but that just makes them more dangerous.'
Simon R Green - Two Kings in Haven
GNU/Linux 2.2.18pre10 SMP 7:36 8 users load av: 1.11 1.13 0.91
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From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What platforms can linux run?
Date: 28 Sep 2000 04:12:24 +0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : BYW, in a previous post, I said that I thought MIT was involved. I was
> : wrong; it was Marist College (the IBM port) and Princeton University.
> Marist makes a lot of sense -> it was probably IBM people or related
> people, as it sits just a few miles from their Poughkeepsie plant (which
> does a lot of S390 stuff IIRC)
Following Malcom's correction, I eyeballed the 2.4 kernel source I have here.
Seems a lot/most/all was done in Germany judging from copyright notices & email
addresses I see there.
I didn't see enough to confirm that M is entirely correct, but it does show that
some testing is done on real hardware.
I have some doubts, though, that one can still get a 3215. It's a printer/keyboard; I
last saw one
in 1981; it was attached to an IBM S/370 model 145.
Support for it under VM would make perfect sense - it's a pretty sumple device to
program,
and hence to emulate.
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