Linux-Hardware Digest #688, Volume #13 Sat, 7 Oct 00 22:13:10 EDT
Contents:
no sound (Maxi Sound 64 Dynamic 3D) (Michael Piringer)
Re: looking for terabit ethernet cards for linux (Frank Sweetser)
what CPUs for this mobo? (Bob Berman)
Re: Kernel 2.2.17 and PCI Modem (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: Kernel 2.2.17 and PCI Modem (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: Logitech Desktop Pro freezes in SuSE (robert)
FS: REDHAT LINUX ("Simon")
Re: can someone suggest a network hub? ("Typhon")
Re: Modem works on Mandrake 7.0 but not 7.1 ??? (Aaron Hughes)
pogolinux.com (Brad Friedman)
Cable modem, ethernet, and DHCP (James)
Re: Cable modem, ethernet, and DHCP ("Eric Cartman")
Re: Wangtek SCSI Streamer with Linux, help please (Richard J. Freedman)
Redhat 6.2 Souund Blaster PCI 128 Problem (Marcel Massana)
Re: Redhat 6.2 Souund Blaster PCI 128 Problem (Ric Rivera)
Questions about Linux on 43P-140 (Ric Rivera)
Re: Kernel 2.2.17 and PCI Modem (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: pogolinux.com ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Maximimun Process Size 555Mb ? ("Michael George III")
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From: Michael Piringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: no sound (Maxi Sound 64 Dynamic 3D)
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 23:16:17 +0100
alsa found the Maxi Sound 64 Dynamic 3D pnp soundcard, but gave no sound
while playing the sample. All lines of the amixer lines are set to max.
Neither alsa nor any other programm returned an error message. The
speakers are ok.
Any help is welcome
Thanks, Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Sweetser)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: looking for terabit ethernet cards for linux
Date: 7 Oct 2000 21:09:55 GMT
James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I doubt you'd find anything like that. That's 1000x faster than
>gigabit ethernet. You'd definitely need fibre & multiple lasers for
>that speed. I've never heard of anything electronic operating at
>that rate.
A *very* few companies actually have been developing some silly-high end
routers that will do terrabit, typically with DWM (Division Wave
Multiplexing - multiple color lasers down a single piece of fiber) but
nothing terminating at that kind of speeds.
--
Frank Sweetser rasmusin at wpi.edu, fs at suave.net | $ x 12
Full-time WPI Network Tech, Part time Linux/Perl guy |
"Linux: the operating system with a CLUE...
Command Line User Environment".
(seen in a posting in comp.software.testing)
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From: Bob Berman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: what CPUs for this mobo?
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 21:30:05 GMT
I have a spare PC and the motherboard manual for it says that it
acccepts Pentium P54C/P55C MMX CPUs, AMD K6 CPUs, Cyrix/IBM 6x86L/6x86MX
(M2) CPUs.
External clock speed is 50,55,60,66,75,83 MHz.
The socket is Socket 7 - 321 pin.
I realize this motherboard is very old, but will Pentium IIs or K6-2
CPUs work in this? I can't find plain Pentium CPUs on the market anymore
and PIIs are pretty cheap. The CPU right now is a Pentium 90 that I'd
like to replace with something a little beefier, but for not too much
money (~ $50 or so).
The motherboard is a Eurone 5571A.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.17 and PCI Modem
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 21:38:17 GMT
REVISED Message:
I just finished updating to Kernel v. 2.2.17 and it found my USR/3Com
3PC2976 PCI modem without installing the new serial driver.
HOWEVER, attempts to install Serial 5.04 were moderately disastrous.
I am currently trying to find out exactly what is going on!
More later.
JRT
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.17 and PCI Modem
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 21:39:51 GMT
REVISED Message:
I just finished updating to Kernel v. 2.2.17 and it found my USR/3Com
3PC2976 PCI modem without installing the new serial driver.
It came with Serial 4.27.
HOWEVER, attempts to install Serial 5.04 were moderately disastrous.
I am currently trying to find out exactly what is going on!
More later.
JRT
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From: robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: Logitech Desktop Pro freezes in SuSE
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 22:40:33 +0000
Dragan Colak wrote:
>
> Hi group,
>
> my keyboard/mouse combination is a Logitech Desktop Pro (this is wireless).
> I don't have any problems with it when running Win98SE or W2K Pro or
> accessing my BIOS.
> But as soon as I run SuSE Linux it freezes occosionally. It's on the console
> aswell as when running X. It is at system installation aswell as in normal
> operation.
> Windows tells me the battery status is okay for keyboard and mouse.
> When running X I can get it back to work by moving the mouse, but on the
> console I don't have a chance. The only thing I can do there is rebooting.
> This problem occurs in SuSE Linux 6.3 (Kernel 2.2.13) and in
> SuSE Linux 7.0 (Kernel 2.2.16). I didn't try another distribution.
> Can anybody tell me what the problem is?
> What can I do to run it properly?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Dragan
This is screaming 'conflict'. A regular mouse conflict is with the
video. Go through your addresses an irq's make sure there isn't a
problem. Actually using W98 makes this loads easier than under Linux,
though it is possible the conflict isn't there under W98, I suspect that
it will be as the PnP works in a very similar way.
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From: "Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FS: REDHAT LINUX
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 22:55:57 +0100
Reply-To: "Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "Typhon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: can someone suggest a network hub?
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 21:54:55 GMT
Gentlemen, thank you. I'll give it a try.
Eric
"John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In comp.os.linux.hardware Typhon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I want to network my Win2000 box and my RH7.0 box.
>
> > Has anyone ever done this? Can you give me some pointers?
>
> > Specifically, I am wondering what network hubs are useful for networking
> > computers with these disparate operating systems.
>
> > Very grateful for any ideas.
>
>
>
>
> You don't need any hub.
>
> Two 100 Mbit NICs, one crossover Cat 5 cable. You deal is likely to make
it up
> on the spot.
>
> I had two machines wired that way for years, with more computers on coax
cable
> and cobo NICs (still no hub - the coax daisy-chains).
>
> Now I have three machines on 100 Mbits; I got a Kingmax 4 port 100 Mbit
(does NOT do
> 10 Mbit) hub. It's cheap, does the job.
>
> If you want to go Internetting with both machines, do it from Linux;-)
>
> Read up on ipchains - the docs with the package are probably enough.
>
> Load up all the masq modules so ftp etc go through transparently.
>
> Run squid to cache HTTP. Maybe run BIND as well (caches DNS lookups).
>
>
> --
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From: Aaron Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem works on Mandrake 7.0 but not 7.1 ???
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 22:30:08 -0000
James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Try:
>
> setserial /dev/ttyS3
>
> and see if it reports anything. If not try the other serial ports 0, 1,
and
> 2. See, if any of them are connected to your modem.
>
> It is possible that Mandrake 7.1 came with the serial driver installed.
In
> which case, you wouldn't be able to set your tty driver manually.
>
> What does it report when you try to use "setserial"? Do you get an error
> message?
>
> JRT
>
The first time I used setserial I got no error messages.
However now when I try setserial it says "port is already used" or in use
or something like that.
Also it doesnt matter what port I try, they are all busy now.
Thanks for tyring
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brad Friedman)
Subject: pogolinux.com
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 23:10:08 GMT
I am thinking of purchasing a system from pogolinux.com and I wanted to
see if anyone knew anything about them. I checked resellerratings.com and
bizrate.com but they didn't have any information on pogolinux.
The system I am considering costs $650 and has the following
essential features:
Asus A7V motherboard and AMD 600 Duron processor
64 MB Mircon PC133 RAM
Voodoo3 1000 AGP graphics card
IBM 20GB 5400RPM hard drive
This seems like a good system, but I wanted to see if anyone had any
thoughts...
Thanks,
Brad
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From: James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Cable modem, ethernet, and DHCP
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 23:41:55 GMT
Arg, linux newbie here with some problems setting up my cable modem with
dhcp. I have Mandrake 7.1. I type in "netconf" which takes me to the
network configurator. In "Basic Host Info" there is a "hostname +
domain" entry which is set to "localhost.localdomain".
Under the "adapter1" tab is the following info:
net device: eth0
kernel module: 3c509
irq: 10
ip: my ip
the dhcp radio button is selected
When I close out of netconf and tell is to activate changes I get an
error. Here it is:
Executing /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S10network reload:
> Bringing up device eth0 Determining IP information for eth0 via
dhcp...faile
> [FAILED]
And that's that. No internet connection. I've already read a couple of
how-to's (especially cable modem, dhcp mini-howto, and the ethernet
howto) and they didn't help.
I have a 3com Etherlink III (3c509B)
Any help is appreciated! Getting frustrated and wanting to switch back
to Winblowz.
James L
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From: "Eric Cartman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Cable modem, ethernet, and DHCP
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 23:55:41 GMT
I have all of this working fine, so here is my setup:
Basic Host information:
Host name + domain = localhost.localdomain (this can be anything you want)
Adapter 1:
Enabled = True
Config mode = DHCP
Net device = eth0
Kernal module = ne2k-pci (yours will be different)
All other values = blank
Name Server specification:
DNS is required for normal usage = True
(leave all values blank, DHCP will pick this up for you)
Leave everything else as it is.
This should get you connected. If it doesn't, you should check with your
Cable provider that you network card address is registered with them (if
this is how they do it).
Hope this helps.
James wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Arg, linux newbie here with some problems setting up my cable modem with
>dhcp. I have Mandrake 7.1. I type in "netconf" which takes me to the
>network configurator. In "Basic Host Info" there is a "hostname +
>domain" entry which is set to "localhost.localdomain".
>Under the "adapter1" tab is the following info:
>net device: eth0
>kernel module: 3c509
>irq: 10
>ip: my ip
>the dhcp radio button is selected
>
>When I close out of netconf and tell is to activate changes I get an
>error. Here it is:
>
>Executing /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S10network reload:
> > Bringing up device eth0 Determining IP information for eth0 via
>dhcp...faile
> > [FAILED]
>
>And that's that. No internet connection. I've already read a couple of
>how-to's (especially cable modem, dhcp mini-howto, and the ethernet
>howto) and they didn't help.
>
>I have a 3com Etherlink III (3c509B)
>
>Any help is appreciated! Getting frustrated and wanting to switch back
>to Winblowz.
>
>James L
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard J. Freedman)
Crossposted-To: de.comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.dev.tape
Subject: Re: Wangtek SCSI Streamer with Linux, help please
Date: 7 Oct 2000 23:58:48 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sat, 07 Oct 2000 19:47:36 +0200, Zbigniew Lisiecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>I use SuSE 6.2 Linux and try to switch on my old Wangtek 5525ES SCSI
>Streamer.
>The device is recognised at boot time. I set SCSI-tape support in
>kernel,
>but its obviously not enough. After dd if=/dev/st0 i get Input/output
>error.
>Also mt won`t push the tape. Who can help me please.
>Wangtek is not officially supported by my Linux distrubutor SuSE, but
>a generic SCSI driver must work. Am I right ?
>--
>Zbigniew Lisiecki
What is the output of "mt -f /dev/nst0 status"
Dick Freedman
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From: Marcel Massana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat 6.2 Souund Blaster PCI 128 Problem
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 00:35:02 GMT
Hello all,
I recently have setup RedHat 6.2 on my machine. (PIII 733MHz, 128 Mb
RAM, 15 Gb HD). All went ok except Sound Card configuration. I can't
make it work. My Sound Card is a Sound Blaster PCI 128.
What I've done before posting this message is to try sondconfig, and it
recognizes my car as a Creative/Ensonic Audio PCI 1371, but it outputs
the next error message:
lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/es1371.o: init_module:
Dispositivo o recurso ocupado
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/es1371.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/es1371.o failed
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/es1371.o: insmod sound-slot-0
failed
Can anybody help me?
TIA
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Ric Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.2 Souund Blaster PCI 128 Problem
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 21:02:47 -0400
See if you can make it use the 1370 driver instead of the 1371. I think
both chips were used in the PCI128 at one time or another.
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From: Ric Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Questions about Linux on 43P-140
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 21:11:12 -0400
Hiya
I realize this is not a Linux newsgroup, but my questions are more
about the 43P hardware.
What kind of hardware differences exist between the 43P-140 and
43P-150? If I can run Linux on the 150, shouldn't I be able to on the
140 as well? As far as I could tell, the only difference was the 150
had a faster processor and a black case.
Also, if it does run on the 140, are there any success stories? Is it
hard to make it work? Where can I get a cheap 43P these days to try
this out myself? I'm just looking for a cheap test machine, so any
slow old beast will do.
Thanks in advance,
Ric
PS- Please reply to my email as well as the group.
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.17 and PCI Modem
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 01:27:36 GMT
James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> REVISED Message:
>
> I just finished updating to Kernel v. 2.2.17 and it found my USR/3Com
> 3PC2976 PCI modem without installing the new serial driver.
>
> It came with Serial 4.27.
>
> HOWEVER, attempts to install Serial 5.04 were moderately disastrous.
>
> I am currently trying to find out exactly what is going on!
>
> More later.
>
> JRT
I down loaded serial-5.05 from Source Forge and it doesn't seem to
work. This is possibly caused by the fact that I have two unresolved
symbol(s):
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/netlink_dev.o
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/af_packet.o
However, it (and version 5.04 which I had previously installed) came
with a new version of the script (rc.serial) which comes with
setserial-2.15. If installed as a startup script, this will remember
the current configurations of the serial port driver. Which is why it
properly configured my modem even though it can't find it -- I had it
properly set up when I installed the new kernel.
JRT
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: pogolinux.com
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 01:33:31 GMT
Brad Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> IBM 20GB 5400RPM hard drive
Consider getting a 7200 RPM harddrive if you can swing it.
Even better, double the RAM.
Greg
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From: "Michael George III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Maximimun Process Size 555Mb ?
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 01:50:32 GMT
Matt,
There is one thing to consider, "The bounded buffer problem".
I run squid too, and did not review the squid cache architecture before
writing this, so I might be speaking nonsense, but here goes. As we know
squid keeps a memory cache, and keeps the hottest objects resident in
memory, warm objects and disk, and expires the cold objects using the LRU
algorithm. So the point is this, at what point does the cache become so
large that it is faster to just go get the object rather than try to rumage
around in the cache.
Another way to ask it, how is the squid memory cache organized and what is
the search algorithm? Is there ever a point where it is faster to go to disk
cache than to search the memory cache? For example: it might take 3 secs to
search in cache mem and only 1 sec to get off disk.
And of course I could be all wet on this, but it is a question to think
about before investing in an insane amount of RAM :)
As for memory allocation issues, I can't answer that one. I would have
guessed ulimit. My only experience in this area is with Oracle and making
large SGA's (shared memory segments) and it has always been a pain. Also,
keep in mind that PC architecture always in lagging. Most PC mother boards
can't even address 500MB of RAM and asking Intel for more than 4-way SMP
makes them shudder with fear. Anything big always seems to be a problem,
big filesystems, big files, big memory allocations.
Good Luck!
-Mike
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8rnlog$f6b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> G'Day All,
>
> Righto, we run an ISP and have a Large Linux / Squid proxy box. We put
> some more disk in, and our squid process begain to grow (this is
> expected) - to this end, we bumped the ram on the machine up to 1Gb.
>
> When our squid process bombs ouy (at 555Mb) we see
> "xmalloc: unable to allocate 32768 bytes!".
>
> After much trolling around lists / squid archives etc I just couldn't
> find any (linux specific answers).
>
> I needed to work out if it was a squid issue or a memory issues. I
> wrote a small C program that mallocs 1 byte at a time. Malloc _always_
> fails at: 576797824 bytes. (which is around the same size as the squid
> process).
>
> I have also tried intentially getting other processes to blow out
> memory wise, and sure enough they all die around the same size. This
> has been done on 4 machine (the ones with enough real memory test with
> swap off too).
>
> I have gone through all of the ulimit issues etc (all show data seg
> size set to unlimited).
>
> So - is there some kind of kernel limitation on the maximum size of the
> kernel ? (if so where on earth is it!!!).
>
> FYI: (main squid proxy)
> Gigabyte Motherboard
> P3 800 (100)
> 1Gb Ram
> Slackware 7.0 (with kernal upgrade to 2.2.16)
>
> With my little "memory test" program, I managed to stop it 1 byte
> before the failed malloc - at this point, /proc/process_num/-
>
> status
> Name: test1
> State: S (sleeping)
> Pid: 15523
> PPid: 10677
> Uid: 0 0 0 0
> Gid: 0 0 0 0
> Groups: 0 1 2 3 4 6 10 11
> VmSize: 568708 kB
> VmLck: 0 kB
> VmRSS: 568044 kB
> VmData: 567700 kB
> VmStk: 8 kB
> VmExe: 4 kB
> VmLib: 972 kB
> SigPnd: 0000000000000000
> SigBlk: 0000000000000000
> SigIgn: 0000000000000000
> SigCgt: 0000000000000000
> CapInh: 0000000000000000
> CapPrm: 00000000fffffeff
> CapEff: 00000000fffffeff
>
> stat
>
> 15523 (test1) S 10677 15523 10677 771 15523 0 141935 0 106 0 14 358 0 0
> 9 0 0 0 120640442 582356992 142011 2147483647 134512640
> 134514411 2147482400 2147481856 716493729 0 0 0 0 21486041
>
> statm
> 142011 142011 77 2 0 142009 14193459 0 0 17 0
>
>
> I have looked _everywhere_ but I can't even find mention of max data
> size process limits.
>
> ANY help at all would be fantastic.
>
> If anyone has the solution, please mail it to me asap: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> All help appreciated!
>
>
> Kindest Regards,
> Matt Robinson BCompSci
> ISP Dr Internet (Australia)
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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