Linux-Hardware Digest #690, Volume #13 Sun, 8 Oct 00 06:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: Cable modem, ethernet, and DHCP ("Andrew Pearce")
Re: Redhat 6.2 Souund Blaster PCI 128 Problem (Dances With Crows)
Laptop backup on mkfs2 linux partion halted?? ("Dennis Abuan")
Re: KT7-RAID with Linux? (Luckydaze)
Re: DSL with a Nortel Modem on Linuxppc ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Cable modem, ethernet, and DHCP (James)
Re: KT7-RAID with Linux? (KiDWiZ)
Re: XFree86 4.0.1/nvidia driver Modeline rejection problem (James Richard Tyrer)
natsemi.c won't compile? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: MotherBoard Integrated Sound Card --supported??? (Gary Sandine)
Re: ethernet gaurenteed to work? (Gary Sandine)
Re: ATI Xpert or Radeon (Gary Sandine)
Re: Wangtek SCSI Streamer with Linux, help please (Zbigniew Lisiecki)
Re: SCSI support in RH 6.2, kernel 2.2.14-5.0 (Gary Sandine)
Re: pogolinux.com (Gary Sandine)
Re: pogolinux.com (Gary Sandine)
Promise Fast Track 66 UDMA Raid Controller ("CyberChris19")
Promise Fast Track 66 UDMA Raid Controller ("CyberChris19")
Re: How to make bootable below 1024 while others above it? (Gary Sandine)
Re: Model: DX175 - Vivitron 1776 monitor (Gary Sandine)
Re: Problems with my ATX Keyboard (Glitch)
Re: Laptop backup on mkfs2 linux partion halted?? (Glitch)
Re: External ISDN Modem connection Help!! (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: "NO DIALTONE" in minicom? (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Cable modem, ethernet, and DHCP (ray)
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From: "Andrew Pearce" <[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: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 05:18:35 +0100
Have you put the 509 card in normal mode, ie not pnp? if not, download the
drivers from 3com and
configure it as normal network card. Turn off the Plug and Play setting.
Andrew
"James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[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] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.2 Souund Blaster PCI 128 Problem
Date: 8 Oct 2000 04:33:54 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 07 Oct 2000 21:02:47 -0400, Ric Rivera wrote:
>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.
What Ric said, though I've also seen other people complain that the
kernel OSS-Free drivers are broken wrt some SB PCI128 cards. If that
turns out to be the case, the ALSA drivers should work OK. However, the
ALSA stuff can be a pain to set up....
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: "Dennis Abuan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Laptop backup on mkfs2 linux partion halted??
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 04:51:10 GMT
I just tried to do a backup of my laptop hard drive using Veritas backup Pro
to a shared linux samba drive that has15GB of free space.
After I came back, the backup halted at 2.88GB with a warning saying that
the backup was stopped because this is the largest filesize that the
filesystem
can make and the backup aborted.
Is there an work around for this??? any settings that I have to know???
I'm currently running Redhat 6.2 on a 20GB IBM Hard drive. The partition
that I'm copying to was formated using:
mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hdb1
Thanks again for all your help.
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From: Luckydaze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit
Subject: Re: KT7-RAID with Linux?
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 01:05:24 -0400
Wait a sec. If you set up a raid array, how can you install something
on it on a regular controller? The regular controller is not going to
install it as a raid setup. Then if you run the OS it won't take
advantage of the raid or run right. What am I missing here?
On Sat, 07 Oct 2000 17:14:08 GMT, KiDWiZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I could not install RH but mandrake installed fine. But don't use the
>highpoint controller to install. You have to install on the reg
>controller and then edit the boot process and patch the kernel with the
>highpoint fix.
>
>insane wrote:
>>
>> I couldn't install RH7:((
>> it says no device blablabla when choosing my installation (workstation,
>> server or costum:(
>> Anyone familiar with this?
>>
>> Bye
>> Insane
>>
>> "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> > Anyone have any success or failure to report with this combination?
>> > Apparently with Winblows the drivers have to be installed just so to get
>> > the damn thing to work, so I wonder how it goes in Linux.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Andrew.
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Subject: Re: DSL with a Nortel Modem on Linuxppc
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 08 Oct 2000 01:15:03 -0400
Alexandre Binette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi!
> I just installed Linuxppc on my iMac DV SE, and I'm not able to install
> correctly my DSL connection. It would be great if anybody could tell me all
> the steps to get the DSL working!
Does it use a regular ethernet connection, or is it a card?
--
Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [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: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 05:59:03 GMT
Ha, lucky me. The 3com site happens to be down!
Andrew Pearce wrote:
> Have you put the 509 card in normal mode, ie not pnp? if not, download the
> drivers from 3com and
> configure it as normal network card. Turn off the Plug and Play setting.
>
> Andrew
>
> "James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[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: KiDWiZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit
Subject: Re: KT7-RAID with Linux?
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 06:04:11 GMT
I said nothing about a raid array. Only a raid controller. My raid
controller is built on the mb and is ata 100. Thats why I use it. I
don't need raid.
Luckydaze wrote:
>
> Wait a sec. If you set up a raid array, how can you install something
> on it on a regular controller? The regular controller is not going to
> install it as a raid setup. Then if you run the OS it won't take
> advantage of the raid or run right. What am I missing here?
>
> On Sat, 07 Oct 2000 17:14:08 GMT, KiDWiZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >I could not install RH but mandrake installed fine. But don't use the
> >highpoint controller to install. You have to install on the reg
> >controller and then edit the boot process and patch the kernel with the
> >highpoint fix.
> >
> >insane wrote:
> >>
> >> I couldn't install RH7:((
> >> it says no device blablabla when choosing my installation (workstation,
> >> server or costum:(
> >> Anyone familiar with this?
> >>
> >> Bye
> >> Insane
> >>
> >> "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> > Anyone have any success or failure to report with this combination?
> >> > Apparently with Winblows the drivers have to be installed just so to get
> >> > the damn thing to work, so I wonder how it goes in Linux.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > Andrew.
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XFree86 4.0.1/nvidia driver Modeline rejection problem
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 06:37:10 GMT
Cameron Miller wrote:
> I have a TNT2 card, XFree86 4.0.1, using the NVIDIA drivers.
>
> I have a Modeline line in my XF86Config file to set the 1024x768
> resolution mode:
> Modeline "1024x768" 65 1024 1032 1176 1344
> 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync
>
> This line gives me a standard VESA 1024x768 resolution with 60Hz
> refresh. This line works OK when the Video Driver is set to "nv",
> however it will not work with the Video Driver is set to "nvidia". BTW,
> I've tested the nvidia driver with out the modeline: it starts OK but
> gives me a non-standard hfreq/vfreq which I don't want, but that shows
> that I've got the nvidia driver installed OK.
>
> When I start X, I get the following messages, and X aborts:
>
> <snip>
> (**) NVIDIA(0): Mode "1024x768": 65.0 MHz, 48.4 kHz, 60.0 Hz
> <snip>
> (==) NVIDIA(0): Write-combining range (0xe4000000,0x2000000)
> (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA driver enabled successfully
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Could not set 1024x768 for current monitor.
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): FAILED MODE INIT
>
> Fatal server error:
> AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0
>
> Any idea why the "nvidia" driver refuses to start up that mode? As
> said, "nv" driver is happy with the same line.
>
> Any help appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Cameron
The documentation said that you don't need a modeline for standard VESA
modes. I would try removing it.
JRT
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: natsemi.c won't compile?
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 07:43:24 GMT
Is anyone else having problems compiling Donald Becker's "natsemi.c"
from ftp.scyld.com? I just got v1.05 and gcc gives the following errors:
natsemi.c: In function `netdev_open':
natsemi.c:573: structure has no member named `tbusy'
natsemi.c:574: structure has no member named `interrupt'
natsemi.c:580: structure has no member named `start'
natsemi.c: In function `netdev_timer':
natsemi.c:640: structure has no member named `tbusy'
natsemi.c:640: structure has no member named `tbusy'
natsemi.c: In function `start_tx':
natsemi.c:734: structure has no member named `tbusy'
natsemi.c:758: structure has no member named `tbusy'
natsemi.c: In function `intr_handler':
natsemi.c:792: structure has no member named `interrupt'
natsemi.c:795: structure has no member named `interrupt'
natsemi.c:843: structure has no member named `tbusy'
natsemi.c:847: structure has no member named `tbusy'
natsemi.c:848: `NET_BH' undeclared (first use in this function)
natsemi.c:848: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
natsemi.c:848: for each function it appears in.)
natsemi.c:871: structure has no member named `start'
natsemi.c:880: structure has no member named `interrupt'
natsemi.c: In function `netdev_close':
natsemi.c:1123: structure has no member named `start'
natsemi.c:1124: structure has no member named `tbusy'
Since netdev_private (which is missing the members) is declared in
natsemi.c, I don't think it's a problem with my compiler or
environment. Any ideas?
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Gary Sandine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MotherBoard Integrated Sound Card --supported???
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 08:15:15 GMT
I agree completely - we have had great success with integrated
components and Linux (except for winmodems - that's impressive!).
The high priced brands do not in my experience give better
performance, nor is compatibility usually an issue (barring
winmodems...).
http://www.lanm-pc.com (Cheap Linux Boxes!)
--
Jason Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> on another note - I am more likely to buy *interesting* hardware than pay
> through the nose for something *popular* - 3com, Intel, US Robotics, Asus,
> HP, etc...
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From: Gary Sandine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ethernet gaurenteed to work?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 08:27:28 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> And as far as that goes, my experience is limited, but I know at least
> most, if not all of the 3com cards (I know firsthand the 509, but that's a
> 10BT card) falls under that category.
--
You can find generic SiS chipset 10/100 PCI cards for $10-$15 US.
The sis900 module works excellently with these cards.
http://www.lanm-pc.com (Cheap Linux Boxes!)
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From: Gary Sandine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI Xpert or Radeon
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 08:31:29 GMT
Adam Short <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ... I've found a prog which sets up
> Rage 128 chipsets for use with Linux and X11. I forget what its called but
> it looks like it might make life a lot easier, can anyone confirm or deny
> this?
--
ATI Rage 128 and Rage 128 pro chipsets work well with out of the box
Red Hat 7.0. Haven't tried the program you refer to (I saw one like
that - but it was for XF86 4.0 only).
http://www.lanm-pc.com (Cheap Linux Boxes!)
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From: Zbigniew Lisiecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: de.comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.dev.tape
Subject: Re: Wangtek SCSI Streamer with Linux, help please
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 10:52:50 +0200
Hi Dick,
here is output of mt status:
drive type = Generic SCS-1 tape
drive status = 268435968
sense key error = 0
residue count = 0
file number = 0
block number = 0
Tape block size 512 ybtes. Density code 0x10 (QIC-150/250 (GCR
10000bpi)).
Soft error count since last ststus=0
General status bits on (45010000):
BOT WR_PROT ONLINE IM_REP_EN
Than You for YOur interest.
"Richard J. Freedman" wrote:
>
> 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
--
Zbigniew Lisiecki
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From: Gary Sandine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI support in RH 6.2, kernel 2.2.14-5.0
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 08:53:31 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware David_C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Michael Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Red Hat's web page says that I should append
>> fdomain=IO_base,IRQ[,ADAPTER_ID] . So my append would be:
>>
>> fdomain=0x140,10,7
>>
>> But it does not say what I am appending this information to...
>>
In /etc/lilo.conf, under the appropriate "image=" section
(the one for the kernel you wish to use), add
append="fdomain=0x140,10,7"
Or - at the LILO: prompt, type "linux fdomain=0x140,10,7" (assuming
the label for the appropriate kernel is "linux").
http://www.lanm-pc.com (Cheap Linux boxes!)
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From: Gary Sandine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pogolinux.com
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 08:58:16 GMT
Brad Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
For about $700, you can get a PIIIeb 733 with 128M ram,
32M 4x AGP video (ATI Rage 128 chipset), 20G hdd at
http://www.lanm-pc.com Your choice Linux flavor comes
installed and configured.
You will not find us on resellerratings.com because we
are a new company. We sell on eBay mostly... so far.
http://www.lanm-pc.com (Cheap Linux boxes!)
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From: Gary Sandine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pogolinux.com
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 09:06:13 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Brad Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Consider getting a 7200 RPM harddrive if you can swing it.
> Even better, double the RAM.
I agree about the RAM - 64M is not enough. Do you really see
a performance difference between 7200 and 5400 rpm?? Likely
not if ATA 66 support is not working. I recommend SCSI :)
I found a new dual PII w/built in Adaptec SCSI motherboard and
2.5 gig IBM SCSI hard drive on eBay - about $80 + shipping
for the pair. Be patient and good stuff pops up.
http://www.lanm-pc.com (Cheap Linux boxes!)
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From: "CyberChris19" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Promise Fast Track 66 UDMA Raid Controller
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 09:19:23 GMT
Hi!
I've a server running Linux, kernel 2.2.17, and a Promise IDE Raid
Controller. I've built a Raid1 (Mirror) for data redundancy but if I boot
the system the kernel writes me that he is not able to mount the root
filesystem. Now I tried to compile a kernel with IDE Raid support but I see
that Linux doesn't support this card I think. I also downloaded Kernel 2.4.0
test9 and this kernel still doesn't support this card too.
What I can do now?
Someone in here who installed this card successfully?
How I can install this card that I can use hardware raid?
Please help me, thanks
yours Chris
MCSE
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From: "CyberChris19" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Promise Fast Track 66 UDMA Raid Controller
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 09:19:25 GMT
Hi!
I've a server running Linux, kernel 2.2.17, and a Promise IDE Raid
Controller. I've built a Raid1 (Mirror) for data redundancy but if I boot
the system the kernel writes me that he is not able to mount the root
filesystem. Now I tried to compile a kernel with IDE Raid support but I see
that Linux doesn't support this card I think. I also downloaded Kernel 2.4.0
test9 and this kernel still doesn't support this card too.
What I can do now?
Someone in here who installed this card successfully?
How I can install this card that I can use hardware raid?
Please help me, thanks
yours Chris
MCSE
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From: Gary Sandine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to make bootable below 1024 while others above it?
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 09:23:18 GMT
Davis Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks. From your postings, I concluded that if I use fdisk (I indeed
> used it), and also put the partition "/boot" below 1024 cylinder, then
> everything should be ok, no matter whether other partitions are above
> 1024 or not. Is this correct?
--
Yep - that's correct. When I sell MS Windows boxes, I ask the
customer to let me leave 20 meg free at the beginning of their
20 gig hard drive for /boot for when they decide to switch to
Linux. :)
http://www.lanm-pc.com (Cheap Linux boxes!)
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From: Gary Sandine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Model: DX175 - Vivitron 1776 monitor
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 09:34:21 GMT
Chris Davaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have the monitor described above in the subject line, but I can't
> seem to get it to work with X. oes anybody know the correct settings to
> use w/Xconfigurator? (The frequencies and all that) Thanks for any help!
Here's a place to start (the info is not complete, however):
http://www.monitorworld.com/Monitors/vivitron/
--
http://www.lanm-pc.com (Cheap Linux boxes!)
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Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 04:02:46 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with my ATX Keyboard
and what the hell are atx keys?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello, I'm using both Windows and Linux but the problem is the same:
> I can't use my keyboard (after a short period that I use it). It's a
> new model, that one which has ATX keys and my computer is a PII 266 .
> Linux tells me that my keyboard send too much NACK.
> Can anybody help me?
> Thanks!
>
> Max
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Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 04:11:32 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Laptop backup on mkfs2 linux partion halted??
the current ext2 filesystem has a limit of 2 gigs for file sizes. This
has been raised in the newer kernels I believe, 2.4. You will need to
upgrade the kernel in order to get bigger filesizes.
Dennis Abuan wrote:
>
> I just tried to do a backup of my laptop hard drive using Veritas backup Pro
> to a shared linux samba drive that has15GB of free space.
>
> After I came back, the backup halted at 2.88GB with a warning saying that
> the backup was stopped because this is the largest filesize that the
> filesystem
> can make and the backup aborted.
>
> Is there an work around for this??? any settings that I have to know???
>
> I'm currently running Redhat 6.2 on a 20GB IBM Hard drive. The partition
> that I'm copying to was formated using:
>
> mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hdb1
>
> Thanks again for all your help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: External ISDN Modem connection Help!!
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 07:07:33 GMT
John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I hava an Eicon Diva T/A external ISDN modem I would like to get working
>properly on my
>Mandrake 7.1 side. This modem is working fine on my Widows2000 prof
>side.
External ISDN modems can be used just like standard serial modems;
that is, you may use whatever program you want, as long as you are
pointing the communication program to the correct device. If this
modem is connected to your primary serial port, use /dev/ttyS0 (e.g.).
You can then just send standard AT sequences to it, and/or use the
program's functions to initialize a connection.
>The How-to's
>leave a lot to be desired and very confusing at the least.
Depends. The Serial-HOWTO goes into great details over the internals
of serial communications, though it rarely mentions ISDN modems,
as these are not very common.
>Is there
>someone who knows how to
>correctly install this modem on a Linux box. I am a little surprised by
>the somewhat lack
>of experienced techies in this group.
How would you know this?
>If there is a qualified support
>company that knows what
>they are doing and charges reasonable fees that can help I am open to
>this also.
[...]
There are many companies offering professional Linux support, but
they are all asking real money for it - just like all support services
do, regardless of the OS used.
Michael
--
Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: "NO DIALTONE" in minicom?
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 06:59:12 GMT
Davis Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
>But when I try to use it to dial out, I got "NO DIALTONE" and I could
>not dial out. What is the reason for this? How can I fix it?
[...]
The default settings are ATX4 which means that the modem is to
wait for a dialtone prior to dialing. If you're on a PBX or
a similar in-house phone system, you may have to dial a leading
"0" first to get a dialtone; therefor the setting must be changed
to ATX3 .
If you're not on PBX, check your cables.
Michael
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From: ray <[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: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 09:53:39 GMT
James wrote:
> 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
I use RedHat, Mandrake "was" very tightly based on it. I have a 3C905
and cable modem.
Here, what makes the connection to the DHCP server and gets the information
needed is a utility named pump. Like this: pump -i eth0. After that pump -s
will reveal a lot of interesting stuff. An lsmod will show if the eth
drivers are loaded. If they are, pump should cause furious blinking on the
modem, for maybe 3 seconds, while information transfers to you. Your
/etc/resolv.conf will have been re-written after this, with the DNS IP's
filled in.
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