Linux-Hardware Digest #987, Volume #13 Tue, 5 Dec 00 11:13:07 EST
Contents:
newbie kppp problem ("milyglos")
Installation problem on notebook ("Y W Wong")
Re: DSL is up, but my browsers don't recognize it ("Jack Kaufmann")
etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S14nfslock restart is taking longer than expected to complete.
("Jerry �P")
acenic driver won't insmod (Philip Blandford)
Re: Backup Hard Drive... (Martin Gregorie)
Thin Computer (Seba)
Getting lm_sensors to work with RH7.0 (Giles RC Morant)
HP 8230e USB Burner w/Linux (David Kaplan)
Re: DSL is up, but my browsers don't recognize it (Hal Burgiss)
Re: compaq prosignia vs as a gateway? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: looking for video capture card for linux (HITS User)
anyone with linux installed on a sweet Gateway solo 2500?? ("vertical profit")
Re: Alternatives to Wavelan? Re: IEEE WaveLAN (Sinner from the Prairy)
Re: 80G IDE drive support under 2.2.16 kernel? ("Phil Whiles")
PCMCIA modem / Tecra 8000 / SuSe 7.0 (Olaf Selchow)
Re: Network card/insmod problems (G*rd*n)
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From: "milyglos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: newbie kppp problem
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 13:21:22 +0100
Hi!
I've got Zoom V90 2985 USB modem. I read somewhere it should work with
Linux. I have Mandrake 7.2, kernel 2.2.17 that I recompiled to have the USB
support. (in config for USB questions answered YES). Everything was OK. I
launched command that I read in some kind USB Howto: mknod /dev/usb/ttyACM0
c 166 0. Made link from /dev/usb/ttyACM0 to /dev/modem and with minicom I
can ring anybody I want. The modem works fine. But... with kppp it's not so
easy. It doesn't want any additional ppp stuff because I already installed
them. When I set my connection up and make him connect the modem forgets to
dial the number... well it starts to give its noises as if it has dialed and
connected. When I try to connect one more time the kppp gives command
ATZATM0L1 and waits for OK that modem doesn't want to say. It looks like
kppp isn't patient enough because as far as I know it should first say ATZ,
then ATM0L1 or something. So nothing happens. I tried to switch different
things in kppp setup but didn't help at all. I changed once this end of line
from CR/LF to LF and instead of ATZATM0L1 it wrote ATZ which should be fine
but no OK was given by modem.
I read somewhere but it's good to patch kernel 2.2.17 with 2.2.18 pre-patch
but I don't know if my problem has anything to do with kernel. (BTW I don't
know how to patch kernel... although I know how to compile it... ;))
Please help me because modem is the only thing that keeps me using ms wind.
:)
Thanks in advance.
Kamil
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From: "Y W Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installation problem on notebook
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 20:28:58 +0800
Dear all,
I have install RedHat 6.2 on my IBM ThinkPad 765L, config as below :-
Pentium 166MMX
80MB RAM
3GB HD
CDROM
Xircom IIPs 10Mbps ethernet card
However I found that the ping become slower and slower even I ping my own IP
address.
The first turnaround time is 0.4ms
The second is 4000ms
The third is 8000ms
The 4th is 16000ms
The 5th is 20000ms
Any one know what is the problem and any suggestion ?
Many thanks,
Y W Wong
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From: "Jack Kaufmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DSL is up, but my browsers don't recognize it
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 12:45:22 GMT
I'm over my head here but here's what I know/found:
I don't know what DNS means.
/etc/resolv.conf is an empty file.
route -n gives me a destination IP, which I can ping and get responses in
the 25-35 second range.
ifconfig -a gives me the same IP address as above, calling it a point to
point address, and another IP address under an Inet heading. I can also
ping that with similar results as above.
Trying to ping a URL (with or without 'http://') gives an 'unknown host'
message.
What do I do next? And is there documentation/book somewhere that would
help me understand these mysteries? Thanks.
"Hal Burgiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 04:07:54 GMT, Jack Kaufmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >I have installed a Westell external modem to my DSL line, and all the
> >right lights are on, and I have installed and configured Roaring
> >Penguin 2.3 (on Red Hat 7.0), and when I enter adsl-start, adsl-status
> >tells me I have a connection, but when I try Lynx or Netscape both say
> >they don't recognize any servers and generally show no sign of knowing
> >there is a connection. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?
>
> Maybe your DNS is not setup? What is in /etc/resolv.conf? Try pinging
> something by IP, then by hostname. You can get the gateway address with
> 'route -n' (assuming you really are connected).
>
> --
> Hal B
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --
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From: "Jerry �P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S14nfslock restart is taking longer than expected to complete.
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 20:59:25 +0800
Hello,
my machine is Redhat 6.2, and When i exit Linuxconf, it states that:
The command
/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S14nfslock restart
is taking longer than expected to complete
Please take action
Skip (o) this command
Abort ( ) this session
Kill [ ] this command
i usually choose kill the command, and when i view the log, it states that:
Checking base configuration xx
x x Checking kernel's modules
xx
x x Mounting local volumes
xx
x x Checking files permissions
xx
x x Checking LILO
xx
x x Executing some Sysv init scripts
xx
x x Executing: /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S10network reload
xx
x x Executing: /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S11portmap start
xx
x x > Starting portmapper: execvp: Permission denied
xx
x x > [FAILED]
xx
x x * return 255
xx
x x Executing: /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S14nfslock restart
xx
x x * The command takes more than 15 seconds to
execute, odd xx
x x * killed by operator
xx
x x Grabbing some late messages from command
/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S14nfslock resxx
x x > lockdsvc: Connection refused
xx
done.
How does it occur and how can i fix it ? thank you for your help , i am a
junior only.
Jerry
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From: Philip Blandford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: acenic driver won't insmod
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 12:58:49 GMT
I'm using the 0.47 acenic driver on kernel 2.4.0-test11, for a Netgear
GA620 card, but it just causes the system to hang.
Anyone else have this problem?
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Gregorie)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Backup Hard Drive...
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 13:18:39 GMT
On 1 Dec 2000 21:08:11 GMT, Joshua Baker-LePain
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.hardware Martin Gregorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On 1 Dec 2000 12:56:45 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> (Volker Apelt) wrote:
>
>> Any recommendations for archiving backup software for Linux?
>
>amanda (www.amanda.org) is rather nice. It takes a bit to set up, but
>once you do, it practically maintains itself.
>
Thabks for the recommendations. It loks as if Amanda is the way to go
(at first, anyway) because the ability to backup a PC via SAMBA would
be very useful.
--
gregorie | Martin Gregorie
@logica | Logica Ltd
com | +44 020 76379111
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From: Seba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Thin Computer
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 13:30:35 GMT
Hope I'm not OT.
I posted in order to know if anybody has experience in using TC1000
terminals (Acute Network Technologies - www.acutetech.com) as a client
to a Linux Box.
I'd greatly appreciate any kind of answer.
Thanx in advance.
Sebastiano Scorbati
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Giles RC Morant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Getting lm_sensors to work with RH7.0
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 14:07:43 +0000
I have an Epox board with the VIA 686 south bridge. My sound now works
perfectly thanks to ALSA, but I'm having serious difficulties with getting
the sensors package to work. I tried the rpms on the CDs first, but the
necessary modules i2c-viapro and i2c-riva weren't there. I downloaded a
vanilla kernel (same 2.2.16) and i2c compiled perfectly, but lm_sensors
gives an error about no rule to make 'kernel/chips/8390.ver' ?!?!
Can anybody just email me / post me the addrsss of these modules in binary
form for i386 (specifically Duron 700)??
Thanks,
Giles.
PS I'm using the latest version of i2c and lm_sensors downloaded from the
net - 2.4.5?
--
Giles RC Morant
http://www.morants.demon.co.uk/giles
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Kaplan)
Subject: HP 8230e USB Burner w/Linux
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 14:15:40 GMT
I got a USB cd burner (8230e) and I want to get it to work
with linux. www.linux-usb.org says that it works fine with linux, but
I am not sure how. I think I need the kernel 2.4 test 10 or later,
and some flag in some makefile, but I don't know what, or which. I
run caldera 2.4, but am planning to install RH 7 also. Does anyone
know how to get this burner working?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: DSL is up, but my browsers don't recognize it
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 14:25:44 GMT
On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 12:45:22 GMT, Jack Kaufmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I'm over my head here but here's what I know/found:
>I don't know what DNS means.
>/etc/resolv.conf is an empty file.
Not good. This should have your nameservers in there, so that hostnames
can be resolved to numeric IP addresses. I would suspect that somehow
you don't have the client configured just quite right, as it should be
grabbing this info.
You can edit this file with any text editor and add them in like:
[hal@feenix hal]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
search bellsouth.net
nameserver 205.152.32.20
nameserver 205.152.133.254
(Just an example)
I am finding this for bellatlantic.net:
ns1.bellatlantic.net 199.45.32.40
There are probably others. You really only need one, working one. The
second is a backup.
>route -n gives me a destination IP, which I can ping and get responses in
>the 25-35 second range.
>ifconfig -a gives me the same IP address as above, calling it a point to
>point address, and another IP address under an Inet heading. I can also
>ping that with similar results as above.
>Trying to ping a URL (with or without 'http://') gives an 'unknown host'
>message.
--
Hal B
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: compaq prosignia vs as a gateway?
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 14:17:26 GMT
does noboby ever post replys in here?
In article <8v924v$jvl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well for starters i dont really know what hardware is in this computer
> if somebody could tell me a website that lists the stock parts and
> information on it. i bought this from somebody on e-bay. i was hoping
> to use it as a gateway computer for sharing a internet connection over
> my home network. first of all i know now that it is a server computer.
> what does that mean and can i use it as the gateway? im curently using
> a 56K modem but will soon have DSL is this possable? please help me
> out. thanks
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 09:49:06 -0500
From: HITS User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: looking for video capture card for linux
> Do you know what program I can use to convert a .avi to a .mpeg? TIA.
> In comp.os.linux.x [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > hi
>
> > i'm looking for a good video card with an onboard tv tuner and that can
> > do decent video capture. (video capture must be preferably done at
> > 352x288 or higher resolution captured at at least 24fps). A big plus
> > would be if the card could do real time mpeg compression (i dont even
> > know if there are cards that can do this).
>
> > i currently have an ATI card, but there's almost no support for the tv
> > tuner in linux.
>
> > any recommendations would be appreciated. please feel free to specify as
> > much detail about the card as u'd like or just leave a URL i can visit
> > to get more info :)
>
> I've used both a Brooktree 848 based card (WinTV) and an ATI All-in-Wonder
> 128 under Linux. The WinTV card is better supported under Linux. The AIW
> has better image quality. Drivers are being worked on to make the AIW
> compliant to the Video4Linux interface, which will give it the same amount
> of support as the WinTC card. Check out:
>
> http://roadrunner.swansea.linux.org.uk/v4l.shtml
>
> for more info on V4L compliant cards (including one mpeg encoder board for
> which work is being done).
>
> MainActor is a good program for capturing, sequencing, and exporting video
> files. You can capture as an AVI file, and then compress it to mpeg
> afterwards. It's $85, but worth it IMO. Check it out at:
>
> http://www.mainconcept.com/products/mainactorLinux.shtml
>
> Adam
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(843) 740-7734
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From: "vertical profit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: anyone with linux installed on a sweet Gateway solo 2500??
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 15:08:07 GMT
--
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind
on the present moment."
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From: Sinner from the Prairy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Alternatives to Wavelan? Re: IEEE WaveLAN
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 16:34:00 +0100
Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> Hi Sinner!
Hi Peter!
> When I bought my WaveLAN card, they came only as PCMCIA, and I put mine
> in an ISA bridge. There's also a PCI bridge, but iirc there may be
> problems with it. Check out
> http://www.fasta.fh-dortmund.de/users/andy/wvlan/ and the links off that
> page.
I beg your pardon but... what's "iirc"? I'm not an english speaker so I
will welcome your help.
And I've seen that the information is mostly from 1999. Then, I
understand that some information must have changed. Am I right?
Also, to connect 2 wireless PC (one Linux desktop, one Windows laptop),
will I need an "access point"?
Will it be easy for the Linux to offer IP-masquerading (share the adsl
connection) through the wireless card?
> As to buying them, I couldn't find any bargains, though I didn't
> look much further than the links off Orinoco's page. Mine was maybe
> $170 + another $70 for the bridge(?) At the time it wasn't clear that
> there was any alternative to WaveLAN if you want to talk to AirPort
> cards, as I did.
No, I have no need for Airport.
Thank you in advance,
Sinner
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From: "Phil Whiles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 80G IDE drive support under 2.2.16 kernel?
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 15:46:33 -0000
You only have to look thru this ng over the past month or two to see several
of us
having had grief with big IDE disks recently. Check all the posts with
ATA-100 or IDE in them ...
Is this disk on an offboard controller ?
Basically, RH7 and 2.2.16-22 won't see a disk on an offboard controller
without some fannying around.
It is doable, I did it by moving disks around to install RH, then adding
append lines to lilo.conf.
You may need to upgrade your mobo bios as well ...
Phil
Michael Shiels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> HELP! My nice new 80G drive appears as as ~13G driver, kinda like ~65G
> and 13G almost add back up to 80G, do we have another truncation problem
> in the drivers/kernel?? HELP!!!!!
>
> --
> Michael Shiels
> MaS Network Software and Consulting
> 2093 Summerwood Court
> Mississauga, ON +1 (905) 8239455 voice
> Canada L5K 2S8 +1 (905) 8236361 fax
>
>
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From: Olaf Selchow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCMCIA modem / Tecra 8000 / SuSe 7.0
Date: 05 Dec 2000 16:51:58 +0100
Hello,
I'm running SuSe 7.0 on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop. Now I'm
looking for a PCMCIA 56K modem card that is supported by / works
well under my configuration. I am tempted to try the
" 3Com� Megahertz� 56K* Global GSM and Cellular Modem PC Card"
from US Robotics/3Com. Anybody who has experience with tha card
or can recommend another card?
Thanks very much,
Olaf
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European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (G*rd*n)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Network card/insmod problems
Date: 5 Dec 2000 16:03:08 GMT
I was given an IBM PC 750 (not the laptop, a desktop) by a
former client and have loaded Debian Linux updated to 2.2 on
it. It had some kind of LAN connection in its former home,
and I would like to establish one now between it and a Windows
98 machine. Obviously it would be good to know what the LAN
board in the Linux machine is, but it would be inadvisable to
call the former client, as the machine was "forgotten" by an
underling, rather than overtly donated through official
channels. Are there any utilities which could tell me what
I've got? Alternatively, if I take the machine apart and
examine the board physically, what should I look for?
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