Linux-Hardware Digest #990, Volume #13 Tue, 5 Dec 00 22:13:07 EST
Contents:
Christmas Virus Warrning (Nigel)
Re: Multiple serial ports on one board (Doug Mitton)
USB + PS/2 mouse (Fuad Ali)
Re: Aureal drivers, multitasking problems? (Jim Broughton)
Re: Aureal drivers, multitasking problems? (Jim Broughton)
RAID & SCSI peripherals ("Linuxconf")
zero-length partition? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: USB DSL Modem (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Hardware RAID Options? ("Steve Wolfe")
Does Linux Support Hot Swap (OJC)
Re: CD writer (Dances With Crows)
Re: Asus CUR-DSL & RedHat 7 ==> stability problems (Dances With Crows)
Re: Bad chip signature (Dances With Crows)
Re: compaq prosignia vs as a gateway? (Dances With Crows)
Tropez Plus and ALSA (Mark Hummel)
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From: Nigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Christmas Virus Warrning
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 00:14:01 GMT
Our IT dept. have received a Virus warning this morning.The virus
appears as a file attachment called Navidad which is part of an
e-christmas card.
If you receive such an e-mail please do not
open it!
--
Worker
Disk Drive Computer Books
http://disk.vstorecomputers.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Mitton)
Subject: Re: Multiple serial ports on one board
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 00:25:02 GMT
How about one of these:
Connect Tech ISA Intellicon-8 multiport serial card
It came out of an older RedHat system but the drive was reformatted
before I could get access to it to get the drivers off.
Kostis Mentzelos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Steve
>1. read Hardware HOWTO (multiports)
>2. I have successfully used:
> a. digiboard classic (only ISA)
> b. digiboard 16e (ISA)
> c. digiboard Xr 920 (PCI)
> d. digiboard Xem (ISA,PCI)
> e. PCCOM (ISA - best choice)
> f. cyclades YeP
>
>and more
>kostis.
>
>
>Steve Wolfe wrote:
>>
>> I am looking for a board with 4-8 serial ports on it, to turn a linux
>> machine into a terminal server. However, I haven't found much info - any
>> recommendations would be appreciated.
>>
>> steve
>>
>> --
>> ------------------
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From: Fuad Ali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB + PS/2 mouse
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 08:46:28 +0800
Hi,
Does anyone know how to make USB mouse and PS/2 mouse run
simultaneously? Any pointer is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Fuad.
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From: Jim Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Aureal drivers, multitasking problems?
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 00:51:02 GMT
Adam Short wrote:
>
> I appear to be one of the few people who have successfully installed the
> aureal drivers from sourceforge and actually got some sound to come out.
> However, while this is all very nice, if I actually listen to anything while
> doing something else, pretty soon the machine locks up completely. I can't
> use the mouse or the keyboard and it looks like X has just locked up on me.
>
> I wondered if this behaviour could be down to the driver? I'm thinking maybe
> it doesn't handle threads too well, or something like that. The problem
> always happens when I attempt to open another program and very infrequently
> when I don't, but I suspect this is down to processes running behind the
> scenes. I'm not enough of a C hacker to be able to tell if this is the case
> by looking at the source, so I wondered if anyone else had similar problems
> or maybe a workaround I could use.
>
> Adam
This is tested and works with aureal soundforge drivers 1.1.1
-- Here is how (learned the hard way of trial
and error by me) The install package will insert an entry into
your /etc/modules.conf (or conf.modules if an older redhat system)
You need to delete that entry and or comment it out with a line
leading #.
Next you need to check to see if your system has all the sound
modules compiled. Check the directory /lib/modules/2.2.XX/misc where XX
is your kernel version. You need sound.o soundcore.o softoss2.o and
soundlow.o. If not then you must do a kernel recompile and build the
correct modules. Install them and the new kernel as well.
If you have all the required modules then its as easy as editing the
/etc/rc.d/rc.local file. Insert the following lines
modprobe soundcore
modprobe au8830
modprobe sound
modprobe softoss2
echo "sound enabled"
They must be in this order (subsitute the au88xx module you built earlier)
I have the vortex 2 so I need the au8830 module. (this is from my rc.local file)
Either execute the rc.local file ./rc.local OR if there are other commands in
rc.local that should not be run again once your system is up. Create a separate
script file for starting the sound system.
#!/bin/sh
modprobe soundcore
modprobe au8830
modprobe sound
modprobe softoss2
echo "sound enabled
Call it something like startsound. and place it in /usr/sbin
then just type startsound at a console prompt. Make sure to
put those commands in rc.local so the next time you reboot
your system sound will be loaded automaticly at boot.
If you ever need to kill the sound system just create a
script file that uses the rmmod command and reverse the
order of the modules.
I have not had any problems with this setup and multitasking
and or lockups at all. It is very stable and works trouble free.
My kernel version is 2.2.16.
Works with quake 1,2 and 3, UnrealTournament, KDE (a miricle) Gnome esoundD.
I can play CDs with kscd and surf the net, compile a file at the same time
all without problems. Give my setup a shot and let me know if it works.
--
Jim Broughton
(The Amiga OS! Now there was an OS)
If Sense were common everyone would have it!
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From: Jim Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Aureal drivers, multitasking problems?
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 00:51:28 GMT
Adam Short wrote:
>
> I appear to be one of the few people who have successfully installed the
> aureal drivers from sourceforge and actually got some sound to come out.
> However, while this is all very nice, if I actually listen to anything while
> doing something else, pretty soon the machine locks up completely. I can't
> use the mouse or the keyboard and it looks like X has just locked up on me.
>
> I wondered if this behaviour could be down to the driver? I'm thinking maybe
> it doesn't handle threads too well, or something like that. The problem
> always happens when I attempt to open another program and very infrequently
> when I don't, but I suspect this is down to processes running behind the
> scenes. I'm not enough of a C hacker to be able to tell if this is the case
> by looking at the source, so I wondered if anyone else had similar problems
> or maybe a workaround I could use.
>
> Adam
This is tested and works with aureal soundforge drivers 1.1.1
-- Here is how (learned the hard way of trial
and error by me) The install package will insert an entry into
your /etc/modules.conf (or conf.modules if an older redhat system)
You need to delete that entry and or comment it out with a line
leading #.
Next you need to check to see if your system has all the sound
modules compiled. Check the directory /lib/modules/2.2.XX/misc where XX
is your kernel version. You need sound.o soundcore.o softoss2.o and
soundlow.o. If not then you must do a kernel recompile and build the
correct modules. Install them and the new kernel as well.
If you have all the required modules then its as easy as editing the
/etc/rc.d/rc.local file. Insert the following lines
modprobe soundcore
modprobe au8830
modprobe sound
modprobe softoss2
echo "sound enabled"
They must be in this order (subsitute the au88xx module you built earlier)
I have the vortex 2 so I need the au8830 module. (this is from my rc.local file)
Either execute the rc.local file ./rc.local OR if there are other commands in
rc.local that should not be run again once your system is up. Create a separate
script file for starting the sound system.
#!/bin/sh
modprobe soundcore
modprobe au8830
modprobe sound
modprobe softoss2
echo "sound enabled
Call it something like startsound. and place it in /usr/sbin
then just type startsound at a console prompt. Make sure to
put those commands in rc.local so the next time you reboot
your system sound will be loaded automaticly at boot.
If you ever need to kill the sound system just create a
script file that uses the rmmod command and reverse the
order of the modules.
I have not had any problems with this setup and multitasking
and or lockups at all. It is very stable and works trouble free.
My kernel version is 2.2.16.
Works with quake 1,2 and 3, UnrealTournament, KDE (a miricle) Gnome esoundD.
I can play CDs with kscd and surf the net, compile a file at the same time
all without problems. Give my setup a shot and let me know if it works.
--
Jim Broughton
(The Amiga OS! Now there was an OS)
If Sense were common everyone would have it!
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From: "Linuxconf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RAID & SCSI peripherals
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 01:13:04 -0000
Hi,
I'm planing to set up a Linux server with RAID option (possibly Adaptec's
SCSI RAID 2100s or 3200s over Seagate ultra 160, 10k, 18GB disks). The
question is: to instal a tape drive in the server (HP DAT DDS4 40G) do I
need another SCSI controller?
In another machine, I intend to install a Adaptec's SCSI 29160 where a
Seagate disk similar to the above will be connected. If, in the same
machine I install a CD-RW, is it advisable to connect it on the same
controler?
Thankx!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: zero-length partition?
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 01:06:49 GMT
My PC was rebooted due to power failure. Now when I rebbot I am getting
following error:
Checking filesystems
Could this be a zero-length partition?
fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted
in short read while trying to open /dev/hdb1
*** An error occured during the filesystem check.
*** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
*** when you leave the shell.
Give root password for maintenance
I searched thru various posts on the web and tried to do following
things as a root but none of them seem to work.
# cfdisk hdb
# fdisk /dev/hdb
# fsck /dev/hdb1
# e2fsck /dev/hdb1
# e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/hdb1
Now I have commented out mount entry from /etc/fstab for /dev/hdb1 and
computer boots fine but I need second disk 'cause all my data is on the
that disk.
This computer is running RedHat 7.0 (I upgraded from Redhat 6.2) and
dual-boot with Windows98. Kernel version is 2.2.16-22.
Since my computer can also boot in windows I installed 'Explore2fs' in
windows. I can see all my data on /dev/hdb1 (failed drive).
I can re-install Linux (and Windows98) if required as long as my data
can be safe on the second drive.
Please help. Thanks in advance.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: USB DSL Modem
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 01:21:14 GMT
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 18:37:46 -0500, Brad Hilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Is there a way to make a USB DSL modem work with Linux?
Probably not. There is a beta project for the Alcatel USB, but I don't
know how solid that is.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hardware RAID Options?
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 18:43:08 -0700
> The box we're looking at is a Dell PowerEdge, where one of the options
> is a PERC2-Si controller (aka "AMI MegaRAID") that I'm sure is
> supported. One Deja post from about 10 months ago said the performance
> on that particular card wasn't so hot--still true?
Which of the AMI's is it equivalent to? I've used a 1200 and a 1500
two-channel, and they were fairly decent. The large drawback that our RAID
setups have is that they are based on old, slow 9.1 gig drives. Since they
are natively supported by Linux, and have been for some time, they're
definitely a good choice.
> FWIW, this machine's main purpose in life will be as an FTP server, and
> it'll eventually handle 12G or so of data per day.
What's the peak bandwidth? 12 gigs/day averages out to approximately 1/8
megabyte/second, I imagine that you have peaks to 5 or 10 megabytes/second,
which is most certainly attainable under the AMI cards. Even with our old,
slow 9-gig drives we can still get 20 megabytes/second under Bonnie.
Besides, for an FTP server, a small disk I/O can be overcome by simply
adding copious quantities of RAM, let it all sit in disk cache, which is
much faster than any RAID setup. ; )
> Dual PIII 866MHz
> Dual 330W powersupply
> 512M ECC SDRAM
Since RAM is cheap, depending on the size of FTP material, you may want to
up that to a gig, so that all of the data does sit in cache.
> 5 73G SCSI drives for 292G in RAID-5
That's a lot of disk. : )
> Intel EEPro 10/100 Ethernet
Well, that limits you to about 10 megabytes/second. Either you're
thinking you need more disk IO than you really do, or you need a better
connection. : )
steve
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From: OJC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Does Linux Support Hot Swap
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 02:16:42 GMT
Hello All,
We are currently testing Red Hat 7 kernel(2.2.16) Server in Compact PCI
systems.Does Red Hat Support Hot Swap cards? Do I need to install any
other 3rd Party software? Thanks all for your help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: CD writer
Date: 6 Dec 2000 02:55:46 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 15:31:17 -0500, ekk staggered into the Black Sun and said:
>I've got an IDE CD writer working, but since I'm using SCSI emulation to
>see it, I can no longer see my IDE CD-ROM. I know that /dev/scd0 -
>/dev/scd7 represent the CD-RW, and I thought that /dev/scd8 - /dev/scd15
>would represent the CD-ROM, but /dev/scd8 - /dev/scd15 don't exist on my
>machine (and, I unfortunately don't know how to add entries in /dev).
>Please help.
# cd /usr/src/linux
# make menuconfig
SCSI SUpport -> turn off the option that says "Probe All LUNs on each
SCSI Device"
exit, saving changes
# make modules modules_install
# depmod -a
# rmmod sd_mod sr_mod sg scsi_mod
# modprobe sr_mod sg
...then you should see the silly things on /dev/scd0 and /dev/scd1. Or
you can "mknod -m666 /dev/scd8 b 11 8" but turning off that unneccessary
option is the best thing to do in the long run. It's a bit confusing to
have 8 device nodes all referring to the same device.
--
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!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Asus CUR-DSL & RedHat 7 ==> stability problems
Date: 6 Dec 2000 02:55:48 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 10:21:42 +0500,
nyffeler staggered into the Black Sun and said:
>I am trying to install a redhat system on a PC with Asus' new mobo
>CUR-DLS and I'm having big trouble. And I would like to know whether
>sb. knows sth. about a patch or a workaround for my problems. My system
>consists of following components: Asus CUR-DLS, 2x PentiumIII 800 MHz
>(FSB 133), 2x 256 MB registered DIMM, 18 GB IBM U2W HD, PS2-Mouse &
>-Keyboard. I use the onboard graphic card and LAN. The BIOS is 1003
>beta 05.
>
>And now the problem: The system runs very instable. If there is a
>operating system (redhat 7) installed already, I have to boot the PC
>about 4 time till he comes up correctly. He stops during 'Checking for
>new hardware' or right after writing 'Starting console mouse services'
>or you just can't login because keyboard and mouse don't work. If the
>system is up then you have to fear unpredictable crashes. All of a
>sudden the PC begins to beep continuously and then you can still move
>the mouse but no mouse-clicks or keyboard keys are accepted anymore.
Sounds like a serious hardware problem to me. RedHat 7 is not the
stablest of distros, but it's not *that* bad. First, check the memory
using memtest86--search on freshmeat.net for that, and allow 2 hours or
so to run a complete test. If you get any errors, you have bad RAM.
Second, see if there's a BIOS update available and try that. Third,
take out one processor and see if the problem persists, if it does, try
the other processor by itself.
Since your graphics card and NIC are integrated into the board, you
can't really try swapping them out. You can probably disable the
onboard NIC in the BIOS; do that and swap in a spare NIC and see what
happens. Integrated graphics cards are usually BAD NEWS; avoid them
like the plague. You might be able to disable the onboard video and
swap in a spare PCI video card if you can borrow one.
Check the cable and termination on your SCSI drive--and don't forget the
black goat and the virgin sacrifice :-]
If you've tried all of this and still no go, you've got a flaky board.
Call the company and demand your money back, then buy a different make
and model from another company, and tell them what you're doing and why.
--
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!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Bad chip signature
Date: 6 Dec 2000 02:55:49 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 11:54:43 +0800, Simpson
staggered into the Black Sun and said:
>I'm going to install a PCMCIA network card in my linux system. Message of
>eth0: smc91c??? rev 13: io 0x100, irq 10, hw_addr FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
>smc91c92_cs : Yikes! Bad chip signature!
>What's wrong? How to fix? Would you help , thanks!
Either the card is fried or there's no driver support for it. If you
could post the exact make+model of the card to either
comp.os.linux.portable or the forums on http://pcmcia.sourceforge.net/
then you could probably get more help. If your PCMCIA package is old
(latest version is 3.1.22 IIRC) then upgrade it--packages are available
at the above URL. HTH,
--
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!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: compaq prosignia vs as a gateway?
Date: 6 Dec 2000 02:55:52 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 14:17:26 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
staggered into the Black Sun and said:
>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
>does noboby ever post replys in here?
This is a reasonably high-traffic NG, if you haven't already noticed. A
"server computer" can mean almost anything; my P-150 laptop runs
web/telnet/FTP/mySQL/X server software. For IP-Masqing you will need 2
NICs, you'll need to read the HOWTO, and you'll probably need to
recompile the kernel.
Have you tried the following places for documentation?
http://linuxnewbie.org/ (general stuff)
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/ (general stuff)
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO.html
http://search.compaq.com/ (enter "Prosignia XXX" where XXX is the
model number)
Also, people are more likely to respond to your posts if you have tried
to help yourself. You say you don't know what hardware is in the
machine--have you opened up the case and looked? You say "what does
'server' mean?", which says to me you need to go find a book/website on
networking basics and read+understand some of the stuff there. Finally,
since Usenet is a text medium, you should pay attention to how your
posts are formatted, since your writing speaks for you. There are these
things called "capital letters" that you should look into.
--
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!
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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 13:56:27 +1100
From: Mark Hummel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tropez Plus and ALSA
Hi,
I was wondering how many people have a Tropez Plus sound card which
they have got working under Linux?
Using isapnp and the alsa modules I can get it to "look" like its
working, but when I try to play anything using the alsa utils I get no
sound. aplay hangs when I send it a wav file, I don't know if this is the
correct behaviour. I have unmuted the mixer as well.
If I try to send anything directly to the devices or to use older programs
(e.g playmidi) the response is "no such device".
I have specified all the details (irq, int, and dma) for the module.
Can anybody offer some advice (or at least say they have their ISA Turtle
Beach card working)?
Thanks in advance,
Mark.
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