Linux-Hardware Digest #11, Volume #14 Sun, 10 Dec 00 22:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: configure your modem under linux (Gary Sandine)
Re: Serial Keyboard on Linux ("John D. Peedle")
Re: NIC identification ("Alk")
Re: 2 nic's sharing the same irq (Dances With Crows)
Re: NIC identification (Bit Twister)
Re: 2 nic's sharing the same irq (John-Paul Stewart)
Setting/reserving interrupts/irqs (Frank Samuelson)
Re: Asus A7Pro or Abit KT7? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
network card and modem (Masoud Pajoh)
Re: Ultra DMA/33,66,100 data corruption danger ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Trying to port a hacked CMI8330 audio setup from RH6.2 to Potato... (Michael V.
Ferranti)
Asus A7V and IBM Deskstart 75GXP ("Neal Lippman")
Re: GeForce 2 MX (Creative) problem with linux. ("bigtiny")
Re: Asus A7V and IBM Deskstart 75GXP ("Brian Likosar")
Re: Setting/reserving interrupts/irqs (Mariano Benedettini)
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From: Gary Sandine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: configure your modem under linux
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 23:10:24 GMT
Regterschot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello!
> I'm running linux and i want on the internet. When I running netscape then
> the following message wil come: Can not find server! I have a cable
> connection and it use a dynamic IP adress! PLEASE help me to configure the
> modem under Linux!
How is the cable modem connected to your machine? Ethernet?
What Linux distribution are you using?
http://www.lanm-pc.com (Cheap Linux boxes)
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From: "John D. Peedle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Serial Keyboard on Linux
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 23:28:27 -0000
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "John D. Peedle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Give me a _proper_ IBM keyboard anytime.
>
> You mean the kind that clicks loudly enough to wake people two
> counties over? I have one of those. I like the positive feeling I
> get from hitting keys, but I get about 15 words/min faster on a mushy,
> hateful keyboard.
>
> The clickety-click keyboards are also getting real hard to find. IBM
> doesn't seem to make them any more (that I've seen).
>
You're right, they do appear in 2nd hand sales sometimes. I have a couple,
one for home and one for work. They are both over 5 years old and going
strong. As for speed, I get my usual 54 wpm on a good day. (But then I
learnt on a manual typewriter!)
--
John D. Peedle
RHCE - so I'm Biased!
Registered Linux User 167460
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From: "Alk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NIC identification
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 01:16:06 +0200
Reply-To: "Alk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Are you absolutely sure it has no label with MAC address (12 numbers) or FCC
ID on it? Any of these numbers will surely help you identify board
manufacturer, which can give you a further identification tips
AG
"Eggert Ehmke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> From an old machine, I got a NIC that I cannot identify. It has these
> labels:
>
> 613018452 EN1660 144660-090
> PCBA P/N 14660-090 REV.R01
> P/N 142650-406 REV:03
> RU file no E141136
> Made in Taiwan
>
> It has a BNC Coax connector, a RJ45 and a 15-pin female connector. Can
> someone tell me the name of this NIC, and if it is supported by Linux
> ? Thank you.
>
>
> --
> Eggert Ehmke
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: 2 nic's sharing the same irq
Date: 10 Dec 2000 23:38:57 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 20:01:13 GMT, R.W.de Wijs staggered into
the Black Sun and said:
>> There are a number of things that could be going wrong here. Please
>> post the exact makes and models of the NICs you are using, the distro
>> and kernel version you're using, and the output of the "ifconfig",
>> "lsmod", and "route -n" commands. Without that info, troubleshooters
>> would likely be shooting in the dark.
>PNP OS is turned off in the BIOS.
>The nic's are:
>Compex RL2000 PCI Ethernet adapter
>Realtek RTL8029 Ethernet adapter
Both ne2k-pci compatible, not great but they should work...
>eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr:00:80:48:C5:4E:C8
> inet addr: 192.168.1.10 Bcast: 192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> Interrupt:9 Base address:0xd000
This looks OK.
>eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr:00:00:B4:5C:46:4D
> inet addr:195.138.201.214 Bcast:192.138.207.255 Mask:255.255.240.0
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is not, unless you made a typo in the broadcast address section.
Broadcast should not be 192.xxxx if the netmask is 255.xxx and the IP is
195.xxx. This alone could be mucking things up; having an incorrect
broadcast addr can stop an Ethernet interface from working.
> Interrupt:9 Base address:0xb800
No I/O conflicts, good.
>lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:3924 Metric:1
> Interrupt:9 Base address:0xb800
Why is your loopback showing an IRQ and an I/O that overlaps with eth1?
>lsmod:
>ne2k-pci 4652 2 (autoclean)
>8390 6072 0 (autoclean)[ne2k-pci]
ne2k-pci loaded twice. Good.
>route -n:
>Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
>192.168.1.10 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
>195.138.192.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.240.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
>127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
>0.0.0.0 195.138.192.1 0.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
This is not right! The final line should at least have a "G" in its
flags column. The route for the first network is screwed up too; the
first line should have "192.168.1.0" as the network, *NOT* 192.168.1.10.
See if the following commands fix it:
route del 192.168.1.10
route del 195.138.192.1
route add 192.168.1.0
route add default gw 195.138.192.1
If things work, great... fix your configuration using Linuxconf, if you
can get it to work properly (good luck) or hand-hacking if you can't.
The Network-HOWTO explains all these things if you don't know much about
Ethernet networking. Basically, your kernel thinks that there's nothing
but eth0 on the subnet that interface eth0 is part of, so it can't send
packets to the 192.168.1.0 network. And it has no default gateway, so
can't send packets to the Net at large. That may not matter much, since
you said the cablemodem is down until Monday, but it will in the future.
Oh yes, there was no need to post yet another message telling me to read
this one. I tend to track threads I get involved in, unless the other
participants become abusive and stupid--definitely not the case here!
Thanks for the detailed info; I thought at first it was a hardware
matter but now I think it's a problem of bad software config. Lemme
know if it works....
--
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Subject: Re: NIC identification
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 23:56:55 GMT
http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/ for vendor
for linux hardware support
http://www.redhat.com/corp/support/hardware/index.html ! redhat
http://linux.corel.com/products/linux_os/hardware.htm ! corel
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fhard.php3 ! mandrake
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 23:39:06 +0100, Eggert Ehmke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>From an old machine, I got a NIC that I cannot identify. It has these
>labels:
>
>613018452 EN1660 144660-090
>PCBA P/N 14660-090 REV.R01
>P/N 142650-406 REV:03
>RU file no E141136
>Made in Taiwan
>
>It has a BNC Coax connector, a RJ45 and a 15-pin female connector. Can
>someone tell me the name of this NIC, and if it is supported by Linux
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From: John-Paul Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2 nic's sharing the same irq
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 00:07:17 GMT
"R.W.de Wijs" wrote:
>
> eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr:00:00:B4:5C:46:4D
> inet addr:195.138.201.214 Bcast:192.138.207.255 Mask:255.255.240.0
^^^ ^^^ ^^^
^^^ ^^^
Are you sure? That looks odd to me. The netmask for class
'C' addresses is *usually* 255.255.255.0 so this may or may
not be a problem. (Not a networking expert.) But I'm
really concerned about the 195 in the address and
corresponding 192 in the broadcast address. Is this a typo
in the posting? Or did you cut and paste directly from
'ifconfig' output? Then it's likely a typo in whatever
script sets up the eth1. (That can vary with distribution.)
HTH,
J-P Stewart
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From: Frank Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Setting/reserving interrupts/irqs
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 18:16:13 -0600
All my devices are plug and pray except one. An old
aha152x adaptec SCSI card. The card has a jumper on
it and is set to IRQ 9. (It can also be set to IRQ 11, I think.) I had
/sbin/modprobe aha152x aha152x=0x140,9
in my rc.local file and everything worked fine. Then I added another
ethernet card and the card doesn't work any more.
I get:
Dec 10 17:30:37 216-39-176-115 kernel: aha152x: BIOS test: passed,
detected 1 controller(s)
Dec 10 17:30:37 216-39-176-115 kernel: aha152x0: vital data:
PORTBASE=0x140, IRQ=9, SCSI ID=7, reconnect=enabled, parity=enabled,
synchronous=disabled, delay=100, extended translation=disabled
Dec 10 17:30:37 216-39-176-115 kernel: aha152x: trying software
interrupt, lost.
Dec 10 17:30:37 216-39-176-115 kernel: aha152x: IRQ 9 possibly wrong.
Please verify.
procinfo gives:
Linux 2.2.14-5.0.14csmp (root@load170) (gcc egcs-2.91.66) #1 2CPU
[216-39-176-115]
Memory: Total Used Free Shared Buffers
Cached
Mem: 127684 84644 43040 70196 3580
49440
Swap: 130748 0 130748
Bootup: Sun Dec 10 17:29:57 2000 Load average: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/57
921
user : 0:00:08.34 0.2% page in : 51813 disk 1:
6105r 1601w
nice : 0:00:04.22 0.1% page out: 3674
system: 0:00:20.08 0.6% swap in : 1
idle : 0:53:47.64 99.0% swap out: 0
uptime: 0:27:10.13 context : 118632
irq 0: 163014 timer irq 9: 24790
bttv
irq 1: 1305 keyboard irq 10: 190
eth0
irq 2: 0 cascade [4] irq 11: 0
eth1
irq 3: 14 serial irq 12: 13288 PS/2
Mouse
irq 4: 3 irq 13: 1
fpu
irq 6: 3 irq 14: 7456
ide0
irq 7: 3 soundblaster irq 15: 4
ide1
irq 8: 1 rtc
Argh! My plug and pray video capture card is taking up irq 9.
I tried compiling aha152x into the kernel (not as a module) but that
didn't help anything.
How can I tell Linux not to use IRQ 9? Or is that not what I want to do?
Thanks for any help.
Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Asus A7Pro or Abit KT7?
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 00:50:38 GMT
I have used and had great success with the Asus A7V. I highly recommend it.
Aaron Cline
In article <2ZRY5.24379$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm building a Duron linux/BSD box, and I cannot decide which
motherboard to
> use. Has anyone had any troubles or good experiances with either the Asus
> A7Pro or Abit KT7? These are the two boards I have narrowed it down
to. Are
> either of these boards incompatible with linux/BSD? Thanks.
>
> Charles
>
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Masoud Pajoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: network card and modem
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 01:03:16 GMT
Hi All;
Is there a way that I can use both at the same time.
Please point me to a manual page or a website.
Thanks for any help in advance.
Regards;
Masoud
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Ultra DMA/33,66,100 data corruption danger
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 00:13:21 GMT
On 4 Nov 2000 9:54:11 -0500, "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Gene, thanks for the post. You have reminded me of the many design
flaws in the IDE protocol.
--
I think, therefore, ken_i_m
Chief Gadgeteer, Elegant Innovations
http://shadowfax.linuxfromscratch.org/
build Linux from the ground up
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From: Michael V. Ferranti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Trying to port a hacked CMI8330 audio setup from RH6.2 to Potato...
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 02:04:29 +0000
And Michael V. Ferranti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke thusly:
>I still can't figure out what's going wrong with these damned sb.o
>settings. <grins> Probably a typo my 3:00am eyesight is missing.
Update: Finally found the blasted problem. It was my 3:00am eyesight
after all. I forgot a '0x' in '0x220' in modules.conf. <grins>
-- Michael V. Ferranti [blades&inreach*com]
Linux Counter Reg.ID# 177869 http://counter.li.org GNUke The Planet!
Sign The Linux Driver Petition: www.libralinux.com/petition.english.html
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From: "Neal Lippman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboards.asus,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt
Subject: Asus A7V and IBM Deskstart 75GXP
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 02:13:43 GMT
I've seen a few posts going by that indicate that the IBM Deskstar 75GXP
drives do not work (well, or according to some posts, at all) with the ASUS
A7V mainboard. The posts haven't indicated if that problem is only on the
Promise Ultra-ATA 100 controller on the mainboard, or also with the standard
ATA-66 controller as well. Although the last post was in a Linux-related
newsgroup, the implication was that this was a hardware problem and not OS
related.
Since I was planning to use an A7V with a 30GB Deskstar for the system I am
now ordering components for, this is obviously troubling. Anyone have any
info on this? Is it a Linux specific issue or a hardware issue, or just a
few folks with random problems? For what it's worth, I'll be running Linux
Mandrake 7.2 on this system.
Neal
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From: "bigtiny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GeForce 2 MX (Creative) problem with linux.
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 02:28:07 GMT
Nvidia's website says it does.....
I'm having trouble getting this to work too....
k
Stefan Stommels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9110p3$1fe$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I know, XFree 4.0.1a doesn't support GeForce2 MX. So you need a newer
> XFree. Get it from www.xfree86.org/cvs
> If you can get it working, at least you'll have 2D support in full
> glory, but I haven't gotten the 3D working yet...
>
>
> In article <910dnr$dnn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Maverick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have Intel Pentium III 667Mhz, 128MB RAM 133Mhz, ASUS CUV4X Board
> (VIA
> > Chipset), and i have RedHat Linux 7.0 installed and use a Creative
> Labs
> > GeForce2 MX DDR.
> > With the drivers that came with RedHat my GeForce2 don't work, then i
> > installed
> > the Nvidia-0.9.5 drivers, and the system says that i can't install
> the AGP
> > module because it can't find a supportable VIA chipset, then i use the
> > option UNSUPORTED_CHIPSET=1 when i install the AGP module, it
> installs the
> > AGP module and the GeForce module.
> > But when i start X-Windows the systen crashes, black screen forever
> and
> > system hang.
> >
> > Bye.
> >
> >
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: "Brian Likosar" <"Bee Jay hyphen"[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboards.asus,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt
Subject: Re: Asus A7V and IBM Deskstart 75GXP
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 20:40:27 -0600
I have the exact setup that you're looking at. The hard drive works,
however, it will occasionally make a squeaking noise. None of your data
gets corrupted, but the entire machine pauses while the drive recovers.
I've recently noticed that if I allow my machine to power off the hard drive
during inactivity, it works much better...IBM is *NOT* aware of this
problem, however, because I called them and ordered a replacement drive,
even though this issue exists.
Brian
"Neal Lippman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:rLWY5.88633$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I've seen a few posts going by that indicate that the IBM Deskstar 75GXP
> drives do not work (well, or according to some posts, at all) with the
ASUS
> A7V mainboard. The posts haven't indicated if that problem is only on the
> Promise Ultra-ATA 100 controller on the mainboard, or also with the
standard
> ATA-66 controller as well. Although the last post was in a Linux-related
> newsgroup, the implication was that this was a hardware problem and not OS
> related.
>
> Since I was planning to use an A7V with a 30GB Deskstar for the system I
am
> now ordering components for, this is obviously troubling. Anyone have any
> info on this? Is it a Linux specific issue or a hardware issue, or just a
> few folks with random problems? For what it's worth, I'll be running Linux
> Mandrake 7.2 on this system.
>
> Neal
>
>
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From: Mariano Benedettini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting/reserving interrupts/irqs
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 23:36:14 -0300
try moving eth1 to irq 9 and set the scsi card on irq 11
Frank Samuelson wrote:
> All my devices are plug and pray except one. An old
> aha152x adaptec SCSI card. The card has a jumper on
> it and is set to IRQ 9. (It can also be set to IRQ 11, I think.) I had
> /sbin/modprobe aha152x aha152x=0x140,9
> in my rc.local file and everything worked fine. Then I added another
> ethernet card and the card doesn't work any more.
> I get:
>
> Dec 10 17:30:37 216-39-176-115 kernel: aha152x: BIOS test: passed,
> detected 1 controller(s)
> Dec 10 17:30:37 216-39-176-115 kernel: aha152x0: vital data:
> PORTBASE=0x140, IRQ=9, SCSI ID=7, reconnect=enabled, parity=enabled,
> synchronous=disabled, delay=100, extended translation=disabled
> Dec 10 17:30:37 216-39-176-115 kernel: aha152x: trying software
> interrupt, lost.
> Dec 10 17:30:37 216-39-176-115 kernel: aha152x: IRQ 9 possibly wrong.
> Please verify.
>
> procinfo gives:
>
> Linux 2.2.14-5.0.14csmp (root@load170) (gcc egcs-2.91.66) #1 2CPU
> [216-39-176-115]
>
> Memory: Total Used Free Shared Buffers
> Cached
> Mem: 127684 84644 43040 70196 3580
> 49440
> Swap: 130748 0 130748
>
> Bootup: Sun Dec 10 17:29:57 2000 Load average: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/57
> 921
>
> user : 0:00:08.34 0.2% page in : 51813 disk 1:
> 6105r 1601w
> nice : 0:00:04.22 0.1% page out: 3674
> system: 0:00:20.08 0.6% swap in : 1
> idle : 0:53:47.64 99.0% swap out: 0
> uptime: 0:27:10.13 context : 118632
>
> irq 0: 163014 timer irq 9: 24790
> bttv
> irq 1: 1305 keyboard irq 10: 190
> eth0
> irq 2: 0 cascade [4] irq 11: 0
> eth1
> irq 3: 14 serial irq 12: 13288 PS/2
> Mouse
> irq 4: 3 irq 13: 1
> fpu
> irq 6: 3 irq 14: 7456
> ide0
> irq 7: 3 soundblaster irq 15: 4
> ide1
> irq 8: 1 rtc
>
> Argh! My plug and pray video capture card is taking up irq 9.
> I tried compiling aha152x into the kernel (not as a module) but that
> didn't help anything.
>
> How can I tell Linux not to use IRQ 9? Or is that not what I want to do?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Frank
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