Linux-Hardware Digest #40, Volume #14 Sat, 16 Dec 00 08:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: Promise Ultra100 help ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: WAS [Help please] Now: MIME? What is it? (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: Red Hat 7.0 vs Abit BE6:s HTP66 controllers (Jerra)
Re: Red Hat 7.0 vs Abit BE6:s HTP66 controllers (Jerra)
Re: Red Hat 7.0 vs Abit BE6:s HTP66 controllers (Jerra)
SuperMicro 370DLE motherboard (Mark R. Holbrook)
Which kind of netcard is best support in Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SIMM's types and IDE for DMA (Gareth Randall)
Re: Dual processor advantage (Gareth Randall)
Re: debian's driver for intel 8255 ethernet card (Gareth Randall)
Re: Running linux on 486 (Gareth Randall)
Re: How to read hardware information in Linux? (Gareth Randall)
Re: kernel 2.4.0-test11, TNT2 and XFree 4 (Tony Spinillo)
Re: Device Driver for PCI Card with PLX 9030 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ATAPI device hdd error ("Alk")
Re: Which kind of netcard is best support in Linux? ("Alk")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Promise Ultra100 help
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 08:11:57 GMT
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 21:36:34 GMT, Dukhat
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Greetings!
>
>I've come to I point where I might need some help.
>
>Equipment: Old PCI Mac with SCSI, Promise Ultra100 card and one IDE 3.2 GB disk.
The Ultra 100 cards I have use the PDC20267 chipset. I downloaded the
2.2.18 kernel late Sunday night. I ran the menuconfig but it does not
support the PDC20267. It does support an older chipset, I believe it
is the Ultra 66. I don't remember the model number off the top of my
head. It should be in the ide.txt within the kernel source.
In any case, I got the 2.4.0-test12 and compiled that. It supports the
PDC20267 and booted without a hic-up.
Additional note: I do not own or use Apple computers.
>I've downloaded the 2.2.18pre21 kernel and the ide-2.2.18-27.*.patch. There was
>I single #include <asm/spinlock.h> statement I needed to add to
>include/linux/mc146818rtc.h, but then all compiled without any problem.
>
>When I booted this the first time it went belly-up. After less than a screenfull
>of boot text it said Kernel panic, dereferenced 00000000 from 00000000 and some
>other stuff I didn't bother to write down.
>
>Anyone knows anything about this? Ultra100 on Mac? kernel/ide patch validity?
>Any particular information I should have read, but apparently didn't? etc. etc.
>etc.
>
>Thanks,
>-Dukhat
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WAS [Help please] Now: MIME? What is it?
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 08:31:22 GMT
Lew Pitcher wrote:
> Turn of vCard, and you'll be able to lose the MIME
Actually, if I would remember to turn off the vCard, I would lose the vCard.
For the record, by MIME are you referring to
MIME encoding which are methods of sending 8-bit binary data as 7-b ASCII text
OR
MIME format which breaks a message up according to various MIME types with
separators:
==============1703E05066D41CD42523B5E7
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
like the above? Which indicate the MIME type for the content. In this case:
"text/plain".
JRT
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From: Jerra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat 7.0 vs Abit BE6:s HTP66 controllers
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 11:13:57 +0200
Hi & Thanks!
Gentus? What is that? I looked at www.abit.nl but could not find anything
relevant.
Regards
Jerra
"Mr. Happy" wrote:
> Abit makes gentus which has native support for all their on board
> controllers.
> Charlie Ebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 22:05:07 +0200,
> > Jerra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >Hi!
> > >I have seen that Linux Red Hat does not like the ATA/66 controllers.
> > >After choosing "Work Station" as the choice to install I get the error
> > >stating that no devices(hdds) was found in the system.
> > >I've read some tips on how to work around this but it just does not work
> > >for me........
> > >
> > >In the gui installer I'm supposed to press ALT+F2 to get to a console.
> > >And from there read the first and second address(/proc/pci) of the
> > >ATA/66 controller(s). Then send some commands to the Kernel. No matter
> > >where I am in the installation procedure ALT+F2 is not bringing up a
> > >console. Nothing happens... whatsoever,,,,
> > >
> > >Am I doomed for having this mobo? Don't wanna move the disks(to ATA/33).
> > >I am using HDD Cartridge so I'll keep different OS:s on different disks.
> > >Just unlock and pull out/change the disk depending on what OS is the
> > >flavour of the day. Don't wanna mix them on same disk.
> > >
> > >TIA!
> > >
> > >Regards
> > >Jerra
> > >
> > >IDE1 (ATA/33) CDROM
> > >IDE2 (ATA/33) HP CD-Writer
> > >IDE3 (ATA/66) HDD Cartridge
> > >IDE4 (ATA/66) Storage Disk
> > >Motherboard Abit BE6
> > >PIII 450Mhz / 256 mb Ram
> > >
> >
> >
> > Hi. I have the HP366 controlle working file using Debian Potato.
> > I think it's the only distribution which has it working correctly
> > right now.
> >
> > Charlie
> >
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From: Jerra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat 7.0 vs Abit BE6:s HTP66 controllers
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 11:14:27 +0200
Hi & Thanks!
Gentus? What is that? I looked at www.abit.nl but could not find anything
relevant.
Regards
Jerra
"Mr. Happy" wrote:
> Abit makes gentus which has native support for all their on board
> controllers.
> Charlie Ebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 22:05:07 +0200,
> > Jerra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >Hi!
> > >I have seen that Linux Red Hat does not like the ATA/66 controllers.
> > >After choosing "Work Station" as the choice to install I get the error
> > >stating that no devices(hdds) was found in the system.
> > >I've read some tips on how to work around this but it just does not work
> > >for me........
> > >
> > >In the gui installer I'm supposed to press ALT+F2 to get to a console.
> > >And from there read the first and second address(/proc/pci) of the
> > >ATA/66 controller(s). Then send some commands to the Kernel. No matter
> > >where I am in the installation procedure ALT+F2 is not bringing up a
> > >console. Nothing happens... whatsoever,,,,
> > >
> > >Am I doomed for having this mobo? Don't wanna move the disks(to ATA/33).
> > >I am using HDD Cartridge so I'll keep different OS:s on different disks.
> > >Just unlock and pull out/change the disk depending on what OS is the
> > >flavour of the day. Don't wanna mix them on same disk.
> > >
> > >TIA!
> > >
> > >Regards
> > >Jerra
> > >
> > >IDE1 (ATA/33) CDROM
> > >IDE2 (ATA/33) HP CD-Writer
> > >IDE3 (ATA/66) HDD Cartridge
> > >IDE4 (ATA/66) Storage Disk
> > >Motherboard Abit BE6
> > >PIII 450Mhz / 256 mb Ram
> > >
> >
> >
> > Hi. I have the HP366 controlle working file using Debian Potato.
> > I think it's the only distribution which has it working correctly
> > right now.
> >
> > Charlie
> >
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From: Jerra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat 7.0 vs Abit BE6:s HTP66 controllers
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 11:13:05 +0200
Hi & Thanks!
Gentus? What is that? I looked at www.abit.nl but could not find anything
relevant.
Regards
Jerra
"Mr. Happy" wrote:
> Abit makes gentus which has native support for all their on board
> controllers.
> Charlie Ebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 22:05:07 +0200,
> > Jerra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >Hi!
> > >I have seen that Linux Red Hat does not like the ATA/66 controllers.
> > >After choosing "Work Station" as the choice to install I get the error
> > >stating that no devices(hdds) was found in the system.
> > >I've read some tips on how to work around this but it just does not work
> > >for me........
> > >
> > >In the gui installer I'm supposed to press ALT+F2 to get to a console.
> > >And from there read the first and second address(/proc/pci) of the
> > >ATA/66 controller(s). Then send some commands to the Kernel. No matter
> > >where I am in the installation procedure ALT+F2 is not bringing up a
> > >console. Nothing happens... whatsoever,,,,
> > >
> > >Am I doomed for having this mobo? Don't wanna move the disks(to ATA/33).
> > >I am using HDD Cartridge so I'll keep different OS:s on different disks.
> > >Just unlock and pull out/change the disk depending on what OS is the
> > >flavour of the day. Don't wanna mix them on same disk.
> > >
> > >TIA!
> > >
> > >Regards
> > >Jerra
> > >
> > >IDE1 (ATA/33) CDROM
> > >IDE2 (ATA/33) HP CD-Writer
> > >IDE3 (ATA/66) HDD Cartridge
> > >IDE4 (ATA/66) Storage Disk
> > >Motherboard Abit BE6
> > >PIII 450Mhz / 256 mb Ram
> > >
> >
> >
> > Hi. I have the HP366 controlle working file using Debian Potato.
> > I think it's the only distribution which has it working correctly
> > right now.
> >
> > Charlie
> >
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From: Mark R. Holbrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SuperMicro 370DLE motherboard
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 01:24:07 -0800
Hello,
Anybody have anything positive or negative about this motherboard for
Linux (RH 7)?
The specs mention "ServerWorks ServerSet III LE" chipset. Don't know
much about that one yet. Compatibility issues?
Mark
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Which kind of netcard is best support in Linux?
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 09:31:08 GMT
most stable and best support ?
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From: Gareth Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SIMM's types and IDE for DMA
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:35:33 +0000
"Guennadi V. Liakhovetski" wrote:
>
> Hello everybody
>
> After numerous attempts I still cannot turn DMA on for my disk. I remember
> seeing somewhere, that it is important to have memory (SIIMs) of the same
> type (for this?). I've got 2 EDO and 2 Fast Paging boards. Can this be the
> reason why DMA doesn't turn on?
DMA of any kind (PCI bus-mastering, PC DMA etc.) has nothing to do with the type of
memory. This should make no difference at all. Don't confuse DMA on your motherboard
(typically used in soundcards with DMA1, DMA5 etc) with the so-called "DMA" on disk
drives. They are different systems.
To my understanding DMA on hard disks is just where the PCI based controller can be a
bus master and may (not sure) access main memory within the defined and well thought
out (unlike other DMA) methods of the PCI bus. You need to have a PCI bus master
controller which is supported by your kernel to the point where DMA can be turned on.
Oh, a have a look at "hdparm"
Yours,
======= Gareth Randall =======
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From: Gareth Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual processor advantage
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:44:30 +0000
> Been running a PPRo/180 SMP system for about 2 years.
> No major processing speed differences noted, but all user/operator
> interraction seems to be much snappier (no delays) than the single
> systems
Wow, so it really does increase responsiveness! I knew that hardware interrupts are
distributed across both processors, but I hadn't quite thought of that!
I bet there're lots of people reading this who wish they could just open up their case
one day and suddenly realise that they've got a socket/slot for another processor!
======= Gareth Randall =======
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From: Gareth Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: debian's driver for intel 8255 ethernet card
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:51:40 +0000
> I can't install my intel 8255x ethernet card under Debian 2.2.
> I didn't find any driver which works on the Web.
> Help !
I think yes. It's classed under Intel EtherExpress Pro. This chipset is good, popular,
and supported by default in 2.2.17 kernel.
http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/24659.htm
======= Gareth Randall =======
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From: Gareth Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Running linux on 486
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 11:02:29 +0000
> I'm currently learning how elinux/uClinux works on a tiny 3x5" board w/ a 100
> mips processor rs485, 2rs232, 8M dram, 2M flash and a 100mbps connection. The
> whole board sells in single unit quantities for just under $300; the place I
> work for will rip a new PC, modify it to have 8M flash and leave out the stuff
> we don't need for a BOM of about $170. I'm considering buying one of them for
> home automation.
>
> The wildest part is programming a varient of a modern OS kernel w/out a memory
> management unit. Lacking the MMU has made it the exception. Fork() a
> process, and all it's global variables are in common w/ it's parent. I'm
> currently struggling with what seems like all the stack variables of main(...)
> being converted to globals and getting trashed by the child. I run a for loop
> w/ "whoami" being indexed from 0 to N and somehow the child gets duplicate
> values whereas it runs perfectly on the desktop.
If you can't protect the memory space of the kernel or a process from another process,
then you're in deep trouble. You will end up with a system which cannot ever be
stable, and in which any application can bring the whole system down. (If this isn't
the case, then forget I said it.)
If you can't do fork in the Unix sense, then this is another fundamental problem. For
a discussion of the problems of running this sort of OS on systems without virtual
addressing, see the IBM comments on the AS/400 Linux (CISC) webpage:
http://users.snip.net/~gbooker/as400.htm
Sorry if this is depressing but the system you describe may just not be designed for
it.
======= Gareth Randall =======
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From: Gareth Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to read hardware information in Linux?
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 11:04:55 +0000
> I'm now writing a program running in Linux. However, i need to read
> hardware information like harddisk serial no. and\or ethernet card
> ethernet address. How can i do that? My language platform can be C,
> perl, PHP, etc.
If you want hard disk info, check out "hdparm". In particular hdparm -i (show info
from drive.)
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======= Gareth Randall =======
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From: Tony Spinillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel 2.4.0-test11, TNT2 and XFree 4
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 11:53:00 GMT
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Brian,
I attached the patch that I got from the nvidia IRC channel
at nvidia#irc.openprojects.net
I am using the nvidia kernel module with 2.4.test13-pre2
Give it a whirl,
Tony
"Brian C. Kiefer" wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I recently installed Linux on my pc and have been trying to get the
> NVidia drivers for my TNT2 (both kernel and OpenGL) to compile, but they
> will not with the my kernel. Does anyone have any ideas how I can
> compile the modules for my kernel or has anyone gotten this to work for
> them?
>
> TIA,
>
> Brian Kiefer
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diff -ru NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-5/nv.c ../projects/nvdriver_/nv.c
--- NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-5/nv.c Sat Aug 26 02:48:38 2000
+++ ../projects/nvdriver_/nv.c Thu Nov 9 00:23:42 2000
@@ -49,6 +49,13 @@
#include <linux/modversions.h>
#endif
+#ifndef mem_map_dec_count
+ #define mem_map_dec_count(p) atomic_dec(&((p)->count));
+#endif
+#ifndef mem_map_inc_count
+ #define mem_map_inc_count(p) atomic_inc(&((p)->count));
+#endif
+
#include <nv.h> // needs to precede other headers (SMP)
#include <linux/stddef.h>
diff -ru NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-5/os-interface.c ../projects/nvdriver_/os-interface.c
--- NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-5/os-interface.c Fri Sep 1 04:19:17 2000
+++ ../projects/nvdriver_/os-interface.c Thu Nov 9 00:35:01 2000
@@ -1331,6 +1331,11 @@
char *parmp;
char ch;
+ spinlock_t unload_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
+ struct module *mp = THIS_MODULE;
+ struct module_symbol *sym;
+ int i;
+
if ((strlen(regParmStr) + NV_SYM_PREFIX_LENGTH) > NV_MAX_SYM_NAME)
goto done;
@@ -1351,11 +1356,18 @@
*symp = '\0';
- symbol_value = get_module_symbol(NV_MODULE_NAME, symbol_name);
-
-#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2, 4, 0)
- put_module_symbol(symbol_value);
-#endif
+ spin_lock(&unload_lock);
+ if (MOD_CAN_QUERY(mp) && (mp->nsyms > 0)) {
+ for (i = mp->nsyms, sym = mp->syms;
+ i > 0; --i, ++sym) {
+
+ if (strcmp(sym->name, symbol_name) == 0) {
+ symbol_value = sym->value;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ spin_unlock(&unload_lock);
done:
return (void *) symbol_value;
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Device Driver for PCI Card with PLX 9030
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 12:10:01 GMT
Michael,
I you haven't already tried Jungo (http://www.jungo.com) they might
have what you want. They have a Linux driver kit and their Windows
drivers support PLX PCI Bridge family.
In article <8vdgmg$58m$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Michael K�hler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> does anybody knows a PCI device driver for a pci card equipped with a
> PLX9030 (or similar device like
> PLX 9052, PLX9080) PCI Bridge chip. We want to to use this chip to
equip our
> hardware with a simple
> PCI Interface. The Host PC will run LINUX (kernel 2.2.14/16) and so I
have
> to write a device driver for the
> chip and our application. If anybody knows a board with this chip I
could
> use the appropiated driver as an
> example to access the chip.
>
> Thank you for any help,
>
> Mchael K�hler
>
>
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From: "Alk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATAPI device hdd error
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 14:29:20 +0200
Reply-To: "Alk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
As first effort you can unplug one of your drives for installation, because
both CD-RW and DVD will show their real difference from usual CD only under
SCSI emulation for IDE after installation
AG
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:91c21a$vjk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi
>
> I have been trying the different linux distributions recently and I
> noticed that there is always this error message given below during
> installation:
>
>
> ATAPI device hdd:
> Error: Not ready -- (sense key=0x02)
> (reserved error code) -- (asc=0x3a,ascq=0x01)
> The failed "Read Cd/Dvd Capacity" packet command was
> "25 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00"
>
> hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error}
> hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x34
>
>
> I have a Creative PC-DVD 8x as Master and Matshita 8x/4x CD-R/RW as
> Slave on the secondary IDE.
>
> Does anyone know what's wrong here? They work perfectly on my Win98
> partition and Linux distros. No problem reading from or writing to
> them. Just curious abt the error messages. On RH7, the console screen
> would keep repeating these messages and store them in dmesg.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
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From: "Alk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which kind of netcard is best support in Linux?
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 14:44:02 +0200
Reply-To: "Alk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
All new Intel/PCI and 3com/PCI, and older too, 3com needs drivers from its
website, not the ones from kernel source, Intel works with newest 2.2
kernels without problems. Anyway you can check your possible cards against
SuSE hardware list to see if they're supported
AG
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:91fcou$jf0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> most stable and best support ?
>
>
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