Linux-Hardware Digest #49, Volume #14 Mon, 18 Dec 00 01:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: Sound Blaster not working ("Chris")
Re: Sound Blaster not working ("Chris")
FreeSCO/Linux Modem? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SCSI host ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HP DeskJet 930C printer driver? ("Ernst F.
Graeler,Home,732-870-4059,732-223-1110")
Re: WAS [Help please] Now: MIME? message number 2 (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: WAS [Help please] Now: MIME? message number 1 (James Richard Tyrer)
nfs,chat not installed ("Art Heyman")
Re: ??? RH7.0 on a Pentium Pro 200 (Chris Pitzel)
hardward compatibility ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Wrong IO or IRQ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
3ware nightmares ("Richard Ford")
Re: DHCP with suse Linux (CBFalconer)
Compaq MV500 monitor (Andrew)
Re: WAS [Help please] Now: MIME? message number 2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: LILO and EIDE secondary master (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Network Everywhere (but Linux) NC100 Version 2.1: Does this work at all with Linux ?
(":\)")
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Reply-To: "Chris" <e e z e e 7 @ h o m e . c o m>
From: "Chris" <e e z e e 7 @ h o m e . c o m>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster not working
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 01:06:00 GMT
This helped a little, but I still get the error message. The only
difference now is that there is something that says: Starting up ISA PNP
devices, when the system starts up. Just something to note; there is no
isapnp.conf file on my computer, and when I did pnpdump, there was no
output.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:91h1qj$oca$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <4sS_5.217677$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Chris" <e e z e e 7 @ h o m e . c o m> wrote:
> > I am running Redhat Linux 6.2, and I'm having trouble with my Sound
Blaster
> > clone sound card. When I try to use sndconfig, I get the following
error
> > messages (these also appear when the computer is booting up):
> >
> > /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or
> > resource busy
> > /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/sb.o: insmod
> > /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/sb.o failed
> > /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/sb.o: insmod sound-slot-0 failed
> >
> > I have no idea what the trouble is, and I am hoping someone here can
resolve
> > this. One thing to note however; my sound card DID work properly
running an
> > older version of RH Linux (I think it was RH5 or something).
> > -----
> > Chris
> >
>
> I am also running 6.2 with a Sound Blaster 16 card which is currently
> working. When I upgraded from RH 6.1 to 6.2, I had some trouble with the
> sound card working, but I was able to correct this by re-running the
"pnpdump
> -c" command ("-c" option allows the pnpdump program to guess at a good
> configuration for the pnp devices), and redirect the output to the
> isapnp.conf file. After rebooting, I was able to configure the card with
the
> sndconfig utility. I don't know if this will work for you, but it is
> something that worked for me.
>
>
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Reply-To: "Chris" <e e z e e 7 @ h o m e . c o m>
From: "Chris" <e e z e e 7 @ h o m e . c o m>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster not working
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 01:07:28 GMT
I installed this oss package, and it all went smoothly, except there was an
error running soundon, and in the log file it says: sb: dsp reset failed
Oh yes, the sound still doesn't work either...
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:91hkc3$5fb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> you can also try oss package.
> I have a vibra 128 sound card that it couldn't install by sndconfig and
> I installed it by oss package.If you search for this program in
> yahoo,can find site that has this software.
> bye
> habib
> In article <4sS_5.217677$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Chris" <e e z e e 7 @ h o m e . c o m> wrote:
> > I am running Redhat Linux 6.2, and I'm having trouble with my Sound
> Blaster
> > clone sound card. When I try to use sndconfig, I get the following
> error
> > messages (these also appear when the computer is booting up):
> >
> > /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or
> > resource busy
> > /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/sb.o: insmod
> > /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/sb.o failed
> > /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/sb.o: insmod sound-slot-0 failed
> >
> > I have no idea what the trouble is, and I am hoping someone here can
> resolve
> > this. One thing to note however; my sound card DID work properly
> running an
> > older version of RH Linux (I think it was RH5 or something).
> > -----
> > Chris
> >
> >
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FreeSCO/Linux Modem?
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 01:25:47 GMT
I need a modem for my 386 that will be running as a dial on demand
router. I know that it probably sounds stupid to want a dial-up
connection to share a 56k internet access but I just want it to
experiment with. I would get an external modem but I read that older
386 computers didn't have fifoed serial ports and that an external modem
would be a lot slower with one of these serial ports. What is a good
isa 56k modem chipset to look for?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SCSI host
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 01:30:32 GMT
Don't buy tekram. I don't know where I got the idea that they were
linux-friendly but they are not. The reason I asked the question here is
because I wanted to buy hardware by a company actively supporting linux.
Tekram does not. They do provide drivers for their hardware, but they
are not GPL'd, and thus the drivers cannot become part of the kernel
source or be included with distro's like debian. Which really sucks for
me because the kernel I boot to install my system must support the card.
In article <9079ek$cvn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'll check DTC out, thanks.
>
> One thing I might do, since I have recently gotten a few 486's, so I
> might take one of their drives (all are IDE, 200megs or less) and just
> put /boot on it. Then I can use the cheaper scsi card, and put
> everything else on the SCSI drive.
>
> I might also steal their RAM too, the "new" mobo has slots for SD and
> 72pin. I hate to slow it down with such ram, but as cheap as SDRAM is
> it's not free. I recently bought a bunch of 128meg PC133 dims for
55US$
> each. A few months ago, I bought a 64meg dimm of PC100 and it cost
more
> than that.
>
> In article <oY0U5.1811$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "James Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > I need a cheap 50pin SCSI controller, is there any reason not to
> buy a
> > > > Tekram DC 315U? A website is offering them for 20US$ each. The
> only
> > > > thing I am planning on using it for is to connect a single scsi
hd
> (the
> > > > boot drive, only drive if you want to get technical). I think
I've
> read
> > > > that tekram is at least somewhat pro-linux, which is nice.
> > > >
> > > > What does the term Bios-less mean?
> > It means that you can't boot from it. You'll have to boot from a
> floppy, or
> > drive on a "bootable" controller.
> >
> > Try some of the NCR 53xxx based units like the DTC PCI SCSI
controller
> I
> > recently bought from www.hitechcafe.com for about $30. They have
some
> ISA
> > DTC SCSI's as well that I think should work too.
> >
> >
>
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> Before you buy.
>
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From: "Ernst F. Graeler,Home,732-870-4059,732-223-1110" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP DeskJet 930C printer driver?
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 20:43:13 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I recently started using a package called turboprint from
http://www.turboprint.de for my hp952c printer. It is beta software,
but I found the print quality quite good, and the install is quite
easy. They also support the hp93xC as well.
John English wrote:
> Can anyone tell me where I can find a driver for an HP DeskJet 930C
> printer driver? I've configured it as a different model HP colour
> Deskjet, and it prints OK, but everything comes out as B&W...
>
> TIA,
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> John English | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Senior Lecturer | http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je
> Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS **
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WAS [Help please] Now: MIME? message number 2
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 01:54:33 GMT
"M. Buchenrieder" wrote:
> Nobody is, as it is broken. You want a real newsreader and a real
> email program.
>
> And you're still sending everything twice.
Apparently, your "real newsreader" is not able to properly receive and act on
cancel messages.
Netscape 4 is seriously broken, but at least it does that properly. I plan
to switch to Kmail (it does HTML) and Konqueror, but they aren't quite up to
speed yet. I was waiting for Netscape 6, but it isn't quite ready either.
Someone complained that I forgot to turn the vCard of when I posted.
I canceled the messages and corrected my ACCIDENTAL MISTAKE.
Now you post to complain about that.
Perhaps there is some chat group devoted to carping about other posters that
you could change to.
I use (or used to use) this group to try to help other users with their
hardware.
I will now unsubscribe to this newsgroup and leave it to the INTERNET POLICE.
If anyone needs further follow up, please try:
news://news.earthlink.net/comp.os.linux.redhat
JRT
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WAS [Help please] Now: MIME? message number 1
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 02:04:37 GMT
Gene Heskett wrote:
> JRT> This message is sent in MIME.
>
> JRT> JRT
>
> No it wasn't. It was pure text.
Yes, I know that. I should have indicated that what I did was tell
Netscape to send it in MIME. But, it didn't because there weren't any
8-bit characters to encode.
JRT
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From: "Art Heyman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: nfs,chat not installed
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 21:54:53 -0500
Red hat 6.1 - trying to get on the web (according to my 5.2 docs , using
chat and scripts) and to play with nfs on my LAN.
I dont see NFS or chat or rp3, for that matter - how do I reinstall just
these features ?
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From: Chris Pitzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: ??? RH7.0 on a Pentium Pro 200
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 03:06:34 GMT
> Thanks for the reponse. I'm also planning on using this box as a
> development sandbox for a few Perl Database apps I'm writing. Will
> Slackware fit this scenario?
Most definitely. That sounds like a very nice machine you're going to
have there.
Redhat, in general, is more geared towards inexperienced users or users
who don't have very much, if any prior experience with unix. As such,
they tend to over-automate a lot of the procedures in redhat, and to
experienced users, that is just inefficent, wasteful, and sacrifices
flexibility.
The latest version of perl5 is included with the standard slackware
iso's. You may have to add additional libraries and packages to perl
(such as libwww as I had to), but that's not terribly difficult, and
you'd have to do the same under redhat as well.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: hardward compatibility
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 02:56:52 GMT
Could anyone tell me which CDROM drive is the most compatible with
linux, specially Debian linux? I also need recommendation for an ide
harddrive? What about 3dfx voodoo3 2000? I am new at this and trying
to put together my first linux box. The motherboard I bought is ASUS
P2B-F. depending on this experience I would go on and build a AMD
Duron and for that I am thinking about using ABIT board. I have been
interested in linux for a long time but could not afford to build one
until now. I'm interested, later, to be able to help others but I need
help for all who have gone this path before. Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Wrong IO or IRQ?
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 04:00:59 GMT
Hi,
I am trying to set up a 2nd Ethernet Card on my Mandrake 7.1 Box.
The first card is a Linksys PCI and works fine. However, the second
card I had to use a ISA card(due to lack of PCI slots on my old
Compaq).
Since I had to go ISA I picked a 3Com 3c509b-TPO card... I don't
have DOS on my linux box, so I have to put my card into my Windows box
to use the 3Com config utility to disable the PNP and set the IO and
IRQ, and then take the card out and put it in my linux box. Is this a
problem? Should the card be configured in my linux box? Again I don't
have DOS on it. Does 3COM have a linux utility for configuring the card?
Anyway, as I stated above. I disabled the the PNP and look at the
IRQ and IO using the 3Com config utility on my Windows system and then
wrote down the IO and IRQ. I then took the card out and put it into my
linux system and tryed to set it up. I added:
alias eth1 3c509
options 3c509 io=0x300 irq=5 (I got the io and irq from the config
utility.)
When I start up my system. It goes through and sets up the first
card fine (eth0) then when it hits the second card it says "Invalid
parameter parm_io... 3c509.o failed... etc."
Any Ideas?
Thanks in advanced
Adam
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From: "Richard Ford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: 3ware nightmares
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 15:15:55 +1100
G'Day
I am having an aweful time trying to get a 3ware 6200 working with RH
6.2 It is a MSI K7T pro 2 board with 2 segate atat 66 7200 baracuda 2
drives, the es 6200 and an Athlong thunderbird 800. 128 mb 133 FSB ram.
Now I follow all the instructions and the system will not boot off the
array. I curently have a ATAPI CD drive as master on channel 1 for
intalling the system (As NFS install was stuffing up) and I will remove
this cd drive once the OS is up.
I had similar problems with a compaq proliant and a smart 2 controller.
That is one, can install the OS and go through all the options, but come
the first boot post install, the kernel panics as it can't moutn the
root FS.
The root FS is obviously where the 3ware driver module is - so it can't
load the module, so can't access the root FS, so can't load the
module.... chicken and egg.
This was solved by hitting ALT F2 just before the final reboot (On the
compaq) and doing a kernel recompile and installing the new kernel.
I tried that with RH 6.2 and the escalade using a new frsh 2.2.18
download. As 2.2.15 was uspposed to have the 3ware driver included and
RH 6.2 uses 2.2.14.
I check that the driver was there in the source tree - it was. I did a
make menuconfig but I could not find the controller listed anywhere to
select an * and make it compiled into the kernel.
I tried to edit the makefile in the scsi dir - but as I know nothign
about make files (I assumed the optin to compile or not or a module or
into the kernel was set in there??) and the sane problem persists.
I downlaod the new manual off the 3ware site and still it says the smae
things. Just select expert... blah, blah, blah...... select drivers,
etc...
What did you do special? What am I missing? What can I try??? How
come I can't get this damm thing to work when I follow the instructions
to the tee? Must the driver be compiled in? Or is it OK as a loadable
module?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Richard.
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From: CBFalconer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: roadrunner.techtalk.linux
Subject: Re: DHCP with suse Linux
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 04:17:01 GMT
Mahesh Vaidya wrote:
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Why do people insist on putting junk like this on newsgroups?
Text - no attachments or encodings etc., please.
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From: Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compaq MV500 monitor
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 23:51:22 -0800
What type of monitor / settings can I choose in Xconfigurator (Red Hat
6.0, I think) to get 1024X768 resolution on my monitor. My X
environment has huge, annoying windows... not pleasant to work with....
unrelated: How do I set the "path" in linux to where I don't have to
type "./a.out" for example, to run a program in the current directory
I'm in.
Thanks a ton.
andrew
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Subject: Re: WAS [Help please] Now: MIME? message number 2
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 05:21:23 GMT
James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Apparently, your "real newsreader" is not able to properly receive and act on
> cancel messages.
Newsreaders do not respond to cancels. News servers do.
> I will now unsubscribe to this newsgroup and leave it to the INTERNET POLICE.
Thereby cutting traffic in half, thanks to no more duplicate messages.
Which, by the way, are rather clearly broken on your end, as I know
for a fact that my current news server honors cancels.
--
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In one gloss of the cut interstellarly I must immovable protect the
universe.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Subject: Re: LILO and EIDE secondary master
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 05:32:55 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One) wrote:
> I'll upgrade LILO, and maybe I'll see if I can
> figure out jumper settings (no instructions for
> this came with the drive, unfortunately,
D'OH. Except the dinky ones printed right on the
drive itself. New drive is now secondary master.
I'm going to try installing a more modern LILO
hopefully some time this week...
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From: ":\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Network Everywhere (but Linux) NC100 Version 2.1: Does this work at all with
Linux ?
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 05:41:26 GMT
Network Everywhere (Linksys) NC100 V.2.1
I've tried tulip.c versions: 0.91f, 0.91g, 0.92 and none can detect the NIC.
Is there a special tulip.c I should be using? Or should I ditch the cards
completely?
Kernel 2.2.12
hycheng at email dot com
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