Linux-Hardware Digest #88, Volume #14 Wed, 27 Dec 00 05:13:04 EST
Contents:
Seagate SCSI Tape backup problem. (BAZtheLinuxGuy)
Re: "COM 5"? ("Dan White")
sound card problem ("Liviu")
Re: "COM 5"? ("D. Stimits")
APM doesn't work after recompiling (Anna Luigi)
Re: Seagate SCSI Tape backup problem. (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: Installing a network printer ("g.montgomery")
Re: AT LAAAAAAAST !!! YIPPEEEEEEE! ("g.montgomery")
Re: Network card/insmod problems (Bobo Jonez)
Re: sound card problem (Jose Gomez)
Re: RH 7.0 & Promise UATA66 Controller (Wei Chong Chee)
Re: Problems whit Redhat 6.2 installation (Wei Chong Chee)
Re: Teles PCI ISDN (Rafal Wysocki)
Buffalo SCSI-III PCMICA Card ("owl")
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From: BAZtheLinuxGuy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Seagate SCSI Tape backup problem.
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 04:01:36 GMT
Hello,
I bought a Scorpion 40 (STD6401LW) tape drive, and an Adaptec 29160
hoost controller to go in my RedHat 6.2 (kernel 2.2.14-5.0) Linux
(hybrid Win98) system. After Norton Disk Doctor destroyed several of my
partitions, and rendered the windows partition unbootable, the backup is
all the more urgent.
So far I have used the aic7xxx.o module. It complains a litttle, but hen
correcltly iidentifies my drive and settles down. The probelm comes when
I try to use stinit or to initialize / check the drive. Even ater
reading the Instalation Guide and other docuents (including
README.stinit) what I get is an stinit that parses y stinit.def file
correctly, but hangs uunkillable after I try to actually run it. Sae
sort of result with mt.
I just don't know the parameters, and Seagate has not been helpful,
linuxwise. And with my Win98 partition unbootable, I can't use their
diagnostic software.
I have tried numerous combinations of parameters. The scsi drive is
device 6, the Adaptec controller 7, I have tried parioty and no parity.
I have followed Seagate's advice of not uising transfer sppeeds higher
that 5 Mbytes /sec. No luck, for weeks now. stinit keeps trying to find
"/dev/nst0, but I a sure my drive should be "/dev/st0". Neither way
works iin any case. I just do not know the proper paramters for stinit.
Nor do I know what to do next I am stuck, and any advice wouyld be
deeply appreciated. I have contacted Seagate, with no help (yet,
anyway). They advertise as linux compatible, but I ghave a useless,
pain-inducing $1,000 drive ad $300 controller....useless, and I NEED the
backups for my system and my small linux (mainly) LAN,
Can anyone help? Or point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
--- Bryan ---
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: "Dan White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "COM 5"?
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 04:29:26 GMT
In article <92al8t$2s1h$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "J.D.Hodge"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm currently dual-booting Win98 and SuSE 6.3 Linux on a machine that
> came with a winmodem. I bought a US Robotics 56K Fax PCI, which was
> specifically labeled as being compatible with Linux.
That's cool. Hopefully modem manufacturers have discovered the error of
their ways in making winmodems :)
To use supported PCI modems, you need to associate it's settings with a
com port with the set serial command. See
http://siri.org/linux/pci.html
for more info.
- Dan White
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From: "Liviu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sound card problem
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 23:27:59 -0400
Hello,
I use the SuSE 6.4 version of Linux and I use the sound card Crystal 3235 .
I have configured it with the YAST program.The card seems to work properly
but the sound is to weak so I can bearly hear it ; besides in Windows the
same card works without a fuss . I'd like to know if something can be done
to get that card to work normaly.
If you think you can give me some usefull advices please mail me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Thank you !
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Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 21:39:31 -0700
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: "COM 5"?
"J.D.Hodge" wrote:
>
> I'm currently dual-booting Win98 and SuSE 6.3 Linux on a machine that came
> with a winmodem. I bought a US Robotics 56K Fax PCI, which was specifically
> labeled as being compatible with Linux. I installed it under Windows
> (mistake?) without removing the winmodem (the latter always comes back
> anyway). The new modem installed at port "COM 5." But there is no such
> port listed in the installation for Linux: there is only COM 1 through COM 4
> (in the "Yast" program, anyway). [The other info associated with COM 5 is
> that it is at interrupt #5 and the address is 2000-2007.]
>
> I don't know anything much about hardware at this level. Is the actual card
> that I installed associated permanently with a specific COM port? Should I
> uninstall the software and then try installing the modem under Linux first?
> Anyone know of a site that has good introductory information on serial
> connections?
Is your BIOS properly set to "o/s is NOT plug-n-play aware"? There are
some quite good 56k PCI US Robotics modems, but for PCI, the hardware
must be initialized, and only then can the software be set up. For
example, setserial -a on a /dev/ttyS? will list its current settings;
setserial can also be used to set them. File /proc/pci will list current
pci device setup, which must match the setserial settings on the
particular serial port. Either the modem can be made to match the port
with setpci, or the port can be made to match the modem (with
setserial). Look at the base address and irq. Samples:
BIOS set to "not plug-n-play aware", allows bios to set irq and address.
/proc/pci shows for a US Robotics PCI modem:
setserial -v /dev/ttyS2 uart 16550A port 0xafe0 irq 9 spd_normal
skip_test
Bus 1, device 1, function 0:
Serial controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 1).
Vendor id=12b9. Device id=1008.
Medium devsel. IRQ 9.
I/O at 0xafe0 [0xafe1].
lspci -v shows something to help verify that this device is the right
one:
01:01.0 Serial controller: US Robotics/3Com 56K FaxModem Model 5610 (rev
01) (prog-if 02 [16550])
Subsystem: US Robotics/3Com: Unknown device 00ad
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
I/O ports at afe0
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
(The 01:01.0 implies /proc/pci's Bus 1, device 1, function 0)
The info shows the modem at base address 0xafe0, the irq 9. To bring a
serial port to match it, arbitrarily ttyS2 (com3, which wasn't in use):
setserial -v /dev/ttyS2 uart 16550A port 0xafe0 irq 9 spd_normal
skip_test
setserial needs to be run each reboot, and can be added, for example, to
/etc/rc.d/rc.local. Actual file names/locations vary with distribution.
For convenience, if you chose ttyS2 as the modem:
cd /dev
ln -s ttyS2 modem
Once all that is done, you can try software setup. Since you have a
winmodem present also, be careful not to use the wrong one. Contrary to
popular belief, winmodems do show up as a valid piece of pci hardware.
Problem is that they won't do anything with your commands. If you want
your particular modem to be com5 (ttyS4), but don't have /dev/ttyS4, you
can create it with mknod. However, you'd have to look up the correct
major/minor numbers, and create a character-special-file with those
numbers.
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From: Anna Luigi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: APM doesn't work after recompiling
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 23:34:32 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi:
I've a Compaq Presario 1900 laptop with APM capability in the
BIOS (PhoenixBIOS 12/23/99) (I checked the Compaq documentation
and it is indeed APM). I run this under Linux, with
Suse6.4 installed. Recently I recompiled the kernel
(and followed all the directions) to include the APM
support in the kernel. Now however on boot up I'm told:
apm: BIOS not found.
Then after the system is started I type apm and get:
apm support not in kernel.
I think it's clear from the first message (also from dmesg)
that the Linux APM support was successfully compiled in (that
message didn't appear before I recompiled the kernel). Yet
somehow there seems to be an incompatibility between Linux APM
support and the APM support in this particular BIOS. Upon
researching this matter, I noticed that a couple of others have
had similar problems with similar model laptops.
Does anyone know about this problem? Thanks in advance for any
helpful information concerning this matter.
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Seagate SCSI Tape backup problem.
Date: 27 Dec 2000 05:02:45 GMT
BAZtheLinuxGuy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So far I have used the aic7xxx.o module. It complains a litttle, but hen
How does it complain? Please post the exact error messages.
> correcltly iidentifies my drive and settles down. The probelm comes when
> I try to use stinit or to initialize / check the drive. Even ater
You don't need to do this.
> correctly, but hangs uunkillable after I try to actually run it. Sae
> sort of result with mt.
Again, please post the commands and error messages.
> "/dev/nst0, but I a sure my drive should be "/dev/st0". Neither way
> works iin any case. I just do not know the proper paramters for stinit.
nst0 and st0 point to the same device. nst0 is the "non-rewinding" device,
which means it won't rewind after the completion of every command, which
st0 will.
> Can anyone help? Or point me in the right direction?
You shouldn't need any special parameters to modprobe. Try just
'modprobe aic7xxx' after bootup, and post the results. Set the drive
jumpers back to factory defaults. Go ahead and keep the channel speed
limited. After modprobe, try 'mt -f /dev/nst0 status'. It really
should work.
Let us know how it goes. BTW, when it's working, you'll need to use
tar to back up your fat32 partitions -- dump/restore only works for ext2.
Good luck.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: "g.montgomery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing a network printer
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 07:00:06 GMT
Dan White wrote:
> In article <91tqcg$pb4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I'm running Red Hat 6.0 on a Windows NT based network (the only user on
> > the network running something other than Windows 98). We have a network
> > print "server" set up running Windows 95 (long story - all I can say is
> > "It wasn't me" :-)). Anyway, I want to connect to the printer over the
> > network using my NT account and would like to be able to do this without
> > having to type my username and password in every time I want to print.
> >
> > The printer is an NEC SuperScript 860.
> >
> > Any advice/help would be much appreciated.
> >
> > d0minick
> >
>
> If it's a Windows 95 printer server, i doubt that it would require a
> password. Easiest approach would be to add the hostname/ip address of it
> to your /etc/hosts file, then use 'printtool' to specify samba, host, and
> printer type (maybe postscript printer filter?).
>
> - Dan White
Dan is right - I am on an NT network at work with a RH6.2 machine. I
print to my selection of departmental HP printers (typically a 5000), using
a generic laserjet 4/5/6 driver. I use printtool (with the NT sysadmin on
my arm to give me the server names, etc. Printtool set up so I can
print either PCL or PS. It's magic.
I print from Netscape, Emacs, etc., etc. The only package I have run into
which is finicky on setup is Star Office. My printing comes and goes on
that package. There is a setup tool that comes with it which it takes you
three weeks to find out about, then it's a puzzle figuring out what to
feed it so that it is compatible with lpd, Samba, and NT. After all this
time, I am just coming to grips with fonts, etc. so that I can get about
the same quality out of Linux as with my Windoze laptop on the
shared network printers.
There was a time that I could not output any heavy graphical content
or the printer (any of them) would overflow or something and give
me only a part of a graphically busy page. I know it was an NT
problem, because the printers and my machine haven't changed,
but now I can print hundreds of pages of graphics and not miss a
beat.
Just confirming that it can work.
Gene Montgomery.
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From: "g.montgomery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AT LAAAAAAAST !!! YIPPEEEEEEE!
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 07:29:48 GMT
":)" wrote:
> Go to www.pointmang.org and download PMFirewall, it's the easiest prompt
> driven firewall scripter around.
>
If you are running RH7.0, you have a firewall configurator on your
desktop. On the KDE start menu pop-up it is at
Red Hat -> System -> firewall-config
It is a nice little gui for setting up your firewall using ipchains, etc.
Had it been available when I set up my ADSL firewall, I would have
gone that route. But, alas, I am using NetMAX Firewall, a commercial
package based on a fairly old version of Linux. I recommend not
going commercial, as the only advantage is the 30-day or so
telephone support. After that, it's a black box, and you pay to get
help.
Lurk around comp.os.linux.security for a while. There are a few gurus
over there who can help you, as long as you sort out the wheat from
the chaff.
Actually, I am thinking of chucking my standalone router/firewall machine
and getting one of the boxes at Fry's for ~ $150 which purport to do
about everything my machine does, and I don't need the mainframe,
monitor and keyboard - just a thing that looks like my DSL modem.
The firewall and routing is configurable over the LAN using your browser,
much like my firewall/router is now.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> "root" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I am happy to tell you that this mail comes from my Linux Red Hat 7.0
> > Installation.
> > I had Sun Solaris 2.8 before but never was able to get to the internet
> > with my internal modem.
> > This is ***king great.........
> >
> > I still have some problems. First is that I have temporarily moved the
> > disk to the ATA33 controllers, want it on HTP66 ATA/66. I have been
> > adviced to patch the kernel but on kernel.org I could not find any info
> > on the later version regarding support for these fast controllers. So if
> > you have some tips please let me know! I'd appreciate that A LOT.
> >
> > Second thing is firewalls? I know little about it and at the moment
> > there could be 200 hackers in my system. Only thing I notice would be
> > the hdd lamp blinking little more than usual..... (.;
> > So, anyone of you know of a good FW with simple installation and setup?
> >
> >
> > Can't wait to install my favv db Oracle on this pc.... This is just
> > great...
> >
> >
> > Regards
> > Jerra
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Network card/insmod problems
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bobo Jonez)
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 08:12:39 GMT
TIM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>I cannot get linux to recognize my network card:
> smc 1211TX
>I have tried epic100, tulip and smc9194. All give the same error:
> insmod failed: device or resource busy
>One variation clued me into the fact that there may be an irq conflict,
>so I tried adding options to insmod:
> insmod epic100 irq=11
>but I only get an error, saying param_irq unrecognized
>
>Any ideas????
>
>
insmod doesn't accept any such parameter. Try modifying adding the
following lines to your /etc/modules.conf file:
alias eth0 epic100
options eth0 irq=11
(I'm not exactly sure what the syntax is, but I think that's right. To
confirm, try reading the ethernet HOWTO or visit
http://www.scyld.com/network/ for more information about your network card,
suitable drivers, how to configure and how to diagnose problems.
good luck.
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From: Jose Gomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sound card problem
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 10:03:01 +0100
Liviu wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I use the SuSE 6.4 version of Linux and I use the sound card Crystal 3235 .
> I have configured it with the YAST program.The card seems to work properly
> but the sound is to weak so I can bearly hear it ; besides in Windows the
> same card works without a fuss . I'd like to know if something can be done
> to get that card to work normaly.
>
> If you think you can give me some usefull advices please mail me at
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
>
> Thank you !
Hi Liviu,
I don't know if you are using a desktop. If you are using one, (KDE
for example) you should have an utility (Multimedia) for adjust your
sound level.
Jose
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From: Wei Chong Chee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 7.0 & Promise UATA66 Controller
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 17:44:11 +0800
Hi Jason,
This problem is very common.
Go to this url:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA.html
and download all the pages of the document. Print them out and follow them
exactly.
Cheers
Wei.
Jason Greenbaum wrote:
> I am trying to install Redhat Linux 7.0 on a computer with a Promise Ultra66
> controller. It seems that Linux cannot find the drive attached to this
> controller. Does anyone know a workaround?
>
> -Jay Greenbaum
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From: Wei Chong Chee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems whit Redhat 6.2 installation
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 17:46:45 +0800
Try the url
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA.html
Print out all the links in the document and then follow them exactly.
Cheers.
Wei.
DjM wrote:
> Dude,
>
> Please see some of my recent postings. I am in this situation now as are
> many others. Here's the skinny: most of the DMA66 controllers and up
> (Highpoint, Promise) require v2.3 or v2.4 of the kernel. Redhat rolled up
> v2.2.16 in Linux 7!!! Ergo, the problem still persists.
>
> You might have to plug the drive into IDE0 (instead of IDE2) to just get the
> OS up and going. The next step is to apply the IDE patch and rebuild the
> kernel. These tasks are abviously easier if you already have Linux up and
> going.
>
> All the best,
> DjM
>
> "Luke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:R5tW5.22492$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I have a PC whit ASUS P3BF motherboard and a UltraDMA66 hard-disk
> connected
> > to the board whit a UltraDMA PCI card. I'm not able to install Linux
> > (Redhat 6.2): when I have to decide what kind of installation I want
> (GNOME,
> > KDE, server or custom) I get a message that says: "An error has occurred.
> No
> > valid devices were found on which to create new filesystems. Please check
> > your hardware for the cause of this problem". None of the above
> installation
> > will do the job. Could it be a problem that Linux can't recognize my
> > UltraDMA card? Or maybe a mistake whit my previous cration of a Linux
> > partition whit Partition Magic?
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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From: Rafal Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Teles PCI ISDN
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 10:49:10 +0100
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, M. Buchenrieder wrote:
> Rafal Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi All,
>
> >I've got a problem with a new Teles PCI ISDN card. Namely, when I try do
> >dial out with it my system hangs solid. I use the HiSax driver, type 20
> >(NetJet PCI), which should work, AFAIK.
>
> [...]
>
> Where did you get the idea that the type should be 20 ? Looking at
> /usr/src/linux/drivers/isdn/hisax/hisax.h shows that the type
> should be set to 21 for the Teles PCI card.
>
It is a _new_ Teles PCI with a TigerTech chip and it should be driven by
NetJet according to what people say. (BTW, I am not the only person
having problems with this card and this driver - see isdn4linux mailing
lists.) Strangely enough the driver loads and seems to work fine until
you try to dial out. I have never seen a stable kernel (2.2.18 for that
matter) hung solid by a non-working PCI card driver before, so I think it
is serious anyway.
Regards
Rafael
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From: "owl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Buffalo SCSI-III PCMICA Card
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 18:07:26 +0800
I has just bought a Buffalo SCSI-III PCMICA Card (Card Bus)
Do anybody know if there is Linux driver for it ?
--
Andy Won
Web Development Engineer
OnLine Service - beenz.com
Greater China
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