Linux-Hardware Digest #104, Volume #14 Sat, 30 Dec 00 14:13:11 EST
Contents:
boot troubles with second HD on Sparc5 (Willi Kernen)
Lecteur ZIP interne ("Boris")
Re: Modems & Printers.... (Felix Natter)
Re: CPRM HDs to have deleterious effect on Linux? (Greg S Trouw)
PCMCIA modem ("Vitaliy S")
Adaptec AVA-2904 support (Gotzon Berrojalbiz)
Re: FlashRam pcmcia cards? (Bill Lee)
Re: 30 Gig or 40 Gig hd. Quantum, Maxtor or Western Digital? (Mark Hahn)
trying to get my mandrake box on a network - new to linux (Jim Stedman)
HP5100C PARALLELPORT SCANNER -REDHAT 7 ("Octávio Neves")
Re: can't get adaptec 2100S and new linux kernel to work ("Q")
Re: Network card/insmod problems (Donald Becker)
SB AWE64 (FMRCYouth)
Re: Sounblaster Live on kernel 2.2.18 ? (-= flipje =-)
Network don't work, help needed! (Super-User)
Artec AM12S sane problems (Gotzon Berrojalbiz)
Re: Can I use more than 4 IDE devices? (Phillip Deackes)
Re: IBM PC Server 330 (William D. Atkinson)
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From: Willi Kernen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: boot troubles with second HD on Sparc5
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 13:24:42 GMT
Hi,
I tried to install a second HD (the seagate) on a sparc 5, on RedHat
6.2:
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scsi:1 host
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST34371W SUN4.2G REV:7462
Type: Direct-access ANSI SCSI revision:02
Detected SCSI disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
Vendor: IBM Model: DPES31080SUN1.05 Rev:S80B
Type: Direct-access ANSI SCSI revision:02
Detected SCSI disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
scsi: detected 2 scsi disks total.
==========================================================
following error during the boot process appears:
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VFS: Cannot open root device 08:02
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02
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can anyone help me? thanx in advance.
willi
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From: "Boris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lecteur ZIP interne
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 14:58:22 +0100
Bonjour, me voilà possesseur de Mandrake 7.1 pour l'instant, lorsque je fais
une installation sans le lecteur ZIP, çà marche, par contre si je fais une
installation avec le lecteur ZIP la catastrophe, plus rien ne marche idem
avec la version 7.2 quelqu'un aurait-il une réponse à ma question. Comment
installer un lecteur ZIP interne. Merci d'avance.
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From: Felix Natter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modems & Printers....
Date: 30 Dec 2000 17:38:28 +0100
"LUELLA J KAZNAK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm current writing within Windoze because I just recently found out that my
> computer manufacturer put a Conexant WIN MODEM as my modem. If anyone knows
> where to get a hardware based, 33.6-56k(Preferably) modem for under 20 bucks
> (I'm a student, I have a low budget), it'd be appreciated.
>
> Now, to address my second problem
>
> I got a brand spankin' new HP DeskJet 842C for Christmas, and it's not
> working under Linux. A linux driver for my printer would be great.
check http://www.linuxprinting.org
--
Felix Natter
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From: Greg S Trouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: CPRM HDs to have deleterious effect on Linux?
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 08:11:09 -0700
>This is presumably something not being pushed by Microsoft, but by
>IT managers who want to lock down their systems, upon first read
>of this newspost. Microsoft, of course, will register. One would
>hope RedHat will, too.
From everything I have read, I seriously doubt this gives *any* benefit
whatsoever to the computer user. It is an anti-piracy scheme gone to
far, and I'd be no more for this sort of thing then I would be for a PSN
in my CPU. I, like some others who have posted in here (well
comp.os.linux.advocacy specifically...I know it is a cross post) several
threads up would not like to see this thing, and would rather use
products that do *not* support it for computers which I use.
Yes, I've heard that MS isn't pushing it (they are set against it,
because of certain compatibility probs that can result...and a
programmers HD on their development system is not going to necessarily
be the same as a users)...but it rather sounds like it is the content
providers (people like the RIAA as an example) who would want this sorta
scheme over people's HDs.
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From: "Vitaliy S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCMCIA modem
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 09:38:34 -0600
Hi, all
I am using Xircom 56 modem and I have Corel Linux OS 1.2 installed on my
computer. The
modem works but very slow. Download speed never exceed 19200. The same modem
with the same ISP works fine up to 53k if I boot to win2k.
I noticed in Connection wizard that IRQ for modem's serial port is set to 0.
Does it mean that its not using IRQ at all?
I know that IRQ9 is not used by any hardware. How can I configure modem to
use that IRQ?
Thank you
Vitaliy
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From: Gotzon Berrojalbiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.debian.user
Subject: Adaptec AVA-2904 support
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 16:44:49 +0100
I'm trying to setup this scsi pci card and I hope somebody correct me if
I'm going wrong somewhere.
These are the Kernel Options:
- SCSI SUPPORT
- SCSI GENERIC SUPPORT
- SCSI LOW LEVEL -> ADAPTEC AIC7XXX
Is this OK ? Do I have to add any parameter to lilo.conf ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Lee)
Subject: Re: FlashRam pcmcia cards?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 16:18:15 GMT
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 19:00:08 GMT, Andreas Hinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <7HN26.40$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Harmon Seaver wrote:
> >I put them in the pccard reader, it recognizes them, but I can't figure
> >out how to mount it as drive space, or otherwise write to it.
> >
> Hi,
> are you talking about a CompactFlash card and a PC-Card adapter?
>
> Then you can mount it as a hard drive.
> Eg. if your hard disk i hda and your CD-drive is hdc, then the
> card vill be hdb. You can mount the CompactFlash like this:
>
> mkdir /mnt/flash
> mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/flash.
> ls -al /mnt/flash
>
> Done that with the CompactFlash card from my digital camera.
>
O.k., starting from scratch.
Is there a device I can add to my system that will allow me to insert
the CF cards ala a floppy or a CD or a ZIP disk? Preferably something
that would fit into a slot sized for a floppy drive (the one expansion
slot I have left)?
Would the IBM MicroDisk (340mb) be accessable this way?
System is a Dell Dimension XPS T700r running RH 6.1
Thanks,
Bill Lee
--
(Change antispam to WRLee to respond via e-mail.)
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From: Mark Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 30 Gig or 40 Gig hd. Quantum, Maxtor or Western Digital?
Date: 30 Dec 2000 16:40:22 GMT
> Hi everyone, I'm looking to buy a new harddrive 7200 rpm 30 to 40
> gigs. I was wondering if there was a difference in performance or
> reliability between a Western Digital, Maxtor or Quantum Fireball. My
what's most important is to buy a recent drive: higher density,
cooler, faster, more reliable. I'm always astounded when I find
drives in the 2-4G/platter generation in stores, since the current
generation is 20G/platter (4 or so generations newer!)
note that modern 20G/platter 5400rpm disks can EASILY outperform
older 7200rpm disks.
I personally prefer current IBM and Maxtor disks, but wouldn't
sneer at recent WD, Seagate and Quantums. I have had one good
experience with a recent Fujitsu, as well.
regards, mark hahn.
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From: Jim Stedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: trying to get my mandrake box on a network - new to linux
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 17:02:48 GMT
I'm running mandrake 7, I put a Linksys Etherfast 10/100 lan card in the
box, but I'm having trouble getting the drivers to work.
I'm very new to linux, and I'm stuck. Many of the commands described in
the faqs didn't work on my machine.
(http://linksys.com/support/support.asp?spid=25#wmodules) .
The readme for the card mentioned compiling some modules, I know where
the are, but I'm unsure of what to do with them.
Below is an extract from the linux readme file that came with the card:
Step 1: Mount the Linksys driver diskette with the following command;
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
Change directories into the Linux directory on the diskette;
cd /mnt/floppy/Linux
Step 2: Create a temp directory called netdrivers in /root;
mkdir netdrivers
Step 3: Copy netdrivers.tgz on the floppy diskette to the new directory
you have just created;
cp /mnt/floppy/netdrivers.tgz /root/netdrivers
Step 4: Decompress netdrivers.tgz to extract the source files;
tar xzvf netdrivers.tgz
The extracted files should now be located within the netdrivers
directory
Step 5: Compile the modules;
make
You now have compiled the modules successfully
Step 6: Install the modules;
insmod pci-scan.o
insmod tulip.o
Step 7: Issue the depmod command;
depmod -a
Step 8: Initialize the eth0 adapter
ifup eth0
Step 9: Run ifconfig to make sure that the eth0 interface is loaded;
ifconfig
You should see the loopback adapter (lo), and the Ethernet adapter
(eth0)
Step 10: To have the eth0 load everytime you boot into Linux you must
copy tulip.o, and pci-scan.o into the following directories;
/lib/modules/2.2.14-3/net
/lib/modules/2.2.14-3BOOT/net
/lib/modules/2.2.14smp/net
If you are prompted to replace the current files, say YES
Step 11: You will have to add two lines of code to the following file;
/etc/rc.modules
Add the following;
pci-scan.o
tulip.o
To write the changes to the file type the following;
Shift+: wq (this is only true if they use vi, you not telling them to
use vi).
Step 12: Edit etc/modules.conf (if needed).
vi etc/modules.conf
Add the following to the begining of the file;
alias eth0 tulip
To write the changes to the file type the following;
Shift+: wq
I got as far as step 5, but 'make' isn't doing anything, what should I
do?
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From: "Octávio Neves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP5100C PARALLELPORT SCANNER -REDHAT 7
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 17:13:34 -0000
....
Dear friends,
I am in need your support to place working my HP5100C parallel port scanner.
My linux distribution is: Redhat 7
I have just made the nodules epst.o and the others with sucess.
Then I did in /etc/rc,d/local:
insmod /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/scsi/ppscsi.o
insmod /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/scsi/scsi-mod.o
insmod /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/scsi/sg.o
insmod /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/scsi/epst.o
insmod /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/parport.o
insmod /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/parport-pc.o
After rebooting I can read on /var/log/messages
ppSCSI 0.92 (0.92) installed
sepst.=: epst 0.92 (0.92), Shuttle EPST at 0x378 mode 0 (Nybble) dly 1 nice
0 sg 16
~scsi0: epst
scsi: 1 host
VENDOR: HP MODEL: C5190A REV:3740
Processor AINSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Then I did as root:
cat /proc/scsi/scsi, having got:
Attached devices
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun:00
Vendor: HP Model: 5190A Rev: 3740
Type: Processor AINSI REVISION:02
Then I did the following as root:
ls /dev/sg* -l
Result:
crwxrwxrwx 1 root sys 21, 0 Aug 24 10:00 /dev/sg0
::::::::::::::
:::::::::::::::
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3Dec 13 18.55 /dev/sga >sg0
::::::::
In this same folder I can see: /dev/scanner as a ling to /dev/sg0
....
As a regular user I did:
xsane
Result: there appeared a nice windows SANE with only the two virtual
scanners
=====================
Why did the SANE not detect my scanner?
What must I do to get the scanner working?
What text must I place in /etc/config.modules about the scanner?
Please, help me NOW!
Best regards
Octavio Neves
I am in Portugal
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Q" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can't get adaptec 2100S and new linux kernel to work
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 17:29:34 GMT
I got it to work with the patch in 2216diff.gz on the cd that came with the
card. I was using the kernel.diff patch that was in the same directory.
This patch seems to work fine with 2.2.18/17/16 unmodified kernels. Also I
found out that the cd that comes with it is bootable and it boots to linux
2.2.16 and runs X. Pretty cool...
So basically I installed rh 7.0 with the driver disk that adaptec e-mailed
me, added the object files, and did an initrd. That got the 2.2.16-22
kernel working. Then I just used the patch sources/2216diff.gz on the
install cd to patch 2.2.18 and compile in the dpt smartraid V support under
scsi low level drivers in the kernel.
"Q" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8Ge36.43551$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Hi I'm trying to get an adaptec 2100s to work on 2.2.18 with no luck. I've
also tried it on 2.2.17 and 2.2.16. The only thing I can get it to work on
is 2.2.16-22 or whatever comes with RH 7.0. I got a driver disk with some
object files from adaptec, and they work fine with the red hat customized
kernel, but I can't get anything to work with the real unmodified kernel.
I've tried using the modules and making initrds on all 3 kernels, as well as
the patches that come with the CD (and then compiling in all the i2o stuff,
which I think is what I am supposed to do).
I've also tried the new 2.2.18 kernel with the i2o stuff and no mods. Can
anyone help? I am running out of ideas and I don't want to have to use the
modified kernel for redhat. I have some other stuff I usually compile into
the kernels and it never works right with the red hat kernels, so I always
use the kernels from ftp.kernel.org. Has anyone gotten this to work?
Thanks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donald Becker)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Network card/insmod problems
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 17:54:06 GMT
In article <Xvh26.26059$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bobo Jonez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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
The rtl8139 driver is the correct one for this card.
>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
Only ISA drivers accept the io=0x... and irq=... parameters.
PCI drivers can always reliably detect cards, find the I/O address and IRQ
from the PCI configuration.
>(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.
Always good advice ;->
--
Donald Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com
410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Beowulf Clusters / Linux Installations
Annapolis MD 21403
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (FMRCYouth)
Date: 30 Dec 2000 18:03:11 GMT
Subject: SB AWE64
Okay.. I think I have tried everything to get this sound card working in
Mandrake 7.0. I have edited my isapnp.conf file, rebuilt the kernel with
support for the right components (according to the AWE32/64 HOWTO), physically
moved the sound card to another location and probably a bunch of other stuff
that I already forgot that I did.
When I type "isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf" I get an error that says the device is
busy. It says I can't use IRQ 5 because that is already used. But every where
I look, IRQ 5 is assigned to "soundblaster"
I did try changing the IRQ to 9, but then I got the error "/dev/dsp device does
not exist." Why am I getting this error, and how do I fix it?
Anyone who has set up a SB AWE64 in LM7.0 PLEASE HELP!!
God bless,
Randy Bennett
Registered user #198235 at http://counter.li.org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (-= flipje =-)
Subject: Re: Sounblaster Live on kernel 2.2.18 ?
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 18:23:44 GMT
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 14:04:23 GMT, Hans Nelisse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In 2.2.16 there was a driver called snd-card-emu10k1, in 2.2.18 there
>isn't. There is however a driver called emu10k1. But i cant get it to
>work with this one.
The emu10k1 driver in 2.2.17 worked fine. But after I upgraded to 2.2.18
it wouldn't work anymore.
I switched to the creative drivers on http://opensource.creative.com and
these work excellent.
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From: Super-User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config
Subject: Network don't work, help needed!
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 18:20:58 GMT
Hello,
I am using Redhat 7 for several months, everything was fine till
yesterday.
I guessed I messed up with network configuration when I play ip aliased.
The networking was down. Whatever I do, it refuse to work again.
when system boots, eth0 initiallized successsfully.
"ifconfig" shows that everything is right.
But when I ping myself, no response.
Thanks for any help.
Jolf
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From: Gotzon Berrojalbiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.debian.user
Subject: Artec AM12S sane problems
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 19:46:04 +0100
I would thank anyone's help who has succeded in configuring this sacner
with SANE.
I compiled a new kernel with scsi card support and everything looks good
when I do "demsg" or "cat /proc/scsi/scsi" because linux kernel can see
both, the scanner and the scsi card.
The thing is that I get no message when I do "scanimage -L" althogh I've
installed "sane" and "libsane".
a) Do I need an especic driver for this scanner?
b) What do I have to do appart from what I've done yet ? I mean do I
have to do something more? Where am I going wrong ?
c) I'VE READ SANE DOCUMENTATION, MAN SANE-SCSI .....SO PLEASE DON'T TELL
ME TO READ THEM ONE MORE TIME.
T H A N K S A L O T.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phillip Deackes)
Subject: Re: Can I use more than 4 IDE devices?
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 13:16:30 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dances With Crows wrote:
>
>Is there another IDE port on the board? If so, you can do this.
>Plug the ZIP drive into this 3rd IDE port and look for the drive on
>/dev/hde or /dev/hdf . If there isn't another IDE port, you will have
>to go buy an IDE controller card. You can get UDMA/33 PCI IDE cards for
>relatively cheap ($30-40 US) and Linux works with almost all of them.
Thanks, Matt. I will look out another IDE port.
--
Phillip Deackes
Using Storm Linux 2000
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William D. Atkinson)
Subject: Re: IBM PC Server 330
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 19:00:34 GMT
On 30 Dec 2000 06:05:12 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
wrote:
>On Sat, 30 Dec 2000 02:10:27 GMT, William D. Atkinson staggered into the
>Black Sun and said:
>> I have an IBM PC Server 330 with an on-board AIC-7880 SCSI
>>controller, and an IBM ServeRaid card driving six hard drives. As the
>>system starts up, it warns that the card does not support SCSI
>>CD-ROMS.
>
>Parse error: Vague reference. Is "the card" the AIC-7880 or the
>ServeRaid? If the ServeRiad card won't support SCSI CD-ROMs, then it's
>no wonder that nothing will work. If the 7880 won't, then there could
>be other problems.
>
>> When trying to install RedHat 6.2, the system finds and
>>installs a drive for the on-board AIX-7880 controller, but not the
>>ServerRaid card where the hard drives and CD-ROM are hooked up, thus I
>>cannot finish the install, because linux can't find a CD-ROM
>>driver.....
>> If I connect the CD-ROM to the on-board AIC-7880 controller,
>>the system will not even boot, as it says there is a problem with how
>>the drives are configured.
>
>Termination problem? 70% of all SCSI problems are termination problems.
>The other 70% are cabling problems, and the other 70% are due to
>goat-sacrifice problems. So what's hooked to the 7880 besides the
>CD-ROM? The card itself should probably be set to auto-terminate, while
>the drive needs to be terminated if it's the last device in the chain
>with nothing else between the card and the drive terminated. You know
>the drill, I'm sure.
>
>I don't know precisely when ServerRaid support was added to the kernel,
>but the module for the card should be called "ips.o" if I'm reading the
>documentation correctly.
>
>--
>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....
The AIC-7880 is not a card, it is build into the motherboard
in the server. The ServeRaid card has the raid array and the CD-ROM
connected to it.
I believe that I'm looking at a Linux configuration problem,
not a hardware problem. If I take my Linux CD out, the system boots
up with Novell 5 and the hardware operates normally, with no errors.
My problem is that once I get Linux booted, I do not have a driver to
get it so that it can find the CD-ROM connected to the ServeRaid
card....
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