Linux-Hardware Digest #105, Volume #14 Sat, 30 Dec 00 17:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: Lecteur ZIP interne (Dances With Crows)
Request for Comments on New Hardware (Howard Arons)
joystick problems, and ahappy new year all linux fans! (ken pile)
Re: Joystick support (ken pile)
Re: trying to get my mandrake box on a network - new to linux (Pete)
Re: IBM PC Server 330 (Dances With Crows)
Re: Nvidia driver w/ 2.4 (JH)
Strange harddrive sound ("John I Williams")
Soundblaster AWE64 Value (Paul Wilson)
HP LaserJet 3100 printer ("Patrick Cheung")
Re: trying to get my mandrake box on a network - new to linux (Jim Stedman)
Re: FlashRam pcmcia cards? (Andreas Hinz)
Re: trying to get my mandrake box on a network - new to linux ("Peter T. Breuer")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Lecteur ZIP interne
Date: 30 Dec 2000 19:13:33 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000 14:58:22 +0100, Boris staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
>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.
Je comprends, mais mon français n'est pas très bon. Donc je parlerais
anglais maintenant, si vous avez questions, mettez cette message ici sur
"Babelfish" ou quelquechose.
0. What were the error messages you received when you tried to install
Mandrake on the system with the ZIP drive?
1. Is this ZIP drive IDE or SCSI?
2. If it's IDE, then all you should need to do is this: Plug the drive
into a free IDE connector. Remember which connector it was (primary
master=hda, primary slave=hdb, secondary master=hdc, secondary
slave=hdd). Make sure the drive is jumpered correctly; most ZIPs are
set to "slave" by default. Boot the system; you should see a message
like "hdd: ATAPI ZIP 100" scroll by. When you insert a DOS-formatted
ZIP disk, all you should need to do is enter "mount -t vfat /dev/hdd4
/mnt/zip" and everything on the disk should be accessible under
/mnt/zip. If it doesn't work, try doing "modprobe ide-floppy" as root
first.
3. If it's SCSI, check the termination. 70% of SCSI problems can be
traced to bad termination. The ZIP will be on /dev/sd[a-d]4 most
likely. Use "dmesg | grep -2 ZIP" to find out exactly where it is.
4. Mandrake may represent the device as SCSI-emulated even if it is an
IDE device, so try step 3 anyway?
(Translation/paraphrase of original msg. for non-Francophones:
Hello, I have Mandrake 7.1. I tried installing without a ZIP drive, it
worked, but when I tried installing with the ZIP drive, it failed, and
nothing works with Mandrake 7.2. Does anyone know how to install an
internal ZIP drive? Thanks in advance.)
--
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!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Howard Arons)
Subject: Request for Comments on New Hardware
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 19:14:54 -0000
I'm considering each of the following new boxes:
133FSB from S.A.G. Electronics
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Pentium III 800MHZ/133 w/256k cache
ASUS VIA Apollo Pro 133A chipset
(6)PCI 32-bit , (1) ISA, USB, Ultra DMA/66, AGP 4X
128MB SDRAM, ECC 133MHz
Matrox Millenium G400, 16MB AGP 4X
10/100 PCI Ethernet RJ45, 3COM 3C905-TX
Creative Labs Soundblaster PCI-512
Logitech 3 Button Mouse
OptiPlex GX110 from Dell
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Pentium III processor, 866MHz, 256K full speed cache & Int NIC
Intel 810e chipset
128MB Non-ECC SDRAM
NVIDIA [TNT2] M64 16MB PCI Video Card
Integrated 3Com Etherlink 10/100 with ACPI and Remote Wake-up
Sound Blaster AudioPCI (64 Voice)
MS Intellimouse
Can anyone see problems running Linux (Likely SuSE 7.x) on either. All
comments appreciated.
TIA
Howard A
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From: ken pile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: joystick problems, and ahappy new year all linux fans!
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 19:22:28 +0000
I'm running SuSE 7.0 with the 2.2.16SuSE kernel.
I have a Microsoft Sidewinder Precision Pro joystick ( Microsoft make
good input devices :-) )
which I ran succesfuly through my SB AWE32 soundcard. Now I have
upgraded to the SB Live! Platinum 5.1 soundcard, and the joystick
doesn't work through this card. Does anyone know how to fix this problem
please?
Thanks in advance,
Ken Pile
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From: ken pile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Joystick support
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 19:30:24 +0000
Can you please tell me where you read about configuring the joystick
port on the SB Live! ?
Thanks in advance,
Ken Pile
David Norris wrote:
>
> > PORT on my system (2.2.17, ES1371 card w/joystick port at 0x200) is
> > 0x201, and MASK for me (Gravis GamepadPro in analog mode--for some
> > reason, the Ljohn NES emulator doesn't like that joystick in digital
> > mode) is 0xf3 . Appropriate values of MASK for most joysticks can be
> > found in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/joystick.txt. I think yours (2
> > axis, 6 button) is 0x30f3. HTH, good luck....
>
> Yeah, I played with the IO ports, but nothing worked. But, on reading
> the docs for emu10k1-joy I found an option to mirror the i/o ports to a
> standard location like 0x200 (God knows where they're located normally),
> and joy-analog works fine now with the game pad on the SB Live! port and
> the motherboard port disabled.
>
> Thanks for the help,
> --
> David Norris
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: trying to get my mandrake box on a network - new to linux
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 19:43:12 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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?
>
>
Have you tried :-
cd /root/netdrivers
before doing make or are you getting any error messages?
Pete
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: IBM PC Server 330
Date: 30 Dec 2000 20:01:11 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000 19:00:34 GMT, William D. Atkinson staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
> 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.
Regardless of whether the thing is an add-on card or embedded, it's
often called "a card". Anyway, you didn't answer my question about
whether the 7880 or the ServerRaid card didn't support CD-ROMs.
> 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....
The ServerRaid cards are supported by the ips.o module, as I said in the
previous message. So the thing to do would be to boot the system in any
way you can (were you booting from floppy?) then look for an ips.o
module on the "modules" floppy that you should have handy, or an ips.o
module somewhere on the CD-ROM. I don't know whether the 2.2.14-patch
kernel that RedHat supplied with the 6.2 distro supports ServeRaid
cards, but it *should* as 2.2.15 does. You may have to install in
"expert mode" and manually load the ips.o module as the default
installer tends to only look for one SCSI adapter. Then the SCSI CD-ROM
connected to the RAID card should be available on /dev/scd0. Make
sense?
I was talking about termination problems earlier because you said nothing
worked when you connected the CD-ROM to the 7880.
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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!
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From: JH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Nvidia driver w/ 2.4
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 12:16:02 -0800
Guess I'll have to get an IRC client first, huh! Thanks!
-Josh
Tony Spinillo wrote:
> Try the unofficial nvidia irc channel at nvidia#irc.openprojects.net
> They have a patch for the 2.4 kernels.
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From: "John I Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Strange harddrive sound
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 14:28:29 +0000
Ok this is my question a few day ago I turned off my computers, because I
was going away for the weekend. When I came back I turned my computer
back on and it sounded like a car engine being revved you know like when
a car is cold. I thought well that sucks harddrive is going. It's a
Western digital I hate it. Well a couple of days go by then I decided to
start my wifes comp. same thing. Now here is the kicker as it ran the
sound slowly died away weird. I geuss my question is anybody ever have
this happen to them, if so what did you do about it?
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From: Paul Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Soundblaster AWE64 Value
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 15:54:44 -0500
Hello,
I'm running Red Hat 6.1 on a Pentium II 450 system with a windows
partition. I'm having difficulty enabling the system sounds with my
Soundblaster AWE64 Value card. I can play CDs with no problem. As far as
I can tell, the appropriate modules are loaded, except for the op13
module. op13 in my conf.modules file (listed below), but when I cat it
under /lib/modules/2.2.12-20/misc, I get a "no such file or directory"
error. Here's an lsmod of the installed modules:
Module Size Used by
awe_wave 157804 1
sb 33620 1
uart401 5968 1 [sb]
sound 57240 0 [awe_wave sb
uart401]
soundlow 300 0 [sound]
soundcore 2372 7 [sb sound]
My conf.modules is:
options op13 io=0x388
alias sound sb
pre-install sound /sbin/insmod sound dmabuf=1
options op13 io=0x388
alias midi awe_wave
post-install awe_wave /bin/sfxload /etc/midi/GU11-ROM.SF2
options sb io=0x240 irq=7 dma=0 dma16=6 mpu_io=0x300
When I go to the control center in either KDE or GNOME, the test of the
.wav files produces nothing. When I initially ran sndconfig, both tests
worked with no problem. I did a "chmod ugo+x" on all the .wav files in
the /usr/share/sounds directory. Still nothing.
I have 2 questions:
1) With this information, does anyone have any idea why the system
sounds are not working?
2) What is the function of the op13 module, and why is it not listed
with the other modules, even though it's configured in conf.modules? I
think that this module may have to do with why my sounds aren't working.
Thanks,
Paul
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From: "Patrick Cheung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP LaserJet 3100 printer
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 20:51:16 GMT
I have a problem setting up my HP LaserJet 3100 printer in Corel Linux OS
Second Edition. Any suggestion where I can find a driver, or what other
drivers I should try?
Patrick
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From: Jim Stedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: trying to get my mandrake box on a network - new to linux
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 20:57:50 GMT
It says
bash: make: command not found
even in that directory, and there is no file named 'make'
there is one called 'makefile' (no extention, looks like a script)
'makefile' starts off with this:
#!/usr/bin/make all
# Makefile for building updated Linux PCI network device drivers as
modules.
# $id$
I don't know how to run it, or I would have tried.
Pete wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> >
>
> Have you tried :-
> cd /root/netdrivers
> before doing make or are you getting any error messages?
>
> Pete
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Hinz)
Subject: Re: FlashRam pcmcia cards?
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 21:11:29 GMT
>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?
>
Hi,
your PC is a desktop without a PC-Card slot. I am using a laptop.
So you have 2 options:
1) a) buy and install a PC-Card slot into your desktop and
b) buy a PC-Card CF card adapter.
2) buy a USB CF card reader
The USB support in Linux kernel < 2.4.x is most likely not usable.
Take a look at
http://www.sandisk.com/support/driverfaq/temp/setup2.html
which states Linux support for one device.
>Would the IBM MicroDisk (340mb) be accessable this way?
>
It should be possible if the reader size is CF type II.
--
Med venlig hilsen / Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüssen
Andreas Hinz, ACCI Aps
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: trying to get my mandrake box on a network - new to linux
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 22:27:04 +0100
In alt.os.linux.mandrake Jim Stedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It says
> bash: make: command not found
Then Install It (/exasperated).
What, do you also post for help when the car tells you "petrol: gasoline not
found"?
Peter
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