Linux-Hardware Digest #344, Volume #14 Wed, 14 Feb 01 10:13:04 EST
Contents:
where is my network card? ("RMB")
Iomega ZIP 100 USB drive: let's make it work. (Massimo Pinto)
Re: Problems with IDE HDD and DMA (Markus Gaugusch)
Asus V7100 deluxe (Harald Radke)
AWE64 under kernel 2.4, Gigaset M105 Data ("news.t-online.de")
Re: where is my network card? (Markus Gaugusch)
IRQ/Network problems with RedHat7 (Jarmo Uusi-Maahi)
Urgent: mandrake7.2 aic-7892b smp ("Alessio Spadaro")
Re: soundcard under debian! (elmig)
Re: where is my network card? ("Peter T. Breuer")
VESA energy saver with a new 2.4.0 kernel? (Otto J. Makela)
DPT SmartRAID VI on BIG server ("Doug Forbush")
Re: Can't delete file (Eric Ho)
linux hangs on boot (Marc Ulrich)
Good news ... Bad news ... Alcatel USB Modem ("Jon Todd")
hdparm crashes system ("Mathis Moder")
looking for specifications for a sony cpd-1420 monitor i cannot configure.
thanks/nt ("Alexandre A")
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From: "RMB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: where is my network card?
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 02:48:07 -0600
I am just now discovering Linux. I recently installed Corely Linux OS.
Everything is working lovely except that I can't get the box to recognize my
nic. All I want to do is get on the internet from my Linux machine.
Please help me find my network card.
Thanks,
Ryan
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From: Massimo Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Iomega ZIP 100 USB drive: let's make it work.
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:54:35 +0000
I have tried to compile the kernel version 2.4.1 with SCSI and USB support
(as modules) to be able to use a Iomega ZIP 100MB USB drive which I have
just bought a few days ago.
The computer is a Toshiba Tecra 520CDT notebook, so I have also inluded
the associated Toshiba Module. After having loaded usb-ohci and
usb-storage, plus the scsi module I have not been able to mount my zip
drive using /dev/sda4. My kernel would reply to me saying that /dev/sda4
has got wrong minor-major number, these are:
ls -l /dev/sda4*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 4 ago 24 10:00 sda4
I guess these numbers are 8 and 4, but what do these minor/major numbers
mean?
For completeness, I include the output of `dmesg', hopefully someone can
spot the stain and give some hints!
Thanks in advance
Massimo
Linux version 2.4.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.96
20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.0)) #2 mer feb 7 22:36:08 GMT 2001 BIOS-provided
physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 @ 0000000000000000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000400 @ 000000000009fc00 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000010000 @ 00000000000f0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000001f20000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000010000 @ 00000000fffe0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000010000 @ 00000000ffff0000 (reserved) On node 0
totalpages: 8224 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 4128 pages. zone(2): 0
pages. Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux-2.4.1 ro root=301
BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.1 Initializing CPU#0 Detected 165.860 MHz
processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 329.31
BogoMIPS Memory: 29836k/32896k available (1218k kernel code, 2672k
reserved, 479k data, 204k init, 0k highmem) Dentry-cache hash table
entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries:
1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order:
4, 65536 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768
bytes) CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000, vendor =
0 Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled. CPU: After vendor
init, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After generic, caps:
008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 008001bf 00000000
00000000 00000000 CPU: Intel Pentium MMX stepping 04 Checking 'hlt'
instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: PCI BIOS
revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdce3, last bus=21 PCI: Using configuration type
1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware isapnp: Scanning for Pnp cards... isapnp: No
Plug & Play device found Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea
University Computer Society NET3.039 Starting kswapd v1.8 pty: 256 Unix98
ptys configured Toshiba System Managment Mode driver v1.7 22/6/2000 block:
queued sectors max/low 19696kB/6565kB, 64 slots per queue Uniform
Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus
speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx hda: TOSHIBA MK2103MAV, ATA
DISK drive hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1502BN, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at
0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda:
4233600 sectors (2168 MB) w/128KiB Cache, CHS=525/128/63 hdc: ATAPI 10X
CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 Partition
check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is
an 8272A Serial driver version 5.02 (2000-08-09) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ
SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at
0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff
Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 4M agpgart:
no supported devices found. [drm] Initialized tdfx 1.0.0 20000928 on minor
63 [drm:radeon_init] *ERROR* Cannot initialize agpgart module. SCSI
subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs
not mounted es1371: version v0.27 time 21:40:32 Feb 7 2001 Linux PCMCIA
Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
ds: no socket drivers loaded!
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 204k freed
Adding Swap: 52376k swap-space (priority -1)
Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
sb: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones...
SB 3.01 detected OK (220)
SB DSP version is just 3.01 which means that your card is
several years old (8 bit only device) or alternatively the sound driver
is incorrectly configured.
VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0)
--
Massimo Pinto
Ph.D. student
Gray Laboratory Cancer Research Trust
http://www.graylab.ac.uk/usr/pinto
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From: Markus Gaugusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with IDE HDD and DMA
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 09:14:58 GMT
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:14:01 GMT, Markus Gaugusch staggered into the
> Black Sun and said:
> >Hi! I have an old P200MMX with Intel TX chipset. The mainboard is from
> >Chaintech. My problem is, that my new 40GB Seagate HDD isn't detected
> >in BIOS (doesn't matter for me because I use an 80MB drive to load the
> >kernel and boot, and linux recognises the drive). The real problem is,
> >that since the BIOS doesn't recognise the hdd, it doesn't initalise the
> >IDE port and sets no PIO/DMA mode (which brings me to a whopping rate
> >of 2.8MB/s for my new 40GB drive instead of 9MB/s with my old 10GB
> >drive :((( hdparm -X 33 or -X 34 (and even -X 11) didn't work either :(
> >any hints??
>
> Most BIOSes have an option somewhere to set the geometry/CHS translation
> type of any IDE drives that may be connected. If you're not booting off
> the 40G drive, it doesn't matter what the BIOS thinks the geometry is,
> so you could try to set it to "NORMAL" mode. The BIOS will think the
> drive is 528M (!) while Linux will not be fooled and will use the whole
> capacity of the drive. Just to be safe, boot the system to single-user
> mode the first time you try this, and make sure the 40G drive appears OK
> and such. HTH,
My Bios seems to be really broken, no matter what I enter, it doesn't
detect anything :-(
--
Markus Gaugusch
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From: Harald Radke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Asus V7100 deluxe
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:11:59 +0100
Hi all!
Does anyone of you know wether or not above card is fully supported ?
Well, I don't mean the gfx engine itself, but the TV out and the tuner
device...
T.I.A.
Harry
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From: "news.t-online.de" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AWE64 under kernel 2.4, Gigaset M105 Data
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:13:56 +0100
Hi!
Yesterday I first installed my new SuSE 7.1 (please don't blame me on this
;-(
Everything works just fine but:
- My soundcard, an old SB AWE64 Value, which has been functioning
under SuSE 7.0 with kernel 2.2.18 (well, the dot-1-8 is only
guessed...)
- I got some wireless Modem, a Siemens Gigaset M105 Data (well, the
actual modem is in that ISDN-thing, Gigaset 3075 ;-). Problem is:
its on USB, how do I get this baby running (or is there no way at
all?),
perhaps mapping the USB-port on a fake-COM-port (which is what
Siemens does under Windows) and I now how to setup an ISP......
Thanks in advance,
Christian Blichmann
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From: Markus Gaugusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: where is my network card?
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 09:17:29 GMT
> Please help me find my network card.
try
cat /proc/pci
(or "lspci")
to see the chip type... (applies only if you have a PCI nic)
It shouldn't be too hard to get it working... I never tried Corel but I
think you just need to tell the setup which network card it is (or try
every module it offers you)
--
Markus Gaugusch
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jarmo Uusi-Maahi)
Subject: IRQ/Network problems with RedHat7
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 09:44:25 GMT
Hello people,
I have some network difficulties in RedHat 7.0.
I'm using Windows ME and couple weeks ago I installed
Linux RedHat 7.0 into the same computer.
I've tried installation in text mode and in expert
mode but the same error occur each time.
When Linux boot, it says eth0 [failed].
My system hardwarelist and IRQs:
-Pentium III 600 MHz
-ASUS P3B-F
-AWARD BIOS ver 6.0
-128 MB
Resource Device Status
IRQ 7 ECP Printer Port (LPT1) OK
IRQ 4 Communications Port (COM1)
IRQ 6 Standard Floppy Disk Controller
IRQ 12 PS/2 Compatible Mouse Port
IRQ 2 Programmable interrupt controller
IRQ 0 System timer
IRQ 8 System CMOS/real time clock
IRQ 1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural Keyboard
IRQ 13 Numeric data processor
IRQ 11 Matrox Millennium G400 DualHead
IRQ 11 IRQ Holder for PCI Steering
IRQ 14 Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller
IRQ 14 Primary IDE controller (dual fifo)
IRQ 15 Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller
IRQ 15 Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo)
IRQ 3 ACARD AEC-6710D PCI SCSI Controller
IRQ 3 IRQ Holder for PCI Steering
IRQ 3 Realtek RTL8139(A) PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
IRQ 10 Creative SB Live! Value
IRQ 10 IRQ Holder for PCI Steering
There is NIC and SCSI -controller which are using the
same IRQ. When I try to change SCSI adapters IRQ 3 to
IRQ 5, Windows wount let me do that, it just says "This
resource setting cannot be modified". (I/O and
memory area settings can be change but not IRQ)
'PnP OS' is also disabled in BIOS but no help...
I also search if there is somekind dos -baseb utilities
which can be used to turn off this damn PnP in NIC,
but I didn't found any.
If someone can help me resolve this problem you make
me really happy man. Thank's already.
Jarmo Uusi-Maahi
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From: "Alessio Spadaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Urgent: mandrake7.2 aic-7892b smp
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:14:08 +0100
With the following configuration:
dual PIII 800Mhz
mb Super micro 370DL3
SCSI controller AIC7892b
2x Quantum Atlas 18Gb
i tried to install mandrake7.2 and the server randomly shutdown.
Sometimes this happens during installation, sometimes during normal
execution.
I tried to install windows 2K and mimic the same operations, but all works
fine.
I tried to search the web and i found similar problems by coupling aic
controllers and smp, but the messages were quite old.
Please help!!!
Thanks in advance
Alessio Spadaro
Petemark.net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (elmig)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: soundcard under debian!
Date: 14 Feb 2001 12:02:32 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nicolas Bouche) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>Hey,
>
>I have a sounbcard -creative ensoniq PCI32- with the chip 1371. I am
>running debian (no 'cause i like it, but because i have to) 2.2.17.
>I was able to configure the kernel and i can listen to any mp3, or radios!
>(with realplayer for instance). However, i can't record anything?!?
>The mic is plugged in and has been tested!
>Any clue?
>
>Is it a hardware problem or software?
>
>Thanks
>
>NB
>
>
chech /dev/dsp /dev/mixer /dev/audio for permissions. See if it`s only
read-only or read-write.
Good luck
+----------------------------------------------+
| elmig |
| http://www.alunos.ipb.pt/~ee3931 |
| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: where is my network card?
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 12:58:23 +0100
RMB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Please help me find my network card.
What is it?
Or are you asking "where is it"? Open your case and look at it.
Note the chip, then search the kernel source for references to it, then
load the indicated driver module. That's it.
Without you giving me any more clues, I can't do anything else but be
nonspecific.
Peter
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Crossposted-To:
sfnet.atk.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux.redhat,redhat.config,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: VESA energy saver with a new 2.4.0 kernel?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto J. Makela)
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 13:04:34 GMT
I assume the whole logic behind the VESA energy saving system has
changed, or something, because the settings in XF86Config-4 which
worked well with a older kernel no longer (with a hand-compiled 2.4.0)
switch my monitor to energy saving from the gdm login screen, nor does
the Gnome screen saver ever switch over to energy saving mode though
it has been set to do so. This is a RH7.0 system with XFree86 4.0.1,
the old kernel was the 2.2.16-22 that came with the system.
I got a report of a similar problem from another user, and then again,
someone else told me that it works just fine for him.
How should I proceed to figure out what's wrong?
--
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From: "Doug Forbush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: DPT SmartRAID VI on BIG server
Date: 14 Feb 2001 13:37:59 GMT
I put together a linux box at work here, it has the DPT smartRaid VI.. It
also has 2G of RAM on it.. The install was great, simple kernel patch,
compile and install.. The RAID works great IF I tell linux that there is
only 900M RAM.. I'm not sure exactly how high I can go, but at 960M, the
RAID initialization fails and /dev/sdc is not there..
Any ideas on why this happens and how to get back over a gig of RAM?
doug
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From: Eric Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't delete file
Date: 14 Feb 2001 13:56:59 GMT
Thanks for the hints, I will give it a try.
Best Regards,
Eric Ho
Trevor Hemsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 16:06:39, Eric Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> bash-2.03# ls -l plusnode.gif
>> ls: plusnode.gif: Value too large for defined data type
>> bash-2.03# file plusnode.gif
>> plusnode.gif: can't stat `plusnode.gif' (Value too large for defined data type).
>> bash-2.03# uname -a
>> Linux bbs 2.4.1 #38 Wed Feb 7 15:15:35 CST 2001 i586 unknown
>> bash-2.03#
> init s
> umount /whateverfilesystem
> fsck -f /dev/hdan
> where hdan is the partition you have the problem on. If you only have
> one filesystem then you may need to boot from diskette to do this lot
> instead.
>> Paul Colquhoun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > On 13 Feb 2001 09:43:36 GMT, Eric Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > |Hi,
>> > |
>> > |I am trying to delete a file, but got this error :
>> > |bash-2.03# rm plusnode.gif
>> > |rm: cannot remove `plusnode.gif': Value too large for defined data type
>> > |bash-2.03#
>> > |
>> > |Can someone tell me how to delete it ?
>>
>> > Care to post the output for:
>>
>> > ls -l plusnode.gif
>> > file plusnode.gif
>> > uname -a
>>
>> > This will give people a little nore info to work with in spotting
>> > the potential cause of the problem.
> --
> Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Marc Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux hangs on boot
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:43:15 -0500
I'm going to restart this thread after realizing a little better about
the problem.
I haven't been able to install linux because it cannot boot itself on
the computer I have. Below is a descrpition of how far it gets on
booting:
initrd.img .................
vmlinuz ..............
..
bunch of text
..
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb91
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: probing PCI hardware
after which the computer hangs/ becomes unresponsive.
The current computer hardware is the following:
It's a Gateway E-5400 with all PCI cards (such as the netcard)
temporarily removed:
PIII 800MHz
133MHZ Motherboard with #s: 4000695 & QAN-5751404
(ie: i don't know exactly what kind it is)
AGP Matrox G400 video card
various IDE devices (harddrive, CDRom, Zip drive)
128MB RAM.
Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Marc
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From: "Jon Todd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Good news ... Bad news ... Alcatel USB Modem
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:06:34 -0000
Guys
Does anyone have a beta driver for the Alcatel Speed Touch USB modem.
As I understand it
1) Alcatel won't be releasing a driver until next month.
2) It's non-ACM compliant, so a driver is the only way to get it working.
I'd be ovber the moon if someone could email or point me in the direction of
a driver.
Many thanks
jon
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From: "Mathis Moder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hdparm crashes system
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:11:10 +0100
Help! After reading manual carefully on hdparm i first changed settings on
fly to > hdparm -c 1 -d 1 -m 16 /dev/hda < no problems there. But after i
wrote it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local my system holds on CHECKING FILE SYSTEMS. I
can go into maintenance mode, but when i try to change rc.local it says
volume is read-only. How do i get my system back ? I have for my luck made
no back-ups, and it was a development server ...
Please if anybody knows an answer: you can mail it to me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks in advance
Mathis
--
my setup:
OpenLinux 2.3 (Kernel 2.2.somewhat -> system is down ...)
440BX based motherboard
13 GIG westerndigital harddrive
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From: "Alexandre A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: looking for specifications for a sony cpd-1420 monitor i cannot configure.
thanks/nt
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:00:36 GMT
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