Linux-Hardware Digest #419, Volume #14 Thu, 1 Mar 01 07:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: Mother board compatibility ("David Christensen")
Re: Sound - how to configure microphone ("David Christensen")
Re: Big Drive, Reluctant BIOS, how to work around? ("David Christensen")
Re: How-to- Linux on Unix?? ("David Christensen")
lost(?) dos partition--is still there (Harry Park)
CDROM on ide1 not seen (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Re: SCSI IDE RAID Advices needed (A. Khan)
Re: SCSI discs with SUSE 7 (A. Khan)
Re: Conexant HCF Modem Driver? (Matthias Jauslin)
Re: Conexant HCF Modem Driver? (Alexander Eusebio)
Re: Linksys LNE100TX ver 4.0 SuSE 7.1 Probs (joe)
Re: Linux partitioning question ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Internal modem (glen)
Re: DLink DFE-530TX+ NIC OK with Linux ? ("David Upham")
Re: USB Harddrives? (John Hong)
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From: "David Christensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mother board compatibility
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 23:51:25 -0800
Chris:
I've had an Intel Advanced/AS (Atlas) mainboard since 1996, and it has
given me many years of good service running variously DOS/WFW, WinNT,
Win98, Linux, and BSD. It is currently in a RH6.2 box that servers as a
firewall/ WAN gateway for my home LAN. Intel's technical support web
site used to have user manuals, technical specifications, BIOS upgrades,
video and sound drivers, etc., for this board, but it appears that they
have now stopped supporting it. :-(
In December 1999 I built a Windows box with an Intel CC820 mainboard,
Slot 1 P3/533B CPU, 128MB of PC100 SDRAM, Voodoo3 2000 PCI video, SB
Live! Platinum sound, 20 GB ATA/66 Maxtor HDD, Compaq 32X CDD, and Intel
PRO/100+ Management Ethernet. I learned of a recall by Intel on the
mainboard around May 2000, and had one year from the purchase date to
return it for a refund. I was holding out for an Intel replacement, but
it seems that they have abandoned Slot 1 for desktop boards (except the
VC820, which uses RDRAM -- another fiasco).
In November 2000, I tried replacing the Intel 820 with the top-rated
ASUS Slot 1 mainboard. The Asus didn't like the CPU/memory speed
mismatch, and Windows 98 SE didn't like the chipset. Between the memory
errors and my fumbling around with the driver disk, I ended up shredding
Windows. So, I bought an Intel 815DEEAAL mainboard (on-board sound,
video, and Ethernet), P3/800EB CPU (socket 370), 128MB of PC133 SDRAM,
and a Voodoo5 AGP video card (for games), swapped over the HDD and CDD,
got everything working, and put the remaining parts on the shelf.
I wanted to use that P3/533EB, PC100, video, sound, and Ethernet for a
second RH6.2 box, but was having a hard time finding a board that could
do a 133 MHz Slot 1 CPU and PC100 memory. The salesman at Fry's
Electronics wanted to hand me an ASUS or Abit, but they were sold out.
So, he handed me a Shuttle Spacewalker AV61
(http://www.shuttleonline.com/spec.php3?model=av61). I was not
convinced. However, the Shuttle was less money ($84 US) and I could
return it for a full refund if it didn't work.
To my great surprise and pleasure, it came up fine and has worked ever
since (with the exception of one unexplained reboot while idling --
loose power cord? Ethernet? Hallucinations?). Both sound and video are
external. The manual is decent. CMOS setup is good. It sometimes
loses track of CPU speed when off and then auto-senses again on the next
boot (maybe 1 in 10 boots, no adverse impact on operations). I believe
you can do overclocking via jumpers and/or CMOS (I prefer to operate
within spec -- cuts down on those hallucinations ;-). For HDD, I've run
a vintage 240 MB Quantum, a vintage 10 GB UDMA/33 (?) Western Digital,
and a current 30 GB ATA/100 Maxtor. For CD-ROM, I run a vintage NEC
Multispin 8V. For a part-time tool and personal play box, it has plenty
of power, good reliability, and the price was right.
--
David Christensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "David Christensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound - how to configure microphone
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 00:03:27 -0800
Randy:
I'm running RH6.2, Gnome, and SBLive!, and have had good success with
the command line tools aumix, yarec, and sox (aumix and sox came with
RH6.2. yarec was easy to download, build, and install). Note that I
had to set the microphone level to near maximum before I heard anything.
Also, make sure the microphone is set to record, if you're trying to do
that.
Take a look at my web page:
http://www.holgerdansk.com/download/SBLive-NOTES-1.1.1.1.txt
Definitely get the Linux Sound HOWTO. If you've got $40, also get
"Linux Music & Sound".
HTH,
--
David Christensen
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From: "David Christensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Big Drive, Reluctant BIOS, how to work around?
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 00:47:07 -0800
Gene:
> > Okay, I've been down this road once, and as I
> > recall, I conquered the monster, but cannot
> > locate the documentation as to how. Perhaps
> > someone on this list has the answer...
Get the Large Disk HOWTO:
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/
I just did a 30 GB Maxtor. 33.8 GB is a boundary. See the HOWTO.
> > Cylinders: 16383, Heads: 16, Sectors: 63
That is a magic code meaning the disk is too big for old-style CHS
addressing. See the HOWTO.
After trying all the various permutations in CMOS and going back to
"auto", my BIOS sees it as ~60,000 cyliners, 16 heads, and 63 sectors.
The numbers multiply out to ~30 GB using a calculator.
> > I did an install from scratch on a 40 GB maxtor
> > with a 1 Gig / partition, a couple 128 Meg
> > swap partitions, a 4 Gig /usr partition, and the
> > rest in one large /home partition.
I did a 10 MB boot partition (~200 cylinders, less than the critical
#1024), a 128 MB swap partition, a 1 GB root partition, and saved the
rest for later.
A key piece of information is that checking for bad blocks during
formatting requires ~2 seconds per MB. So, the drive light comes on,
the drive makes very little noise (not the typical click-click-click of
formatting), and you think the installer has died! Be patient -- allow
~15 minutes per GB. The way I got this information was by building a
small system on a 240 MB disk, plugging in the big disk as a second
drive, and then partitioning/ formatting the big disk from the command
line ('mkfs -c -v' ?).
> > I also remember something about a jumper
...
> ONLY WORKS with the so-called MAX-BLAST
I think you're right about the jumper -- it's pointless.
> The BIOS is dated in mid-1999, which is supposedly
> able to handle drives with more than 4096 cylinders.
Keeping trying CMOS permutations until you see a CHS combination that
multiplies out to 40 GB on a calculator.
> ... throw away the motherboard as soon as I can get to a
> computer swap meet. Looks like I need to stick
> to Intel MBs, or at least away from the off-brands
> like Jetway.
I am loosing faith in Intel MB's. I bought an inexpensive Shuttle
Spacewalker (#AV61) specifically for Linux (RH6.2) and have been very
pleased with it. It's currently running the 30 GB Maxtor.
HTH,
--
David Christensen
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From: "David Christensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How-to- Linux on Unix??
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 01:04:18 -0800
comp.os.linux.hardware:
For [DOS | Win3.1x | Win9x | WinNT | Win2k | Linux | BSD | etc.] on
[Win2k | Linux], see:
http://www.vmware.com/
--
David Christensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Harry Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lost(?) dos partition--is still there
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 04:16:21 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have 2 disks. c:is dos
d: is partitioned 880 megs dos 3.2gigs linux
I upgraded to rh7 this weekend. when the system boots the only drive I
have is c although bios sees the other drive. I did partition magic the
large drive down to 800 gigs from 2 gigs. and I did not test to see if
the 2nd drive was available after doing so. I just went ahead and
upgraded to rh7. I notice there is a partition type in fdisk listed as
partition magic. Could changing to this type of partition solve the
problem? currently the partition table looks like
Name Flags Part Typ FS Typ [Label] Size (MB)
hdb1 Primary FAT16 quantum 888.34
the rest are ext2
I can see the dos data on the second drive under linux, I just can't see
it from Windows. I also may have screwed up in the upgrade by pointing
to the second drive hdb in the lilo configuration. I now have to boot
from floppy to get to linux since my old method (loadlin) no longer
works.
one last comment the cfdisk, when writing the partition table, returns
" Not precisely one primary partition is bootable. DOS MBR cannot boot
this.
Toggle bootable flag of the current partition
"
Help.....
Harry
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From: Stefano Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CDROM on ide1 not seen
Date: 01 Mar 2001 11:32:48 +0100
Hi,
I am trying to install an ATAPI cdrom. I have connected it to the slot
labelled IDE2 and jumpered it as SINGLE as it is hte only device
attached to IDE2. IDE2 is what's written on my motherboard but it
should be ide1 in Linux, as IDE1 is ide0...
I am sure the connection cable works, the device is powered and the
hard drive on ide0 is working.
Now from this excerpt from dmesg it seems that the CDROM is not
detected:
PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device f9, VID=8086, DID=2411
PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct10 10, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct10 10, 9787MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=1247/255/63, UDMA
And no mention of hdc on ide1...
Thanks a lot for any hint you will prived!
--
Stefano - Hodie Kalendis Martiis MMI est
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From: A. Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI IDE RAID Advices needed
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 18:10:57 -0600
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 22:12:51 +0100 sancelot wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to buy an IDE - SCSI raid array from zero-d
> www.zero-d.com
>
> I would like to have some people experience with this product under linux
I am not familiar with this product. I have used the Promise Fastrak 100.
Promise provides a "binary" driver module that "integrates" with RH
6.2/7.0 installation. Don't know if they have any plans to include the
driver in the Linux kernel source code. Likewise, I believe ABIT also
mentions support for Linux in the box.
--
A. Khan (email: knura at yahoo dot com)
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From: A. Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI discs with SUSE 7
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 18:22:49 -0600
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 08:43:09 +0100 syco wrote:
> [...]
> > Yes, it works.
> > using : modprobe aha1542 aha1542=0x230
> > ( that is the syntax I needed, indeed )
> >
> > Now, I have to find an automatic way to make it when Linux start :-(
... snip ...
> > >gives some info how loadable modules work/setup.
... snip ...
In /etc/conf.modules or /etc/modules.conf put the following lines
alias scsi_hostadapter aha1542
options aha1542 aha1542=0x230 <- not sure if this how the I/O option is
specified in the file.
--
A. Khan (email: knura at yahoo dot com)
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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 11:31:45 +0100
From: Matthias Jauslin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Conexant HCF Modem Driver?
Now, Is this driver for a) the controlerless Conexant HCF chipset
or b) for the soft56k HSF chipset ?
I thought that were completely different chipsets and that this discussion was
about
the HCF (C, not S !!) chipset.
I myself have a HCF card and am going to try installing the driver, though
havent found the time
yet. Maybe some linux distributors will include this driver into their
distributions and allow setup with
their tools similar to the binary X-servers. That would be a GREAT step forward.
Alexander Eusebio
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Biozentrum, University of Basel
Klingelbergstr. 50-70
4056 Basel
Switzerland
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Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> Rinaldo Bergamini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> : I'm trying to configure a winmodem under Mandrake 7.2 . The card is a PCI
> : Conexant (ex Rockwell) soft56k HSF modem. Some people report that with
> : the "driver" (Kernel module) provided by Olitech
> : (http://www.olitec.com/pub/PCI_56K_V2_K2.2.17.tar.gz) and kernel
> : 2.2.17 the modem works fine, so I downloaded this tarball, expanded
> : it under the root dir, get into the cerated dir and launched
> : ./ins_all. An error occurred: unable to open "lin_hsf.inf" but this
> : file is in the directory, what should I do?
> : In the dir there is an executable called "inf2bin". I launched it
> : with the requested parameters (inf2bin lin_hsf.inf lin_hsf.bin)
> : but another error occurred saying that my country and the one of
> : the file anren't equal.
>
> Those failures sound strange.
> Scrap the first download. Fetch the file again. Run ./ins_all as root.
>
> Bye
>
> --
> Uwe Bonnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt
> --------- Tel. 06151 162516 -------- Fax. 06151 164321 ----------
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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 11:37:20 +0100
From: Alexander Eusebio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Conexant HCF Modem Driver?
Sorry, someone changed the mail preferences on this public computer.
Mattias Jauslin has nothing to do with this. I apologize.
Alexander Eusebio
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Biozentrum, University of Basel
Klingelbergstr. 50-70
4056 Basel
Switzerland
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Alexander Eusebio wrote:
> Now, Is this driver for a) the controlerless Conexant HCF chipset
> or b) for the soft56k HSF chipset ?
>
> I thought that were completely different chipsets and that this discussion was
> about
> the HCF (C, not S !!) chipset.
>
> I myself have a HCF card and am going to try installing the driver, though
> havent found the time
> yet. Maybe some linux distributors will include this driver into their
> distributions and allow setup with
> their tools similar to the binary X-servers. That would be a GREAT step forward.
>
> Alexander Eusebio
> --------------------------------------------
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Biozentrum, University of Basel
> Klingelbergstr. 50-70
> 4056 Basel
> Switzerland
> --------------------------------------------
>
> Uwe Bonnes wrote:
>
> > Rinaldo Bergamini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > : I'm trying to configure a winmodem under Mandrake 7.2 . The card is a PCI
> > : Conexant (ex Rockwell) soft56k HSF modem. Some people report that with
> > : the "driver" (Kernel module) provided by Olitech
> > : (http://www.olitec.com/pub/PCI_56K_V2_K2.2.17.tar.gz) and kernel
> > : 2.2.17 the modem works fine, so I downloaded this tarball, expanded
> > : it under the root dir, get into the cerated dir and launched
> > : ./ins_all. An error occurred: unable to open "lin_hsf.inf" but this
> > : file is in the directory, what should I do?
> > : In the dir there is an executable called "inf2bin". I launched it
> > : with the requested parameters (inf2bin lin_hsf.inf lin_hsf.bin)
> > : but another error occurred saying that my country and the one of
> > : the file anren't equal.
> >
> > Those failures sound strange.
> > Scrap the first download. Fetch the file again. Run ./ins_all as root.
> >
> > Bye
> >
> > --
> > Uwe Bonnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt
> > --------- Tel. 06151 162516 -------- Fax. 06151 164321 ----------
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From: joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linksys LNE100TX ver 4.0 SuSE 7.1 Probs
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 10:50:25 GMT
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Gregory Davis wrote:
>> Can't get the known fixes for SuSE 6.3 or 7.0 to get my 7.1 working.
>> Has anyone got any solutions.
>>
>> I don't think it is a IRQ problem because part of the problem when I
>> tried to compile the updates was there was an error compiling
>> pci-scan.o. So, not being an old hand at this upgrading process I do
>> have a couple of questions.
I had a lot of trouble getting my linksys 10/100 NC100 card working with SuSE
7.0. After playing with things for a while, went to the SuSE support database
and searched for an answer, sure enough they had an updated tulip driver that
worked perfectly once I copied it to the proper location. I think the driver
was at:
http://www.suse.com/~ashley
new-tulip.tar
untar it with
tar -xvf new-tulip.tar
All I did was cop the two precompiled tulip.o and pci-scan.o to the
/lib/modules/2.2.16/net. and edited
/etc/modules
added
alis eth0 tulip
then ran depmod -a
At any rate the answers are at SuSE in the support database, keywords are:
TULIP, NIC, LINKSYS, LNE100TX, ETHERNET CARDS
good luck
joe
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux partitioning question
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 13:24:27 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc Greg H. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.hardware Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> EExcept that /var will be on your /root and/or /home partition, which
>> is an error of truly monumental proportions in either case.
> Maybe I should have put more emphasis on the "newbie" although I hate the
> associated stigma(s). How many will know what to do when partitions are
> truly fscked? And even then, how many will pass up a super-easy clean
> install?
We knew what to do the first time it happened. Why should they be any
different? Are they different in some qualatative or quantative way?
The machine said to fsck the partition so I did.
>> Which is not the situation EVER in a multitasking o/s. Don't try and
>> apply dos/windows logic. You are NOT the only user on your disk, even
>> if you are the only user in your house.
> I can see this if your arguments included things like search time and disk
> spanning, but the argument assumes one, maybe two, harddisks where speed
The argument is over compartmentalization. I say it's good
housekeeping. You say that good housekeeping is not important if you
have a throw-away house. I say, OK, but I don't want to throwaway my
house everytime I lose the breadknife.
> is dictated by your hardware -- IDE/SCSI, RPM, etc -- and are increasingly
> less of a problem.
>> Why would they back up anything else except that and /etc and parts of /var?
>> I don't! The rest just comes from a distro, which is replacable. This
>> is not the problem. The problem is when your machine breaks, which it
>> will do at frequencies of about once every three months to once every
>> two years, depending on luck or circumstance.
> But you're just proving my point. Why back up anything other than that?
No reason. I do it because I don't want to go to the trouble of
refinding all those hard to get utilities, or refixing all the authors
errors I corrected once. Someone who has invested no effort need not
protect it. They'll lose about 2days work. I'd lose several years
worth.
> If any other sorts of partitions such as /usr get hosed and you're going
> to replace via the distro., then why have many partitions in this setting?
You want /usr on a separate partition just so you CAN easily replace it
from the distro. If you kept a list of yoru installed packages, it
should be easy. If the /usr and / partitions are mixed in with /home,
then what happens when you get to the bit about "do you want to
reformat the partition"?
> OK, granted, but IMO, we're not talking about the stable, functional, high
> usage home that we want to take good care of. We're talking about the vacation
But I am. I live here.
> home that gets used when you have free time. Unless you've got money to burn,
> that one room shack does just fine. Little maintenance, no worries, gets the
> job done, and is functional for it's primary purpose given the time spent there.
If you don't care, then you don't care.
> To me, backups serve two purposes: (1) save unreplaceable data, and (2) cut
> way down on restoration time in the event of data corruption or loss. We
These are two major functionalities yes. They also importantly serve as
"version control". You can restore a change. But I am not too much
bothered by backups here. That's only one thing that partitioning helps
in particular.
> take care of #1 by backing up /home, /etc and maybe /var. #2 is taken care
> of via the multitudes of slick, fast and easy installations care of our vast
> selection of distros. Now, couple on the partition argument at hand. Your
I agree.
> precious data in /home, /etc, and /var are isolated from the corruption of
> other partitions (or partition in my view). You said yourself the rest is
> taken care of by the distro. Hence, why break up what's left? Remember, I'm
Because of what's discussed in the howto. You want as small a root
partition as possible, thus decreasing its chances of damage in ANY
circumstance. You may think it's easy reinstalling a distro, but belive
me, it's miles easier reBOOTING you root partition and selecting
"update" or "check and fix" from your distros setup utility.
That implies separate / and /usr. (a 64MB / is way big enough if
/opt is somewhere else). Then we get to /usr/local which will
contain your "extra" software - the stuff that didn't come with your
distro. If no haveee, then no worree.
> not talking about servers and multi-user (as in humans, not daemons and other
> processes) systems; I'm concentrating on Joe Linux.
Oh, puhleez. The average person is not as dumb as the man on the
clapham omnibus. I hope.
> Phew! Have I gone completely OT on this thread or what? I hope I didn't make
> the poster who started this thread regret it :-)
His request for an abortion licence was turned down.
Peter
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From: glen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Internal modem
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 09:10:56 +0000
>
> Can anyone recommend a 56K internal modem which will work under mandrake 7.1, please?
>
^^^
We use MagicXpress Internal Data/Fax modems (rockwell chipset) which are ISA and have
worked perfectly well under redhat and suse, so I guess there's no reason why they
should
not work under Mandrake. The same modem appears under lots of different guises but
here's
the output from pndump if its helpful:
# Vendor Id AKY1021, Serial Number 3497, checksum 0x27.
# Version 1.0, Vendor version 0.0
# ANSI string -->Rockwell 56K ACF II Fax+Data+Voice Modem <--
They have a web page at : http://www.magicxpress.com
If you want a PCI modem then thats a little tricker, there is a zoom modem with a
lucent
chipset that works apparently but
I've not tried it.
Hope that helpful,
Glen
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From: "David Upham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DLink DFE-530TX+ NIC OK with Linux ?
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 15:11:03 +0800
Ignore that last post. They are not TX+'s but TX cards.
"Torsten Clay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Sean wrote:
>
> > I currently have a couple of DLink DFE-530TX NICs working OK with my
> > SuSE 6.4 setup using the via-rhine driver.
> >
> > I was going to get some more of these cards but I notice that D-Link
> > only seem to have the DFE-530TX+ available now.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me if this new card works OK with Linux ? If so, what
> > driver does it use ? Is it still the via-rhine driver ?
>
> The 530TX+ uses the rtl8139 driver. However, the stock rtl8139 driver
> included with the kernel will not recognize these cards. On the
> floppy disk that comes with the 530TX+ there is a linux directory
> with a version of rtl8139.c that does work with 2.2.X kernels.
>
> If you are using a 2.4 kernel you will have to modify 8139too.c
> from the kernel sources- the d-link supplied driver will not work
> with for 2.4.x
>
> See my post in alt.os.linux.mandrake (or I can repost it here if you
> want)
>
> Torsten
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hong)
Subject: Re: USB Harddrives?
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 12:03:26 +0000 (UTC)
Frank Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Plus, what I've purchased was just a USB Hard drive enclosure.
>> Meaning that I can stick any 3.5" IDE hard drive in there and use it like
>> a removable media drive. When its full, I'll just stick in another hard
>> drive. Nice little portable backup device to offload unnecessary files
>> (ie. MP3's).
>Where did you find this USB enclosure? Who made it?
I simply made a Yahoo search for "USB Hard Drive" and two lines in
particular came up. Initially I was searching for just a USB hard drive
but discovered that there was such a thing as a USB hard drive enclosure.
Initial cost is a little pricey, $99-120 depending on which one you get.
The enclosure seemed to make the most sense instead of just getting a USB
hard drive. Once the drive is full all I have to do is take it out and
stick another in. Both companies (XtraDisk and USBGear USA) also make a
2.5" sized enclosure for Laptop hard drives.
So far they say that it should take a max of a 80 GB IDE drive.
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