Linux-Hardware Digest #494, Volume #14 Sat, 17 Mar 01 14:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: CARDBUS PCMCIA ETHERNET PROBLEM (Robert Ulmer)
Is the ESS 1989(S) supported by Linux? (Douglas Carmichael)
ATA100 harddisk in Linux ("Jerry Wong")
Re: Setting ISA modem in Red Hat 7 ("Peter T. Breuer")
Support for Dell PowerEdge RAID controllers? ("Ola Theander")
Re: Which distribution to get? (Rod Smith)
Logitech Wheel Mouse (Konstantin Schauwecker)
Re: Two OS, two hard drives, one computer (Rod Smith)
Re: serial/parallel port card (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Motorola Cellphones serial protocol??? (Holger Petersen)
Re: 10 gig disk in a 500 meg BIOS (Rick Griffiths)
Re: Logitech Wheel Mouse (Jan Francsi)
Sierra Wireless AirCard 300 Support?? (Bob Wickline)
Re: serial/parallel port card ("Rodney D. Myers")
Re: Temperature probing? (John Westerdale)
Problems with Toshiba's 4600 graphics card (Luis Miguel N Tavora)
Re: logitech and others... (John Thompson)
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From: Robert Ulmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CARDBUS PCMCIA ETHERNET PROBLEM
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 15:38:29 +0100
Problem solved
Robert Ulmer wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> My System is:
> BX Based Notebook with i8... PCMCIA/CARDBUS Controller
> Kernel 2.2.18 or 2.4.0 tried both of them
> newes pcmcia software installed.
> CARDBUS tulip_cb based ethernet card (Same as Lynksys Cardbus ethernet
> card)
>
> My Problem
>
> Network cards loads
> ifconfig configures ethernetdevice eth0 properly
> but card cannot get any connection to the net.
> I wondered because ifconfig claims ethernetcard to have a wrong MAC
> address.
> (Because of Windows I know the right one)
>
> Had anyone the same problems or suggestions how to solve this problem ?
>
> cu Robert
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From: Douglas Carmichael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is the ESS 1989(S) supported by Linux?
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 14:31:41 +0000 (UTC)
I'm looking at two embedded PC boards, and everything else seems to be
supported by Linux, but the ESS 1989 audio chip doesn't seem to be. Are
there any drivers for that chip for Linux?
Please reply to my email account.
Thank you.
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From: "Jerry Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.advocacy,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: ATA100 harddisk in Linux
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 22:37:56 +0800
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Anybody using an ATA100 harddisk in Linux? Any problem?
If you are using one, please tell me your harddisk model and Linux =
distribution & version.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting ISA modem in Red Hat 7
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 15:23:25 +0100
george <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have two modems. One is a software modem Motorola SM 56k (PCI) and the other
That's not a modem. See www.linmodems.org for more explanations.
> one is an a hardware US Robotics Sportster 33.6K (ISA). I was expecting to have
This is possibly not a modem either. See the same reference.
> The hardware modem has two sets of jumpers. One set for setting the COM ports
> and
> the other for setting the IRQ. Being a total novice to Linux, I thought that I
Oh, excellent! So set the com port to something sensible (non-pnp ?)
and set the irq to something free. Disable one of your mobos comports
if necessary. It looks like that really is a hardware modem, then.
> How should I set the COM and the IRQ on this hardware modem such as to be
> recognized by Linux? When setting the jumpers should I consider the COM and the
What does "recognized" mean?
> IRQ
> of the other modem (under Windows)?
These are hardware matters and in principle nothing to do with the o/s.
Set all the isa hardware to non-conflicting unique irqs and i/o ports,
and make sure (via the bios) that pci doesn't hit them either. Then tell
the software about it later (in the case of the serial driver, via
setserial).
If you really want to play with software control of the isa hardware
(i.e. pnp), you can.
The modem-HOWTO should tell you all you need to know. If you want to
play with pnp, check out the pnp-HOWTO.
Peter
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From: "Ola Theander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Support for Dell PowerEdge RAID controllers?
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 16:11:58 +0100
Reply-To: "Ola Theander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dear subscribers.
My company has a Dell PowerEdge 1550 equipped with a RAID disk set. I would
like to have SuSE installed on this server, but the problem is that the SuSE
setup program doesn't find the harddisk, i.e. doesn't recognize the RAID
controller.
I would like to know if it's possible to install SuSE 7.1 on this server. I
have SuSE 7.0 too, if that would help.
Dell currently supports RedHat on their servers, but I reckon that it means
that it should be possible to use SuSE too.
Kind regards, Ola Theander
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Which distribution to get?
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 15:30:04 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Mace) writes:
> I am working on a new PC based product for which linux seems ideal.
You've multi-posted to at least two groups. I posted a reply to another
group. When posting to multiple groups, it's best to cross-post, not
multi-post. To cross-post, list all the group names on one Newsgroups:
line, separated by commas. This posts ONE copy of the message, which
saves bandwidth. It also ensures that people in all groups will see the
replies (if they're posted in the same way), thus saving more bandwidth
and time for people who might otherwise post nearly-identical
responses. Please keep this in mind in the future. Thanks.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: Konstantin Schauwecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Logitech Wheel Mouse
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 16:26:22 +0100
Hi
I byed a new Logitech Wheel Mouse but I can't use the mouse wheel. I had no
problems with my forener MS Intelli Mouse. I added this line to my X11
config file:
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Does Logitech use an other protocol?
Thanks for help
Konstantin Schauwecker
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware
Subject: Re: Two OS, two hard drives, one computer
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 15:33:32 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <E5ys6.2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Franklin Cardoza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I hope these are the right newsgroups to post such a question.
> I was wondering if it's possible to have two hard drives with two different
> OS,
> Windows95 and Linux, on the same computer. If it is possible, how?
Yes, it's possible. There are *MANY* ways to configure this, and in fact
most Linux distributions include the means to set this up out of the
box, although it helps to understand some of the issues involved. Check
the Linux HOWTOs at http://www.linuxdoc.org for more information. There
are several devoted to dual-boot configurations. For even more
information, there's my book, _The Multi-Boot Configuration Handbook_
(http://www.rodsbooks.com/multiboot/).
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: serial/parallel port card
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 16:10:50 GMT
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 22:52:18 -0800, Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took up his/her
discourse and spake:
>
>Mark,
>
>I may have posted a message.. I have been in the process of moving
>things from my OS/2 system (motherboard died) over to linux, and have
>been trying to configure Pan.
>
>I have an Epson Action Laser 1100.
>
>From dmesg;
>parport0: PC-style at 0x278 [SPP,PS2]
>parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
>lp0: using parport0 (polling).
>lp0 out of paper
>
>and after I turn on the printer and restart lpd;
>lp0 off-line
>lp0 off-line
>lp0 off-line
>lp0 on fire
>lp0 on fire
>
Yikes! I have to confess I haven't seen the "on fire" message before.
Do you have a way to boot Windows on the Linux box just to see if it's
a software/driver issue?
I can see why you would conclude it may be a hardware problem.
Have you checked what the BIOS has set for the parallel port?
Out of curiosity, log in as root and check /var/log/messages and
see if there's any additional info about the parallel port there
beyond what dmesg has shown.
--
Mark Bratcher
To reply direct, remove both underscores (_) from my email name
===============================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Holger Petersen)
Subject: Re: Motorola Cellphones serial protocol???
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 15:40:01 GMT
"Alex Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>if you have a spare pc why not write a small prog to echo serial input from
>the windows box to an output serial port, and vise-versa and then log the
>data...
http://www.simtel.net/simcgi-bin/dosfind.cgi?queryinput=dlm140
^^^
gives:
dlm140.zip 19940323 25K Data Line Monitor: Turn PC into a datascope
greetings, Holger
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From: Rick Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 10 gig disk in a 500 meg BIOS
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 11:43:14 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rick
Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[Hard Disk Howto confusion]
After experimenting, here's what I found out:
}
}Does it matter that the BIOS in my Nec Versa E (circa 1992) can't
}handle a 10 gig drive if I am using Linux exclusively on the machine?
No.
}The way I read the howto, all I have to do is make a 5meg first
}partition as the root. Is this correct? If I make the first partition 5
}meg, will the installation system find another partition and use it if
}I mount the second partition with /root as the mount point?
I *still* dunno what the Howto meant, but I couldn't make this scheme
work.
}
}
}Need I even do all this if I am only using Linux?
No.
}Can I, in other
}words, make the first partition 5 gig and still expect the BIOS to find
}the master boot record in the first 1024 cylinders?
Yes.
Here was the problem: I couldn't get the Debian kernel and drivers to
install on my circa 1992 i486 notebook computer with 20 megs of ram and
impossible to upgrade BIOS. The Debian chicken-pecking-at-the-keyboard
installation program ran fine until it came time to install the kernel
and drivers. The installer would accept and read all the disks; the HD
access light would come on: I could *hear* the heads moving. But when
the installer flipped to the "checking the state of your system" prober
to determine what the next default step should be, it stayed at
"Install Kernel and Drivers." Repeating that step produced an error:
"error writing to temp file: Success." Which is about as cryptic as you
can get.
I suspected the HD was the culprit, because of its honking big size
compared to what the BIOS was prepared to handle. I flipped to some of
the alternate consoles and saw error messages about *being out of room*
to write suchandsuch a file.
Here's what I did to solve the problem:
I erased all the partitions on the disk; changed the units to cylinders
so I could get right up to 1024; made the first partition about 950
cylinders; changed units back to meg, made the swap about 40 meg; made
the rest one big partition. This was pretty much a stab in the dark
based on the Hard Disk Howto's mention of the 1024-cylinder problem.
The Debian Installer had no further problems with the kernal and
drivers, nor the base system.
Thanks to all who contributed.
--
Use reply-to address.
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From: Jan Francsi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Logitech Wheel Mouse
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 17:55:18 +0100
Hello!
Konstantin Schauwecker wrote:
>
> Hi
> I byed a new Logitech Wheel Mouse but I can't use the mouse wheel. I had no
> problems with my forener MS Intelli Mouse. I added this line to my X11
> config file:
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
OK
> Does Logitech use an other protocol?
I've installed my Logitech TrackmanMarble (usb,ps/2)
as IMPS2 and as device /dev/psaux.
I use the imwheel module to make my TrackMan work under KDE.
Greetings, Jan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Wickline)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Sierra Wireless AirCard 300 Support??
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 17:09:02 GMT
Subject says it all. I have an IBM ThinkPad 600e with a Sierra
Wireless AirCard 300 in it. (running Mandrake 7.2) Are there any
drivers for this network adapter?
replace "NOSPAM" with "f350" when replying.
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From: "Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: serial/parallel port card
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 09:15:29 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Mark
Bratcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 22:52:18 -0800, Rodney D. Myers
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took up his/her discourse and spake:
>>
>>Mark,
>>
>>I may have posted a message.. I have been in the process of moving
>>things from my OS/2 system (motherboard died) over to linux, and have
>>been trying to configure Pan.
>>
>>I have an Epson Action Laser 1100.
>>
>>From dmesg; parport0: PC-style at 0x278 [SPP,PS2] parport0: no
>>IEEE-1284 device present. lp0: using parport0 (polling). lp0 out of
>>paper
>>
>>and after I turn on the printer and restart lpd; lp0 off-line lp0
>>off-line lp0 off-line lp0 on fire lp0 on fire
>>
>
> Yikes! I have to confess I haven't seen the "on fire" message before.
> Do you have a way to boot Windows on the Linux box just to see if
> it's a software/driver issue?
>
> I can see why you would conclude it may be a hardware problem.
>
> Have you checked what the BIOS has set for the parallel port?
>
> Out of curiosity, log in as root and check /var/log/messages and see
> if there's any additional info about the parallel port there beyond
> what dmesg has shown.
>
No way to boot into windos on this machine.. The Bios settings are
auto config, auto type (ECP/EPP/etc).
The same printer/cable works on the machine sitting right next to the
linux machine, which leads to parallel port conclusion.
su -
<password>
cat /var/log/messages | more
Mar 13 13:27:37 riverside kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2]
Mar 13 13:27:37 riverside kernel: parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
Mar 13 13:27:37 riverside kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling).
Mar 13 13:28:05 riverside lpd: lpd shutdown succeeded
Mar 13 13:28:05 riverside lpd[20542]: restarted
Mar 13 13:28:05 riverside lpd: lpd startup succeeded
Mar 13 13:28:08 riverside kernel: lp0 out of paper
Mar 13 13:28:28 riverside kernel: lp0 off-line
Mar 13 13:28:58 riverside kernel: lp0 on fire
--
Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Member of Digital Freedom Alliance
Amateur: KG6ANX GMRS: WPOM592
ICQ# : 18002350 Have A NORML Day
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From: John Westerdale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Temperature probing?
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 18:16:06 GMT
Hey All,
Start with Kernel 2.4.X for best results. (get new modutils
if upgrading from older package!).
Get LM_sensors package, patch kernel, recompile with I2C.
Compile lm_sensors. Sensors-detect (or sensors_detect ?)
will probe around for which sensors are there.
Patch kernel with lm_sensors, and recompile with the
ones found and boot to it.
Program called 'sensors' will provide ascii list of temps.
Memory devices, some video cards, CPU (or socket?) temps,
voltages etc should all be available. There are several
packages for monitoring them now!
Not sure of the RPM approach to this, but its probably similar.
OK!
John Westerdale
LM Sensors from:
http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/download.html
"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid.
People are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant.
Together, they are just incredible." -Albert Einstein
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From: Luis Miguel N Tavora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Problems with Toshiba's 4600 graphics card
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 19:01:51 +0000
Hi there,
I've tried to install Red Hat 7.0 on a brand new laptop Toshiba 4600
(PIII 700MHz)
but got some problems with the graphics card. The system doesn't
recognize the
Trident CyberBlade XP (22) card and so X doesn't work....
Is there anybody facing the same problem? Any suggestions on how to get
around this?
Thanks in advance,
Luis
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: logitech and others...
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 06:34:26 -0600
Thumper wrote:
> According to them, there isn't. I was on the phone with them yesterday, and
> basically the guy told me there was no money in developing for Linux. There
> aren't enough of us to matter. When I mentioned that many of us were
> multiplatform users, and that the numbers were significantly higher that he
> thought, he said that he would pass it on. Now, if you believe THAT, I have
> a nice bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you.
>
> Maybe we should call for a boycott of their products. Maybe all of us send
> an email a day to them demanding Linux support. Better yet, we should just
> toss their crap in a box, and send it to their corporate HQ in care of the
> CEO...:)
>
> I like you am extremely frustrated and pissed off. I have a perfectly good
> cam, but can't use it because they won't get off their ass and write a
> driver for it. It's a shame because I used to use their products
> exclusively. Not anymore.
If they're not willing to write the necessary drivers themselves,
perhaps they could be persuaded to make the device specifications
available so the drivers can be developed as open source
sfotware.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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