Linux-Hardware Digest #496, Volume #14 Sun, 18 Mar 01 00:13:07 EST
Contents:
Adaptec 2940UW with Suse 7.0 ("Tim Cuthbertson")
Re: Sierra Wireless AirCard 300 Support?? (A transfinite number of monkeys)
Re: Support for Dell PowerEdge RAID controllers? ("Rinaldi J. Montessi")
Re: Adaptec 2940UW with Suse 7.0 (Tim Cuthbertson)
Re: Goin Shoppin (Michael Perry)
Re: Logitech Wheel Mouse ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
CD-RW help needed ("cedric")
USB Hard Drive (update) (John Hong)
Re: Adaptec 2940UW with Suse 7.0 (Anthony Schlemmer)
Re: USB Hard Drive (update) (Frank Miller)
Redhat 7, DI-701, DHCP ----help ("Miles Langham")
Explanation found (was: HP Surestore DLT problems) (Dances With Crows)
Re: Should I abandon SCSI? (Ed Blackman)
Re: Adaptec 2940UW with Suse 7.0 (Tim Cuthbertson)
Re: Sierra Wireless AirCard 300 Support?? (Seetamraju Uday Bhaskar Sarma)
Re: serial/parallel port card (B'ichela)
isapnp conflicts w/motherboard sound device ("JohnZbesko")
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From: "Tim Cuthbertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Adaptec 2940UW with Suse 7.0
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 19:23:01 -0600
I have been fighting this problem for two weeks. It took me a couple of days
to find all the SCSI parameters and workarounds I needed to install Suse 7.0
with my Adaptec 2940UW. But for the past two weeks I have been trying to
figure out how to boot my installation. Linux is installed on my second SCSI
hard drive, which Win98 calls D: and Linux calls /dev/sda. Win98 is
installed on the first SCSI drive (C: to Windows, /dev/sdb to Linux). The
CDROM drive is also a SCSI device
Last night, I finally came up with a boot floppy that almost works. It loads
the SCSI driver and detects the host adapter, but then it gives repeated
"Operation aborted - timeout" messages. This is exactly what it was doing
when I was trying the initial installation, before I discovered all the
parameters I had to send to it.
Therefore, I am fairly certain that it is ignoring my "append =" line in the
lilo.conf file, which looks like this:
append = "aic7xxx='seltime:0.extended.no_reset'"
I have also tried it without the single quotes around the parameters, but I
get the same result (timeouts on the SCSI bus).
I really need some help. The only way I can boot Linux is from the CDROM,
pretending like I am going to install it again and providing all the
information, every time.
Thanks, Tim
PS - I will try to get to this news group from Linux and provide copies of
my lilo.conf file as well as the output from running the map installer. For
some reason, the newsgroups don't work very well from Netscape.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (A transfinite number of monkeys)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Sierra Wireless AirCard 300 Support??
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 01:28:23 GMT
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 17:09:02 GMT, Bob Wickline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: 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?
Highly doubtful. Why? The AirCard 300 doesn't behave like a "normal"
device that Linux can handle. Other cards, such as the Novatel Wireless
Merlin work fine, because they present themselves to the OS as a serial
UART device, so the standard PCMCIA serial drivers work with it. That
is, it looks like a plain old modem. Of course, you'll have to adapt
scripts to work with it. Last time I used CDPD, was using a really old
Sierra "brick" modem, and it actually used a SLIP connection. I believe
the Merlin will work with PPP though, making it easier to deal with.
--
Jason Costomiris <>< | Technologist, geek, human.
jcostom {at} jasons {dot} org | http://www.jasons.org/
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
My account, My opinions.
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From: "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Support for Dell PowerEdge RAID controllers?
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 20:37:14 -0500
Dances With Crows wrote:
<snip>
> I don't know where this module is on the SuSE CD-ROMs, but once you've
> booted the CD-ROM, you could try Ctrl-Alt-Fing over to another virtual
> console and doing a "modprobe megaraid"... if that doesn't work, pop in
> the Modules floppy, mount it, copy the scsi-mod.gz file to somewhere,
> gunzip it, mount that file (sigh), and you'll find megaraid.o in there.
Pardon my eavesdropping, but what does mounting the file accomplish that
tar -zxvf foo.tar.gz wouldn't?
--
Rinaldi]$
We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.
--Linus Torvalds
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From: Tim Cuthbertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940UW with Suse 7.0
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 20:18:33 -0600
Tim Cuthbertson wrote:
>
> I have been fighting this problem for two weeks. It took me a couple of days
> to find all the SCSI parameters and workarounds I needed to install Suse 7.0
> with my Adaptec 2940UW. But for the past two weeks I have been trying to
> figure out how to boot my installation. Linux is installed on my second SCSI
> PS - I will try to get to this news group from Linux and provide copies of
> my lilo.conf file as well as the output from running the map installer. For
> some reason, the newsgroups don't work very well from Netscape.
My lilo.conf:
boot=/dev/fd0
install=/mnt/boot.b
map=/mnt/map
initrd=/mnt/initrd
lba32
vga=normal
read-only
prompt
timeout=100
append="aic7xxx='seltime:0.extended.no_reset'"
image=/mnt/vmlinuz
root = /dev/sda4
label = lx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Goin Shoppin
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 02:19:11 -0000
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 08:36:44 EST,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>A few good sites for you to check out:
>
> www.anandtech.com
> www.tomshardware.com
>
>
Here are a few sites I use to buy hardware that seems to work very well.
This is lifted from a Linux Journal magazine some time ago:
General hardware including decent cases:
www.aberdeeninc.com
Pretty good prices on motherboard, cpu, cases, and other:
www.computersupersale.com
Another decent site for memory:
www.solutions4sure.com
I have used aberdeeninc.com for a lot of cases, motherboards, etc. They are
pretty good and they get the stuff to you quick. I tend to build self-built
systems these days and since I live in the SF bay area, there are no lack of
local shops. But I also buy some of it online. My most recent system is
one of the $800 "killer" systems as shown in the November 2000 LJ magazine.
Its not a duron or athlon but it runs Linux like a champ:
AMD K6II chip
256mb of memory
Matrox Millenium G400 or Diamond Viper 770d with the new X4.0.2; nvidia drivers
2 30g or so maxtor ide drives (these are really cheap these days!)
Mid-case (did not order the usual fullsized for some reason).
Then I slap debian 2.2r2, do a minimalistic install and take it up to
testing. With X4.0.2, I get the nvidia drivers for the viper. I would
probably change the video card a bit now with some of the hot new cards out
there. My systems seem to work quite well and very reliably though. I am
usually very happy with the Matrox cards. One older system still has one of
the PCI matrox millenium cards in it. Solid performer even back then. That
system runs redhat 5.2 I think.
This system tends to stay up and run quite well for the uses I have for it.
Primarily desktop stuff. My needs for servers go way down the food chain to
ebay auctions :)
--
Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Logitech Wheel Mouse
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 02:28:12 GMT
Konstantin Schauwecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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"
> Does Logitech use an other protocol?
Grumble - Logitech - Grumble... There was a discussion about this
particular issue here quite some time ago...
For some reason, logitech created the "same" mouse with different
internals. One of their most popular models (generic PS/2 wheel)
was made available in many different flavors - Logitech branded,
Logirech Bulk, and OEM branded. Apparently, only the Logitech
branded and some of the bulk mice would actually work - all
of the OEM (AFAIK) were such that they would not work with
imwheel... Now, this was about 6 mo ago, I wonder if anybody
has any further info on this... (I have a Compaq branded Logitech
wheel mouse... Guess what - it doesn't work with the wheel either.)
Anybody have anything further to add to this one?
Kris
> Thanks for help
> Konstantin Schauwecker
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From: "cedric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD-RW help needed
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 18:52:52 +0800
When trying to enter the following from CD-Writing-How To I
have problems.
|| ./MAKEDEV loop \
|| for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do mknod loop$i b 7 $i; done
./MAKEDEV: device: unknown major number for loop
Can't get any further than above.
Any ideas on what to do?
cedric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hong)
Subject: USB Hard Drive (update)
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 02:22:09 +0000 (UTC)
I now have bot items (USB hard drive enclosure and SuSE 7.1
Personal). Neither the stock 2.2.18 or 2.4.0 (pre10) kernels that
shipped with SuSE 7.1 recognize the device. It is identified properly
for what it is I think, under USBVIEW it is listed as a "USB to IDE
Adaptor" which is basically what this is. So far, no luck in getting it
going. I'll be trying again sometime Tuesday when I can get a hold of
the newer 2.4.2 kernel from SuSE.
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From: Anthony Schlemmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940UW with Suse 7.0
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 03:12:33 GMT
I've been using SuSE Linux starting with version 5.2 and this is the
lilo.conf file that I used. I also have a Ataptec 2940UW controller that
has served me well for nearly 4 years now:
boot=/dev/sda
linear
read-only
prompt
timeout=50
vga = normal # force sane state
image = /vmlinuz
root = /dev/sda1
label = Linux
This configuration was for my system which boots from its first SCSI drive
which is /dev/sda. If you're trying use the second SCSI drive then that
would be /dev/sdb not /dev/sda.
I'm not a wizard with lilo but the other thing about your lilo.conf that
might be the culprit is that you have "boot=/dev/fd0" which is your floppy
drive. Are you booting from your floppy? If you're trying to boot from your
second SCSI drive then you should be attempting to boot from your SCSI
drive: "boot=/dev/sdb" instead.
Tony
Tim Cuthbertson wrote:
> Tim Cuthbertson wrote:
>>
>> I have been fighting this problem for two weeks. It took me a couple of
>> days to find all the SCSI parameters and workarounds I needed to install
>> Suse 7.0 with my Adaptec 2940UW. But for the past two weeks I have been
>> trying to figure out how to boot my installation. Linux is installed on
>> my second SCSI
>
>> PS - I will try to get to this news group from Linux and provide copies
>> of my lilo.conf file as well as the output from running the map
>> installer. For some reason, the newsgroups don't work very well from
>> Netscape.
>
> My lilo.conf:
>
> boot=/dev/fd0
> install=/mnt/boot.b
> map=/mnt/map
> initrd=/mnt/initrd
> lba32
> vga=normal
> read-only
> prompt
> timeout=100
> append="aic7xxx='seltime:0.extended.no_reset'"
> image=/mnt/vmlinuz
> root = /dev/sda4
> label = lx
>
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From: Frank Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB Hard Drive (update)
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 03:28:26 GMT
John Hong wrote:
>
> I now have bot items (USB hard drive enclosure and SuSE 7.1
> Personal). Neither the stock 2.2.18 or 2.4.0 (pre10) kernels that
> shipped with SuSE 7.1 recognize the device. It is identified properly
> for what it is I think, under USBVIEW it is listed as a "USB to IDE
> Adaptor" which is basically what this is. So far, no luck in getting it
> going. I'll be trying again sometime Tuesday when I can get a hold of
> the newer 2.4.2 kernel from SuSE.
John,
Keep us updated.
Frank
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Reply-To: "Miles Langham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Miles Langham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat 7, DI-701, DHCP ----help
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 21:32:18 -0600
OK
I have tried, Mandrake, SuSE, Corel, Gentus for ABIT, and now Redhat
distributions. All of the other Linux installs went ok. I followed the
install screens and everything worked well. Linux has REALLY progressed in
the last year and a half, very impressive. For a newbie like me the
progress
in the install routine makes a Linux install almost possible;>)
My problem has been that I have used Windows since the first release and I
can't get the command line commands figured out. I finally bought the book
Redhat Linux 7 for Dummies. I didn't even know it came with Linux 7.0 on
CD.
I think the books editors should probably go over the book again! Many
spelling errors and many instances where the text does not follow the
install routine. My main problem is getting my network card configured to
work with my D-Link DI-701 "Residential Gateway".
I had to pull the hard drive I was installing Redhat 7 on and replace it
with my WIN98 drive so I can't remember all the info but hopefully someone
here can set me straight. I use 192.168.0.1 as the gateway address and it
passes out IP's via DHCP to the other 4 machines on my little network.
When Redhat 7 booted up I went to linuxconf to set up the network
settings. Under CLIENT TASKS > HOST NAME .... I am supposed to enter Host
name + domain, I have NO idea exactly what to enter here.
Then ADAPTER 1 has Primary name + domain, IP address, net device, and
kernal module that need to be entered plus some optional entries that I am
not goint to worry about unless someone tells me I need to. At the top of
this page is config mode <>Manual <>Dhcp <>Bootp. Since the DI-701
passes out IP's using DHCP and every other install of LINUX worked without
problems I selected DHCP. It isn't working for some reason.
Then we come to Name server specification (DNS) with Default Domain, IP of
name server 1, and IP of name server 2. Even DNS 2 is optional.
The DI-701 is configured with my SWBELL DSL info which includes swbell DNS
1 and 2 IP addresses. The DI-701 handles the P.P.P.o.E. protocol that
SWBELL requires and it handles the login to my ISP.
What info do I need to include in the linuxconf network setup?\
I realise that this is all caused by my ignorance and can all be chalked
up to operator error. That's why I bought Redhat Linux for Dummies, yet it
just doesn't cover this area in enough detail. I also cannot figure out
why the other installs pretty much configured the network/internet setup
automatically only asking me about DHCP.............
Can anyone set me straight? If I can get this system running I hope to
wean myself from the Microsoft folks.
Miles
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Explanation found (was: HP Surestore DLT problems)
Date: 18 Mar 2001 04:03:27 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 14 Mar 2001 13:43:30 GMT, Joshua Baker-LePain staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>I would *strongly* suspect hardware. I assume that you've tried multiple
>tapes, so it must be either the drive or the SCSI card. Hook the drive onto
>another machine, and hang something else off of the SCSI controller.
>Pound the #$!* out of both configs and let us know what happens.
It was a hardware problem--hooking the drive to another machine with a
known good SCSI chain/software setup produced exactly the same errors.
Hooking an external SCSI disk to the spot where the tape drive was
worked just fine. I install a new tape drive tomorrow.
--
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....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Blackman)
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Should I abandon SCSI?
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 04:06:56 -0000
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 01:17:05 GMT, Ron Reaugh wrote:
>Ed Blackman wrote in message ...
>>On Thu, 01 Mar 2001 00:09:27 GMT, Ron Reaugh wrote:
>>>NewsReader2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message ...
>>>>Just keep to a single drive for greater reliability and stability.
>>>>
>>>>Choose 10K+ SCSI to improve workstation performance
>>>
>>>All nonsense. Nothing supplants a good backup scheme at 3:00 or at
>>>any other time. Fast inexpensive EIDE RAID 0 plus an appropriate
>>>backup/checkpoint scheme is just as reliable as a SCSI solution.
>>
>>Because a single drive failure in RAID 0 array takes down the entire
>>array, the probability of failure of a RAID 0 array is the *sum* of the
>>probability of failures of all of the drives in the array. So a single
>>drive *is* more reliable than a RAID 0 array.
>
>That's not the issue.
It might not be the only issue, but it's the one that my comments where
directed towards. Newsreader2 said that single drives had greater
reliability and stability. You said that his statement was nonsense.
I showed you were wrong: it *isn't* nonsense so say that single drives
are more reliable than a RAID 0 array.
>>Assuming drives with similar failure rates, a RAID 0 array is X times
>>more prone to failure than a single drive, where X is the number of
>>drives in the array.
>
>Twice small is still small. Acceptable reliability is still
>acceptable. No one denies that the probablity of failure goes up in
>RAID 0. The question of this thread is whether that is a significant
>issue in single user workstation usage compared to the large
>performance gains.
I'm not interested in the larger thread. Quite frankly, to a certain
extent you both strike me as True Believers who are convinced that
their pet solution is the One True Path. Arguing with True Believers
is usually useless, and the realiity is that even a narrow category
like "single user workstation" covers such a broad spectrum of usage
that there isn't just one solution that's best for everyone.
Ed
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From: Tim Cuthbertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940UW with Suse 7.0
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 22:21:23 -0600
Anthony Schlemmer wrote:
>
> I've been using SuSE Linux starting with version 5.2 and this is the
> lilo.conf file that I used. I also have a Ataptec 2940UW controller that
> has served me well for nearly 4 years now:
>
> boot=/dev/sda
> linear
> read-only
> prompt
> timeout=50
> vga = normal # force sane state
> image = /vmlinuz
> root = /dev/sda1
> label = Linux
>
> This configuration was for my system which boots from its first SCSI drive
> which is /dev/sda. If you're trying use the second SCSI drive then that
> would be /dev/sdb not /dev/sda.
>
> I'm not a wizard with lilo but the other thing about your lilo.conf that
> might be the culprit is that you have "boot=/dev/fd0" which is your floppy
> drive. Are you booting from your floppy? If you're trying to boot from your
> second SCSI drive then you should be attempting to boot from your SCSI
> drive: "boot=/dev/sdb" instead.
>
> Tony
>
Tony,
Thanks for your response.
Yes, I am trying to boot from the floppy because my system usually boots
to the other hard disk with Win98.
I was never able to get Suse to load on my system until I found the
aic7xx parameters in Suse's Knowledge Database. Even now, when booting
from the Suse CD, if I leave any of those parameters off, it will not
work.
It is beginning to look like I am always going to have to boot from the
CD.
Tim
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From: Seetamraju Uday Bhaskar Sarma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Sierra Wireless AirCard 300 Support??
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 04:29:11 GMT
The Mandrake Install should do that automatically (thru kudzu).
I am running a RayLink based PCMCIA wireless card on my linux machine.
Bob Wickline wrote:
> 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B'ichela)
Subject: Re: serial/parallel port card
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 22:09:53 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 21:51:13 GMT, Cokey de Percin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>'The lp0 on fire message simply means that the kernel can't figure out the
>printer status. The fire bit is an old joke.'
>
>I've seen this when the printer was on, but 'paused' or off-line.
Umm would you mind telling me the "joke"? I too have seen this
when the printer off-line button is activated.
--
B'ichela
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From: "JohnZbesko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: isapnp conflicts w/motherboard sound device
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 23:01:33 -0600
I'm going nuts! My daughter has a clone Cyrix PC with an onboard soundcard,
CMI8330/C3D (identified w/sndconfig.) I can't seem to straighten out some
resource conflict - the best I've accomplished is the sound sample in
sndconfig starts but cuts out. I'm working with kernel 2.4.2. This PC has a
serial mouse.
How do I determine what's conflicting? Can anyone suggest a procedure for
debugging? I seem to be thrashing around trying one thing after another
hoping that something works. I've messed with different modules, different
settings in sndconfig, HardDrake (Mandrake 7.2), etc.
Any ideas/help would be greatly appreciated!
John Zbesko
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