Linux-Hardware Digest #507, Volume #14 Wed, 21 Mar 01 00:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: Alcatel ADSL USB modem drivers released! ("Alim")
Re: Lilo with HPT366 UDMA 66 (Stephen Anthony)
Re: Sound Card Problems ("Peter T. Breuer")
trantor t160 SCSI card supported? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
RAID under kernel 2.2.18: mkraid aborted (Dan Smith)
update for AIC Bios 7880- in Turbo Linux ?? ("ryb")
Re: RAID under kernel 2.2.18: mkraid aborted ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Help!!! (Trevor Hemsley)
Help with compiling USB into the kernel correctly.. (Walter Francis)
help setting up cd burner (kellehmj)
Re: SMC EtherEZ is not recognized (John Thompson)
Re: RAID under kernel 2.2.18: mkraid aborted (Dan Smith)
Sound card config problems... (grausam)
Re: cant access Promise Fasttrack100 devices under Linux 2.4.2 ("Alan Miles")
hardware monitor for linux (Chris)
Re: RAID under kernel 2.2.18: mkraid aborted ("Peter T. Breuer")
Get paid to be online... no surfing! (R. Somebody)
SCSI Drive clicks every few hours... (Dan Smith)
Re: cant access Promise Fasttrack100 devices under Linux 2.4.2 (Dan Beggs)
Re: RAID under kernel 2.2.18: mkraid aborted (Markus Kossmann)
Re: Help!!! ("cedric")
Re: Need help getting modem to work ("jpm27")
Re: Reccomendations for system for high data throughput (Dances With Crows)
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From: "Alim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Alcatel ADSL USB modem drivers released!
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 20:20:18 -0000
That is fantastic Hal - I wasn't looking, but now my LAN will work
again!!!!! IP Masquerading here I come!!
"Hal Burgiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Finally:
>
> http://www.alcatel.com/consumer/dsl/supuser.htm#driver
>
> Open source too AFAIK!
>
> --
> Hal B
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Stephen Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo with HPT366 UDMA 66
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 17:06:17 -0330
Kenneth R�rvik wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen Anthony) wrote in <997prs$60u$2
> @horsefly.nf.net>:
>
>>I had the exact same problem with a Promise ATA100 controller. I tried
>>different versions of lilo, different command line options, and read
>>every FAQ I could find. I eventually had to go with a different boot
>>loader. I found one on freshmeat.net. Forget the name of it now, but
>>it installs in the windows partition and actually has a GUI. You can
>>select the OS to boot with the mouse. Good luck.
>
> Maybe XOSL? Grub could also be an option, but it is a bit trickier than
> lilo to set up.
Yes, thats it. I couldn't get grub to work either. Besides, this XOSL
looks better than either lilo or grub.
Steve
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Card Problems
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:00:59 +0100
Marcio Calixto Cabral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I always keep getting the message: drive or resource busy.
> How do I check what IRQ number is being used? How do I change it?
You look at the bus, or /proc/interrupts, or the bootup messages, etc.
You have quite enough info below:
> USB Controller: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo USB (rev 16).
> Medium devsel. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32.
> I/O at 0xd400 [0xd401].
That's irq 10.
> Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic Unknown device (rev 1).
> Vendor id=1013. Device id=6003.
> Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=24.
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf8000000 [0xf8000000].
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf7800000 [0xf7800000].
> Bus 0, device 10, function 0:
> Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq Unknown device (rev 2).
> Vendor id=1274. Device id=5880.
> Slow devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=12.Max Lat=128.
> I/O at 0xb800 [0xb801].
yes, well, there seem to be a couple of audio devices on the bus.
Neither users any interrupt. You may have a very recent CL card with an
ensoniq chip on board. It's certainly newer than you kernel as the
device id is unknown to the kernel. So the first thing I'd do is try a
newer kernel, and think later. (mind you, bet that this is a 1373
device - without looking it up).
> Bus 1, device 0, function 0:
> VGA compatible controller: Matrox Unknown device (rev 130).
> Vendor id=102b. Device id=525.
> Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Late
Change the bios to take away the irq from the video card. You don't
need it. Nobody seriously suggests programming graphics via irqs, I think.
> 00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24
> [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01)
Oh, well, lspci knows more device ids than the kernel.
> 00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
Really! Never heard of it. Go looking for driver support.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: trantor t160 SCSI card supported?
Date: 20 Mar 2001 21:11:42 GMT
Hi there,
I found an old ISA SCSI card, marked as Trantor T160/T260, which
I'd like to use to hook up a tape drive. It is not recognized
at boot, though. Anybody has an idea of which kernel module
should I load and what, if any, parameters I should supply to
modprobe?
I looked around and it seems that at some point the card
was indeed supported. See for instance this link:
faqchest.dynhost.com/linux/REDHAT/redhat-98/redhat-9805/
redhat-980501/redhat98051601_24968.html
The card itself currently is set with IRQ=5 and I/O=260H.
The values can be changed, however they don't seem to interfere
with other pieces of h/w.
My kernel is a stock 2.16 with most of the SCSI modules compiled.
I can also upgrade/recompile the kernel if needed.
thanks a bunch,
Alberto
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From: Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: RAID under kernel 2.2.18: mkraid aborted
Date: 20 Mar 2001 10:56:45 -0500
I am trying to get software RAID0 (no level will work) started under kernel 2.2.18.
Every time I have done this before, it has been a snap, this time it's being a pain.
When I try to do a mkraid /dev/md0, I get the following error:
mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues
Of course, neither of these logs say anything about the error.
Can someone help??
Thanks!
--Dan
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From: "ryb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: update for AIC Bios 7880- in Turbo Linux ??
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 21:23:23 GMT
I have an HP Kayak xw workstation- its BIOS is AIC(adaptec)
7880-unfortunately it is NOT recognized by Turbo Linux v 6.0.4 so the SCSI
HD are like gone- it says system does not have any HD !
Even the file xtrhardware on the Cd does not help..so a fix for this or not
?
Apparently v 2.4.2(kernel) has fixed this bug ?
Note-I pulled out the SCSI Raid-5 card(Adaptec ARO 1130-B)-I had no problems
installing Windows NT 2000 Professional on it..
ryb...
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RAID under kernel 2.2.18: mkraid aborted
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:26:32 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to get software RAID0 (no level will work) started under kernel 2.2.18.
>Every time I have done this before, it has been a snap, this time it's being a pain.
> When I try to do a mkraid /dev/md0, I get the following error:
> mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues
> Of course, neither of these logs say anything about the error.
> Can someone help??
Well, you will have to strace the mkraid. It should be obvious.
Last time I had this kind of problem it was due to
1) malformed raidtab ("raid1" instead of "1")
2) devfs-ization
3) wrong tools .. 0.9 instead of 0.4 and vice versa, leading to wrong
ioctls
4) wrong raid patches, wrong kernel, etc. etc. etc.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor Hemsley)
Subject: Re: Help!!!
Date: 20 Mar 2001 21:56:15 GMT
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 13:08:03, cedric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> mount /dev/hdd give me an error message bad superblock or too many files
> mounted.
You're trying to mount the whole disk drive, not the partitions within
it. Mount the correct partition and you might have some luck! Running
fdisk -l /dev/hdd will list the partitions available.
--
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK.
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From: Walter Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help with compiling USB into the kernel correctly..
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 03:17:39 -0500
I'm running 2.4.1 and I can't seem to get my USB keyboard working quite
right.. I turned on the OnChip USB support in the bios, and the
keyboard acts fine in the bios setup, and the LILO prompt, but then
Linux doesn't seem to notice the keyboard. I am using a KIA-6100
motherboard, which has a VIA chipset on it.
I do have normal keyboard support still compiled, do I have to turn that
off?
Usb options:
support for usb: y
usb verbose: y
preliminary usb fs: y
enforce usb bw allocation: n
ochi (intel, via...): y
OHCI support: y
usb audio: n
usb bluetooth: n
usb mass storage: m
use ms debug: y
freecom usb/scsi bridge: y
usb modem: n
usb printer: y
usb full HID support: y
wacom: n
kodak/mustek options: n
usb scanner: m
(rest of the options are n)
I'd like to use my printer (have no USB cable to test the printer right
now), and a USB SmartMedia reader on the USB, keyboard isn't really a
deal, but I'm more or less using it to test the USB in the kernel.
I'm trying next turning off the OHCI support.. Any other suggestions
are appreciated.
--
Walter Francis
http://theblackmoor.net Powered by Red Hat Linux 7.0
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From: kellehmj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help setting up cd burner
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:43:54 GMT
i am running kernel 2.4.2 under redhat 7.0
the cd burner i have is:
SONY CD-RW CRX145E, ATAPI CDROM drive
i followed the cd burner howto and compiled the modules for scsi
emulation,
and the extra script for modules.conf. i could not figure out how to
setup
the extra stuff in lilo tho.
if anyone has any insight into this, please help!!
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMC EtherEZ is not recognized
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 15:52:45 -0600
"m.c.dooligan" wrote:
> Peter Teuben wrote:
>
> > I used a newer tulip driver that I got from Becker's website. redhat6.2
> > certainly didn't have this card in its database.
> >
> > peter
> 'Scuse me, but where is this 'Becker's website'?
> I have the same problem with my EtherEZ.
> Thank you.
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RAID under kernel 2.2.18: mkraid aborted
Date: 20 Mar 2001 12:18:54 -0500
Can you elaborate on the solutions to problem #2?
What is devfs-isation?
My raidtab is good, and I am using raidtools 0.9; isnt' that the most current version?
My kernel (d/l 2.2.18 from kernel.org) already has raid support in it).
Thanks!
--Dan
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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 18:41:56 -0500
From: grausam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound card config problems...
I use Red Hat and am trying to set up my sound card. sndconfig says my
card is a model OPL3-SAX. During the "playing test sound" phase of the
installation sndconfig gets fatal errors from isapnp. I tried to run
isapnp manually and it spat the same errors at me. Here is what it said:
Board 1 has Identity 81 ff ff ff ff 20 00 a8 65: YMH0020 Serial No -1
[checksum 81]
Board 2 has Identity f6 5a 13 f2 81 95 50 6d 50: TCM5095 Serial No -1
[checksum f6]
YMH0020/-1[0]{OPL3-SAX Sound Board}: Ports 0x220 0x530 0x388 0x330
0x370; IRQ5 DMA0 DMA1 --- Enabled OK
YMH0020/-1[1]{OPL3-SAX Sound Board}: Port 0x201; --- Enabled OK
/etc/isapnp.conf:268 -- Fatal -IO range check attempted while device
activated
/etc/isapnp.conf:268 -- Fatal - Error occurred executing request
'<IORESCHECK>' --- further action aborted
Does anyone know what I can do to remedy this situation?
-John Andrews
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From: "Alan Miles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cant access Promise Fasttrack100 devices under Linux 2.4.2
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 00:29:38 GMT
Dan,
How did you get your machine to boot? Did you use a lilo boot disk (i.e.,
not installed on the MBR).
I can boot in ramdisk and insmod the ft.o file. That way I can "see" my raid
0 Promise Fasttrak 100 "drive" as a /dev/sda
Alan
"Dan Beggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Two problems here, first is that the promise raid cards are treated as
> SCSI devices, and secondly, Promise's driver doesn't work under the
> 2.4.x kernels.
>
> Mine works well under 2.2.18.
>
> dan
>
>
> On 20 Mar 2001 09:57:07 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >hello !
> >
> >I have problems to see the raid from a Promise Fastrack100 device (aka
> >/dev/hde ...) under SuSE Linux 7.1 (Kernel 2.4.2 from kernel.org)
>
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From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hardware monitor for linux
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 19:50:51 -0500
I apologize if I've missed a previous thread about this, but I was
wondering if anyone can suggest a hardware monitor for linux. Also, I'm
under the impression that this needs specific support in the kernel. Is
this correct? Thanks for any suggestions.
Chris
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RAID under kernel 2.2.18: mkraid aborted
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 01:55:14 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can you elaborate on the solutions to problem #2?
Can you please quote whatever it is you are talking about? Relevant
portions only, please.
> What is devfs-isation?
If you don't know, then that may well be your problem. Go find out.
Look in the kernel sources Configure.help.
[reformatting the next to 72chars per line!]
> My raidtab is good, and I am using raidtools 0.9; isnt' that the
That's what you say. But if you were able to recognize your problem,
you'd have done so, no? So I suggest you back up your assertion with
some proof.
> most current version? My kernel (d/l 2.2.18 from kernel.org)
> already has raid support in it).
Ditto. Prove it.
Peter
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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 01:40:51 GMT
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From: Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI Drive clicks every few hours...
Date: 20 Mar 2001 16:04:34 -0500
I have a workstation that uses one single SCSI drive. Every once in a while, the
drive sounds like it is resetting the position of the head. Like it clicks to the
park position, then goes back. Nothing happens other than that, the machine is fine.
The drive doesn't spin down or anything, just the click. This is the first time I've
run Linux on SCSI, so I don't know if it's supposed to do that.
The drive is not all that new, but in fine condition... There shouldn't be anything
wrong with it...
Thanks!
--Dan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Beggs)
Subject: Re: cant access Promise Fasttrack100 devices under Linux 2.4.2
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 03:23:36 GMT
I'm not booting from the promise, yet. For my testing, I'm booting
from a lone drive on the the motherboard's ide port.
If my testing of software mirroring vs the promise works out that way,
then I'll figure out how to make the promise bootable and will let you
know.
dan
>Dan,
>
>How did you get your machine to boot? Did you use a lilo boot disk (i.e.,
>not installed on the MBR).
>
>I can boot in ramdisk and insmod the ft.o file. That way I can "see" my raid
>0 Promise Fasttrak 100 "drive" as a /dev/sda
>
>Alan
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RAID under kernel 2.2.18: mkraid aborted
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 04:02:42 +0100
Dan Smith wrote:
>
> Can you elaborate on the solutions to problem #2?
>
> What is devfs-isation?
>
> My raidtab is good, and I am using raidtools 0.9; isnt' that the most current
>version? My kernel (d/l 2.2.18 from kernel.org) already has raid support in it).
Did you patch your kernel sources with the patch for raid-0.90 before
building it ?
--
Markus Kossmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "cedric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help!!!
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 19:52:22 +0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 13:08:03, cedric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>> mount /dev/hdd give me an error message bad superblock or too many
>> files mounted.
>
> You're trying to mount the whole disk drive, not the partitions within
> it. Mount the correct partition and you might have some luck! Running
> fdisk -l /dev/hdd will list the partitions available.
>
fdisk -l /dev/hdd shows no partitions. The same with /dev/hdb.
How do I get them working?
/dev/hdb is empty but there is data on /dev/hdd that I would like to try
and recover. All my writing is backed up on floppies, but there is gigs
of research material I'd like to get.
cedric
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From: "jpm27" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help getting modem to work
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:19:55 -0600
Is there a problem if there is another device with the same irq? cause I
have that going on. If is it how could I change the irq. By the way what
do you mean by, man setserial.
"Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:997gtl$1fba$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 00:40:11 -0600, jpm27, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have a U.S. Robotics 56k PCI Voice Modem and I'm trying to get it to
run
> > under Linux-Mandrake 7.2. When I run HardDrake is shows that the modem
has
> > been recognized under the modem category. But when I try to connect to
my
> > ISP using Kppp and I try all the different com ports all I get on each
one
> > upon trying to connect is a message that states that the modem is busy.
Can
> > someone please tell me the steps I need to take to get the modem working
so
> > I can connect to my ISP? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> I've managed to get one of those things going, but it takes a bit of
> hand-holding of linux...
>
> Step 1) log on as root and execute...
> cat /proc/pci > listing
> ...(at least in Redhat, hopefully also in Mandrake)
>
> Step 2) view "listing" with a text editor or viewer. Somewhere in
> the output, you will see reference to "Unknown serial controller".
> It will also list the IRQ and I/O addresses used by the device.
>
> Step 3) man setserial
> and execute setserial with the appropriate port and IRQ values
> obtained in step 2) above
>
> Step 4) Try dialing out to your ISP. If the modem works, enter the
> the successful setserial commandline as the last line of
> /etc/rc.d/rc.local (or equivalent startup script in Mandrake).
>
> --
> Walter Dnes
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Reccomendations for system for high data throughput
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 21 Mar 2001 04:30:21 GMT
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 16:32:55 GMT, xuare staggered into the Black Sun and said:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher) writes:
>>I thought I had read that kernel 2.4.x supports file sizes up
>>to 16TB. What I did not investigate is whether this is a kernel
>>issue or a file system issue (since 2.4.x supports other
>>file system extensions). I suspect it's a kernel issue, in the
>>word size used to represent file sizes.
>>
>
>Not sure enough to comment. I would hope you are right, but my feeling
>is that it is a filesystem limit. Someone with a higher guru quotient
>have any comments? -
This has been hashed to death over and over.
ext2 is 64-bit and has been for years.
The 2G limit happens on x86 machines because some pieces of the VFS
expect file size to be in a native data type of "int" which on x86 is a
32-bit type. The 2G limit never existed on Alpha or Sparc64.
To get files > 2G on an x86 box, you need a recent kernel, and your
glibc needs to have large file support. Filesystem doesn't matter; the
limit is there with ReiserFS too. SuSE have a page somewhere on their
site where they explain all this and tell you what you need to do to get
> 2G support going. Search their site for "largefile" or "lfs" and see
what you can come up with; I've mislaid the link....
--
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