Linux-Hardware Digest #515, Volume #14 Fri, 23 Mar 01 03:13:07 EST
Contents:
QuickCam(USB) (Prometheus)
Re: Driver Creation help for all Win Printers..Please Help!
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RH7/3Com and 3Com Mini PCI Ethernet adapter (Michael Zingale)
Linux Woes ("Charles")
Re: Symbios (LSI) 1010 Ultra160 SCSI ok with Linux? (Cokey de Percin)
Re: Help!!! ("cedric")
Acer CD-R/RW CRW6206A won't write under RedHat7.0 with 2.4.2 kernel
("news.earthlink.net")
cdrw drive corrupted after using xcdroast (Mark Lybarger)
Re: cdrw drive corrupted after using xcdroast (Walter Francis)
Re: cdrw drive corrupted after using xcdroast (Mark Lybarger)
Re: Linux Woes ("NyQuist")
memtest86 not detecting faulty memory ? (" <<nospam>@" <"nospam.org>">)
Advantech RS485 serial driver (Elwyn Campbell)
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From: Prometheus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: QuickCam(USB)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 22:38:16 +0000
I've had a quick look through the news group and can't see anything related
to this:
I'm wondering if its possible to set up a Logitech Quickcam ( USB) under
SuSE7.1 ( 2.4 kernal). I thought that I'd seen a webpage related to this,
but cannot find it. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanx
--
--Promtheus--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.embedded
Subject: Re: Driver Creation help for all Win Printers..Please Help!
Date: 22 Mar 2001 23:13:59 GMT
In article <0Lnu6.1386$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, LittleFish
<littlefish_au[SPAM ME AT YOUR OWN RISK]@yahoo.com> writes:
>Hi everyone! I am looking for some practical help with lpr and printer
>formats. What the problem is is that I have Lexmark 1000 that I can't get to
>work with Linux.
It is not the difference per se between linux and Windows that is the
problem.
Both will handle the same kinds of files; both can use ghostscript etc. etc.
But your "Win" printer is breaindead. It won't work without a Windows driver
that is special to it.
Wine does not emulate Windows as such. It creates an environment where a
windows _application_ program will operate as if it were being run under
windows. A printer driver is not such an application program AFAIK. So I
don't think Wine will enable you to use the Lexmark 1000 driver since the
driver is not an application program. What Wine does is convert calls to
Windows facilities to calls to the corresponding Linux faciities. In your
case it is the facility that is the problem. You would have to write your
driver in very low level code, and you would have to have knowledge of the
internals of the device which are probably trade secrets.
BTW my favorite print manager under Linux is not cups or any of those but good
old apsfilter. Visit www.apsfilter.org FMI.
The solution for you is to buy another printer. There are good inkjets out
there that cost as little as $149.
In general the barrier to people experimenting with Linux is not hardware. It
is a combination of the greater sophistication required to set Linux up and
the totally different philosophical approach. The Linux user is supposed to
have some smarts beyond knowing which icon to double click. It is a bit like
driving a car with a stick shift. You do more work, you have to have more
skill but you have more control and possibly more fun. A book titled Linux
for Dummies (and there is such a book I think) is an oxymoron.
RedHat and some of the other distro vendors have done a good job of shielding
the user from the inner workings. This is both a good thing and a bad thing.
Beginners have it easier, but the transition to real knowledge of Linux is
thereby made harder.
There aren't that many Win-only devices out there --- a few modems and
apparently a few printers. The only sensible solution for the linux guy is to
junk 'em. Or return to vendor, which is what I did when I got suckered in to
buying a winmodem a few years back.
john Culleton
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From: Michael Zingale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH7/3Com and 3Com Mini PCI Ethernet adapter
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,redhat.networking.general
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 19:45:46 -0600
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.hardware [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:04:24 -0800, "Guillermo Auad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>
>>>I have RHat 7.0 installed on my IBM thinkpad and when I type
>>>
>>>% ifconfig eth0 (or eth1)
>>>
>>>it does not find the card. The card, a 3Com 10/100 PCI Mini Ethernet
>>>adapter works properly when I boot Windows 2000 on the same laptop.
>
>What card? What are you talking about???? Laptops don't have "cards" in
>the same way as desktops do. They have pcmcia sockets or cardbus
>sockets. You need to install pcmcia drivers, and pcmcia tools, and so
>on. Then you need to teach the system about your card if its not in the
>database (it will be .. I have plenty of 3com pcmcia cards).
>
I have a Thinkpad X20 with the Intel Mini PCI card -- this is actually a card,
not a PCMCIA card. The MiniPCI card plugs into the laptop motherboard and is
replaceable. It is a different standard than PCMCIA.
I recall reading on the linux laptop page:
http://www.linux-laptop.net/ibm.html
about someone using the 3Com MiniPCI card. Apparently, the driver is in the
2.2.17 kernel, not the 2.2.16 that ships with RH 7. There are instructions at:
http://www2.neweb.ne.jp/wd/fbm/3c556/
Mike
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From: "Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Woes
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 01:44:50 GMT
Okay. I broke down, went and bought Linux Mandrake 7.2 Power Pack Deluxe.
Now, here are the following problems so I am here to pick your brains again
<G>
1st- I have 2 NIC's on my system. One for DSL, one for LAN. How can I tell
them apart in Linux? I can't get to the internet w/out at least the DSL one.
(Netgear NIC for DSL and Linksys FA310 for LAN)
2nd- I am using PQBoot for the dual boot. However, it's not booting Linux.
It stalls out on the display of "L I " I have the MBR (for Linux) installed
on the correct drive listed /dev/hdg1
I have 6 partitions total for this disk, all for Linux. Does this sound
right? I can boot into Linux, but I have to use a boot disk.
(Partitioned as "/", "swap", "/usr", "/home", "/var", "/usr/local" each with
3GB each, except swap.)
Man, I will say this much... what a helluva different look and feel. Now all
I have to do is figure out what these other 2 disks are that weren't used in
the install, and figure out how to use the programs that were installed <G>
Will check back in later.
Thanks for all the help so far.
--
Charles
(Electrician's do it with *spark*!)
ICQ# 42872537
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From: Cokey de Percin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Symbios (LSI) 1010 Ultra160 SCSI ok with Linux?
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 02:04:32 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Cokey de Percin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> :> Ladies and gentlemen, can someone tell me if the Ultra160 SCSI
> :> chipset by Symbios/NCR (3C1010, used embedded in some high-end mother-
> :> boards like the Tyan Thunder 2500) is compatible with current Linux, I
> :> mean the current Linux kernels and if so which driver.
>
> : Yes, and it works fine on my Thunder 2500 (with Symbios 1010). I'm
> : currently running 2.4.2 which seems _much_ faster than the 2.2.x kernels.
>
> Hi,
> Thanks for your responses; do I understand your (yours and the
> previous respondent's) answer to mean that Red Hat 7.0 or say Mandrake
> 7.2 works out of the box with it? Or do I need something newer?
>
> [I.e. something with kernel 2.4.2 in it ...?]
I believe so; I'm running 6.2 with kernal & modutils updated. I've also booted
into 2.2.16 and that seem's to work also. I haven't tried any prior to
2.2.16, but I believe that's what comes with RH 7.0. I'm not sure about
Mandrake 7.2.
Best
Cokey
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From: "cedric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help!!!
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 19:17:50 +0800
It worked!!!
'dd' /dev/hdd to /dev/hda.
Redid /dev/hdd1 with 'fdisk' with original settings.
Did 'df' and there it was /mnt/data as before.
Scoured /mnt/data and all data is intact.
I assume it's safe to delete /tmp/hdd.img now.
Thank you!
Thank you!
Thank you!
cedric
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From: "news.earthlink.net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Acer CD-R/RW CRW6206A won't write under RedHat7.0 with 2.4.2 kernel
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 03:49:41 GMT
I have an Acer CD-R/RW CRW6206A drive under RedHat7.0 with a 2.4.2 kernel.
It will mount a CD under the scsi emulation (using /dev/cdrom -> /dev/scd0).
It is connected as secondary master.
Whether I use a CD-R (tried two different vendors & lengths) or CD-RW I get
the error: cdrecord: No disk / Wrong disk
This occurs on writing, blanking, etc...
Ideas? Anything else to try, etc.?
# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.17
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'ATAPI ' 'CD-R/RW CRW6206A' '1.2A' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) *
...
[I have tried this test w/ speed=0, 2, and 4
# cdrecord -speed=0 -blank=all -dev=0,0,0
Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling
scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.17
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : 'ATAPI '
Identifikation : 'CD-R/RW CRW6206A'
Revision : '1.2A'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
cdrecord: Input/output error. test unit ready: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
CDB: 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x0 (GOOD STATUS)
cdrecord: No disk / Wrong disk!
[from the module load on the console]
Vendor: ATAPI Model: CD-R/RW CRW6206A Rev: 1.2A
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 2x/6x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[Output from XCdRoast]
Calling: /usr/bin/cdrecord dev=0,0,0 fs=4096k -v -useinfo
speed=2 -dao -pad -da
ta "/tmp/cdrw/test.img" ...
pregap1: -1
Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.17
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
atapi: 1
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : 'ATAPI '
Identifikation : 'CD-R/RW CRW6206A'
Revision : '1.2A'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data 372 MB padsize: 30 KB
cdrecord: Input/output error. test unit ready: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
Total size: 428 MB (42:25.69) = 190927 sectors
status: 0x0 (GOOD STATUS)
Lout start: 428 MB (42:27/52) = 190927 sectors
cdrecord: No disk / Wrong disk!
CDB: 00 00 00 00 00 00
--
Jeff Buhrt
Achievement Focused Technology, Inc
http://www.aftinc.net
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
317-513-3238
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From: Mark Lybarger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cdrw drive corrupted after using xcdroast
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 03:52:10 GMT
Hi,
I was using xcdroast to copy an audio cd to the harddrive. It was
moving very slow, and I hit cancel when about 1/2 the songs were
finished. After that, my drive isn't being reported correctly.
"cdrecord -scanbus" doesn't correctly identify the drive. I've tried
the -reset parameter for cdrecord, but that doesn't help. I've also
tried the -inq, and it doesn't corretly identify the drive. It sees that
something is there, but all i see is garbage. here's the -inq output:
Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling
scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.17
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
Device type : Removable vendor specific 7 unknown/no device
Version : 7
Response Format: 15
Capabilities : AENC TERMIOP RELADR WBUS32 WBUS16 SYNC LINKED CMDQUE
SOFTRESET
Vendor_info : '��������'
Identifikation : '����������������'
Revision : '����'
Device seems to be: unknown.
I know if i reboot the machine, the drive will be back on the bus, but i
would like to avoid that if possible. Any suggestions will be most
appreciated!!
Thanks!
Mark
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From: Walter Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: cdrw drive corrupted after using xcdroast
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 23:34:17 -0500
Mark Lybarger wrote:
> I know if i reboot the machine, the drive will be back on the bus, but i
> would like to avoid that if possible. Any suggestions will be most
> appreciated!!
This sometimes happens when you interupt the cd writing process, I've
had it happen a few times. Usually when I accidentally pick the wrong
speed to write (12x for CD-R's, but just 4x for the CD-RW's I have, if I
try to write at 12x to the CD-RW's I have the writer goes nuts..)
Perhaps there is a way to reset the bus, but it seems to me the drive is
usually other unresponsive until rebooted, or the drive quickly fills
the logs with error reporting trying to reset the bus. Perhaps it
eventually stops, but I usually reboot to stop it.
Perhaps I'll ask the cdrecord author if there is a way to fix this
problem.
--
Walter Francis
http://theblackmoor.net Powered by Red Hat Linux 7.0
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From: Mark Lybarger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cdrw drive corrupted after using xcdroast
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 05:06:51 GMT
Thanks for the Response. I eventually was forced into a reboot. I tried
to mount the drive with a data disk, and the system quickly locked up
and within a few seconds was rebooting. I don't suspect this to be a
problem on the cdrecord side, but that might be a good place to start.
To me this seems more like an issue with the ide-scsi module or one of
the others used (sg?). I've never had any issues like this when
reading/writing data, only when i've tried to do audio cd backups.
Walter Francis wrote:
>
> Mark Lybarger wrote:
>
> > I know if i reboot the machine, the drive will be back on the bus, but i
> > would like to avoid that if possible. Any suggestions will be most
> > appreciated!!
>
> This sometimes happens when you interupt the cd writing process, I've
> had it happen a few times. Usually when I accidentally pick the wrong
> speed to write (12x for CD-R's, but just 4x for the CD-RW's I have, if I
> try to write at 12x to the CD-RW's I have the writer goes nuts..)
>
> Perhaps there is a way to reset the bus, but it seems to me the drive is
> usually other unresponsive until rebooted, or the drive quickly fills
> the logs with error reporting trying to reset the bus. Perhaps it
> eventually stops, but I usually reboot to stop it.
>
> Perhaps I'll ask the cdrecord author if there is a way to fix this
> problem.
>
> --
> Walter Francis
> http://theblackmoor.net Powered by Red Hat Linux 7.0
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From: "NyQuist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Woes
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 05:54:20 -0000
Okey dokey.
Reinstall and do some different things
You only *need* three partitions.
One for /
One for Swap
And another /home or /usr/local (or anything really)
Make / you're largest; and also, 3 gig's each! - not even Windows is that
bloated; you can fit LM7.2 with everything installed from the disks in
around 2.5G. Partition the drives this way (if you just want linux) (on your
15G disk?)
____________________________________________________________
|
| S | /usr/local |
|
| W | or |
| /
| A | /home |
| 10G | P
| 4G |
|_____________________________________ |_128_|_________________|
If i were you though i'd cut the / partition to ~ 4G and /usr/local to 0.8G
(That's the most you'll need even if you're d/ling iso's all the time
(unless your box is for video editing)) and give bloated windows some more
room to breathe.
Don't use any other loader; LILO is the best; and don't install to the MBR;
it can severly compromise some systems; install to the first bit of /.
everything boot wise should work then.
To get the two nic's working, make sure they're both being seen; they will
prolly come up as eth0 and eth1. More info needed here. What have you got
working (NIC-wise) so far?
"Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:mUxu6.604$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Okay. I broke down, went and bought Linux Mandrake 7.2 Power Pack Deluxe.
> Now, here are the following problems so I am here to pick your brains
again
> <G>
>
> 1st- I have 2 NIC's on my system. One for DSL, one for LAN. How can I tell
> them apart in Linux? I can't get to the internet w/out at least the DSL
one.
> (Netgear NIC for DSL and Linksys FA310 for LAN)
>
> 2nd- I am using PQBoot for the dual boot. However, it's not booting Linux.
> It stalls out on the display of "L I " I have the MBR (for Linux)
installed
> on the correct drive listed /dev/hdg1
> I have 6 partitions total for this disk, all for Linux. Does this sound
> right? I can boot into Linux, but I have to use a boot disk.
> (Partitioned as "/", "swap", "/usr", "/home", "/var", "/usr/local" each
with
> 3GB each, except swap.)
>
> Man, I will say this much... what a helluva different look and feel. Now
all
> I have to do is figure out what these other 2 disks are that weren't used
in
> the install, and figure out how to use the programs that were installed
<G>
>
> Will check back in later.
>
> Thanks for all the help so far.
>
>
> --
>
>
> Charles
>
>
> (Electrician's do it with *spark*!)
>
> ICQ# 42872537
>
>
>
>
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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 01:09:03 -0700
From: "<no_name> <<nospam>@" <"nospam.org>">
Subject: memtest86 not detecting faulty memory ?
Hi,
Ever since I added some memory to my system it has been
flaky and freezing up at random intervals.
I ran memtest86 v2.5 but couldn't find anything. Replacing
the memory chip fixed the flakiness, but memtest86 didn't
find anything wrong.
I noticed that v2.5 didn't have a user-settable memory refresh
rate. May that be the problem (tests are too "mild" on the
memory) ?
Does anyone have any ideas, maybe a different testing program ?
Thanks much,
Gabriel
PS. To send me email directly, please remove all uppercase characters
from my addres... Thanks.
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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:00:29 +0800
From: Elwyn Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Advantech RS485 serial driver
Hi,
I'm trying to configure an Advantech PCI-1601A serial card. It has 2
serial ports. Its UART is an Oxford semiconductor PCI954 which is 16C950
compatable.
I've downloaded the latest serial driver (version 5.05) from sourceforge
and the latest version of setserial. The card has been correctly
configured using setserial which sets the UART to a 16950/954, and loads
correctly on boot.
A program I've written can send data out but cannot receive any input.
There are some jumper switches on the serial card which adjust for flow
control. They have 2 settings: "on" and "auto". The only way I can send
data is by setting the switch to "on" but this means the card is only
set for sending data out but not receiving in data.
The driver that came with the card works under NT and works fine when
the switches are set to "auto".
Are there any suggestions as to what to do now or where to look for
2-way data flow?
Thanks in advance,
Elwyn Campbell
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