Linux-Hardware Digest #530, Volume #14 Mon, 26 Mar 01 20:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: Dlink DFE 530+ RH7.0 2.4.2 ("Ian Ellis")
Re: SCSI drive keeps crapping out, but restarts ok... (Dan Smith)
Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video? ("Steve Wolfe")
Modem (Andrew)
Re: Linux Storage Area Network solutions (Paul Repacholi)
My cdrom drive doesn't boot anymore : PLEASE HELP (Ken Laird)
Re: How do I change the IRQ for my modem (Matan Ziv-Av)
Re: Modem ("D F")
Linux NetworX ("Rob Simac")
Re: Suse vs RH/Mandrake ? (or what's so great about 7.2) ("Mart van de Wege")
Re: My cdrom drive doesn't boot anymore : PLEASE HELP ("Randy")
I can't get WinTV and RedHat7.1 to work (Slate)
Re: Suse vs RH/Mandrake ? (or what's so great about 7.2) (Darin Johnson)
Re: I can't get WinTV and RedHat7.1 to work (Daniel James)
Re: Suse vs RH/Mandrake ? (or what's so great about 7.2) (Chad Everett)
Re: Suse vs RH/Mandrake ? (or what's so great about 7.2) (Peter
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6hlmann?=)
Re: cd writer hp 9110c (Andrey Vlassov)
Re: I can't get WinTV and RedHat7.1 to work ("rick")
motherboard Abit VP6 / Dual CPU PIII ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: does anyone have a driver for the Hercules 3D Prophet II MX card? (Karthik)
Re: Newbie with Sound Card Problem - Does not last! (Todd Kaiser)
Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video? (Steve Smith)
need printserver reccomendation (bluto)
Best modem for RH 7.0 ("Blaine Mincey")
Re: Updates (newbie error) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Ensoniq 1370 audio volume is too low ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Ian Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Dlink DFE 530+ RH7.0 2.4.2
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 20:16:02 +0100
I have two D-Link 530 cards (one's a 530TX) - the older card uses a Tulip
driver, the other (the 530TX) uses a Via Rhine driver (I had to get the
driver for this from the net, as the via-rhine module supplied with RH6.2
didn't support the card).
Ian
"Andrey Vlassov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> you need rtl8139 driver which you will find under networking during
> configuration of kernel. RedHat found the card during installation by
> itself.
>
> Andrey
>
> root wrote:
> >
> > Having problems getting this nic to work. I hear that the correct
> > driver is 8139too w/2.4.2 but it requires modifications. What
> > modifications are needed and any suggestions to get me beyond this
> > point. I think Ive tried everything. This is a 2nd nic on this box.
> > The 1st is 3c905 (loaded easily) I have updated gcc.rpm. Searchimg
> > through the newsgroups I see people have experienced successful installs
> > of this nic so I am not giving up. (Yet) TIA
>
> -
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From: Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI drive keeps crapping out, but restarts ok...
Date: 26 Mar 2001 14:39:44 -0500
Well, I know the drive gets dman hot... I think it is pretty well
ventilated, but I can put a fan on it to check it. Heat would
seriously throw it offline like that and cause it to make that noise?
Thanks...
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video?
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 13:02:43 -0700
> >> If your PS/2 keyboard or mouse is connected straight to the system,
then
> >> disconnecting either one will probably cause a system freeze.
> >
> > Interesting. I do it all the time, never had a problem. (knock on
wood)
>
> Belkin make a "smart" switchbox with builtin circuitry for safely
switching
> video, keyboard, and mouse between two (or more depending on the model you
> get) computers. The one I have is called Omnibox and it works just fine.
> You can switch via a keyboard sequence or with a front panel button.
I mean that I yank out ps/2 keyboard/mice all of the time, and switch them
around. I used to think that it would cause a problem, but about 6 years
ago, I watched a friend do it, and asked him about it. He said that he
never had a problem. Now, I've been doing it for six years, and I've never
had a problem, either. if I've just been lucky, I hope it keeps up. : )
steve
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From: Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 15:07:28 -0800
No external modem is a winmodem, right? So every brand of external
modem should have its own processor
and work with Linux (red hat 7.0).
Thanks in advance.
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Subject: Re: Linux Storage Area Network solutions
From: Paul Repacholi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 27 Mar 2001 04:06:31 +0800
"Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have an astronomy application that could make great use of a fibre
> channel Storage Area Network (SAN) solution. My CCD camera can
> generate 25 MBytes/sec of image data during the night. One node on
> a cluster would collect the images and write them to disk. The SAN
> would allow other nodes to pull the images off the disk and start
> processing them at a slower than real-time rate. Another task would
> also start backing the data up to a DLT tape stack.
> The network would consist of a RAID array, a DLT tape stack, a
> switcher, and 6 CPU nodes. So far the web sites I've run across for
> SAN solutions address Windows or proprietary Unix systems. Does
> anybody here know of a somebody who gives good Linux solutions and
> support?
How do you intend to syncronize the files systems? Dismount and
mount on another system? How big is your planned RAID array?
( and what is the app? That a healthy CCD! )
Plus *sustaining* 25MB/sec will be fun on any unix system!
--
Paul Repacholi 1 Crescent Rd.,
+61 (08) 9257-1001 Kalamunda.
West Australia 6076
Raw, Cooked or Well-done, it's all half baked.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Laird)
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Subject: My cdrom drive doesn't boot anymore : PLEASE HELP
Date: 26 Mar 2001 20:20:00 GMT
My cdrom drive doesn't boot anymore.Any idea where the problem might be ?
I tried a few bootable cd RH7,Mandrake,Caldera,W95,W98 , but it says
boot failure and goes on to the hard disk.
I enabled booting first cdrom in the bios.
Put it nearly in every position (master,slave,primary,secondary) but to
no avail.
A week ago it booted alright.But there was something odd, it booted
only on RH or Mandrake ?!? Now it can't boot even on those.
Ken Laird
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matan Ziv-Av)
Subject: Re: How do I change the IRQ for my modem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 18:32:05 GMT
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 02:18:06 -0500,
Blaine Mincey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am having a problem with my modem. I am unable to get my modem to work
> correctly because it appears I am having some configurations problems. I am
> currently running RH 7.0 , kernel 2.2.16-22. I recently installed a US
> Robotics 56K Performance Pro modem PCI, model 3CP5610A. When I perform
The problem is probably not irq, since there is (almost) no problem with
PCI devices sharing irq. The problem is that the serial driver of kernel 2.2
does not support PCI serial ports. Either upgrade to kernel 2.4, or go to
http://serial.sourceforge.net and follow the instructions.
--
Matan Ziv-Av. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "D F" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 15:35:40 -0500
Andrew wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>No external modem is a winmodem, right? So every brand of
external
>modem should have its own processor
>and work with Linux (red hat 7.0).
>
>Thanks in advance.
No external SERIAL modem is a Winmodem. I've seen lots of
external USB Winmodems...
Dave Fluri North Bay, Ontario Canada
(The opinions herein are mine. I do not speak for my
employer unless I expressly indicate otherwise.)
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From: "Rob Simac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux NetworX
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 13:40:23 -0800
Hello all,
I'm looking for anyone's experiences with a company named, "Linux NetworX".
They are a maker of Linux Beowulf Cluster Systems. Any and all comments are
welcome, good, bad, or indifferent. Thanks in advance for your comments.
Ciao,
Rob.
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hellish yawning maw of the abyss -- it's pretty damn dark, so give it a
few minutes for your eyes to adjust."
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From: "Mart van de Wege" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Suse vs RH/Mandrake ? (or what's so great about 7.2)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 00:08:35 +0200
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
In article <99j7co$73g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John Hong"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>I've heard great things about the new Suse distro., but I was told by
>>someone that I should use the same distro that I use at work. At work
>>we use Red Hat, at home I just setup Mandrake 7.1, but everyone says the
>>new Suse distro is good and also Mandrake 7.2 is good.
>
> In my opinion, if you are comparing between Red Hat/Mandrake to
> SuSE, stay with Red Hat/Mandrake. SuSE has recently been becoming more
> of a commercial distribution with little willingness to put out any
> GPL'ed versions of their version of Linux. The only ISO they have
> available for anyone to download is a live evaluation one, meaning, you
> boot into Linux from the CDROM, but you can't actually install it into
> your computer.
> That is not to say that it is a bad distribution, it is in fact
> quite good. However, Red Hat and Mandrake both still release GPL'ed
> versions of their distributions that one can install into their
> machines. If you are already familiar with Red Hat/Mandrake, then there
> is little reason to go with SuSE.
>
That's not *exactly* true. SuSE does include some non-GPL stuff in their
distro (most notably the YaST setup tools), but they are known and valued
contributors to Free Software, most notably when it comes to XFree86
(their CTO, Dirk Hoehndel, is a big name in the XFree86 project).
Things to dislike SuSE for: extremely KDE-centric (as KDE is a mostly
German project this is not surprising), weird filesystem layout (come on,
init files in /sbin?!) and an uncompatible rpm packaging style.
Of course, if you are European, and want a distro in your native
language, SuSE is the way to go, they even have a Dutch distro, which
given the number of Dutch speakers and the small Linux market is at least
nice, but quite surprising actually, as the potential Dutch Linux user
will be quite familiar with English anyway.
HTH
Mart
--
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From: "Randy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Subject: Re: My cdrom drive doesn't boot anymore : PLEASE HELP
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:20:39 -0500
You have RH7,Mandrake,Caldera,W95,W98 all on one machine!?
"Ken Laird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:99o89g$nvl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> My cdrom drive doesn't boot anymore.Any idea where the problem might be ?
> I tried a few bootable cd RH7,Mandrake,Caldera,W95,W98 , but it says
> boot failure and goes on to the hard disk.
> I enabled booting first cdrom in the bios.
> Put it nearly in every position (master,slave,primary,secondary) but to
> no avail.
> A week ago it booted alright.But there was something odd, it booted
> only on RH or Mandrake ?!? Now it can't boot even on those.
>
> Ken Laird
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Slate)
Subject: I can't get WinTV and RedHat7.1 to work
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 22:24:29 GMT
Hi,
Can anyone help? I can't get WinTV "GO" to work with RedHat 7.1
I did have it working on 6.2 and 7.0 .
I'm using Xawtv 3.30. The error I'm getting is : Can't open /dev/video
has anyone seen this?
Thanks
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.allwise.net
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Suse vs RH/Mandrake ? (or what's so great about 7.2)
From: Darin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 22:57:07 GMT
"Mart van de Wege" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Things to dislike SuSE for: extremely KDE-centric (as KDE is a mostly
> German project this is not surprising),
This is a plus, when compared to the GNOME-centric distributions :-)
> weird filesystem layout (come on,
> init files in /sbin?!)
Hmm, I don't recall this in 7.1. The layout was different from
RedHat and RedHat clones, but not unusual or confusing. Init files
could be found under the /etc hierarchy (perhaps via links?).
> and an uncompatible rpm packaging style.
Didn't seem that incompatible. The thing some people disliked was
not using the RedHat package categories and hierarchies. But such
was available in SuSE 7.1.
Plusses to SuSE: Better KDE support; easier installation; more
packages; many system configuration options put into a single file and
a tool to modify; lots of good admin and configuration tools, which
are easy to find in the GUI, as compared to RedHat.
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel James)
Subject: Re: I can't get WinTV and RedHat7.1 to work
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:05:24 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Slate) writes:
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone help? I can't get WinTV "GO" to work with RedHat 7.1
> I did have it working on 6.2 and 7.0 .
> I'm using Xawtv 3.30. The error I'm getting is : Can't open /dev/video
> has anyone seen this?
>
> Thanks
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.allwise.net
>
Do you have a /dev/video ?
maybe you need to create a symbolic link to /dev/video0
ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video
are the /dev/video0 thru /dev/video3 writable by the user you're trying
to start xawtv with?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chad Everett)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Suse vs RH/Mandrake ? (or what's so great about 7.2)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 23:05:38 GMT
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 22:57:07 GMT, Darin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"Mart van de Wege" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> weird filesystem layout (come on,
>> init files in /sbin?!)
>
>Hmm, I don't recall this in 7.1. The layout was different from
>RedHat and RedHat clones, but not unusual or confusing. Init files
>could be found under the /etc hierarchy (perhaps via links?).
Nope. In SuSE 7.1 all init scripts are in /etc/init.d and turned
on or off and configured in /etc/rc.config. Don't see any init
scripts in /sbin on my SuSE 7.1
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From: Peter =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6hlmann?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Suse vs RH/Mandrake ? (or what's so great about 7.2)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 00:42:42 +0200
Mart van de Wege wrote:
> Things to dislike SuSE for: extremely KDE-centric (as KDE is a
> mostly German project this is not surprising), weird filesystem layout
> (come on, init files in /sbin?!)
No longer true with 7.1.
Peter
--
Windows is just the instable version of Linux for users who are too
dumb to handle the real thing.
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From: Andrey Vlassov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: cd writer hp 9110c
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 23:16:49 GMT
Did you enabled "generic SCSI devices" in kernel config?
Andrey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> linux see my cdwriter hp 9110c as cdrom but i don't know how it could be
> seen as cdwriter. i've scsi support ableted on my kernel, but th program
> for burn cd don't find my cdwriter... why ? i hope someone could help me
>
> --
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From: "rick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I can't get WinTV and RedHat7.1 to work
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 23:31:04 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Daniel
James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Slate) writes:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can anyone help? I can't get WinTV "GO" to work with RedHat 7.1 I did
>> have it working on 6.2 and 7.0 . I'm using Xawtv 3.30. The error I'm
>> getting is : Can't open /dev/video has anyone seen this?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> http://www.allwise.net
>>
>>
> Do you have a /dev/video ?
>
> maybe you need to create a symbolic link to /dev/video0 ln -s
> /dev/video0 /dev/video
>
> are the /dev/video0 thru /dev/video3 writable by the user you're trying
> to start xawtv with?
>
There is a script included in the tarball that will create the devices:
MAKEDEV.sh
Just run it as root.
And you might consider gettng the latest rev of xawtv, it's up to 3.4 I
think.
HTH,
rick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Subject: motherboard Abit VP6 / Dual CPU PIII
Date: 26 Mar 2001 23:45:23 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Does anybody succeed to install linux on PC based on motherboard Avit VP6 ?
Bugs, support for UDMA, USB ?
Thanks for your answers.
Eric
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From: Karthik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: does anyone have a driver for the Hercules 3D Prophet II MX card?
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:28:28 -0600
thanx
Markku Kolkka wrote:
> Karthik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > i recently bought a Hercules 3D Prophet II MX video card with a NVIDIA
> > GeForce2 for my computer.
> > could anyone tell me where i can obtain a driver for it? i cant seem to
> > get X started without the driver.
>
> http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html
>
> --
> Markku Kolkka
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Todd Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie with Sound Card Problem - Does not last!
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 00:14:21 GMT
David,
Did you get your Ensoniq board to work? I cannot -- I keep getting this message:
sb: dsp reset failed.
Do you know what this means? Does your brother-in-law?
Any help appreciated!
Todd
David Cutler wrote:
> I have exactly the same problem as you do. Yes, this Compaq BIOS truly sucks. My
> setup is exactly the same as yours, and I have tried using IRQ 5 and IRQ 7 and
> various other IRQs. But invariably, the problem I had was that when playing .wav or
> .mp3 files, they would play for a while and then cut out, and I would see the kernel
> message "Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error." This was very
> repeatable, but would happen after an unpredictable amount of time. It was very
> disappointing, and I finally gave up on trying to get my ESS 1888 onboard audio
> working under Linux. I wish I knew how to solve this, but I don't.
> But I could play CD's just fine, like you could.
> I'm building a new PC now, and plan to buy the Ensoniq PCI sound blaster card to go
> in it. My brother-in-law has used it with no problems.
>
> Michael Wyatt wrote:
>
> > OK, I have a ESS 1888 on board sound card @ io=0x220,330,388 dma=1,5 and
> > irq=5.
> > I've used SNDCONFIG to setup my modules.conf file. Here is what it looks
> > like:
> >
> > alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> > alias usb-controller usb-uhci
> > alias eth0 ne
> > options ne io=0x300 irq=10
> > alias sound-slot-0 sb
> > options sound dmabuf=1
> > alias midi opl3
> > options opl3 io=0x388
> > options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 mpu_io=0x330
> >
> > This one was setup using the ESS 1868 driver from sndconfig. I've tried
> > it with the sb driver and they look almost identical.
> >
> > In boot up the everything loads but I gets a IRQ confilct error. Here is
> > the dmesg
> >
> > SB audio dirver Copy.........
> > SB 3.01 detected ok (220)
> > ESS Chip 1888 detected
> > YM3812 and OPL3 driver Copy.....
> > SB: Interrupt test on IRQ 5 Failed - Probable IRQ Confilct.
> >
> > My BIOS is a Compaq wich sucks. But the only thing I have on 5 or 7 is
> > the LPT1 which is on 7.
> >
> > In sndconfig and X the sound starts than cuts out. It will last about a
> > half a second.
> >
> > When you exit X you'll see errors that are:
> >
> > Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error.
> > Couldn't load Sound File /****/****.wav as sample gnome/warning <---
> > This is after using the Gnome control panel to test wav's.
> >
> > I also found a few web sites about the 1888 sound card, but I'm so new
> > to Linux that I don't know what to do.
> > (Ex.
> > http://www.kernelnotes.org/v23patch/patch-2.3.4/linux_drivers_sound_sb_ess.c.html
> > )
> > Any information that could point me in the right direction would me most
> > appreciated.
> >
> > BTW: I have 2.2.16-22
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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:18:55 -0600
From: Steve Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video?
I'm using a switchbox from Linksys to use the same monitor, keyboard and
mouse with both my Sun Ultra 10 and my PC (running NT). I have a
keyboard/mouse converter box to allow using a PC keyboard and mouse with
the Sun. The Linksys box is parasitically powered, and works fine.
My only complaint is that the mouse loses it's middle button sometimes on
Sun reboot; I have to power up in a particular sequence to avoid this
problem. I start with both machines powered off, let the Sun come up,
then power the PC on.
Steve Smith
"B.Y." wrote:
> Dear People:
>
> I have several machines and a shortage of space for keyboard,
> mice and so on. I would also like to use the same monitor for more
> than one machine. Can I use the same set for both machines through a
> switch-box that I see sold in computer stores, one that has mice/KB/
> video forking switches? My concern is that while I understand video
> connectors to be relatively benign as far as being unplugged "hot" is
> concerned, I have heard that hot-unplugging PS/2 peripherals can and
> have been known to cause catastrophic failures. Note that this is a
> mechanical switch, not an electronic one ...
>
> -- B.Y.
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From: bluto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: need printserver reccomendation
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 18:58:49 GMT
We have a small network of 6 computers
originally we had 2 printers attached to a 7th win98 pc
that was only used as a print server..
Recently we come upon an Intel Netport Express XL print server
which replaced the win98 pc.. However the XL still had to be connected
to a pc with netBIOS: qouted from Intel's page
"The XL requires either a Novell server,
or NetBIOS station, even if all printing
will be via TCP/IP or AppleTalk."
WE are looking for reccomendatins of a good stand alone printserver..
Or can the XL be modified to be used this way??
server = linux SuSe 7.1
pc= win98
Thank you
Tim
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From: "Blaine Mincey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Best modem for RH 7.0
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 19:16:06 -0500
Hi. Having so much trouble trying to get my US
Robotics 56K Performance Pro modem PCI, model 3CP5610A I have decided to
give up and find out from the group what modem I should purchase. I want
one that I can get up and running very easily. I would love to be able to
plug it in and set a symbolic link to /dev/modem etc...
So, which is the best and easiest modem to get up and going for RH 7.0 ,
kernel 2.2.16-22??
Thanks!!
Blaine Mincey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Updates (newbie error)
Date: 26 Mar 2001 21:41:55 GMT
In article <zl5v6.913$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Charles
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>While in "root" mode, I was attempting to update the system. I had selected
>(probably like a moron) all the updates. 137 updates or something close.
>Anyway, I downloaded them, however, there was an error with one of the
>installs. When I hit Cancel, the install stopped. However, I can't seem to
>get the list back up. When I go back to the update program, nothing is
>listed. It connects, I can see the mirror lists (when I update mirrors) and
>it shows the "Development Updates" when selected.
>
>Is there a log file, or something similiar, that I need to delete to
>activate the list again?
>
>Thanks.
What distribution do you use? What version? In any case this is an install,
not a hardware question. Try an appropriate group, such as
com.os.linux.install or comp.os.linux.misc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Ensoniq 1370 audio volume is too low
Date: 26 Mar 2001 21:46:41 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Cutler
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I recently bought and installed an Ensoniq 1370 PCI card. I am running
>SuSE 6.4 Linux with a 2.4.2 kernel I installed myself. I am using the
>es1370 module, which loads correctly. The card uses IRQ 5. The problem
>is that the volume is very low, even with the mixer volume cranked all
>the way up to 100% (I used gmix, and cranked up every slider bar to
>100%). I have played mp3's in XMMS, with the application volume cranked
>up to 100%, and the volume is just too low. I have to put my ear up
>next to the speakers to hear it. I know my speakers work fine because
>they work fine with a Windoze machine. By the way, when the es1370
>module is loaded, running 'cat /dev/sndstat' returns nothing.
>I've also tried the proprietary OSS/Linux drivers, but the result is the
>same: very low volume, even with all volume controls turned all the way
>up.
>Any ideas on how to get the volume where it should be?
>
There are two audio output jacks on the card. Try the other one.
Also try it without gmix.
John Culleton
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