Linux-Hardware Digest #542, Volume #14 Thu, 29 Mar 01 03:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: Suse vs RH/Mandrake ? (or what's so great about 7.2) (Julian Bordas)
Problem: Windows recognizes linux hard drive as floppy (Ari David Greenberg)
Re: PC Cases (was: Goin Shoppin) (Julian Bordas)
Video card recommendations PLS !! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video? (brian barrington)
Re: USR 56k Sportster external faxmodem (Dranthony)
Re: Goin Shoppin ("Jacob Williams")
Re: Setting ISA modem in Red Hat 7 (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Re: SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio (Kovacs Sandor)
Re: Newbie ~ cardbus networking question ("TJ")
Highpoint Technology Inc HPT366 Ultra DMA 66 Controller (John Murray)
Re: Highpoint Technology Inc HPT366 Ultra DMA 66 Controller (Nader)
Re: SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio (Harri Haataja)
Re: Modem problems with RH Linux 7 (Viet Hoang)
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From: Julian Bordas <[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: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 14:15:22 +1000
John Hong wrote:
> They have a publically downloadable version of SuSE 7.1 *right
> now*. The thing is, you can not actually install it on your machine. It
> will only run from a bootable CDROM and no more. To actually get SuSE 7.1
> you have to purchase either the Personal or Professional edition.
Hmm... I downloaded it and installed it and it runs!!
--
Julian Bordas
Williamstown, Victoria, Australia.
To send email remove the full stop and the
country in which I live, from my email address.
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From: Ari David Greenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem: Windows recognizes linux hard drive as floppy
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 20:15:16 -0800
I am running Windows 98 and Redhat 7.0 dual-boot on a Pentium-II 233 MHz.
My primary master hard drive contains windows and my primary slave
contains linux. I think LILO is also on the slave because when I
disconnect the slave from my system, the computer freezes on startup just
after the first "L" of "LILO" has appeared onscreen.
My problem is that Windows recognizes the slave as a floppy disk. The
slave is formatted as a linux hard drive, but it shows up in Windows as
the A drive. (My real floppy drive is the D drive).
Any attempt to access the A drive causes the computer to freeze. Simply
right or left clicking on the A drive logo also causes the computer to
freeze.
I do not know how to get my computer to startup unless both hard drives
are connected. I don't care if Windows is unable to recognize the linux
drive, but it does seem concerning to have this fake floppy around.
Any ideas what I can do about this? Please e-mail.
Thanks,
-Ari
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From: Julian Bordas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: PC Cases (was: Goin Shoppin)
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 14:25:23 +1000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Nose Who Knows)
wrote:
>
>The bane of my life in assembling computers seems to be a dearth of
>decent PC cases. Who makes good ones? Who sells them? Where the heck
>do people get them from?
>
>Especially interested in information on where to get them from in
>Melbourne, Australia.
>
You can get a very good tower case from the computer shop on the corner
of Russell St and Little Lonsdale St in the city. Costs $65.00 with a
power supply. The side panels are removable, the mother board sub
assembly is removable and the power supply has an output as well as an
input.
Julian Bordas
Williamstown, Victoria, Australia.
To send email remove the full stop and the
country in which I live, from my email address.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Video card recommendations PLS !!
Reply-To: group
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 04:37:23 GMT
Hi folks
Just wondering what suggestions people may have for the video card for
a new linux box.
Probably be running with an AMD 1000 on an ASUS A7V133 board (maybe
the A7M266)
I've seen mention of GeForce2 MX (which doesn't mean much to me)
Researching that on the www I can't make any sense of it. Seems
everybody makes one.
So what do YOU recommend?
Cello
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From: brian barrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video?
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 04:20:51 GMT
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 02:59:45 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith R.
Williams) wrote:
<snip>
I've been using a BlackBox 4pt ServSwitch Jr. at work for over a year
now and I will NEVER part with it. No ghosting at all even at
1600x1280. I have had it lock up my mouse about 5 times and each time
I just clicked a key command and it was back. I HIGHLY recommend their
products but as you said the price is not for the faint of heart. Even
with the first time buyers discount you will be paying well over $400
for the 4pt WITH cables. That is what everyone forgets about KVM
switches: The cables are also expensive as hell!
Good luck and hope you can get your employer to foot the bill! :)
Brian
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From: Dranthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: USR 56k Sportster external faxmodem
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 04:44:25 GMT
Thanks for the input. The AC adapter I am using is kinda old so i am
going to pick up a new one and give it a try. The 3com website was not
helpful at all. Thanks again
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From: "Jacob Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Goin Shoppin
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 15:58:02 +1000
The highpoint chipset used for the raid board is currently not supported in
Linux. It can be made to run in non-Raid mode in linux and you can await
the raid compatibility if you desire it...
google search for "HPT370 Linux" should point you to the info.. HPT370 is
the chipset used for the Raid....
"KW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:Ekow6.2033$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I agree on the Abit Mobo, I got my KT7A w/ tbird 900 and it was a snap to
> clock up to 1Ghz @ 133 on the bus (whats the point of 133 memory on a
> 100mhz bus?) I've had no problems with speed, overheating (not even
> close), or compiling. I do not know how well Linux support the KT7A-Raid
> but for $20 more you can get that instead. I'd read up on the Highpoint
> Controller used on that Mobo before picking the raid board over the
> standard KT7A.
>
> I HIGHLY recommend an AMD approved cooling fan, even at
> it's standard clock rate, a thunderbird will fry in a matter of seconds
> with bad/no cooling mechanism.
>
> I also recommend name brand memory.... cheap stuff doesn't cut the
> cake....
>
> The cost for my abit board and processor was well below the $300 mark but
> I paid for it in service (first board was DOA and despite being A+
> certified for 3 years, not to mention the rest of my tech background, I
> had to ship all the way to CA and wait 3 weeks to get it back, no cross
> ship allowed :( )
>
> --
> KW
>
>
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "olliecat"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html>
> > <tt>I'm going to finally break down and build a new box. I've
> > never done this before but I think it will be a good learning
> > experience. What I'm not so sure of is what components will be
> > best suited to run Linux so I wanted to open it up to the Linux
> > community for recommendations. I'm thinking this might be a common
> > question so pointers to descriptive docs would be much appreciated as
> > well as your own personal advice.</tt><tt></tt> <p><tt>I would like to
> > get a motherboard/processor that will allow me some growing room.
> > I don't want something that will become technically obsolete in two
> > years. I heard that AMD might be a good choice here, processor
> > wise anyway. Not so sure about the motherboard. I have IDE
> > drives now and haven't had a problem but have been informed that for
> > drives and other peripherals SCSI is the way to go, which seems
> > reasonable.</tt><tt></tt> <p><tt>I want a nice video card (that plays
> > nice with XFree86) and a nice sound card. I like to play
> > games. I really like the space savings of the newer flat screen
> > monitors but understand they might not have as good resolution as the
> > standard CRT. I want a nice cd burner, external would be
> > preferable, an internal DVD/CD player, as well as a floppy drive.
> > Oodles of (cheap but good) memory is important, and nice fast hard
> > drive(s) with as much room as possible. I would also like an
> > external tape drive to perform backups on. I want to try and do
> > all of this for under $2000. The machine, when complete, will be
> > used as a developer workstation.</tt><tt></tt>
> > <p><tt>Thanks for any advice.</tt></html>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Subject: Re: Setting ISA modem in Red Hat 7
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 05:47:37 GMT
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > PB> That's not a modem. See www.linmodems.org for more explanations.
>
> > What is it then?
>
> "A soundcard" would be a fair approximation at an answer.
That's stretching it.
> It's an interface to a telephone line
That's much closer.
> that contains neither a uart, nor a hayes command interpreter,
> not a digital signal processor (as I recall - check!).
In other words, it doesn't have the necessary stuff to modulate
and demodulate phone signals to and from data, so it's not a
modulator/demodulator ("modem" for short) by definition. This
is an oversimplification, but it will do for our purposes here.
Anybody can splice a couple of cables together and create an
adaptor that will let you plug a phone line into a serial port.
For that matter, adaptors exist (we use them at work with DEC
hardware) that on a physical level will let you plug a phone
line into an MMJ port and plug the MMJ modular jack on the other
end of that into another adaptor that plugs into a serial port
(or an RJ45 or a parallel port for that matter). Is that a
modem, because it lets you plug a phone cord into your PC?
No. The important thing about a modem is not that it lets
you plug a phone line into your computer. The important
thing about a modem is what it can *do* with that phone
line -- i.e., the signal processing it performs. Software
modems don't have hardware to do that signal processing;
they have *software* that does it (which usually only
runs under certain OSes). In these cases, the modem
isn't the physical hardware; it *relies* on that, sure,
but the modem itself is in the software.
Hence the term "software modem". That's literally what
they are -- software that functions as a modem (with
the help of special supplementary hardware). They're
cheaper because software is cheaper to mass produce
than hardware. I don't need to elaborate their various
shortcomings, since that's been done repeatedly on
usenet and elsewhere.
- jonadab
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From: Kovacs Sandor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 07:49:39 +0200
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Just got a new Dell Dimension 4100 for my office, first thing I did was
> repartition the disk and install Linux. Trouble is I am having no luck
It is good !
> setting up the integrated "SoundMAX" audio that comes with this
> machine. There is no driver of info on the Dell web site, yet. Can
> anyone help me on this?
The SoundMAX == i815 integrated audio device.
Sanyi
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From: "TJ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie ~ cardbus networking question
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 06:33:43 GMT
Ok,
When I type the cardctl ident command I get :
Socket 0:
no product availible
Socket 1:
Product Info: "3Com Corporation", "3CXFEM656C-LAN", "LAN", "1"
manfid : 0x0102, 0x6564
function: 6 (network)
Now what? Does this indicate the drivers are installed?
I noticed when the system boots as it tries to load the PCMCIA drivers I get
the error:
cs: could not allocate 512 IO for cardbus socket 1
3c575_cb: requestIO: out of resources
I suspect that because it says 3c575_cb and not somthing like 3c656_cb is
the cause of the error.
TJ
"Dances With Crows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3ac294ca$0$42882$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:32:47 GMT, TJ staggered into the Black Sun and
said:
> >I had to boot my notebook in Win 2000 (a fine OS in my book) to write
this
> >message.
>
> We're sorry.
>
> >As stated I am running Linux on a notebook, my network connection is via
a
> >3Com Cardbus (3CXFEM656C) I can not seem to find drivers for this card
(they
> >may not exist, not in the HCL) and should I find the drivers I do not
> >understand how to install them in Linux.
>
> PCMCIA cards are supported via the pcmcia-cs package. Did you install
> that from the DeadRat CD? Do that first, do an "/etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia
> start" , and then insert the card. You should hear two high beeps, and
> then "cardctl ident" should return useful information.
>
> If that didn't work, then it's time to go get the latest pcmcia-cs
> package. http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcmcia-cs/ IIRC, or just
> GOogle for it. It's a tarball, so just do the standard tarball thing.
> That's tar xvzf PACKAGE.tar.gz ; cd PACKAGE ; less README INSTALL FAQ ;
> ./configure ; make ; su -c "make install" [[enter root password]] .
>
> If that still didn't work, the pcmcia-cs main site has a web forum, a
> mailing list, and a stack of documentation. Make use of these
> resources.
>
> >I am using shared network access through a router if that makes any
> >difference.
>
> Nope. PCMCIA net cards are configured just like regular net cards once
> their modules have been loaded. The standard way to do things is to
> edit /etc/pcmcia/network.opts and set up "schemes" so that if you use
> the machine in 2 or more places with different network settings, you can
> switch between them with "cardctl scheme HOME" and "cardctl scheme WORK"
> and "cardctl scheme FOO"....
>
> --
> 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: John Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Highpoint Technology Inc HPT366 Ultra DMA 66 Controller
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 16:09:23 +0930
G'day,
I am interestedin installing Mandrake 7.2 onto my system. I
have the following onboard.
cyrix 133
48 mg
16mb 3dfx Voodoo Banshee
17 Gb Fujitsu hd
8Gb Seagate hd
Highpoint Technology Inc HPT366 Ultra DMA 66 PCI Controller Card
and various other bits
My motherboard has primary and secondary IDE ports not
utilised with the PCI Highpoint Technology Inc HPT366 Ultra DMA 66
Controller card using the last PCI slot. I required this card as the
m/board did not recognise the full 17gb fujitsu. Both drives are on
the ports on the pci card.
I tried about 8 months ago to put redhat 6.2? on but I had no
end of trouble with the controller card not being recognised. I
attempted to find out patches / workarounds but to no effect. Being a
newbie regarding linux I gave up.
I understand that mandrake has support for this card built in.
Is this correct? Am I likely to suffer any other problems? As
regarding this card will this be picked up AND setup as part of the
normal installation? I don't wish to go into hacking the code yet
being a linux novice.
TIA
Cheers
John Murray
South Australia
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From: Nader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Highpoint Technology Inc HPT366 Ultra DMA 66 Controller
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 22:54:29 -0800
If the kernel doesn't support HPT366 (e.g., 2.2.x), then you'll have to
pass ide parameters to the kernel during installation. See this web site
for more info and details on how to determine the parameters and how to
pass them: http://netllama.ipfox.com/ - select the ULTRA-66 Step by Step
guide. After you get your system running and stable, you can put the
parameters in LILO so you don't have to type them each time you boot.
Alternatively, you can upgrade to the 2.4.2 kernel which can be
configured to support HPT366 directly.
Hope this helps!!
John Murray wrote:
> G'day,
> I am interestedin installing Mandrake 7.2 onto my system. I
> have the following onboard.
>
> cyrix 133
> 48 mg
> 16mb 3dfx Voodoo Banshee
> 17 Gb Fujitsu hd
> 8Gb Seagate hd
> Highpoint Technology Inc HPT366 Ultra DMA 66 PCI Controller Card
> and various other bits
>
> My motherboard has primary and secondary IDE ports not
> utilised with the PCI Highpoint Technology Inc HPT366 Ultra DMA 66
> Controller card using the last PCI slot. I required this card as the
> m/board did not recognise the full 17gb fujitsu. Both drives are on
> the ports on the pci card.
>
> TIA
>
> Cheers
>
> John Murray
> South Australia
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harri Haataja)
Subject: Re: SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 07:18:01 GMT
Kovacs Sandor wrote:
>
>
>On Tue, 6 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Just got a new Dell Dimension 4100 for my office, first thing I did was
>> repartition the disk and install Linux. Trouble is I am having no luck
>> setting up the integrated "SoundMAX" audio that comes with this
>> machine. There is no driver of info on the Dell web site, yet. Can
>> anyone help me on this?
>The SoundMAX == i815 integrated audio device.
Meaning: Use i810 and AC97 drivers in recent kernels.
--
Funk, Funking n.
A shrinking back through fear. Colloq. ``The horrid panic,
or funk (as the men of Eton call it).'' --De Quincey.
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From: Viet Hoang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem problems with RH Linux 7
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 07:30:04 -0000
Hi Matt,
Thank u for being responsive to my questions. I should have replied u back
in the other mail too, but as u directed, i should post everything here.
Well, i didn't post at first just because i didn't have a CNET account...
Now, back to the point. I am a beginner in this Linux world, so i don't
know exactly what problems i have faced while installing the modem. I
think i should give u some of the info belows:
-When i was in the process given from
http://www.walbran.org/sean/linux/stodolsk/ , some of the commands were
not executed, it said "unknown command" (as i remember, the "lspci -v").
So i didn't really go thru all of the steps in the 1st_read file. But as
it says, we can skip some of those steps, and i assumed i had no problems
with the kernel or headers something, i went to the main points, and got
some outcomes, which were not matched those stated in the readme file
100%. I will go back and print out all of those error messages soon here.
-About the kernel version, mine is 2.2.16-22, so i don't really know if
this one matches the ltmodem-5.78e.tar.gz ?
-About the external modem, let me go check it with ur direction and i'll
get back to u.
Again, thanks a lot for ur help.
Viet
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Dances With Crows wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 01:30:13 -0000, Viet Hoang staggered into the Black
> Sun and said:
> >I have a Zoom PCI 56K V.90 recognized in Windows 2000 Advanced Server
as a
> >Lucent Win Modem. I was trying to install it in RH Linux. Following the
> >guidelines from this forum, i went thru some steps but couldn't let it
go.
> >I thought i had some problems with the kernel version. Mine is 2.2.16
> >Should i change the kernel?
>
> Did you follow the directions I sent you in E-mail? Did you write down
> the error messages you received upon running the "ltinst" script and post
> them to this newsgroup? Kernel version doesn't matter with the Linmodem
> driver at http://www.walbran.org/sean/linux/stodolsk/ as long as it's >
> 2.2.12, and the tarball even includes an RPM for RedHat systems!
>
> Really, if you couldn't get it to work, I think the driver writers would
> like to know about it. The power of Usenet/the Net in general is that
> many people can learn from one person's experiences... don't
> short-circuit the power here.
>
> >One more thing, i was upset about the internal Lucent, so i bought a US
> >Robotics one, external of course. It was detected by Linux upon boot-
up,
> >then i went to KPPP to query, created a connection, dialed, and got
> >connected. But then, nothing happens. I don't see any sign
of "Connection"
> >like the little one in the right hand side down corner or watever in
> >Windows. Then i open Nescape, and it returned the error "hostname not
> >found". I thought i got connected, and that should be complete, but...
> >Anyone could give me a hand on this?
>
> Your PPP dialer hasn't picked up the DNS numbers the peer has sent.
> kppp or GNOME's PPP dialer or whatever you're using should have an
> option somewhere that says "Use peer DNS". Set this to YES. Or find
> out the DNS numbers you should use (your ISP will tell you if you don't
> know already, or can't find them in Doze) and put those into
> /etc/resolv.conf like so:
>
> search
> nameserver 111.222.333.444
> nameserver 555.666.777.888
>
> HTH, search comp.os.linux.networking with http://groups.google.com/ if
> you have further questions about PPP under Linux!
>
> --
> 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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