Linux-Hardware Digest #551, Volume #14 Sat, 31 Mar 01 06:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: Unexpected IO-APIC (Chris Rankin)
Re: BogoMips? ("Didier Lasne")
SMC EtherEZ IS recognized ("m.c.dooligan")
Re: Fun With Parallel Ports. ("green")
Re: Fun With Parallel Ports. ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Legato Networker, Linux & IMB tape libraries. (Will McClintock)
Re: Fun With Parallel Ports. ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
supprt of devices and drivers in the kernel (Mohammed Khalid Ansari)
How to boot off from New disk array ("tthave")
Re: Acer CD-R/RW CRW6206A won't write under RedHat7.0 with 2.4.2 kernel (Kresimir
Marzic)
Re: Recommend modem for Linux and Win2000? (Mack)
Re: supprt of devices and drivers in the kernel (Christian Garms)
Re: USB Cable Modem & Suse 7.1 ("Glitch")
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From: Chris Rankin <pacbell.net@{no.spam}rankinc>
Subject: Re: Unexpected IO-APIC
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 21:39:21 -0800
Guy Tel-Zur wrote:
>
> I have a SuperMicro model MB-PIIIDRE (dual PIII at 1GHz and 1GB RDRAM
> memory).
> The OS is Red Hat 7.0. This machine is not stable.
I have a SuperMicro PIIIDME and remember similar problems when I first
installed Linux upon it ...
> Linux version 2.2.16-22enterprise ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc
You are running a *VERY* old kernel - I strongly suggest installing
2.4.3. The APIC code has changed a lot since 2.2.16.
> version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 SMP Tue
> Aug 22 16:29:32 EDT 2000
> 127MB BIGMEM available.
> Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
> Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
> OEM ID: _AMI_ Product ID: 840_CARMEL__ APIC at: 0xFEE00000
Now there are people who would sound the Bell Of Doom for your
motherboard right here, because you have an i840 chipset. This chipset
has gained a sort of infamy in some circles, particularly with
SuperMicro motherboards. However, my PIIIDME runs quite happily for
several months without a reboot (and it isn't idle either) so don't
despair and give up without trying Linux 2.4.3 first.
>> IO APIC #2......
> .... register #00: 02000000
> ....... : physical APIC id: 02
> .... register #01: 00170020
> ....... : max redirection entries: 0017
> ....... : IO APIC version: 0020
> WARNING: unexpected IO-APIC, please mail
> to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And I *still* get these messages (except that they say
[EMAIL PROTECTED] these days)
> eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html
> eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.20.2.10 $ 2000/05/31 Modified by Andrey V.
> Savochkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others
> eth0: Intel PCI EtherExpress Pro100 82557, 00:30:48:10:86:76, I/O at
> 0xaf00, IRQ 16.
> Board assembly 000000-000, Physical connectors present: RJ45
> Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
> General self-test: passed.
> Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
> Internal registers self-test: passed.
> ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).
> Receiver lock-up workaround activated.
Interestingly enough, SuperMicro had completely stuffed up my Pro100's
EEPROM when I first received the board. Seeing the "Board assembly
000000-000" makes me wonder if yours is the same. I don't think its
particularly significant, but you might want to compare the contents of
your Ethernet chip's EEPROM with the contents of mine:
xxxx xxxx xxxx 031B 0000 0201 4701 0000
3899 1125 40A2 000D 8086 0064 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
002C 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 CHKS
The three groups of xxxx are where your MAC address goes, and the CHKS
is the checksum value.
Chris
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From: "Didier Lasne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: BogoMips?
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 07:53:33 +0200
It's really bogo...
My Athlon 1Ghz have 2011 bogomips !
"Genesis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric SIBERT) wrote in
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> >So, how many bogomips for your computer?
> >
> >
> >750 Mhz for me:)))
> >
> >
>
> Hey,
> I do not know about MHz as a unit for BogoMips but...
> Here is the BogoMips numbers for my different boxen
> 1200 MHz, 794 BogoMips
> 150 MHz, 118 BogoMips
> 850 MHz, won't compile (don't feel like hunting down the problem).
>
> From the 1200 MHz box to the 150 MHz box we have 8x more CPU cycles but
> only 6.7288x more BogoMips, what's up with that?
> Guess it truly is Bogo :-)
> Perhaps I should optimize my 1.2 GHz a little more ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Genesis
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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 21:12:43 -0800
From: "m.c.dooligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SMC EtherEZ IS recognized
OK.
I figured it out.
The SMC EtherEZ is the only isapnp card that I have, so you need to run
pnpdump to get the basic configuration, then turn it into
/etc/isapnp.conf. Then you can run "isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf" to get the
card formally recognized by the kernel. Then you load the smc-ultra
driver ( modprobe smc-ultra io=0x240 irq=11 on my system). Then of
course ifconfig and whatever else you need for the actual link.
Try man -a pnpdump and isapnp. It was the first time I've had to use
those programs.
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From: "green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.destroy.microsoft
Subject: Re: Fun With Parallel Ports.
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 17:27:19 +1000
no not lost qbasic it is called visual basic
the ability to easily write to p-ports.
"Bloody Viking" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9a3f1j$ev$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> green ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> : lost that ability in win 95.
>
> Allegedly, somewhere in a subdir of C:\WINDOWS you can find the QBASIC.EXE
but
> it's damn near an easter egg hidden in a dir for old DOS stuff.
>
> I have no idea if you can multitask a QBASIC proggie with Winblows 95. I
never
> tried it. But I do know that you can multitask all you want on Linux, only
so
> long as you are even minimally creative. At worst, put the proggie on
another
> virtual terminal.
>
> I only recently found out how to get a parallel port light show to work on
a
> PC, so my development should be quick on Linux. Previously, I had it
working
> on a Commodore 64.
>
> --
> FOOD FOR THOUGHT: 100 calories are used up in the course of a mile run.
> The USDA guidelines for dietary fibre is equal to one ounce of sawdust.
> The liver makes the vast majority of the cholesterol in your bloodstream.
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.destroy.microsoft
Subject: Re: Fun With Parallel Ports.
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 02:32:35 -0500
Bloody Viking wrote:
>
> Roy Culley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> : Why did you cross post this to comp.os.linux.advocacy and alt.destroy.microsoft?
>
> It illustrates a capability of Linux not found on Windows, namely, the ability
> to run a light show in the background as you use the desktop without having to
> code a TSR. Funny how you can run a light show (or other process control) in
> the background on a Commodore 64 but not a PC as the IRQ is documented with
> the Commodore as well as the memory location a break can be made to insert a
> TSR-like routine.
>
> With the PC, inserting a routine into the OS is impossible and coding of TSRs
> is not documented at all. With the Commodore 64, you could insert a machine
> code routine by poking it into otherwise unused memory then turn it on with a
> suitable poke. With Linux, one can make a daemon readily enough and the docs
> CAN be found, though I can't guarentee ease of finding.
>
> Fun question: How many people ever coded a machine code routine in DECIMAL
> instead of Assembler or even hex? In the programmer's reference book for the
> old Commodore 64, I converted all the opcodes listed into decimal and written
> them in the book so I could code machine routines.
>
It would have taken less effort to just write an assembler to do it for you,
so that you could just type in the code in 6502 assembly language, and
let the computer do the dull, repetitive work for you.
> --
> FOOD FOR THOUGHT: 100 calories are used up in the course of a mile run.
> The USDA guidelines for dietary fibre is equal to one ounce of sawdust.
> The liver makes the vast majority of the cholesterol in your bloodstream.
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shelala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakan,
Special Interest Sierra Club,
Anarchist Members of the ACLU
Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
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From: Will McClintock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Legato Networker, Linux & IMB tape libraries.
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 06:44:53 -0800
I am trying to use Legato's Networker 6.0.1 to backup files from an IBM
Netfinity 6000 to an IBM tape library (490/890 GB DLT 7000). The
installation of Networker went fine. However, when I try to label the
tapes (the first step in getting the program going after installation),
Networker has trouble ejecting, then automatically loading the next
tape. I've called Legato and they don't have an immediate fix, but they
suggested that they've heard about this problem before with IBM tape
libraries and linux.
Anyone have any ideas?
-Will
--
Will McClintock
Postdoctoral Researcher
PISCO
Marine Science Institute
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Work: (805) 893-5144
Home: (805) 563-3630
Fax: (805) 893-4724
Text messages (<100 chars): [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www: http://ucsb.piscoweb.org/~will/
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.destroy.microsoft
Subject: Re: Fun With Parallel Ports.
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 03:14:51 -0500
Roy Culley wrote:
>
> In article <9a0tcv$4kb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bloody Viking) writes:
>
> <snip>
>
> Why did you cross post this to comp.os.linux.advocacy and alt.destroy.microsoft?
For your personal annoyance.
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shelala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakan,
Special Interest Sierra Club,
Anarchist Members of the ACLU
Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
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From: Mohammed Khalid Ansari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: supprt of devices and drivers in the kernel
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 07:43:09 GMT
Hi,
Will someone answer the following queries...
Is the driver compiled in the kernel itseld or it is just the
support?
Is the support for a device in the kernel different for different
devices under the same category, like sound device is a category while
there are different cards available in the market, does it mean that
drivers for each card must be compiled in the kernel.
Is it true that one driver in the kernel supports many types of
the cards under the same category.
One main question...
What are the relations among device file, device driver and the
support (for the device in the kernel). How they fit in the Linux?
Please let me know as soon as possible.
--
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From: "tthave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to boot off from New disk array
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 09:53:32 GMT
Hi All
I am running Rehat6.2 with an 0+1 external RAID system. Now we bought a 1/2
Tbytes
of New storage. My problem is how could I make the New Storoge bootable & do
all the job. because I need to remove the old disk array compleately from
the system. Is there is any way with the minimam down time I could able to
do someting & boot off from the New disk array. Please help
Thanks in advance
Thave
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kresimir Marzic)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Acer CD-R/RW CRW6206A won't write under RedHat7.0 with 2.4.2 kernel
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 08:48:20 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Arvind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* on [Fri, 30 Mar 2001 14:40:09 -0800]:
> Hi,
> I have a cdwriter but i can't use it with cdrecord since it is an atapi
> drive. how do you use scsi emulation? thanks
> Arvind
>
Well, you have CD-Writing HOWTO.
( http://www.guug.de/~winni/linux/cdr/html/CD-Writing.html )
In short, include in your kernel scsi support:
Block devices --->
<M> Loopback device support
ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support --->
<M> Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support
<M> SCSI emulation support
SCSI support --->
<M> SCSI support
<M> SCSI disk support
(40) Maximum number of SCSI disks that can be loaded as modules
<M> SCSI CD-ROM support
[*] Enable vendor-specific extensions (for SCSI CDROM)
(2) Maximum number of CDROM devices that can be loaded as modules
<M> SCSI generic support
[*] Enable extra checks in new queueing code
[*] Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device
[*] Verbose SCSI error reporting (kernel size +=12K)
File systems --->
<M> ISO 9660 CDROM filesystem support
[*] Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions
Make your kernel (make dep; make clean; make bzImage; make modules;
make modules_install).
In /etc/modules.conf
(if your writer is hdc)
alias scd0 sr_mod
alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
options ide-cd ignore=hdc
In /etc/lilo.conf
append="hdb=ide-scsi"
That is it (it should work). Reboot. Try cdrecord -scanbus.
( ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/ )
--
Kresimir Marzic
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From: Mack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Recommend modem for Linux and Win2000?
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 12:07:47 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eric Binet wrote:
> "Garry Heaton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:9a05cv$k4q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Can anyone recommend a good modem which will work on Linux (Mandrake 7.2)
> > AND Windows 2000?
> >
> > Garry Heaton
>
> I have a AOpen 56k modem that works like a charm
Can you please specify the model. (Internal/Externel)
Thank
Mack
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From: Christian Garms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: supprt of devices and drivers in the kernel
Date: 31 Mar 2001 12:30:22 +0200
Mohammed Khalid Ansari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Will someone answer the following queries...
yes.
> Is the driver compiled in the kernel itseld or it is just the
> support?
It depends on your setup. If you install a distro like RedHat, the setup
will install a kernel with all drivers compiled as modules. Some people
don't like this for security reasons and choose to build an own Linux
kernel with only few drivers in the kernel.
The meaning of 'support' in this context is the driver for the specific
hardware. You can build it into the kernel or as a loadable module
(as far as you activate 'loadable kernel module support')
> there are different cards available in the market, does it mean that
> drivers for each card must be compiled in the kernel.
No, only for the hardware/cards you have or you want to support.
> Is it true that one driver in the kernel supports many types of
> the cards under the same category.
Yes, e.g. the NE2000 ISA clones operates all with the NE2000 driver.
> What are the relations among device file, device driver and the
> support (for the device in the kernel). How they fit in the Linux?
device driver == support
device file (you mean that /dev/... thingie) is the interface between the
kernel and the driver.
--
regards,
Christian mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Glitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB Cable Modem & Suse 7.1
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 03:20:57 -0500
In article <Gg8x6.15560$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "The Pict"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A beginnner asks for help
>
> I had my cable modem configured and working perfectly in Suse 7.1 using
> my internal ethernet card.
> I have now purchased a new USB ethernet adapter . A NexLink HU001 I did
> a format and complete re-installation of Suse 7.1 The installation sets
> up the connection and I can log on. However, when I reboot I cannot get
> a connection unless I enter dhcpcd eth1
> I am going to set up the original ethernet card to connect my two
> machines together later.
>
> The two cards work OK in Windows
>
>
>
so what's the problem? Put 'dhcpcd eth1' into /sbin/init.d/boot.local
(that's teh startup script for Suse 6.3, should be teh same for 7.1) and
the command will be executed everytime you boot.
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