Linux-Hardware Digest #573, Volume #14 Thu, 5 Apr 01 18:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Please look at this SCSI error... (Dan Smith)
Re: Win Modems (Michael Meissner)
Re: 3 com nic ("" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
Linux on Xbox? (Hermann Samso)
Re: 3 com nic (Drew Roedersheimer)
And Linux for Playstation 2, Cube,etc? (Hermann Samso)
Dane-Elec SmartMedia reader is working! (Walter Francis)
Re: NOTE- he said the AMD 761 chipset! (Scott Alfter)
Re: Win Modems (Dave Platt)
Aopen AK73 pro a problems (Lance Holmes)
Re: And Linux for Playstation 2, Cube,etc?
Re: Linux on Xbox? ("Electrode")
Re: Recommended Tape Drive & Software (Carbon)
Time server setup (Kerry Cox)
Re: DLink DFE-530TX+ Revision Problems (Carbon)
Re: Win Modems (Bill Unruh)
Linux on Intel Or Celeron? what is the best choice? (Med HAM)
Re: Linux on Intel Or Celeron? what is the best choice? ("Geek Mystique")
Re: Linux on Intel Or Celeron? what is the best choice? (Med HAM)
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From: Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Please look at this SCSI error...
Date: 05 Apr 2001 14:12:55 -0400
How is that not an error? What does it mean?
After i posted the last one, I got a parity error from the drive. I
checked everything. That system has a 230W power supply and these are
the 5th and 6th drives on it, so I slapped them in another machine
with a 400W supply and an Adaptec 2490UW. I still get the reset (but
in adaptec lingo, not symbios of course), but I haven't been able to
get a parity error out of it as of yet.
I get the reset sometimes when I mount the drive or I write to it real
long and hard (with bonnie++).
Is the SCSI reset an OK condition? If so, why? What does it mean?
Thanks a lot!
--Dan
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Crossposted-To:
alt.computer.drivers,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Win Modems
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 05 Apr 2001 15:40:18 -0400
Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "LittleFish" <littlefish_au[SPAM ME AT YOUR OWN RISK]@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > It seems as if more and more people using Windows
> > are very dissapointed over the performance of there Lucent Winmodems. In the
> > last week I have met 3 people that have taken back there Lucent Winmodem
> > because it drops out regularly. If your machine is slower 300Mhz or is
> > running a CPU intensive task in the background you can bet that it will drop
> > out. Give me a real modem anyday!! By the way real internal modems are
> > getting hard to source. Does anyone have suggestions for a Internal Fax
> > Voice Data modem?
>
> one word _EXTERNAL_. yes, i know you said internal but why not expand
> your possibilities? since most mice these days are ps/2 or usb, you
> probably have nothing on your rs232 ports. why not use it?
Some machines don't have serial ports. Some of us already have too many other
things on our serial ports (on my system, I have a ups, an X-10 controller, a
Palm hot-sync cradle, and the embedded board I'm currently testing).
--
Michael Meissner, Red Hat, Inc. (GCC group)
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +1 978-692-4482
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From: "<toor>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3 com nic
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 16:05:59 -0400
Remember its a DOS program, so don't look in windows!
Barry L. Kline wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Harold E Vine III wrote:
>>
>> I have a cable connection, trying to get my nic to work under linux. Its
a
>> 3com 509 isa pnp card. works fine under windows, but even using the io
>> addresses that windows shows, linux cannot load the card I'm kinda stuck
>> cause I cant seem to get it to work. Is there a trick to this i don't
know
>> about? ...
>>
>> thanks much.
>
>Two choices:
>
>1) Download the configuration program from 3com and configure the card
>with hard-coded addresses, eliminating PNP
>2) ISAPNP utility
>
>Barry
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From: Hermann Samso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux on Xbox?
Date: 5 Apr 2001 20:19:53 GMT
Has anyone an idea if linux will/won't run on
Microsoft's Xbox game console?
BTW, does this machine have any ports for keyboard,
mouse, etc?
saludos,
SoLo2
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Drew Roedersheimer)
Subject: Re: 3 com nic
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 20:19:25 GMT
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001 16:05:59 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Remember its a DOS program, so don't look in windows!
>
>Barry L. Kline wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>Harold E Vine III wrote:
>>>
>>> I have a cable connection, trying to get my nic to work under linux. Its
>a
>>> 3com 509 isa pnp card. works fine under windows, but even using the io
>>> addresses that windows shows, linux cannot load the card I'm kinda stuck
>>> cause I cant seem to get it to work. Is there a trick to this i don't
>know
>>> about? ...
>>>
>>> thanks much.
>>
>>Two choices:
>>
>>1) Download the configuration program from 3com and configure the card
>>with hard-coded addresses, eliminating PNP
>>2) ISAPNP utility
>>
>>Barry
>
>
Additionally, you can configure the card under Linux with 3c5x9utils. I
used it on my 3c509 cards without incident.
Here's the address for the source:
http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
HTH
-DR
--
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
-- Victor Hugo
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From: Hermann Samso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: And Linux for Playstation 2, Cube,etc?
Date: 5 Apr 2001 20:25:21 GMT
Following the same line...
what about Linux for the new/upcoming powerful
game consoles?
Are there any working groups for that?
saludos,
SoLo2
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From: Walter Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Dane-Elec SmartMedia reader is working!
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 16:22:45 -0400
With much help from Matthew Dharm my Dane-Elec SmartMedia Flash card
reader is working!
After much putzing and fooling around, it came down to something really
simple. In the /usr/src/linux/drivers/usb/Config.in file I needed to
add a line:
if [ "$CONFIG_USB_STORAGE" != "n" ]; then
bool ' USB Mass Storage verbose debug' CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DEBUG
bool ' Freecom USB/ATAPI Bridge support'
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_FREECOM
bool ' SDDR-09 support' CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_SDDR09
fi
The line I added was the SDDR-09 line, it is the driver for this (and
other) SmartMedia readers, but it's not (yet) in the normal configs, so
you add it here, then make menuconfig, turn on that option, then make
clean dep bzImage modules modules_install, install the kernel and
System.map, reboot, and voila!
I hope this helps others. Perhaps with Sandisc readers they can't get
working either, because it uses the SDDR-09 driver.
--
Walter Francis
http://theblackmoor.net Powered by Red Hat Linux 7.0
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: NOTE- he said the AMD 761 chipset!
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 20:36:39 -0000
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>There is no doubt that the family of Althon CPU's work fine, what is
>at issue here is the new AMD 761 chipset and the DDR ram. Firstly,
>where can you even buy the mobo's for these- I haven't been able to
>find one (most vendors have April as delivery date)
I bought a Biostar M7MIA about a month ago through tcwo.com.
>and secondly, what little I've gleaned from forums like this one is that
>the new chipset is not currently a smooth install.
I've only tried netbooting it once off my LFS server...Linux itself started
OK, but X wouldn't start up. I suspect it'd run fine if I told it to not
try to start X at boot time.
_/_
/ v \
(IIGS( Scott Alfter (remove Voyager's hull number for email address)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Platt)
Crossposted-To:
alt.computer.drivers,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Win Modems
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 20:43:02 -0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Does anyone have suggestions for a Internal Fax
>> > Voice Data modem?
>>
>> one word _EXTERNAL_. yes, i know you said internal but why not expand
>> your possibilities? since most mice these days are ps/2 or usb, you
>> probably have nothing on your rs232 ports. why not use it?
>
>Some machines don't have serial ports. Some of us already have too many other
>things on our serial ports (on my system, I have a ups, an X-10 controller, a
>Palm hot-sync cradle, and the embedded board I'm currently testing).
It looks as if Zoom still has one model which might meet your needs.
Their model 2920 is a 56k, PCI, controller-based modem with Fax Class
1 and voice support. If you go to www.zoom.com, select the Modems/USA
page, click the boxes for Internal PCI and Linux and 56k and do a
search, this is the one which comes up.
--
Dave Platt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Visit the Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior/
I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will
boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads!
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From: Lance Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Aopen AK73 pro a problems
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 15:53:39 -0500
I recently upgrade from an old BX440 epox board with a 450 PII to a
faster bang for your buck Aopen AK73 Pro A board with an 850 mhz Athlon
Tbird. My system also has 2 WD 30 gig drives and an HP7200 cdrw and an
AOpen DVD/cdrom. One of the 30 gig drives can run only at 33/66 and the
other which is new can run at 33/66/100. The share the same channel and
I naturally have them both set to udma 66. I've hit my head against the
wall a couple of time trying to reinstall my SUSE 7.1 linux on it. My
root partition is on the second drive and is at cyl 1 - 576. Linux
installs fine and I can even warm reboot the system and I have no
problems but if I shutdown the system and then cold boot it then the
startup has an error with the ext2fs on the root partition. I don't
remember the exact error messages but basically it finds some error with
that drive. I have as a test loaded and run a beta version of Redhat
7.1 and it boots up fine.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: And Linux for Playstation 2, Cube,etc?
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 21:20:37 GMT
On 5 Apr 2001 20:25:21 GMT, Hermann Samso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Following the same line...
> what about Linux for the new/upcoming powerful
> game consoles?
Step one: get a C compiler for the game console...
>
> Are there any working groups for that?
Did you try doing a websearch for "linux playstation"?
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From: "Electrode" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on Xbox?
Date: 5 Apr 2001 21:24:20 GMT
> Has anyone an idea if linux will/won't run on
> Microsoft's Xbox game console?
I think the OS on the Xbox (and pretty much all consoles) is held on a ROM
chip, which is fused to the motherboard. Maybe if any Linux obsessives out
there have some silicon laying around, they could put together a Linux chip
and penguinize an Xbox. :)
> BTW, does this machine have any ports for keyboard,
> mouse, etc?
I think M$ will be selling Xbox keyboards and mice, but they will plug into
the gamepad ports on the front, which I doubt will be anything like the ones
on the back of a PC soundcard.
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From: Carbon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Recommended Tape Drive & Software
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 17:29:04 -0400
On 5 Apr 2001 14:38:20 GMT, Joshua Baker-LePain
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Chris Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'm setting up a relatively low volume RH 7 mailserver for someone. I'm
>> interested in users' recommendations regarding compatible tape backup
>> systems and backup software. Travan, DAT, DLT? Which would you recommend.
>> I don't want to spend a lot of money, but I want something which will
>> efficiently back up a moderate amount of data.
>
>What's a "moderate" amount of data? In general, I would recommend against
>Travan -- the tapes are expensive, the drives are slow, and they get very
>hot. For about $1200 you could get an Exabyte Eliant 820 -- 7GB native on
>cheap ($3-4) tapes.
This is true, but if you are only backing up one server and don't need
a lot of tapes, then it's still much cheaper to go with a travan
drive. A Seagate ide tape drive should only cost a couple of hundred
bucks, with tapes.
>> As far as backup software goes, I want something relatively easy to use, but
>> flexible and reliable. The user is experienced with SCO Unix, but doesn't
>> want to spend all of his time learning and executing commands. I'd like
>> something that will allow him to easily configure scheduled backups with a
>> minimum of effort.
>
>I use amanda here. There's some initial work setting it up, but once
>you've got it running, you can pretty much forget about it (besides
>changing tapes, of course). Beyond that, a cron job and dump is pretty
>fire-and-forget as well.
Taper is a curses based program that works well for single servers.
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From: Kerry Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Time server setup
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 15:33:55 -0600
I'm looking to create a ntpd or ntpdate time server running Red hat
Linux for in-house use. I'm wondering what hardware module I need to
purchase to run under Linux that could then connect to a GPS satellite
and retrieve the exact time.
Yes, I know there are lots of time servers out there we can connect to
and update our clocks by, but we want to be self-sufficient and set out
own time. We are also a TV and radio station and so keeping accurate
time is important. We have a lot of Linux machines that need their time
updated periodically.
Thanks. Please send me an email directly if you have any
recommendations.
Kerry
--
/-----------------------------\ /--------------------------\
| Kerry J. Cox |__| [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
| System Administrator KSL __ (801) 575-7771 |
| http://www.ksl.com/ | | ICQ#37681165 |
\-----------------------------/ \--------------------------/
---
>> Misch dich nicht in die Angelegenheiten von Zauberern, denn sie sind spitzfindig
>und schnell erzuernt. <<
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From: Carbon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DLink DFE-530TX+ Revision Problems
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 17:31:53 -0400
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001 10:38:24 +0200, "FreeManBe"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>After i fried some bits of 2 of those damn dlink cards (they wouldnt get
>recognised) i decided to purshase cheaper rtl8139 and my system is just
>working great.
Actually, the dlink 530tx+ I have works great with the rtl8139 module.
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> I'm trying to use DLink DEF-530TX+ NIC but no success. At boot time
>> the card does not seem to be recogized. Now the strange thing of it all
>> is that I previouly had the same model of card working on the same
>> hardware a few months ago. In fact I pulled it out and have been I
>> testing it along side the new card and found it still works. Now the
>> working card is label, DFE-530TX+ Rev.A1, and the newer ( non-working )
>> card is labeled DFE-530TX+ Rev. D1. So I've got two differenct versions
>> of the NIC...one works, one doesn't. I've notice the non-working card
>> does not seem to be recognize at boot time unlike the working card which
>> is. There does not appear to be anything wrong hardware wise with the
>> NICs as both of them work under Windows 98 and 2000.
>>
>> With the working card I had to turn off PNP OS in the BIOS before it
>> would work. Of course I've done this the new card as well but no
>> success. As well, I've updated to the latest rtl8139.c file ( 1.13 )
>> but still no success.
>>
>> Has anyone run into this problem??? Better yet anyone soved it?
>>
>> The hardware is an Intel PIII 550 on an ASUS P3B-F motherboard. The OS
>> is SUSE 6.4, kernel 2.2.14.
>>
>> Mark Lightfoot
>>
>>
>>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To:
alt.computer.drivers,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Win Modems
Date: 5 Apr 2001 21:39:55 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]> "LittleFish" <littlefish_au[SPAM ME AT YOUR OWN RISK]@yahoo.com> writes:
]>
]> one word _EXTERNAL_. yes, i know you said internal but why not expand
]> your possibilities? since most mice these days are ps/2 or usb, you
]> probably have nothing on your rs232 ports. why not use it?
Internal are fine, as long as you make sure that the modem is a real
modem, not some sort of winmodem. Ie it should state that it works under
Linux or under real DOS (not the DOS under windows). Get a return policy
to make sure that it works under Linux.
Basically if you can persuade it to dial out under Linux, then it should
work.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Med HAM)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Linux on Intel Or Celeron? what is the best choice?
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 21:45:13 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi folks,
My Company are willing to buy some machines to install Linux on
them. My question is which machine is best for Linux to run on :
Intel or Celeron? And if possible , can you tell me why? (ie: the
adventages and drawbacks of each type of processor )
As always any help could be so appreciated.
Med HAM -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Geek Mystique" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux on Intel Or Celeron? what is the best choice?
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 21:57:59 GMT
Intel is a brand, Celeron a type of processor made by Intel.
Intel manufactures Celeron type CPUs
"Med HAM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi folks,
> My Company are willing to buy some machines to install Linux on
> them. My question is which machine is best for Linux to run on :
> Intel or Celeron? And if possible , can you tell me why? (ie: the
> adventages and drawbacks of each type of processor )
> As always any help could be so appreciated.
> Med HAM -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Med HAM)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux on Intel Or Celeron? what is the best choice?
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 22:06:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 05 Apr 2001 21:57:59 GMT, "Geek Mystique"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Intel is a brand, Celeron a type of processor made by Intel.
>Intel manufactures Celeron type CPUs
Ooops, I want to say Pentuim instead of Intel
sorry!
>"Med HAM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Hi folks,
>> My Company are willing to buy some machines to install Linux on
>> them. My question is which machine is best for Linux to run on :
>> Intel or Celeron? And if possible , can you tell me why? (ie: the
>> adventages and drawbacks of each type of processor )
>> As always any help could be so appreciated.
>> Med HAM -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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