Linux-Hardware Digest #672, Volume #14 Mon, 23 Apr 01 01:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Brother printers on Linux (Andrew Thorne)
Serial ports... (Adam Balgach)
Re: Compaq nic support ??? (Trevor Hemsley)
Solution for unavailable printer driver? ("Francis")
Re: capacity of exabyte 8200? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
LC 2000 network problem. Please help ("blongk")
Re: Solution for unavailable printer driver? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Interesting failure rebooting LINUX ("Mladen Gogala")
Re: Buying a Dell Laptop, compatability feedback please (charliew)
Re: Red Hat 7.0 on IBM Thinkpad 600E (Dances With Crows)
Re: LC 2000 network problem. Please help (Eric P. McCoy)
Re: Interesting failure rebooting LINUX (Floyd Davidson)
How to make up a boot cd rom of redhat 7.1 from its *.iso ?? ("stephen")
Using tar to backup to tape (Dan Smith)
Re: Serial ports... (Dances With Crows)
Re: Pixel corruption with XFree86 4.0.3, Intel i810e AGP, 2.2.19 kernel ("dusan")
Re: LC 2000 network problem. Please help ("blongk")
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From: Andrew Thorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Brother printers on Linux
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 02:12:00 +0100
Andrew Thorne wrote:
> Dick Wisan wrote:
>
>> Is there any particular difficulty running Brother printers on
>> Linux? I'm looking at the 1250, 1270, or 1650 models, because
>> they have an Epson Esc/P2 emulation and I can afford them.
>>
>> Advice? Warnings? Alternatives?
>>
> I've been using an HL-1030 with the 1240/1250 driver for a few weeks now.
> Jim Skelton made a patched ghostscript-5.5 RPM for redhat 6.2 which I've
> successfully used with 7.0 and 7.1. If you're interested I'll post it to
> my website.
>
> You might try linuxprinting.org for further information.
I've posted it anyway http://website.lineone.net/~andrew-thorne/index.htm
--
www.canned-music.co.uk
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From: Adam Balgach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Serial ports...
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 15:28:00 -0500
With the installation of my 2.4.3 kernel i have not added the devices
for my standard COM1 and COM2 serial ports... how exaclty do i go about
adding these devices? ive read through the HOWTO and i have no idea how
to do it. i dont really know what motherboard my computer is... Its a
gateway P550 so i would assume its some kind of standard motherboard.
plus i really only need the hardwired COM1 and COM2. any thoughts on how
to add these devices ? thanks.
adam.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor Hemsley)
Subject: Re: Compaq nic support ???
Date: 23 Apr 2001 01:46:59 GMT
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 17:35:36, "thebross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have an Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX embedded UTP controler
> int 5 i/o adres 1020 and want to use it in an freesco router, but is this
> nic
> supported by linux ?
Netelligent controllers use the tlan (ThunderLAN) driver that's been
included since the year dot in the kernel source.
--
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Solution for unavailable printer driver?
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 09:22:14 +0800
Anyone knows how to find printer drvier for Olivetti PR50? or have ideas how
to develope it?
Thanks.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: capacity of exabyte 8200?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 03:00:30 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Lupei Zhu wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have an Exabyte 8200 tape drive, connected to a PC running Linux
>> RH7.0 and Solaris 2.6. Under solaris, it can hold up to 2.3G. but when I
>> try to dump a 1.7G file system using this:
>> dump -0 -f /dev/st0 /
>> I got a message saying the dump is estimated to be on 40 volumes
>> (tapes) and I was soon prompted to put the second tape. I tried
>> /dev/nst0, /dev/st0a, ..., no luck. Can anyone tell me what I need to
>> do?
>>
>Make sure that the block size is set to 0 (variable length), using
>mt. You can loose HUGE amounts of space to inter-block gaps. If "mt
>setblk 0" doesn't work, then you need a different mt. Look for
>"mt-st".
>... [and lots more good stuff which you should probably do] ...
>From the symptoms, the actual problem is with the dump program itself.
It dates from the days of 9-track reel-to-reel tape drives
and has code in it which 'knows' how much data you can put in a single tape.
You need to investigate how to tell dump that your tape drive isn't
ancient. My local man page seems to indicate that the '-B' option might
help.
Bill Bogstad
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From: "blongk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LC 2000 network problem. Please help
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:59:56 +0800
Hi
I have tried to install Linux Redhat 6.2 on HP NetServer LC 2000. The
installation was fine. I filled all necessary stuff for networking like IP
address, netmask and all other things. After the installation was completed
the server rebooted and it went ok and I logon as root. The problem is the
network is not ok. I can not access the internet or even the LAN. I can not
ping to any server and vice versa. I have tried so many things to resolve
this problem but the network is still down. These are things that I have
tried:
1. Installed Windows 2000 on the same server and the network was good. I
could acces the internet.
2. Changed the network cable to the cable that worked with other server but
it did not work with the LC 2000.
3. Installed Redhat 7.0 but the network still did not work
4. Upgraded the BIOS but the network still did not work
5. Used cross over cable have a peer to peer network but the network is
still not ok
I have checked the network configuration using netconf and always found out
that the default gateway box was not checked (but the gateway ip is there).
After I checked the box, the routing table would not be displayed if I used
command route. I also have an LH 3000 server but Redhat 6.2 is ok with it
and no network problem and the network cards are the same type. I don't know
what else to do. Please help.
Any suggestion is very much appreciated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Solution for unavailable printer driver?
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 22 Apr 2001 23:25:00 -0400
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 09:22:14 +0800, Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyone knows how to find printer drvier for Olivetti PR50? or have ideas how
>to develope it?
Check linuxprinting.org.
--
Hal B
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From: "Mladen Gogala" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Interesting failure rebooting LINUX
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 03:36:39 GMT
In article <z9AE6.82478$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Salim
Douba" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> This is a peculiarly interesting problem. I am trying to install linux
> on my laptop. Things go extremely well during installation. The system
> reboots successfully (from hard disk) upon finishing the install and
> is fully usable. Subsequent reboots however, fail to bring up the
> system. I don't even get to the point of seeing the Linux boot prompt.
> Instead BIOS prompts me with a message that there is no valid bootable
> partition on my disk. For now, I am rebooting from a boot floppy. But
> I would really appreciate being able to boot from the hard disk.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Salim
>
> P.S. Please email me your responses at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Check your BIOS options for the boot drive. Turn off any options that
control the size of your drive. Another possibility: go to the disk
manufacturer's site and see if there is a bug in the conroller
microcode. If there is, do two things:
a) Ask the manufacturer for a replacement.
b) Publish the make, the model and the revision number right here so
that we can avoid those problems.
That is all I can tell you without knowing the specifics.
--
Mladen Gogala
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From: charliew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.laptop
Subject: Re: Buying a Dell Laptop, compatability feedback please
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 03:22:03 GMT
"Harold Stevens US.972.952.3293" wrote:
> This extremum was needed after the *boot* locked up completely (and I
> mean nuthin' but remove the battery/AC power reboot) during probe for
> the nm-256 (Neomagic) sound support. The boot hung at
>
> Starting sound driver: snd-card-nm256
>
> and complete powerdown was the only way out.
I noticed when I ran XF86Config to re-config X for the Latitude's vid
chips (NeoMagic 2160) that it stated the manufacturer recommends
no probe for clocks. That was for the vid chips, not sound, but maybe
their sound chips have there own probe problems. May want to check
with dell (although their on-line specs are horrible, a call may produce
results since they are into Linux these days.)
--
Charles Waltenbaugh
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Remember those guys in high school that got nothing but
Cs and Ds? *Now* I know where they work." - anomymous
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Red Hat 7.0 on IBM Thinkpad 600E
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 23 Apr 2001 03:37:33 GMT
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 20:17:05 -0400, Adam Nicely staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
>I installed Red Hat Linux 7.0 on my Thinkpad 600E. Does anyone know
>how to get the IBM EtherJet 10/100 PCMCIA Card to work? What about the
>Crystal Audio PnP sound card? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
If this is a standard PCMCIA card, go to the pcmcia-cs site at
http://projects.sourceforge.net/pcmcia-cs/ and look around. The
resources there are very helpful if the card is not recognized
immediately be pcmcia-cs.
As for the sound, "Crystal Audio PnP" is almost completely worthless as
a description for the sound. Is this the older ISA-bus cs42xx, or the
newer PCI-bus cs46xx? The 46xx is only supported under ALSA or with
kernels > 2.2.18, so if you see a 46xx in the output from "cat
/proc/pci", then go upgrade your kernel or install ALSA. If this is the
older ISA-bus version, then the magic words are like so:
modprobe sound dmabuf=1
modprobe ad1848
modprobe cs4232 io=0x534 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=9
modprobe opl3 io=0x388
Try 0x530 for the io= on the cs4232 if 0x534 doesn't work; most of these
use 0x534 but there are always a few others....
Finally, check http://www.linux-laptops.net/ and look for the Thinkpad
600E pages. Others have been there before; make use of their
experiences! HTH,
--
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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Subject: Re: LC 2000 network problem. Please help
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
Date: 23 Apr 2001 00:00:07 -0400
"blongk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have tried to install Linux Redhat 6.2 on HP NetServer LC 2000. The
> installation was fine. I filled all necessary stuff for networking like IP
> address, netmask and all other things. After the installation was completed
> the server rebooted and it went ok and I logon as root. The problem is the
> network is not ok. I can not access the internet or even the LAN. I can not
> ping to any server and vice versa.
What do `ifconfig' and `route' tell you?
--
Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Knowing that a lot of people across the world with Geocities sites
absolutely despise me is about the only thing that can add a positive
spin to this situation." - Something Awful, 1/11/2001
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Interesting failure rebooting LINUX
Date: 22 Apr 2001 20:03:48 -0800
"Salim Douba" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>This is a peculiarly interesting problem. I am trying to install linux on my
>laptop. Things go extremely well during installation. The system reboots
>successfully (from hard disk) upon finishing the install and is fully
>usable. Subsequent reboots however, fail to bring up the system. I don't
>even get to the point of seeing the Linux boot prompt. Instead BIOS prompts
>me with a message that there is no valid bootable partition on my disk. For
>now, I am rebooting from a boot floppy. But I would really appreciate being
>able to boot from the hard disk.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks
>
>Salim
>
>P.S. Please email me your responses at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please read the newsgroups that you have posted to
Boot from a floppy. Check the lilo configuration and
run lilo. Run fdisk and make sure you have marked a
partition as bootable. Then reboot without the floppy.
--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.ptialaska.net/~floyd>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to make up a boot cd rom of redhat 7.1 from its *.iso ??
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 12:22:49 +0800
I have downlaod the redhat7.1 two *.iso , and extrace the 2
*.iso . Then use nero5.0 to burn it to cdrom disk. I can
boot from redhat7.1 from the cdrom disk. After about 4 steps
of the installation, the boot disk tell me that it can't find
any redhat7.1 cdrom disk in the cd rom drive. But I can see
the whole source of the disk under windows system.
Did anybody encounter the same problem as mine ?
What should I do now or what should I burn it with nero5.0?
At nero setting: I choose "cd-rom (boot)"
In the "Boot" 's tab, I choose "Image files"
==> D:\rehat71\Images\boot.img
I disable "Enable expert settings(for advanced users only!)
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From: Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Using tar to backup to tape
Date: 22 Apr 2001 23:38:54 -0400
When I use tar to backup to tape, I run this command:
tar cvLf 1994752 /dev/st0 /home /data /etc
When tar hits the volume size limit, it prompts me to insert the
second volume, but first says this:
tar: WARNING: Cannot close /dev/st0 (3, -1): Input/output error
Prepare volume #2 for /dev/st0 and hit return:
Is this OK? Does it have something to do with the rewinding?
Thanks!
--Dan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Serial ports...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 23 Apr 2001 04:05:48 GMT
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 15:28:00 -0500, Adam Balgach staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>With the installation of my 2.4.3 kernel i have not added the devices
>for my standard COM1 and COM2 serial ports... how exaclty do i go about
>adding these devices? ive read through the HOWTO and i have no idea
>how to do it. i dont really know what motherboard my computer is... Its
>a gateway P550 so i would assume its some kind of standard motherboard.
Careful. Gateway has been known to sell their customers br0ken
motherboards in the past.
>plus i really only need the hardwired COM1 and COM2. any thoughts on
>how to add these devices ? thanks.
The devices you need are /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1, and they should
already exist. When compiling a 2.4.x kernel, you just need to say "Y"
or "M" for Character Devices->Generic Serial Support. You should say
"M" to all the PPP options under Network Options, and you should read
the Documentation/Changes file that tells you you need to upgrade pppd
to at least version 2.4.0 or your PPP connection won't work with kernel
2.4.x.
--
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: "dusan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Pixel corruption with XFree86 4.0.3, Intel i810e AGP, 2.2.19 kernel
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 04:15:24 GMT
hi
yes have same problem on my asus cusl2
intel 815 chipset and redhat 7.1 kernel 2.4.2 kde 2.1.1
at 1024x768 16bit resulution
looks like i need to get a diffrent video card like matrox g400 or g450 agp
"Jesus M. Salvo Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9buh99$6n3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have upgraded from XFree86 3.3.6 to 4.0.3, maintaining the same
> linux kernel which is 2.2.19.
>
> I have enabled, compiled, and installed the experimental agpgart module
> from 2.2.19. ( The agpgart module from Intel only works with XFree86
> 3.3.6 ).
>
> I am also running kde 2.1.1 and qt 2.3.0
>
> At certain points in time, I get pixel corruption when running
> konqueror, usually on the title bars and the tool bars. ( Also happens with
> non-KDE apps such as Netscape ). What I meant
> with "pixel corruption" is that I get white vertical lines/bars on the
> window's title bars and toolbars. It does not happen always.
>
> This did not happen with XFree86 3.3.6. ( Then again, that was using
> Intel's agpgart module for 3.3.6, while I am using the experimental
> agpgart module fro m the 2.2.19 kernel with 4.0.3 ).
>
> So I am thinking this might be a problem with the experimental agpgart
> module with 2.2.19 ... or X with i810e works best with a 2.4.x kernel?
>
> Anyone else experiencing this?
>
>
> John
>
>
>
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From: "blongk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LC 2000 network problem. Please help
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 12:51:32 +0800
ifconfig shows the config. of eth0 and lo. It shows the right IP address,
Bcast, Mask and other things. However the route shows only the field names
(Destination, Gateway....) and stops right there. I have to press control-C
to get to the cammand prompt again. However, route -n shows the complete
table.
"Eric P. McCoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "blongk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I have tried to install Linux Redhat 6.2 on HP NetServer LC 2000. The
> > installation was fine. I filled all necessary stuff for networking like
IP
> > address, netmask and all other things. After the installation was
completed
> > the server rebooted and it went ok and I logon as root. The problem is
the
> > network is not ok. I can not access the internet or even the LAN. I can
not
> > ping to any server and vice versa.
>
> What do `ifconfig' and `route' tell you?
>
> --
> Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> "Knowing that a lot of people across the world with Geocities sites
> absolutely despise me is about the only thing that can add a positive
> spin to this situation." - Something Awful, 1/11/2001
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