Linux-Hardware Digest #674, Volume #14 Mon, 23 Apr 01 13:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Interesting failure rebooting LINUX (James Knott)
Re: Intel D815EEA (Hockey71)
IOMEGA ZIP + RedHat (Marvin)
Re: IOMEGA ZIP + RedHat ("Snowman")
Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video? (chrisv)
Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video? (chrisv)
Re: IOMEGA ZIP + RedHat (Rene van Paassen)
Re: Buying a Dell Laptop, compatability feedback please (Harold Stevens
US.972.952.3293)
Re: Could Linux be used in this factory environment ? (Dan Mercer)
Re: RH7 & ide-tape ("KW")
Re: Could Linux be used in this factory environment ? (Roberto Alsina)
Re: Netraid-4M ("Tomoaki SUZUKI")
Re: How to make up a boot cd rom of redhat 7.1 from its *.iso ?? (Markku Kolkka)
Ensonique sound card troubles... (Adam Balgach)
EtherExpress Pro 100+ problems? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 2.4.3, ATA100 & Hedrick's patches ("Joseph Draco")
SUSE 7.1 - SCSI (Gunnar Haaland)
Re: Compatability Question. (Tim)
Re: 2.4.3, ATA100 & Hedrick's patches (Larry Condon)
Re: zip 100 setup in KDE, RH6.2 (Tim)
Re: Ensonique sound card troubles... ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: EtherExpress Pro 100+ problems? ("Peter T. Breuer")
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From: James Knott <[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: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 13:14:17 GMT
Salim Douba 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.
Did you install LILO on the MBR?
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hockey71)
Date: 23 Apr 2001 13:26:32 GMT
Subject: Re: Intel D815EEA
Any luck with the onboard network card for this board. I have the Intel 815
EEA2 and I believe the network chip is 82865. I got the video to work with
linux via Intel's web page. Do a search for "linux video" (I dont have the
exact link handy) and you should see the links to the 815 video page. It
requires the 810 driver which I believe is already include in XFree 4.0x and
you need agpgart to be loaded as a module. There was something a little tricky
with the XF86Config file setup but it is outlined in the release notes from
Intel (believe it or not). I havent tried to get the sound working...not that
important to me.
Bob
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From: Marvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: IOMEGA ZIP + RedHat
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 15:52:17 +0200
Hi
I have a very simple question. I got installed IOMega 100MB ZIP into PC
running RedHat 6.2. How can I setup this into redhat and how can I use
it ?
Thanks
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From: "Snowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: IOMEGA ZIP + RedHat
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 13:59:24 GMT
There's a mini-howto on www.linux.org under documentation that outlines how
to do this. worked well for me at least.
"Marvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi
>
> I have a very simple question. I got installed IOMega 100MB ZIP into PC
> running RedHat 6.2. How can I setup this into redhat and how can I use
> it ?
>
> Thanks
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From: chrisv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video?
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 14:10:46 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One) wrote:
>Anthony Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> >24-bit is the break-even point for me; 32-bit colour
>> >doesn't look significantly better AFAICT.
>>
>> 32-bit colour uses 24-bits for colour and either discards the other 8
>> bits or uses them for extra info that doesn't really get displayed.
>
>Ah. So I'm not totally colourblind, then :-)
Hell 16-bit looks as good as 24-bit. Extremely close, anyway.
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From: chrisv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video?
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 14:13:29 GMT
fammacd=!SPAM^[EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Macdonald) wrote:
>>No, late baroque. Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, et cetera.
>>Since they died, the music industry has never been
>>the same.
>
>Like I said - medieval pop music... most of it rehashed from popular airs
>and collected, to put it kindly, from peasant musicians when a "comission"
>was in the works.
Well, at least back then being pretty wasn't the primary talent for
success in the music business...
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From: Rene van Paassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: IOMEGA ZIP + RedHat
Date: 23 Apr 2001 16:17:37 +0200
Marvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi
>
> I have a very simple question. I got installed IOMega 100MB ZIP into PC
> running RedHat 6.2. How can I setup this into redhat and how can I use
> it ?
>
> Thanks
Assuming you have installed an IDE ZIP (not a parallel port or USB
one), and say you have installed it on the secondary ide interface of
the second controller, then it will show up as hdd4 (older models) or
simply as hdd. Now make a symbolic link to the zip drive,
cd /dev
ln -s hdd4 zip
And tell your system that it needs the ide-floppy driver for the zip,
add the line
alias /dev/zip ide-floppy
to your modules.conf (Oops, that might be conf.modules in redhat 6.2),
and do
depmod -a
and then try to mount it somewhere with the mount command.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harold Stevens US.972.952.3293)
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.laptop
Subject: Re: Buying a Dell Laptop, compatability feedback please
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 14:28:14 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, charliew:
>"Harold Stevens US.972.952.3293":
[Snip...]
>> 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.
Thanks for taking the time to comment; it's driving me bonkers. :)
As an aside, I wonder how the X folks got Neomagic to help. Based on the
developer's comments:
http://www.uglx.org/sony.html
Neomagic seems somewhat less than enthusiastic about Linux hacking:
I want to re-emphasize that the driver was written without any support
or assistance from NeoMagic. If you run into problems with the driver,
there is no point in asking them or your laptop manufacturer about
it--they don't give a rat's ass about problems with some hacked-up
Linux driver.
>That was for the vid chips, not sound, but maybe
>their sound chips have there own probe problems.
Actually you might be onto something with this. At this same site there
are comments about possible conflicts with the video:
http://www.uglx.org/sony-nm256av-notes.html
In part:
Since the soundcard and the video display share memory, this can lead
to some exciting times at the A-OK Corral. If the X server happens to
want to use the same chunk of video memory as the audio device, lots
of nasty noise (and perhaps a light-and-video show) will result, most
frequently while moving windows around.
etc.
Although this excerpt doesn't directly mention boot hangs, it certainly
doesn't sound like getting off to a good start is in the cards either.
>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.)
[Snip...]
I think I'll try SuSE email support first since I paid for it, and they
have been very good about this sort of thing before.
Thanks again for your insight.
--
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Pardon the bogus email domain (dseg etc.) in place for spambots.
Really it's (wyrd) at raytheon, dotted with com. DO NOT SPAM IT.
Standard Disclaimer: These are my opinions not Raytheon Company.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Mercer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Could Linux be used in this factory environment ?
Date: 23 Apr 2001 14:17:15 GMT
In article <gvkE6.6569$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Erik Funkenbusch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Charles Lyttle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
>> Industry (mostly) fixed that problem 30 years ago. For what its
>> worth, I had an NT machine I was working with bring down an entire LAN
>> of over 1000 machines. It was called the "ping of death". Some
>> applications could cause the NT software to start issuing network pings
>> at high speed. These faults often also caused a BSOD, but not always.
>
> Ping of death was a specific type of exploit that needed special, invalidly
> formed packets to work. There was no way to cause normal applications to
> generate POD packets.
>
> Unix also suffered from this bug.
>
POD's could also be formed by broken network cards, in which case
a $20 piece of hardware could bring down a $multimillion network.
--
Dan Mercer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Opinions expressed herein are my own and may not represent those of my employer.
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From: "KW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH7 & ide-tape
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 09:32:13 -0500
My PC has 7.0 w/ 2.4.2 kernel and the IDE tape works fine in it... I
think it's a seagate... Do you have generic SCSI support enabled? Even
though it's ide, mt reports it as a generic scsi2 tape drive.
> Has anyone gotten ide-tape to work at all in RH7? How 'bout RH7.1?
>
> I'm using 2.2.19-7.01 and tried everything I can think of. ide-tape
> insmods and modprobes fine but mt always results with an input/output
> error. Doesn't matter if I use /dev/tape or dev/ht0. I've even compiled
> it into the kernel with the same results, and tried two different tape
> drives.
>
> A google search shows me that I am not alone but I couldn't find any
> solutions.
>
> I'll post more details if someone has gotten it to work.
>
> Thanks!
> -Ian-
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roberto Alsina)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Could Linux be used in this factory environment ?
Date: 23 Apr 2001 14:45:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 23 Apr 2001 14:17:15 GMT, Dan Mercer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <gvkE6.6569$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>"Erik Funkenbusch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> "Charles Lyttle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>>
>>> Industry (mostly) fixed that problem 30 years ago. For what its
>>> worth, I had an NT machine I was working with bring down an entire LAN
>>> of over 1000 machines. It was called the "ping of death". Some
>>> applications could cause the NT software to start issuing network pings
>>> at high speed. These faults often also caused a BSOD, but not always.
>>
>> Ping of death was a specific type of exploit that needed special, invalidly
>> formed packets to work. There was no way to cause normal applications to
>> generate POD packets.
>>
>> Unix also suffered from this bug.
>>
>
>POD's could also be formed by broken network cards, in which case
>a $20 piece of hardware could bring down a $multimillion network.
Well, in a non-switched network, they still can, just by causing
electrical trouble.
At least I used to have a card that, since a storm, would collapse
any 10-base-t network you put it in, I used it as an example in courses.
--
Roberto Alsina
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From: "Tomoaki SUZUKI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netraid-4M
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 23:54:17 +0900
"Dmitry Melekhov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello!
>
> Is it possible to install RadHat 6.2 to HP LH6000 with
> Netraid-4M raid controller without any other scsi controller
> or ide hdd in server?
You Can Install on RedHat 7 with NetRAID-4M easily.
On RedHat 6.2,Installer doesn't detect NetRAID-4M,
but if you have much skill,you may install on RedHat6.2,
because the source code is distributed freely web site below:
You need to compile driver on another linux box,
and install driver special way.
http://domsch.com/linux/
---
Tomoaki SUZUKI
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From: Markku Kolkka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to make up a boot cd rom of redhat 7.1 from its *.iso ??
Date: 23 Apr 2001 18:12:25 +0300
"stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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 you use md5sum to check the ISO file before burning? A correct
directory listing doesn't prove much about the integrity of the disc.
> At nero setting: I choose "cd-rom (boot)"
This is wrong. You must choose "Burn CD Image" from the File menu.
See the Nero FAQ in http://www.nero.com/en/cfaqs.htm
--
Markku Kolkka
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Adam Balgach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Ensonique sound card troubles...
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 06:19:22 -0500
So i tried to install the alsa drivers for my soundcard (ensonique 128)
and it worked for a while, and then i did a kernel recompile to get scsi
elim working, and now im having a terribly hard time with the drivers.
basically ive stripped down my kernel so right now just the es1370.o is
the only sound driver, and its loaded as a module... however when i try
and do a
modprobe es1370 i get these errors:
/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/drivers/sound/es1370.o: init_module: No such
device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/drivers/sound/es1370.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/drivers/sound/es1370.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/drivers/sound/es1370.o: insmod es1370 failed
any idea as to why? all i want is my sound to work :-( what can i do!?!
thanks.
adam balgach.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: EtherExpress Pro 100+ problems?
Date: 23 Apr 2001 16:14:24 GMT
Has anyone seen problems with these EtherExpress Pro 100+ NICS?
I have 2 similar machines on intel stl2 boards which include an onboard NIC (which I
hate) and both machines have now stopped responding with an error message on screen
saying eth0 RX buffer full. This is under RH7.0, I have been able to find anything on
either the intel or the RH sites saying that this is a known common problem. Any help
would be appreciated.
Thanks
--
Openface Internet Inc. Blair McKay
Montreal, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(514) 281-8585 Systems Administration
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From: "Joseph Draco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.4.3, ATA100 & Hedrick's patches
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 09:24:42 -0700
I had a Soyo board with the 686b southbridge that had performance issues
with the hard drives until I applied latest bios update. The problem
cleared up and the drives run as fast as any equivalent KT133 board.
Hope this helps.
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From: Gunnar Haaland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SUSE 7.1 - SCSI
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:35:10 GMT
I have problem to boot my SuSE 7.1, YaST are trying to start, but it
complain over my SCSI, and after 8 min it start, but when it starts, I
can`t use my Plextor SCSI cd rom and HP 9210 SCSI burner. It will only
accept my ide cd rom.
Any help?
Gunnar
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From: Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compatability Question.
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 12:38:09 -0400
Hi Martigan,
Martigan wrote:
<snip>
> My Logitech quick cam pro (USB)
> Compeye Simplex 1236C USB/Par scanner/used with USB.
> Can I use these with Linux, or should I get new hardware?
Try the link below:
http://www.LinuxDoc.org/links/hw.html#peripherals
Later--
Tim
--
Timothy J. Schutte
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.wwnet.net/~kc8hr
"I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam!" --Popeye the Sailor-Man
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From: Larry Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.4.3, ATA100 & Hedrick's patches
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 12:38:43 -0400
Comment: All 2.2.xx kernels need to be patched for eide. The Gentus
folks released one ready patched for their Abit bp6 mobo. Hmmm. I
wonder where they are today?
No mail please. Not my box
Rinaldi-
Philipp Lehman wrote:
> David Balazic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >All of latest kernels since approximatelly januar 2001 ( including
> >redhat kernels ) run my disk at 35 MB/s ATA/100.
> >No custom setting needed at all.
> >
> >I have a VIA KT133 + 686B southbridge.
>
> Can you comment on 2.2 kernels, by change?
>
> --
> Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: zip 100 setup in KDE, RH6.2
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 12:40:01 -0400
Hi Andi,
Andi Machovec wrote:
>
> Who actually is the owner of /dev/fd0 on your system ?
The default owner is "root".
Tim
--
Timothy J. Schutte
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.wwnet.net/~kc8hr
"I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam!" --Popeye the Sailor-Man
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ensonique sound card troubles...
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:40:00 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Adam Balgach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So i tried to install the alsa drivers for my soundcard (ensonique 128)
> and it worked for a while, and then i did a kernel recompile to get scsi
> elim working, and now im having a terribly hard time with the drivers.
> basically ive stripped down my kernel so right now just the es1370.o is
> the only sound driver, and its loaded as a module... however when i try
> and do a
> modprobe es1370 i get these errors:
> /lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/drivers/sound/es1370.o: init_module: No such
> device
You don't have an es1370.
> /lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/drivers/sound/es1370.o: insmod es1370 failed
> any idea as to why? all i want is my sound to work :-( what can i do!?!
Put in the right driver. Perhaps you have an es1371 or 1373? Doesn't
alsa have drivers for this?
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: EtherExpress Pro 100+ problems?
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 18:39:13 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Has anyone seen problems with these EtherExpress Pro 100+ NICS?
yes, but you also seem to have a problem finding the return key.
reformatting a 500 character line:
> I have 2 similar machines on intel stl2 boards which include an
> onboard NIC (which I hate) and both machines have now stopped responding
> with an error message on screen saying eth0 RX buffer full. This is
> under RH7.0, I have been able to find anything on either the intel or
> the RH sites saying that this is a known common problem. Any help would
> be appreciated.
It's a known problem with certain of the nics and certain drivers. Upgrade
upgrade upgrade (or downgrade downgrade downgrade ... :-).
You should be able to get it going angain by rmmod, insmod, and restart
networking. About once a day should be enough.
Peter
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