Linux-Hardware Digest #718, Volume #14 Wed, 2 May 01 20:13:07 EDT
Contents:
that PCMCIA question (Linksys PCMPC100 V2/Dell Inspiron 4000) (Yuri Fialko)
Re: X and RH 6.2 on laptop, cyberblade driver/1024x768 (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?I=F1aki?=
Quesada)
Re: what are the parameters for scsi aic7xxx (ultra160) card ("Akram Abu-Odeh")
Re: what are the parameters for scsi aic7xxx (ultra160) card (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: Easy to run Ethernet/Modem combo PCMCIA (Grant Edwards)
Re: Easy to run Ethernet/Modem combo PCMCIA (Grant Edwards)
Re: kppp say Modem is busy (M. Buchenrieder)
USB problem ("Marco Yuen")
Re: kppp say Modem is busy ("Eitan Berkovich")
run two linuxes ("alik blochin")
Re: Could Linux be used in this factory environment ? (The Ghost In The Machine)
Re: two harddisks crashed and third one expected ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: adding an IDE hard disk - ok, call me stupid... ("William B. Cattell")
Re: run two linuxes (Michael Meissner)
Re: run two linuxes
network card - redhat 7.1 [Thanks] (Chris Kavanagh)
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From: Yuri Fialko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: that PCMCIA question (Linksys PCMPC100 V2/Dell Inspiron 4000)
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 11:29:16 -0700
Hi,
I would very much appreciate any advice on how to get my new PCM card to
work.
I've installed Redhat 7.1 on Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop; my PCM card is
Linksys Etherfast 10/100 (PCMPC100 V2). Some details on the installation
results are at http://igpp.ucsd.edu/~fialko/pcmcia.html
If you think I should get another card, please also let me know.
(Please email or cc your response to the address in the signature.)
Thanks much,
YF
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?I=F1aki?= Quesada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: X and RH 6.2 on laptop, cyberblade driver/1024x768
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 20:28:58 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have the same card in my laptop. I use frame buffer and the XFree86 as
the Xserver. It works fine at 800x600 16bpp.
You have to use the "trident" driver. Don't forget to start your computer
with the option:
vga=788
bye
Joe Phabeetz wrote:
> X-posted to find help.
> Sorry about using Win box to post - NMC (not my computer).
> network is sneakernet (until I get the PCMCIA ethernet card going)
>
> Hello Everybody!
>
> I have a KDS Valiant 6480 laptop and a copy of RH6.2. The laptop is
> supposed to do (and did under WinME) 16.7 million colors at 1024x768. I
> would be happy with X running at 800x600 @ 8bpp, elated at 1024x768 @
> 16bpp.
>
> Vid card is claimed to be a Trident Cyberblade. The Wme driver was a
> Trident Cyberblade A1i AGP with 8MB video shared from RAM (128MB).
> Startx messages identify the chipset as TGUI 9420DGI and TGUI9430DGI.
> This confuses me.
>
> XF86Setup, Xconfigurator and setup selected XF_SVGA as the Xserver. I
> can't get it to run at even 640x480 8bpp. If I choose XF_VGA16 as the
> server, I get a really junk screen at 640x480 8bpp, but it does function
> properly (like using a microscope to read a billboard).
>
> .......................
> TIA,
>
> Joe
>
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From: "Akram Abu-Odeh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what are the parameters for scsi aic7xxx (ultra160) card
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 13:40:49 -0500
No, it is not loaded, here is the lsmod output:
/sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by
nfsd 144100 8 (autoclean)
autofs 9252 1 (autoclean)
lockd 31656 1 (autoclean) [nfsd]
sunrpc 54116 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd]
3c90x 22612 2 (autoclean)
NVdriver 572176 12
ide-scsi 7432 0
cs46xx 71200 0
ac97_codec 7012 0 [cs46xx]
soundcore 2980 2 [cs46xx]
usb-uhci 20112 0 (unused)
usbcore 44392 1 [usb-uhci]
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"Joshua Baker-LePain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9cpbt1$59e$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Akram Abu-Odeh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I am trying to add a scsi tape (dat) to a dual processor RH7.0
> > 2.2.16-22smp) linux box.
>
> > The onboard scsi adapter is Adaptec aic-7899 ultra160 pci. It was not
> > configured since the disks are ide. I am trying to load the module for
it
> > (aic7xxx.o) by running insmod
> > -----------------------------
> > /sbin/insmod aic7xxx
> > Using /lib/modules/2.2.16-22smp/scsi/aic7xxx.o
> > /lib/modules/2.2.16-22smp/scsi/aic7xxx.o: init_module: Device or
resource
> > busy
>
> Are you sure that the module isn't loaded already? On every RH box I've
> installed, if there's a controller, the module is loaded regardless of
> whether or not anything is actually hooked to the controller. You can
> list loaded modules via 'lsmod'.
>
> --
> Joshua Baker-LePain
> Department of Biomedical Engineering
> Duke University
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what are the parameters for scsi aic7xxx (ultra160) card
Date: 2 May 2001 19:40:13 GMT
Akram Abu-Odeh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No, it is not loaded, here is the lsmod output:
Hmmm. OK, is it being seen at all? What does 'lspci' say?
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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Easy to run Ethernet/Modem combo PCMCIA
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 20:02:04 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt McDragon wrote:
>get Linksys PCMLM56! I am happy with it, and fast! either RH
>6.0, 6.2, or recently MDK 8.0
I've never gotten the modem in mine to work reliably (RH6.2 on
an Inspiron 5000). Once I dial in and establish a PPP
connection, everything works well downloading, but if I try to
upload a large file (>40K or so) the modem just seems to lock
up. CD light stays on, but Tx and Rx lights stop flashing.
I tried all sorts of initialization strings to no avail.
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at same personality disorder
visi.com as LUCY RICARDO!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Easy to run Ethernet/Modem combo PCMCIA
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 20:02:04 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt McDragon wrote:
>get Linksys PCMLM56! I am happy with it, and fast! either RH
>6.0, 6.2, or recently MDK 8.0
I've never gotten the modem in mine to work reliably (RH6.2 on
an Inspiron 5000). Once I dial in and establish a PPP
connection, everything works well downloading, but if I try to
upload a large file (>40K or so) the modem just seems to lock
up. CD light stays on, but Tx and Rx lights stop flashing.
I tried all sorts of initialization strings to no avail.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! INSIDE, I have the
at same personality disorder
visi.com as LUCY RICARDO!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: kppp say Modem is busy
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 15:43:58 GMT
"Eitan Berkovich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I have a ess modem.
If that means what I think it does, then that is not a modem
at all.
>Linux doesn't auto-recognize it but when I configure it
>in kppp it finds it and says the the modem is busy.
>why? how? etc.
Most likely because of the simple fact that this is a winmodem,
and unuseable outside of an OS environment where the manufacturer
does provide drivers for.
Hard to say without details, though.
Michael
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From: "Marco Yuen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB problem
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 20:11:16 GMT
I got a Linksys USB network adapter(Instant Enternet Series), but I can't
get it to work. I use a program called USBView, it shows that my linux
system recognizes there is a new hardware installed but it couldn't find any
suitable driver for the network adapter. What can I do?? I have the driver
floppy for the adapter. However, I don't know how to install that to my
Linux system.
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From: "Eitan Berkovich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kppp say Modem is busy
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 23:57:10 +0200
Thank you all...
Eitan Berkovich wrote in message ...
>I have a ess modem. Linux doesn't auto-recognize it but when I configure it
>in kppp it finds it and says the the modem is busy.
>why? how? etc.
>
>JShard.
>
>
>
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From: "alik blochin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: run two linuxes
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 00:40:53 +0200
Hi
can i run both Mandrake 8.0 and RH7.1 on the same hdisk ?
i suppose i can but two separate disks would definitly be
better choice for such endevour...
the question is how do i do it?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Ghost In The Machine)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Could Linux be used in this factory environment ?
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 21:41:07 GMT
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Brent R
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote
on Wed, 02 May 2001 17:12:43 GMT
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Paul Repacholi wrote:
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SammyTheSnake) writes:
>>
>> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jonadab the Unsightly
>> > One wrote:
>>
>> > >Above all, you don't want the computer stopping for no reason, so
>> > >run it on Unix or VMS, and you won't go down unless there's a
>> > >hardware problem or some idiot runs a forkbomb.
>>
>> VMS is not affected by this sort of thing, the 'bomber' runs out of
>> quota and gets an error.
>
>Hmm isn't that why UNIX has killall? Or do I not understand what a
>fork() bomb really is?
Killall merely searches for all processes which match a regular
expression -- or maybe it simply does a string search -- and then,
once it's gotten all the ID's, it kills them. Trouble is, the
forkbomb may have generated new processes by then.
A particularly ugly forkbomb can be written somewhat like so
(disclaimer: I have not tested this; I do not claim responsibility
to damage on any system used for testing this thing!):
while(1)
{
if(fork() && fork())
exit();
}
which basically creates two kids and then exits; the kids then create two
grandkids each, which create two great-grandkids, which ... well, you
get the idea! Once a kid has been identified, chances are it'll die
very quickly -- but there will be a lot of kids, if I've done this
correctly. (Of course, this is why one has process quotas...)
>
>> > not even then if you use a recent version of linux[1]. If each user
>> > has their own login ID then other users won't even notice :)
>>
>> Problem is, it is normal that peole DON'T log in in a factory. The
>> terminals are auto-logged in by station, and run what ever is needed.
>> VMS has several ways of doing this, up to AMDS.
>>
>> The oply use for logins is in the lunch room. A few extra 'unofficail
>> unsuported' terminals in the lunch room and some games does wonders
>> for the fault call rate, and operator ability to operate a terminal.
>>
>> --
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>> +61 (08) 9257-1001 Kalamunda.
>> West Australia 6076
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>
>
>--
>- Brent
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware
Subject: Re: two harddisks crashed and third one expected
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 23:44:52 +0200
Steve Wolfe wrote:
> > This power supply thing has always puzzled me. The HD's claim to run
> > on 5/12vdc .56/.27 amps which (w=va) = ~2.8 watts. Cooling fans (here)
> > are 12v x .08 amps or .96 watts. Why do we need 250 - 300 watt power
> > supplies? How much does the mobo and isa/pci stuff suck up?
> >
> > Mostly rhetorical - thinking out loud - but if anyone knows, by all
> > means...
>
> Realistically, we don't. I have some small computers here which have 600
> MHz CPU's and higher, a CD-ROM, a hard drive, a floppy, and the built-in
> LAN, sound, and video of the i810 chipset. They run quite happily on a
> 110-watt power supply.
>
> Now, there is the fact that a motor draws MUCH more power when it starts
> than at full speed, so if you have a large number of hard drives to spin up,
> you'll need significantly more power - but then again, these little machines
> can spin up two IDE drives without any problems. Unless you're running a
> terribly fast CPU (especially the AMD's) and have plenty of hard drives, a
> 220- or 250-watt power supply is much more than enough.
>
> In fact, if anyone doubts that statement, listen to this. One of the
> machines I take care of is a SuperMicro 8050. It has three redundant
> 250-watt power supplies. I can pull two of them out, and it will keep
> running - that's with *four* Xeons, a RAID controller, 5 SCSI drives,
> another SCSI controller, a gigabit ethernet controller, a 100 mbit network
> controller, video, and all the works. If a single 250-watt power supply
> will keep that thing fed with power, then I think that most home users would
> be very hard-pressed to overload it. I suppose that if they had a 1 GHz+
> Athlon, 4 hard drives, and a dual-processor 3DFX card, they might be able
> to, but short of that, I doubt it.
>
> steve
Thanks everybody, for your attention about my unsolved problem!
My system is still running (about 4 days long). The current configuration is:
maxtor 40GB 7200rpm, asus a7v kt133, dvd rom, plextor burnproof, 300Watt power
supply, tbird 700MHz, 512MB mem, matrox G400, two ethernet devices, soundcard
en the rest of standard pc devices.
The electric current looks reasonable according to the asus probe software
under windows but is not perfect flat. It records some fluctuation.
The first ibm harddrive (20GB 5400rpm, ata66 mode) is crashed after the second
ibm harddrive (40GB 5400rpm) is added to the same ide cable as slave ata66
mode. Heat dissipation should not be the problem because the drives are
separated by a floppy drive above each other! Besides there is plenty of room
for air flow.
I would draw the following conclusion on 1 june 2001 if the maxtor will still
be running: IBM DTLA 3050-20/40 is not compatible with asus a7v under this
configuration and at least both drives should not be coupled as master and
slave at the same time.
If the maxtor would be crashed after a few weeks from now, I will return the
motherboard to the vendor.
Is there still an alternative for the situation?
I emphasize that both ibm drives are physical crashed, because of the special
noise.
I exclude the possibility that software can create such damage within a week
under normal operation!
with compliments,
William.
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From: "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: adding an IDE hard disk - ok, call me stupid...
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 23:11:12 GMT
John & Steve;
Steve - you called it right the first time (I say sheepishly). When I
looked [closely] at the messages file I saw that in the 'linux' lilo
entry that ide-scsi=hdb was installed. I ass-u-me during the install
since there was a CDROM drive out there.
Once I removed that and rebooted I could see it as an IDE disk just fine.
Thanks for the input.
Bill
In article <gZKH6.153742$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "William B.
Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yo all;
>
> I installed Mandrake 8.0 on a mchine with a 1Gb drive and CDROM (from a
> CD). I want to remove the cdrom and put an 18Gb IDE hard disk in its
> place as /dev/hdb.
>
> I [thought] it would be simple however when I connect the hard disk it
> shows up correctly in the messages file but if I try to access through
> fdisk I get an error about a driver not having been loaded for it.
>
> Mandrake 8 install kernel 2.4.3 by default - is the driver thing new
> with
> 2.4? I don't remember having this trouble under 2.2.
>
> Help??!?
>
> TIA,
>
> Bill
>
>
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Subject: Re: run two linuxes
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 02 May 2001 19:17:09 -0400
"alik blochin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi
> can i run both Mandrake 8.0 and RH7.1 on the same hdisk ?
> i suppose i can but two separate disks would definitly be
> better choice for such endevour...
>
> the question is how do i do it?
Yes, you can run multiple Linux distributions, much the same way you can run
Windows and Linux. You put each distribution in its own partition, and boot
that. I would recomend putting your /home and other files stuff in a separate
partition from either of the partitions holding the OSes, so that you can share
your data between releases. You can definately share the swap partition
between the two linuxes. On my laptop for instance, I have the disk sliced up
as follows:
/dev/hda1 Windows 98 partition
/dev/hda5 Windows NT partition
/dev/hda6 Windows NT swap partition
/dev/hda7 /boot partition
/dev/hda8 / partition
/dev/hda9 swap partition
/dev/hda10 /home partition
/dev/hda11 /alt-root partition
When I want to install a new Linux, I use the other root partition (either
/dev/hda8 or /dev/hda11, depending on which is currently not the main root
partition). To do this, you need to go in during installation and partition
the disk, and when installing the 2nd Linux system, make sure that you don't
overwrite the first installation. Consult the LILO man page and the MultiOS
HOWTO for more information.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: run two linuxes
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 23:51:06 GMT
On 02 May 2001 19:17:09 -0400, Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"alik blochin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Hi
>> can i run both Mandrake 8.0 and RH7.1 on the same hdisk ?
>> i suppose i can but two separate disks would definitly be
>> better choice for such endevour...
>>
>> the question is how do i do it?
>
>Yes, you can run multiple Linux distributions, much the same way you can run
>Windows and Linux. You put each distribution in its own partition, and boot
>that. I would recomend putting your /home and other files stuff in a separate
>partition from either of the partitions holding the OSes, so that you can share
>your data between releases. You can definately share the swap partition
>between the two linuxes. On my laptop for instance, I have the disk sliced up
>as follows:
There's no problem having your /home directory structure in the same partition
as one of your linuxes. Just mount it from the other; they both use the exact
same file system. I'd be really annoyed if I had separate user data depending
on which OS I booted.
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From: Chris Kavanagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: network card - redhat 7.1 [Thanks]
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 19:00:20 -0500
hello,
I am very new to Linux (not to mention hardware stuff) and I am having
some trouble
with Redhat 7.1 detecting my network card (d-link DFE-530TX).
if via-rhine is the appropriate driver for this device how do i go about
installing it - do I have to recompile the kernel? (if so with 7.1 where
is the
source located - it doesn't seem to be installed)
I know there is a lot of support out there - any suggestions to the
best?
In advance :
Thank-you very much!
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