Linux-Hardware Digest #732, Volume #14 Sat, 5 May 01 21:13:07 EDT
Contents:
acer 640U scanner ??? (Luben Tuikov)
Re: XFree86-4.0.3, kernel-2.4.2 and television cards ("news")
Re: RH 7.1, kernel 2.4, and Adaptec 29160 ("Shelby S. Evans")
Re: binding network cards under linux. (Trevor Hemsley)
Re: LC 2000 network problem. Please help (Trevor Hemsley)
Re: How to do a compressed dump backup? (Trevor Hemsley)
Re: Sound Blaster 16 PCI\Ensoniq 5880 (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
RH 7.1 (kernel 2.4) & ICP-Vortex GST RS Series ("Wade Peacock")
Re: binding network cards under linux. (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Re: Dealing with IRQ errors? (michael james obrien)
Re: 3c905-tx-m and linux red hat 6.2 problems (collisions and no 100 full duplex)
(Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Re: video playback improvement question ("uncle freddy")
newbie Req: PCI Audio Vortex on Mandrake 7.2 (totoro)
Re: How do I enable eth0 from SuSE rescue system? (Tom Hoffmann)
Re: sgi challenge server S (Jeremy A. Gray)
Linux DVD-RAM support? ("PJC")
Re: How do I enable eth0 from SuSE rescue system? (Sam Piper)
Re: How do I enable eth0 from SuSE rescue system? (Eric P. McCoy)
Re: How do I enable eth0 from SuSE rescue system? (Sam Piper)
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From: Luben Tuikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: acer 640U scanner ???
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 20:40:31 GMT
I'm trying to get an Acer 640U scanner working.
I have RH7, 2.4.4 kernel (current as of today), usb compiled in,
scanner.o
as a module, xsane 0.61, sane 1.0.3, etc.
>From the kernel side everything seems to work okay, I can see the
scanner from /proc/bus/usb/ etc,etc...
BUT sane and xsane don't work. When I run them, in /var/log/messages I
get:
May 5 16:32:27 lt1 kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
May 5 16:32:27 lt1 kernel: scanner.c: write_scanner: NAK received.
What is wrong?
Has anyone gotten this scanner working in Linux in ANYWAY?
TIA
--
Luben
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From: "news" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: sfnet.atk.linux,redhat.hardware.arch.intel
Subject: Re: XFree86-4.0.3, kernel-2.4.2 and television cards
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 21:04:43 GMT
What type of card is it exactly? I've set-up an ATI tv tuner, a VODOO3500tv
tuner, and a straight bt card under linux, 9x and nt... it's alot of fun
NOT.
what is the card exactly though?
"Otto J. Makela" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> (This is a translation -- I have a Hauppage BT878-based television
> card which doesn't work right in i386/RH7.1 a system with the setup
> mentioned in the subject)
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Viljo Hakala) writes:
>
> > I remember that Xv used to cause problems with XFree86 4.0 where
> > only black screen was shown.
> >
> > How about trying xawtv with the options -noxv -noscale?
>
> Yep, finally a picture, albeit a rather sluggish one!
>
> How would I resolve this Xv problem in the long run?
> Switch over to using video4linux, how is this done?
> --
> /* * * Otto J. Makela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */
> /* Phone: +358 40 765 5772, FAX: +358 42 7655772, ICBM: 60N 25E */
> /* Mail: Mechelininkatu 26 B 27, FIN-00100 Helsinki, FINLAND */
> /* * * Computers Rule 01001111 01001011 * * * * * * * * * * * * */
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From: "Shelby S. Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 7.1, kernel 2.4, and Adaptec 29160
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 21:16:01 GMT
Jim,
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried "linux noprobe noapic" for kernel
parameters but in this case, it said I have no medium on which to
install the operating system.
Chris Evans
J Hayward wrote:
> Hello,
>
> At the install prompt try the option "noprobe", this might allow you to
> install.
>
> ------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2001-04-24 11:45:44
>
> We've isolated where the problem comes from (it is IRQ routing issues, it
> is only on kernels that are not SMP and do not have UP-IOAPIC enabled,
> which basically means that the PCI BIOS IRQ routing table is hosed while
> the MP IRQ table mapping is OK, which is likely a bug/deficiency in the
> motherboard BIOS). Fixing it will likely require an entirely new boot disk
> with UP-IOAPIC support enabled (which also means all the modules have to be
> rebuilt and will result in new driver disks as well :-(
>
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Regards,
> Jim H
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor Hemsley)
Subject: Re: binding network cards under linux.
Date: 05 May 2001 21:27:41 GMT
On Sat, 5 May 2001 01:09:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly
One) wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ashley pestkowski) wrote:
>
> > Is there anyway to bind two network cards together under Linux to
> > create a redundant connection to a switch? If one of the cards fails
> > the other one takes over, reducing the link from 200Mb to 100Mb.
> >
> > I am trying to keep this as simple as possible. I understand the ideal
> > solution would be by using a cluster but I am only interested in doing
> > this on a single machine. I know for a fact this can be done under NT.
> >
> > Does anybody have any suggestions?
>
> You "know for a fact" this can be done? Have you done it? I'd
> be VERY surprised to find out that it's possible, unless I'm
> misunderstanding what you're asking. The problem is, each
> network interface on the same LAN needs a distinct IP address.
I've done it under that other operating system :-( I've recently set
up a server with 4 x 100Mb ethernet cards. Using a Compaq server and
their "teaming" driver for their ethernet cards, I bound all 4 cards
together and they get given the same MAC address and all share the
same IP address. I did it to provide redundancy but the docs also show
that you can increase the throughput on the cards by having more than
1 active simultaneously. There were two configuration options, one of
which required support from the hub that the cards were plugged into
and one which did not.
--
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor Hemsley)
Subject: Re: LC 2000 network problem. Please help
Date: 05 May 2001 21:27:43 GMT
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 04:51:32, "blongk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
If route -n works but route without -n stops then it's looking for
your domain name server to resolve IP addresses to names. Your dns IP
address is wrong. If you wait for about a minute then each lookup will
timeout and print something, probably the IP address.
--
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor Hemsley)
Subject: Re: How to do a compressed dump backup?
Date: 05 May 2001 21:27:42 GMT
On Sat, 5 May 2001 02:43:28, james montoya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone know the device name that provides a compressed dump backup
> on Redhat linux?
> I am currently using dump -0auf /dev/nst0 which isn't compressed.
> On a SUN Solaris system it is /dev/rmt/0cn for example.
Use mtst to turn compression on at the drive level first if the drive
supports hardware compression.
I've also recently read a discussion on linux-kernel which says that
dump shouldn't be used on mounted filesystems since it won't produce
accurate results. Maybe look at using tar instead or some other
alternative backup program. GNU tar also has a -z switch that pipes
the output through gzip before it's written so if your tape device
doesn't support hardware compression then this would supply software
for you.
--
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster 16 PCI\Ensoniq 5880
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 21:43:04 GMT
"Chris" <e e z e e 7 @ h o m e . c o m> wrote:
> I hope it isn't an IRQ conflict or anything, but if it is,
> how would I fix that?
First, make certain the "PNP OS Installed" setting in the
BIOS is turned off or set to "disabled". If that doesn't
solve it, try swapping PCI slots around. If that doesn't
help either, post back here. There are ways to adjust
the IRQ assignments manually... (All of this assumes
that an IRQ conflict is your problem; it might not be,
so continue pursuing other possibilities as you were.)
- jonadab
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From: "Wade Peacock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH 7.1 (kernel 2.4) & ICP-Vortex GST RS Series
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 21:55:18 GMT
Has any out there got a compiled driver for RH 6.2, 7.0, or 7.1 that can be
used to install RH Linux from scratch.
The minimum support required is RH 6.2.
Thanks,
Wade
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Subject: Re: binding network cards under linux.
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 21:47:58 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy) wrote:
> It's possible, but requires support on the other end. I think.
The "other end" being the switch, yes? That I might believe.
- jonadab
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (michael james obrien)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,alt.linux.redhat,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Dealing with IRQ errors?
Date: 5 May 2001 22:29:27 GMT
Tom,
The odds are extremely high that your BIOS is setting the IRQs all to 11.
This is what the modern PCI bus BIOSes are _supposed_ to do.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work right occasionally. Usually, your BIOS
will give some options to manually configure the PCI Interrupts. Give it
a try, but write down the original settings first.
-Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: 3c905-tx-m and linux red hat 6.2 problems (collisions and no 100 full
duplex)
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 22:00:17 GMT
"A.C. 'Static' Stadt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is way outside my field of expertiese. The last time I checked, the
> only time you can enable full duplex is if everything in your network and
> support full duplex.
If your hub is sufficiently intelligent, some devices can use
full duplex while others use half duplex. Hubs smart enough
to do this usually also allow some nodes to use 10BaseT while
others use 100BaseT, and they typically have indicator lights
for speed and duplex as well as link and traffic. (Some of
these may be indicated by colour or blinking, of course.)
Hubs that do this often also perform switching (sending
packets only to the nodes for which they are designated).
Basically, we're talking about quality network hardware.
If your hub is just a dumb broadcast repeater with several
ports, then everything connected to it has to speak the
same protocol, naturally.
As far as the original poster's question, I really don't
know what would prevent a LAN segment from using full
duplex if all the hardware supports it. DOES all the
hardware support it? And do all the NICs support the
automagic negotiation? Are your cables all category 5?
Lots of collisions? How many is a lot? How big is
the network, and how much traffic does it see?
You said you can't get 100BaseT full duplex. Can you
get 100BaseT at all?
- jonadab
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From: "uncle freddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: video playback improvement question
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 22:41:54 GMT
Well I figured out one thing, if I run aviplay as root it's MUCH faster. I
assume because you need root to write to the MTRR registers. Does anyone
have any video speed tweaks besides this? (2-D)
tia
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (totoro)
Subject: newbie Req: PCI Audio Vortex on Mandrake 7.2
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 23:12:46 GMT
Please note that I'm a fresher, the query may therefore be badly
posed.
I installed Mandrake 7.2 and it seems to dislike my audio card (PCI
Audio Vortex AU8810) - no sound at all indeed.
If anyone can help...
I also couldn't configure my USB mouse (Logitech i-Feel)... for the
good of heart...
thanks,
totoro
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Hoffmann)
Subject: Re: How do I enable eth0 from SuSE rescue system?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 23:51:02 GMT
> I have the rescue system running, but do not know how to manually
> configure eth0 and turn on the ftp service so I can move the rpm and
> then install it. eth0 needs to have an ip addr of 200.0.0.100 (for
> the moment) to avoid getting slammed by the firewall.
For the interface:
ifconfig eth0 200.0.0.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 \
broadcast 200.0.0.255
ifconfig eth0 up
As for ftp, you will be runing an ftp client so there is nothing to
turn on. Once the interface is up you should be able to issue an 'ftp'
command to connect to SuSE.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy A. Gray)
Subject: Re: sgi challenge server S
Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 19:08:49 -0500
On Fri, 04 May 2001 14:27:06 GMT, Noam Kloos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello group,
>
> Is there an easy way to install linux on a SGI challenge S server?
> That is without having to install IRIX.
>
As much I sometimes want to put linux on some of the SGIs I admin,
there's no way to do it. There was some effort at a linux port to mips,
but it was with a modified RH 5.2 and I think it only worked on an Indy
or Indigo, but not a Challenge.
Besides, Irix (at least 6.5) is a very good OS and is much more friendly
than the other commercial unices I've had to interact with.
--
Jeremy A. Gray
Physical Chemistry
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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From: "PJC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux DVD-RAM support?
Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 20:30:38 -0400
I have a Hitachi DVD-RAM and a few disks formetted for fat32, how the heck
do I mount the drive? So far it is just being seen as a regular cdrom and
inserting a dvd-ram disks has no effect.
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From: Sam Piper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I enable eth0 from SuSE rescue system?
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 20:46:09 -0400
HI Tom - excellent results so far. The card is up according to
ifconfig. However, the rescue system appears to load no services.
The card will not respond to an external ping or trace. I have sent a
message back to SuSE help for more information/guidance.
FWIW - From the console, ftp, netstat, ping and trace all result in
command not found. Can you tell me what directory these would
normally be found in? I will try to manually start the network and
related functions. I think I can mount partitions from hda but I will
have to guess which partition is what (e.g. hda1= ???). All this was
configured by the SuSE setup utility and I have not been able to
access my system since (other than through the rescue system on the
CD).
Thanks.
Sam
On Sat, 05 May 2001 23:51:02 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom
Hoffmann) drooled on the keyboard and implied that:
>For the interface:
>
>ifconfig eth0 200.0.0.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 \
> broadcast 200.0.0.255
>ifconfig eth0 up
>
>As for ftp, you will be runing an ftp client so there is nothing to
>turn on. Once the interface is up you should be able to issue an 'ftp'
>command to connect to SuSE.
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Subject: Re: How do I enable eth0 from SuSE rescue system?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
Date: 05 May 2001 20:53:44 -0400
Sam Piper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> HI Tom - excellent results so far. The card is up according to
> ifconfig. However, the rescue system appears to load no services.
> The card will not respond to an external ping or trace. I have sent a
> message back to SuSE help for more information/guidance.
You need to also do:
route add default gw YOUR-GATEWAY
On an ideally-designed network, your gateway will be your IP address,
but ending in 1 instead. For example, my IP is 150.209.152.123, my
gateway is 150.209.152.1. This is very often not the case, however.
> FWIW - From the console, ftp, netstat, ping and trace all result in
> command not found. Can you tell me what directory these would
> normally be found in?
ftp: /usr/bin/ftp
netstat: /bin/netstat
ping: /bin/ping
traceroute: /usr/sbin/traceroute
> I will try to manually start the network and
> related functions. I think I can mount partitions from hda but I will
> have to guess which partition is what (e.g. hda1= ???).
Use fdisk to look for a Linux (non-swap) partition. If you have many
partitions, keep looking until you find the one which has /etc in it,
then look at /etc/fstab. Along with some other mumbo-jumbo, it'll
tell you where all your partitions are.
--
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: Sam Piper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I enable eth0 from SuSE rescue system?
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 21:07:29 -0400
Hello Erin - your comments are correct - the Gateway is indeed ".1".
And I have added the default gateway as you suggested. Thanks for the
info on the directories and partions - a hunting I do go. :-)
Maybe I really can get this to work <g>.
Thanks.
On 05 May 2001 20:53:44 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
drooled on the keyboard and implied that:
>Sam Piper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> HI Tom - excellent results so far. The card is up according to
>> ifconfig. However, the rescue system appears to load no services.
>> The card will not respond to an external ping or trace. I have sent a
>> message back to SuSE help for more information/guidance.
>
>You need to also do:
>
> route add default gw YOUR-GATEWAY
>
>On an ideally-designed network, your gateway will be your IP address,
>but ending in 1 instead. For example, my IP is 150.209.152.123, my
>gateway is 150.209.152.1. This is very often not the case, however.
>
>> FWIW - From the console, ftp, netstat, ping and trace all result in
>> command not found. Can you tell me what directory these would
>> normally be found in?
>
>ftp: /usr/bin/ftp
>netstat: /bin/netstat
>ping: /bin/ping
>traceroute: /usr/sbin/traceroute
>
>> I will try to manually start the network and
>> related functions. I think I can mount partitions from hda but I will
>> have to guess which partition is what (e.g. hda1= ???).
>
>Use fdisk to look for a Linux (non-swap) partition. If you have many
>partitions, keep looking until you find the one which has /etc in it,
>then look at /etc/fstab. Along with some other mumbo-jumbo, it'll
>tell you where all your partitions are.
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