Linux-Hardware Digest #808, Volume #14 Tue, 22 May 01 03:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Which NIC card should I use for router? (Ya!Right!)
Re: Multiple soundcards setup ("Justin Mahn")
Re: /dev/hda17 ... ("Justin Mahn")
Re: Multiple SCSI controllers? (Cokey de Percin)
tornado usb modem (amnat)
Re: /dev/hda17 ... (Dances With Crows)
US robotics 56K Internal modem help !! ("Sarkie")
US Robotics 3CP5610A Modem Problem ("tszeto")
Re: US Robotics 3CP5610A Modem Problem (Kelly)
Any hints for Radeon 32mb ddr setup ("Jimmy")
usb_control/bulk_msg (Shreyas)
Re: US robotics 56K Internal modem help !! (s)
Re: Multiple SCSI controllers? (Michael Meissner)
Re: Multiple SCSI controllers? (Michael Meissner)
About Digital Cameras for Linux? (Lew Pitcher)
Aopen AX6B+ motherboard ("Boon Yeo")
Re: Multiple SCSI controllers? (Juergen Pfann)
Re: Hardware RAID controllers for Linux ("Tauno Voipio")
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From: Ya!Right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which NIC card should I use for router?
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 18:34:39 -0700
Do you already have one NIC for your 100BaseT connection?
I would suggest 2 3com card you can get a used 3com 3c595 for about 30$ CND
or 22$ USD. This card is 10-100BaseT auto sense.
Is your HUB 10 or 100BaseT(100 I hope!)?
What kind of trafic are you expecting?
Cheers,
nick wrote:
> I have a 100-base T internet connection and about 200 users in our local
> network .
> And I want to use linux with iptabls to forward the packet .
> Which NIC card can I use ? Any suggestions ?
>
> Thks in advance .
>
>
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From: "Justin Mahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Multiple soundcards setup
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 17:48:59 -0500
have you tried "/dev/dsp"?
"James Thorniley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:6icO6.10094$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am experimentally trying to set up two sound cards in one box. I have an
> SB Live! and bought a SoundBlaster 16 PCI as a cheap spare card.
Installing
> the modules for both does not seem to be a problem (emu10k1 for the Live
> ande es1371 for the SB 16 PCI) as no problems appear in /var/log/dmesg:
>
> Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.7, 15:50:39 May 20 2001
> PCI: Assigned IRQ 11 for device 00:08.0
> emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 4 model 0x20 found, IO at 0xd800-0xd81f, IRQ 11
> es1371: version v0.30 time 17:15:08 May 20 2001
> es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x5880 revision 0x02
> PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0a.0
> IRQ routing conflict in pirq table for device 00:0a.0
> es1371: found es1371 rev 2 at io 0xe400 irq 9
> es1371: features: joystick 0x0
> ac97_codec: AC97 codec, id: 0x0000:0x0000 (Unknown)
>
> Now I assume the different soundcards should be represented by
> /dev/dsp[1-3]. On my debian system these all appear to exist:
> # ls -l /dev/dsp*
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 3 Nov 30 15:23 /dev/dsp
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 19 Nov 30 15:23 /dev/dsp1
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 35 Nov 30 15:23 /dev/dsp2
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 51 Nov 30 15:23 /dev/dsp3
>
> using
> cat foo > /dev/dsp1
> plays a noise through the SB Live! fine but I cannot get anything similar
> to work for the SB 16 using /dev/dsp2 or 3.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> James
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From: "Justin Mahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: /dev/hda17 ...
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 17:50:46 -0500
I didn't think that was possible, as you can only fit 4 logical partitions
into each of the 4 extended partitions, but I'm not in any way knowledgeable
about it. why would you need that many partitions on one drive anyway?
"R S Prigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> How can I get entries for /dev/hda?? > 16.
>
> Is this something that needs to be compiled into kernel, or can i
otherwise
> make with MAKEDEV.ide or such??
>
> Thanks
>
> RSP
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From: Cokey de Percin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Multiple SCSI controllers?
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 23:30:31 GMT
Juergen Wille wrote:
>
> On 18 Jan 2001 20:09:38 -0500, Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >Note, 2.4 changes the order in which is considers which scsi adapter is the
> >first adapter, which might need some finessing when you move up to that
> >release, particularly if you have scsi adapters that use different drivers.
> >What I do is build the drivers for the TekRam as modular drivers, and build the
> >Adpatec drivers into the kernel, so the first driver it encounters is an
> >Adaptec.
> >
> Hi Michael,
> is the order really important? - I mean, I have two SCSI-Adapters,
> one is an old tekram310, which should be served by the nc53c8xx or
> the sym53c8xx driver, the other is an adaptec, which came with my
> scanner and is all right with the aic(dont no yet) driver. When
> I use just the adaptec driver, it works fine for the adaptec. When
> I try to use the driver for the tekram, I always get a kernel
> panic while booting - after the adapter has been recognized and
> after there was division by 0 error. Could this be avoided
> by using a module for the tekram?
> (BTW. I have just installed the RH7.1; One year ago I had SUSE6.3,
> 2.2.13 Kernel IIRC, running, which did no problems at least with the
> tekram, not sure if I had the adaptec installed)
> Greetings. Juergen
The simplest thing to do is to turn off the bios on the SCSI controller(s)
that you _don't_ want to boot from. This usually done through a Ctl-? key
on boot up or sometimes with a dos utility. The system will boot from the
first card it finds with an active bios regardless of the order. This also
applies to on-board SCSI controllers.
Note also that some of the high end server boards (Tyan 2500 for one)
actually allow you to set the controller that you wish to boot from in
the motherboard bios.
Best
Cokey
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From: amnat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: tornado usb modem
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 01:30:08 -0000
hi
is there anyone try "TORNADO SFM56.0 USB" ?
is it winmodem ?
cat i use it with linux?
thank in advance
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: /dev/hda17 ...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 22 May 2001 01:43:54 GMT
On Mon, 21 May 2001 17:50:46 -0500, Justin Mahn staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
>"R S Prigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> How can I get entries for /dev/hda?? > 16. Is this something that
>> needs to be compiled into kernel, or can i otherwise make with
>> MAKEDEV.ide or such??
>I didn't think that was possible, as you can only fit 4 logical
>partitions into each of the 4 extended partitions, but I'm not in any
>way knowledgeable about it. why would you need that many partitions on
>one drive anyway?
Nope.
On the x86, you can have 4 primary partitions. One (and ONLY one) of
these primary partitions can be an "extended" partition. Within this
extended partition, you can have as many logical partitions as you want.
The BSD disklabels used on the Alpha and under various BSDs operate
differently.
Anyway, like so:
for i in 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 ; do
mknod -m 660 /dev/hda$i b 3 $i
chown root.disk /dev/hda$i
done
And there are many reasons to have lots of partitions. Multiple OSes on
a machine with only one hard drive, for instance.
--
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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: "Sarkie" <((REMOVE the EXTRA , )) [email protected]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: US robotics 56K Internal modem help !!
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 09:47:53 -0400
I have a winmodem I guess by US robotics. In win2k its under Com3 IRQ11 how
do I get this to work under Mandrake 8.0, When I try to use it says its
ready but when I try to dial its busy or not responding. Please help
Thanks
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From: "tszeto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: US Robotics 3CP5610A Modem Problem
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 20:20:24 -0700
Hello,
I'm having some trouble getting online through my modem.
I just bought a US Robotics 3CP5610A PCI Modem and used the following
command to get it working: "setserial /dev/ttyS1 irq 11 port 0xb400
autoconfig"
Then I use KPPP to connect to my ISP and it seems like it's working. But
when use my browser or my email program to try to connect, I get server not
found.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
Ted
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Subject: Re: US Robotics 3CP5610A Modem Problem
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kelly)
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 03:28:31 GMT
Did you define your name servers? That would explain the 'Server not Found'
messages. I havnt used dialup in ages, I am too used to my cable modem now
:-) But when I did use it I had to tell linux what the IPs to my ISP's name
servers were. Looking at your headers and using atl.mindspring.com as
reference I find these to be your name servers:
ITCHY.MINDSPRING.NET 207.69.200.210
SCRATCHY.MINDSPRING.NET 207.69.200.211
BURDELL.CC.GATECH.EDU 130.207.3.207
To tell linux where these name servers are try this:
cd /etc
Modify the resolv.conf file using whatever text editor you want. And for
example put this in:
search mindspring.net
nameserver 207.69.200.210
nameserver 207.69.200.211
nameserver 130.207.3.207
Then save the file and try your dialup connection again. This should
hopefully work for you. You have to use the IP numbers, putting in the
domain names will not work.
========================
Beware any philosophy that will fit in this space.
"tszeto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
news:9eclkk$s20$[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Hello,
>
> I'm having some trouble getting online through my modem.
>
> I just bought a US Robotics 3CP5610A PCI Modem and used the following
> command to get it working: "setserial /dev/ttyS1 irq 11 port 0xb400
> autoconfig"
>
> Then I use KPPP to connect to my ISP and it seems like it's working. But
> when use my browser or my email program to try to connect, I get server not
> found.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Ted
>
>
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From: "Jimmy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Any hints for Radeon 32mb ddr setup
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 04:11:24 GMT
Hi,
I just put together a new system: 1.2 GHz T'bird, Asus A7M266 board, 256
megs crucial ram, SB Live platinum sound card, and an ornery 32mb ddr Radeon
card, all with RH 7.1
So the redhat 7.1 install claims to recognize the card, but when testing the
x server, the install crashes. With xconfigurator, the machine crashes when
starting x.
I'm pretty new with Linux, so don't know much about altering the XF86config
file.
I've read that there is this DRI software that needs to be intalled for 3-D
rendering, but I don't know if this is necessary just to get video working.
I would like the card to run at 32 bits, though as this what the card is
optimized for.
So, does anyone have experience with this card? If so, please let me know.
Thanks
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From: Shreyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: usb_control/bulk_msg
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 04:30:04 -0000
I'm getting the message usb_control/bulk_msg many times upon enabling the usb
interface
through initrc. My specs are:
ScanJet 6200C on USB
VIA Controller
256 MB RAM
Mandrake 8.0
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From: s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: US robotics 56K Internal modem help !!
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 00:04:47 -0500
Not all us robotics are winmodems. Mine is a 5610 and got it to work in
7.2 with setserial. In 8.0 it was automagic. What version you using
running? You could try setserial. Look in kde system control and find the
ioport and irq, and then run the setserial command and see if it'll
connect. You may have to try other com ports and if it is using com5,
you'll have to make a symlink from /dev/modem to /dev/ttyS4. If it don't
work, then go to www.linmodems.org .
-s
Sarkie wrote:
> I have a winmodem I guess by US robotics. In win2k its under Com3 IRQ11
> how do I get this to work under Mandrake 8.0, When I try to use it says
> its ready but when I try to dial its busy or not responding. Please help
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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Subject: Re: Multiple SCSI controllers?
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 22 May 2001 01:37:08 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Wille) writes:
> On 18 Jan 2001 20:09:38 -0500, Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >Note, 2.4 changes the order in which is considers which scsi adapter is the
> >first adapter, which might need some finessing when you move up to that
> >release, particularly if you have scsi adapters that use different drivers.
> >What I do is build the drivers for the TekRam as modular drivers, and build the
> >Adpatec drivers into the kernel, so the first driver it encounters is an
> >Adaptec.
> >
> Hi Michael,
> is the order really important? - I mean, I have two SCSI-Adapters,
> one is an old tekram310, which should be served by the nc53c8xx or
> the sym53c8xx driver, the other is an adaptec, which came with my
> scanner and is all right with the aic(dont no yet) driver. When
> I use just the adaptec driver, it works fine for the adaptec. When
> I try to use the driver for the tekram, I always get a kernel
> panic while booting - after the adapter has been recognized and
> after there was division by 0 error. Could this be avoided
> by using a module for the tekram?
> (BTW. I have just installed the RH7.1; One year ago I had SUSE6.3,
> 2.2.13 Kernel IIRC, running, which did no problems at least with the
> tekram, not sure if I had the adaptec installed)
> Greetings. Juergen
Order is important if you have disks on multiple scsi controllers (or multiple
tapes, cds, or scanners spread out over multiple scsi contorllers for that
matter). What scsi controller the BIOS boots from has nothing to do with what
scsi controller Linux chooses as the first scsi controller. For example, on
this particular machine, I have 3 scsi controllers:
Adaptec 7890 built into my motherboard (ASUS P2B-DS)
TekRam 390F
Adaptec 2930U
The 7890 has 3 LVD disks on it, the 2930U has a scanner on it, and the 390F has
the remaining 3 SE disks and CD-R drive on it. Linux 2.2, with both scsi
controllers compiled into the kernel, made the 7890 the first scsi controller,
the 2930U the second controller, and the 390F the third controller. This meant
that the disks on the 7890 were /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, and /dev/sdc, while the
disks on the 390F were /dev/sdd, /dev/sde, and /dev/sdf. When I first switched
to Linux 2.4, I discovered that if I built in both drivers, Linux would use the
390F as the first controller, the 7890 as the second, and the 2930U as the
third controller, even though it booted from the first disk on the 7890
controller. This mean that the disk that previously was /dev/sda, is now
swapped with the disk that previously was /dev/sdd.
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PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
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Subject: Re: Multiple SCSI controllers?
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 22 May 2001 01:41:46 -0400
Cokey de Percin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The simplest thing to do is to turn off the bios on the SCSI controller(s)
> that you _don't_ want to boot from. This usually done through a Ctl-? key
> on boot up or sometimes with a dos utility. The system will boot from the
> first card it finds with an active bios regardless of the order. This also
> applies to on-board SCSI controllers.
>
> Note also that some of the high end server boards (Tyan 2500 for one)
> actually allow you to set the controller that you wish to boot from in
> the motherboard bios.
Actually, the scsi controller you boot off of has nothing to do with what Linux
2.4 thinks of as the first controller. Yes, your /boot or / partition must be
on the first 2 disks as the BIOS counts things, but once you have gotten past
the initial boot, and are at the step of the kernel mounting the root file
system, the order that Linux uses to find the first scsi controller kicks in.
--
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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: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: About Digital Cameras for Linux?
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 05:47:04 GMT
I'm looking into getting a Digital camera, and want something that I can
use with Linux. I haven't looked far yet; I've checked out the Kodak MC3
and the DLink DSC350. I'm looking for a camera that
- can be used as a photo camera
- provides good still picture resolutions
- can be used as a webcamera,
- can be attached to a Linux system (download/edit photos, etc.)
Additionally, it wouldn't hurt my feelings if the camera could also take
motion video
Anyone got some recommendations?
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
Registered Linux User #112576
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From: "Boon Yeo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Aopen AX6B+ motherboard
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 16:04:12 +1000
Hello,
Could anyone please tell me whether Linux supports
Aopen AX6B+ motherboard. I kept getting:
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: device not capable of full native PCI mode
PIIX4: device disabled (BIOS)
Thanks,
-Boon
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From: Juergen Pfann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Multiple SCSI controllers?
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 07:43:51 +0200
Cokey de Percin wrote:
>
> Juergen Wille wrote:
> >
> > (Two SCSI HAs, Tekram 310 & unspecified Adaptec)
>
> The simplest thing to do is to turn off the bios on the SCSI controller(s)
> that you _don't_ want to boot from. This usually done through a Ctl-? key
> on boot up or sometimes with a dos utility. The system will boot from the
> first card it finds with an active bios regardless of the order. This also
> applies to on-board SCSI controllers.
>
With all-LSI-/Symbios-HAs, you should have only _one_ SCSI BIOS "popup"
on boot for all such adapters, and can specify the adapter boot order
in the configuration menu.
When upgrading from a SYM8750SP (53c875-Ultra Narrow) to an SYM21002
(53c896 Dual-U2W), I did a short test with both cards - that is 3
"logical"
adapters/channels, of course -, and it worked fine as expected.
One could choose in one menu the adapter to boot from, without having
to disable the BIOS for the others.
Linux sticked to the order assigned in the SCSI BIOS setup, thus
getting different assignment e.g. for sda, sdb, scd0, scd1 and so on.
(BTW : With LSI-based boards, devices not scanned by the SCSI BIOS
are also ignored in Linux later on).
While this should work "in theory" for all HAs with LSI chips, I've
heard that in the "real world" you might get problems mixing for
instance genuine LSI/Symbios, Tekram, ASUS, or others...
To repeat the point here, as opposed to Cokey (in order to avoid
misunderstanding) :
With LSI, no need to _disable_ one HA's BIOS (wouldn't be able to use
that HA's devices, I'm afraid...); just adjust the boot order, as
you like.
Juergen
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From: "Tauno Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hardware RAID controllers for Linux
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 06:45:05 GMT
"Dances With Crows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3b09c45b$0$62140$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [NOTE follow-up-to header. This is a hardware question!]
> On Mon, 21 May 2001 14:12:46 GMT, Tauno Voipio staggered into the Black
> Sun and said:
> >Any recommendations on hardware RAID controllers for Linux?
>
> Using SCSI disks: ICP Vortex, AMI MegaRAID, Perc2 or 3 RAID.
> Using IDE disks: 3Ware Escalade
>
> We've got a Perc3 RAID controller managing 480G of disks in RAID5 under
> a slightly modified RedHat 7.0 install. I/O is fast enough that the
> main bottleneck is the dedicated gigabit Ethernet link between the file
> server and the compute server. If you need cheap RAID, the 3Ware are
> supposed to be very good. More info can be had by searching for
> "hardware RAID" on http://groups.google.com/ under group
> comp.os.linux.hardware.
>
Thanks. My bloddy ISP does not carry the Linux hardware news group.
Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi
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