Linux-Hardware Digest #845, Volume #14 Wed, 30 May 01 10:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: Please help me get WIN98 back!! (Akop Pogosian)
Re: Multiple SCSI controllers? (Juergen Pfann)
Re: Please help me get WIN98 back!! ("Glitch")
SCSI problems (John English)
Re: Via VT82C686 Sound Card (Shayne Hourigan)
Re: AMD System : Reliability and compatibility? ("andrew_webby at hotmail")
Re: Server Garaging ("Andy Chessum")
Re: Can Linux rescue an old Mac PowerBook? (mr_roget)
Re: Two tulip ethernet cards in a single RH 6.2 machine? (Richard Cobbe)
Re: Two tulip ethernet cards in a single RH 6.2 machine? (Richard Cobbe)
Re: Two tulip ethernet cards in a single RH 6.2 machine? (Richard Cobbe)
Re: How could I make a raw copy of a disk ? (A. GUILLEVIC)
Re: Please help me get WIN98 back!! (Toby Haynes)
Re: What to install for a laptop? (Keith McGavin)
Re: Two tulip ethernet cards in a single RH 6.2 machine? ("Peter T. Breuer")
ESS ES1969 Solo-1 With Mandrake 8 ("madmunky")
Low cost timer-counter pci board w/Linux driver? (Chris)
Re: smartlink linmodem driver problem - solved! (Manfred Vogelgesang)
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From: Akop Pogosian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Please help me get WIN98 back!!
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 06:55:11 +0000 (UTC)
In comp.os.linux.setup Somphong K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> During this Memorial weekend, I installed Redhat 7.1 (Kernel 2.4.2-2)
> on my PC at home. Win98 is on IDE drive/A and Rh7.1 completely on IDE
> drive/B. I did not realize at the time that part of linux, such as /boot
> partition, had to be on drive/A to use LILO.
That's not true. /boot can be pretty much anywhere, specially with the
LBA32 extensions that the RedHat version of Lilo has. On my PC, the
Linux system is setup on the slave disk IDE disk but Lilo is installed
on the MBR of the boot (master) disk. I have never bothered to change
that. Not only Linux seems to be booting fine from the second HD, but
also FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris 7 and probably others ..
> During graphic installation,I was prompted where to put LILO i.e. in MBR
> or linux drive's boot partition. Unfortunately I decided to avoid fooling
> with MBR and opted for the later.
If you don't install LILO on MBR of the boot disk, then you'd better
have some other multi-os boot loader or a Linux boot floppy or you
won't be able to boot into Linux at all.
> I hoped to restore MBR by executing 'fdisk /MBR' under MSDOS but I was
> surprised to learn that all my Windows rescue and MSDOS diskettes failed
> to even boot. PC tried to boot from the floppies but hang after reading/
> loading a few blocks.
If you just mentioned that you "decided to avoid fooling with MBR and
opted for the later" how did you manage to boot into Linux? Did you
change your BIOS settings to boot from that drive? If you did and now
you have trouble booting into widows that probably means Windows
doesn't like residing on the disk other than the one that you boot
from.
> 5) I have MSN connection which I usually use their 'MSN Internet Access'
> tool to connect. Could and how I connect to MSN from Linux??
I'd be surprised if you can't connect to MSN. You can do a google or a
dejnews search to find that out.
-akop
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From: Juergen Pfann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Multiple SCSI controllers?
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 10:05:55 +0200
Jeff Jonas wrote:
>
> I'm still rebuilding a Linux machine with 2 SCSI adapters of different mfgrs:
> - NCR 53c825 based wide differential controller (with bios enabled)
> to 2: wide differential disks
> - Mylex narrow single-ended SCSI (with bios enabled) to PD CD,
> and occasionally, external devices such as tape drive, CD-ROM, hard drive.
> (...)
> Once booted, the system uses all SCSI devices just fine *BUT*
> the narrow SCSI controller is always found first, so the PD-CD
> (Phase Differential CD read/write) drive's dual personality impacts the
> device name assignments. If the read/write cartridge is in the drive
> during booting, it's considered a hard drive /dev/sda.
> But if there's a CD or nothing in the drive, it's considered a CD-ROM
> /dev/scd0. All disks are then assigned names AFTER that
> (so the other drives could be /dev/sda&sdb or sdb&sdc)
>
> (...)
> I know there's interesting development being done concerning dynamic
> device naming since the whole /dev/sdxxx assignment is kinda hokey.
> In my setup, adding any disks to the narrow SCSI bus then causes all the
> wide disks to get different names (ex: /dev/sdb -> /dev/sdc).
> I'd like persistent mapping of SCSI devices to names, even if that
> leaves "holes" in the sequence for removable drives.
>
> Names like Solaris: /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s3 may look kinda long and verbose,
> but it's very descriptive: controller 1 target 0 drive 0 slice(partition) 3.
>
This will be / is already similar to that, with the "devfs" code
in 2.4.x; names will be some like "/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/0/..." (IIRC,
I'm not using this myself (yet) ) - subdirectories created "on the
fly", the naming convention resembling more to BeOS than Solaris.
BTW : for the latter, the above "traditional" entries are links
to dynamical entries like "/devices/pci@1000,f/0/0..." - which
seems to me to be on the way to solve an issue still remaining
in Linux : Who can guarantee the order of the _controllers_ ?
For a single HA with given PCI vendor/device ID, this is quite
clear; but still possible to change that in SCSI BIOS(s) for
ex. with dual-channel HAs...
> I know that Linux's SCSI drivers have 'rescan' support,
> but I think they reassign device names as needed
> and I'm unsure how that interacts with already mounted drives.
>
As I see it, for the "classical" system, device entries of
newly-scanned SCSI busses are always appended ; so this is
*very* likely to mix up your /etc/fstab, the link /dev/scanner
-> /dev/sg4, etc., etc.
If there's anything wrong in my points, please have no fear
to correct me ;-)).
Juergen
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From: "Glitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please help me get WIN98 back!!
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 03:04:45 -0400
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
In article <jKWQ6.4379$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "twamn"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Take it from a person who has been there before.
>
> Next time unplug ALL drives except the one you want to install to. I
> went to upgrade my PC to Win2K and overlaid the boot section to my
> existing OS (ouch). Now every time I install a new OS I only have one
> hard drive plus the CDrom drive connected to the mother board.
>
> I know this is to late for you but hopefully it will help others avoid
> wiping out their main OS while doing a 'simple' dual boot upgrade.
>
i dont see what the trouble is. I've never hosed my other OS when
installing Linux. I've installed lilo on a partition before instead of
the MBR but that didnt mess anything up but the boot record of the
Windows partition and a simple sys c: fixed the problem.
> tom
>
> "Somphong K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:9f0sna$a37$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> During this Memorial weekend, I installed Redhat 7.1 (Kernel 2.4.2-2)
>> on my PC at home. Win98 is on IDE drive/A and Rh7.1 completely on IDE
>> drive/B. I did not realize at the time that part of linux, such as
>> /boot partition, had to be on drive/A to use LILO.
>>
driveA in Windows-speak is ur floppy drive
>> During graphic installation,I was prompted where to put LILO i.e. in
>> MBR or linux drive's boot partition. Unfortunately I decided to avoid
>> fooling with MBR and opted for the later.
>>
fooling with it? u tell the installation program u want it there and it
does it for u...what fooling around did u expect to have to do? edit the
hex codes yourself? REalizing whether u put it on the MBR for the boot
record of the linux drive either way it is put in place w/o you having to
do anything other than make some settings known to LILO so it can boot
linux and your other OSes, etc.
>> The lilo installation ended up with failure. Everything else went
fine
did u know it failed before u rebooted? if so, how? what errors did u
receive?
>> I created boot diskette. I then realized I was no longer able to boot
>> Win98. Everybody in my household jumped on me!! My wife wanted to
>> search webs about her stock investment, my kid wanted to play starcraft
>> with his folks, ....
>>
>> I hoped to restore MBR by executing 'fdisk /MBR' under MSDOS but I was
>> surprised to learn that all my Windows rescue and MSDOS diskettes
>> failed to even boot. PC tried to boot from the floppies but hang after
>> reading/ loading a few blocks.
>>
>> When I mounted on to /dev/hda1, I could see that all Win98 directories
how did u do this if your PC cant boot floppies? Saying its b/c you
booted Linux instead doesn't fly since the OS has nothing to do with
reading the floppy at boot time.
>> and files were still intact. I just do not know why drive/A broke when
driveA is the floppy
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From: John English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: SCSI problems
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 09:50:28 +0100
I've just installed Red Hat 7.1 on a machine at work which has an
Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller, to which is attached a Fujitsu M2513A
640M magneto-optical drive. I've also got an HP 7100 IDE CD writer,
which I've got set up for SCSI emulation as per the X-CD-Roast docs.
I have problems with both devices...
1) I can mount a disk in the M-O drive, and I can list the contents
of the directory. As soon as I try to copy to or from the disk,
I either get a segmentation fault (following a null pointer) or
sometimes X freezes such that the mouse doesn't move and I can't
get out.
2) When I try to write a CD, it writes a few meg and then reports
a recoverable error. It then loops endlessly reading from the
drive (dunno why).
Has anyone else got this hardware to work? Can anyone tell me what
the problem is (or what other information I should post here about
it)?
TIA,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shayne Hourigan)
Subject: Re: Via VT82C686 Sound Card
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 10:01:33 GMT
on a quick note... I have a via82c686 sound card onboard that I could
only get working by using the non-free OSS modules.
That was on Potato Debian.
Shayne H.
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There is no plot, this is reality, deal with it
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On Wed, 30 May 2001 11:04:13 +0530, "Pavan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>> > I have a Via VT82C686 Sound Card, and Its not working in Linux.
>Redhat 7.0
>> > detects it, but after it detects it, it completly freezes the
>system. I
>> > don't know what to do. Do I need to change anything in the BIOS
>like the
>> > IRQ's or DMA channel?
>>
>> You need to enable "Sound Blaster" emulation in BIOS.
>
>Wrong, you should not enable that. After enabling SB emulation, it
>should work as a SB16 card in RH. Haven't tried this yet. However this
>chip is supported directly by RH7. If you have problems, get the new
>2.4 series kernel or get RH7.1
>
>-Pavan
>
>
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From: "andrew_webby at hotmail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
microsoft.public.win2000.developer,microsoft.public.win2000.setup,microsoft.public.vc.language,microsoft.public.vc.ide_general,alt.comp.linux,comp.databases.oracle.server
Subject: Re: AMD System : Reliability and compatibility?
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 11:17:18 +0100
That's a fair amount of spurious crossposting by anyone's standards. Hands
up if you feel like helping him?
"Andrew S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:K7WQ6.8703$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi guys!
> I would like to know developers opinion about AMD system
>
> I am looking for fast and reliable system.
> I have looked various reviews comparing Pentium III 1Ghz
> and AMD 1.3 GHZ. In most cases AMD looks faster.
>
> Any comments will be appreciated!
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From: "Andy Chessum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.html,alt.www.authoring,alt.www.marketing,alt.www.marketing.adverts,alt.www.sites,alt.www.webmaster.ads,comp.os.linux.networking,macromedia.dreamweaver,microsoft.public.es.webmasters,uk.comp.os.linux,uk.net.web.authori
Subject: Re: Server Garaging
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 11:47:43 +0100
"pip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Andy Chessum wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > We are currently looking into the feasibility of offering data garaging
on
> > our network and I would be interested to hear from anyone who might find
the
> > service useful.
> >
> > We are considering charging �35 - �45 pm in order to house a server on
one
> > of our IP addresses. Our network currently comprises a mix on Linux and
> > Win2k boxes and we would happily accommodate both machines. We would
offer
> > DNS services through our own nameservers and would offer backup
facilities
> > at extra cost.
> >
> > This facility would be best suited to the individual or small business
that
> > wants the benefit of 24/7 connectivity at an affordable price. We need
a
> > minimum of 10 clients to make the service viable and if the interest is
> > there we would look to begin the service in September.
> >
> > Any feedback appreciated.
>
> What connection ?
2Mbs
> UPS ?
Naturally
> And where geographically ?
London / Suffolk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mr_roget)
Subject: Re: Can Linux rescue an old Mac PowerBook?
Date: 30 May 2001 04:37:22 -0700
Topher Cawlfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> I suppose I could fight it
> some more and try to fit a BBEdit shareware or some other program on it,
> but it still would not be very useful.
Wouldn't it? It seems like BBEdit lite would be the easiest way by
far. It has regular expression find and replace, etc. Just put OS
7.6.1 on the PB and off you go. Or maybe Nisus is still around.
Granted, there isn't a lot of "free" software for Macs.
>
> Anyway the thought occured that I just might be able to put Linux on this
> computer, making it semi-useful.
You could do this. I've had OpenBSD working on a PB like this. Try
http://www.openbsd.com/mac68k.html for more information. If you have
access to another mac that has connectivity or a localtalk network you
could get the distro onto the other/another mac, then bring it in to
the PB via localtalk/file sharing (all built in to the OS).
Good luck,
Brian
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Subject: Re: Two tulip ethernet cards in a single RH 6.2 machine?
From: Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 30 May 2001 07:15:47 -0500
Ga Mu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am currently doing this on a RH 7.1 system with two Samsung SC1200T (or
> something like that). I admit the MAC addresses being sequential is a
> little difficult to accept. IRQ sharing with PCI is permitted. On
> RH7.1, the installer put the following into /etc/modules.conf:
>
> alias eth0 tulip
> alias eth1 tulip
>
> As I recall, when I was running RH6.2, I had to get it working myself and
> finally ended up putting these same two lines in /etc/modules.conf, but
> also specifying the I/O address and IRQ for each card. I don't recall
> the format for sure, but it was something like this (using your numbers):
>
> alias eth0 tulip io=0xe800 irq=9
> alias eth1 tulip io=0xe400 irq=9
>
> Good Luck!
The only trick, of course, is that I have the driver compiled into the
kernel, not built as a module. I get the impression from the Ethernet
HOWTO that this should work---doesn't it?
Thanks,
Richard
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Subject: Re: Two tulip ethernet cards in a single RH 6.2 machine?
From: Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 30 May 2001 07:16:33 -0500
Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The LinkSys card is just fine. However, the new 4.1 version of this card
> (which you probably have) requires a driver which is not part of the 2.2
> kernel. You need to download it from www.scyld.com/network/updates.html
> and install it. It's not hard to do, but LinkSys forgot to mention that
> this card needed a driver which they didn't include in the box or the
> standard 2.2 kernel (even though the box said "Linux compatible").
Ok---I'll check that one out. Thanks for the pointer!
Richard
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Subject: Re: Two tulip ethernet cards in a single RH 6.2 machine?
From: Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 30 May 2001 07:18:49 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Crudup) writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
>
> >I'm a little concerned by the fact that /proc/interrupts has *both*
> >ethernet cards attached to IRQ 9-
>
> That's no big deal (linux is not Windows). So's my dual-Tulip machine.
>
> I suggest cabling problems.
>
> -Kenny
Tried that already; I know it's not cabling. Normally, I've got eth0 (the
original card) hooked to the internal network's hub with a normal patch
cable, and eth1 (the Linksys) is connected to the DSL modem through a
crossover cable (provided with the modem). At one point, I switched the
two cables, updated the IP addresses, and redid the routing tables, and the
reverse happened: external traffic was fine, but internal traffic (now
through the Linksys) was unavailable.
Cables appear to be just fine.
Richard
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (A. GUILLEVIC)
Subject: Re: How could I make a raw copy of a disk ?
Date: 30 May 2001 06:09:51 -0700
Hello,
I made another test with blocksize set to 1024K (1Mb). There was almost
no difference (2 or 3 minutes less) compared to blocksize of 8K or 16K. I need
around 2 hours to make a 9Gb disk copy.
Thanks
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From: Toby Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please help me get WIN98 back!!
Date: 30 May 2001 08:58:29 -0400
On Tue, 29 May 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> During this Memorial weekend, I installed Redhat 7.1 (Kernel 2.4.2-2)
> on my PC at home. Win98 is on IDE drive/A and Rh7.1 completely on IDE
> drive/B. I did not realize at the time that part of linux, such as /boot
> partition, had to be on drive/A to use LILO.
>
> During graphic installation,I was prompted where to put LILO i.e. in MBR
> or linux drive's boot partition. Unfortunately I decided to avoid fooling
> with MBR and opted for the later.
If lilo wrote to the linux boot partition on drive B, it won't have touched
anything on driver A. At all.
> The lilo installation ended up with failure. Everything else went fine.
> I created boot diskette. I then realized I was no longer able to boot
> Win98. Everybody in my household jumped on me!! My wife wanted to search
> webs about her stock investment, my kid wanted to play starcraft with his
> folks, ....
Ooops. Can you boot anything off the hard drive?
> I hoped to restore MBR by executing 'fdisk /MBR' under MSDOS but I was
> surprised to learn that all my Windows rescue and MSDOS diskettes failed
> to even boot. PC tried to boot from the floppies but hang after reading/
> loading a few blocks.
Always test your system boot disks and repair disks BEFORE you do major system
surgery. Well you know that for the future ...
> When I mounted on to /dev/hda1, I could see that all Win98 directories
> and files were still intact. I just do not know why drive/A broke when I
> tried my best < which was obviously not good enough :-( > not to disturb
> its MBR.
Can you boot to Linux off your boot disk? If so, why worry? Just delete the
Windows 98 partition and live a happier stress free life :-)
Seriously, find a friend with an MS boot disk. Stick fdisk on it. Boot it on
your system and repair the MBR on drive A. Make sure your Linux boot disc still
works before you try this, and then go and investigate LoadLin if you aren't
happy with LILO loading Linux.
> I would appreciate any advice that can pull me out of this mess.
>
> 1) What corruptions on drive/A and how to restore it??
If you can't boot anything at all (i.e. LILO has totalled your MBR) fix it
using MS FDISK.EXE.
> 2) I configured lilo to boot either linux and win98 but the later never
> came up - it hang just like when I booted off diskettes. Could you
> offer me a copy of /etc/lilo.conf to compare. My copy is at home.
The critical lines should probably look like this (assuming that you chose to
have one huge partition on drive B):
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hdb1
read-only
image=/dev/hda1
label=windows98
> 3) I configured printer OK but not my sound card (Turtle Beach Montogo II
> and Altec Lansing 495). sndconfig autoprobe concluded it was Altec
> ADA305 and mentioned it is not supported by Linux yet. I tried without
> probe but there were only 2 Turtle Beach choices and my Montego II was
> not ont the list. I tried both and they all ended up in errors.
>
> Does it mean I'm out of luck as far as sound card is concerned?
The Turtle Beach Montego II has an Aureal chipset if I remember rightly. Check
out the drivers on aureal.sourceforge.net.
> 4) Does Linux support HP 6200C scanner?? If affirmative, how?
No idea, but you should investigate SANE - Scanner Access Made Easy - and the
associated XSane packages.
> 5) I have MSN connection which I usually use their 'MSN Internet Access'
> tool to connect. Could and how I connect to MSN from Linux??
If MSN access is done by some standard method (probably PPP) just use the PPP
tools. If you don't know how to use these tools or need some guidance, look at
the HOWTO-PPP at www.linuxdoc.org
> Please asnwer to my e-mail address. Thanks for kind assistance.
Er. No. This is a newsgroup. Answers will stay here.
Cheers,
Toby Haynes
--
Toby Haynes
The views and opinions expressed in this message are my own, and do
not necessarily reflect those of IBM Canada.
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From: Keith McGavin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: What to install for a laptop?
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 01:16:10 +1200
Hi Liam,
RH6.2 was a stable release and worked well.With RH7.1
you will get the lastest network tools if that matters.
KDE is slow to load but the kde programmes are ideal for
a laptop. Just a matter of whether it crashes, but if memory
is without fault and seated it should run alright.
Usual RH install with KDE is 550M
Definately the best window manager for 16M ram is Windowmaker.
Fast to load up,reliable and you can still run the KDE programmes
with Windowmaker.
Don't forget the libproplist and libwraster libraries that are
also required with the Windowmaker rpms.
http://www.windowmaker.org has info on how to install.
Should you have problems installing RH or Mandrake on the laptop
you should try Slackware 7.1 It installs easily and puts KDE
Windowmaker and networking down on only 290 Meg diskspace.
See the "4mb-laptop" howto for info on Slackware.
regards
Keith
LRW wrote:
>
> Need some advice from experienced people.
> I have an icky 486DX-66 with 16MB RAM and 2GB HD 640x480 laptop.
> I have RedHat 5.0, RH 6.2, and RH 7.1 and Mandrake 6.0.
> What would be a better package for this thing? Latest and greatest, like
> with Windows, is not always a good idea. So I'm leaning toward RH 6.2. But
> if I can't get Xwindows to run anyway, the is there any problem with using
> RH 7.1?
> Speaking of Xwindows, think any desktop will work? I know Gnome and KDE are
> right out (darn it), but what about one of the lesser memory intensive
> desktops?
>
> Thanks for any advice!!
> =)
> Liam
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Two tulip ethernet cards in a single RH 6.2 machine?
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 15:08:34 +0200
Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ga Mu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> alias eth0 tulip
>> alias eth1 tulip
>>
>> As I recall, when I was running RH6.2, I had to get it working myself and
>> finally ended up putting these same two lines in /etc/modules.conf, but
>> also specifying the I/O address and IRQ for each card. I don't recall
>> the format for sure, but it was something like this (using your numbers):
>>
>> alias eth0 tulip io=0xe800 irq=9
>> alias eth1 tulip io=0xe400 irq=9
> The only trick, of course, is that I have the driver compiled into the
> kernel, not built as a module. I get the impression from the Ethernet
> HOWTO that this should work---doesn't it?
It could, but why bother? It's always better to have modules. That way
you can play with the driver parameters easily, which is precisely what
you want to do! What kernel parameters did you pass to the driver at
bootup?
I don't know if the tulip driver supports more than one card, btw. Check.
If not, you'll have to rename one of the modules and be specific about
which card it controls. It might be wise to spearate the IRQs of the
cards too, as I don't know if they can share for real or not, or if the
driver supports a shared interrupt ..
Peter
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From: "madmunky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ESS ES1969 Solo-1 With Mandrake 8
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 13:42:05 GMT
I've just tryed sndconfig and it finds the card and it reports that its not
currently supported!
Any idea why it now says this?
I've just installed Mandrake 8 and now I get no sound, the sound card is
detected in the hardware control Center but when you try and configure it
you get no sound and no applications see the card even Kmix. I used to use
mandrake 7.2 which worked fine!
So any one got any ideas how I go about getting this to work again?
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris)
Crossposted-To:
comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.embedded,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Low cost timer-counter pci board w/Linux driver?
Date: 30 May 2001 07:00:34 -0700
Hi,
We are looking for a low cost PCI timer/counter boards, that there are
linux drivers for.
Thus far, the only one we have been able to find is an ISA board
(CIO-CTR05) (http://www.measurementcomputing.com) and the driver at
the Linux Lab Project (http://www.llp.fu-berlin.de)
We have found several DAC boards with timers and Linux drivers but we
are looking for low cost counter/timer board.
The timers must have at least microsecond if not nanosecond
resolution.
Does anyone have any suggestions where we can find one other than the
PCI-CTR05 (which would need to have the CIO driver modified for)?
Thanks
C.
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From: Manfred Vogelgesang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: smartlink linmodem driver problem - solved!
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 16:08:03 +0200
>To my surprise, I finally found a linmodem driver for my aztech
>mr-2800w internal modem at ftp.aztech.com (dated may 9 2001)!
>It's called MR_CNR2800UW_2216.zip.
>
>This seemed to be great news, for so far I had been unable to use my
>modem riser under linux (while the smartlink as well as the aztech
>drivers for this modem card work fine under windows). linmodems.org
>still lists my modem as unsupported, by the way.
>
>I looked through the "readme.txt" and found that it requires (among
>others a VIA686 mainboard, which I do have), a kernel 2.2.16 or higher
>(I have 2.4.3) and for instance a suse 6.4 distribution (that's what
>my most recent system is based upon).
>
>I followed the instructions to install the drivers (kernel modules
>etc.), but unfortunately, I got unresolved symbols in all of the
>linmodem modules (sl*.o).
...
Success with a [wl]inmodem, and it still listed as fully unsupported
at linmodems.org!
My aztech/smartlink internal modem mr-2800w now really works under
linux!
But I had to install a suse kernel (2.2.16) as well as the kernel
sources on suse's site (the standard kernel didn't work);
unfortunately, this also meant that I had to abandon my well working
kernel 2.4.3 for now (no go with my modem).
Although there are still some unresolved symbols in the linmodem
driver modules, the whole thing works. And it even seems to run with
less cpu load than under windows.
Now all of my new computer's hardware is fully functional (from the
problematic VIA onboard sound to the winmodem), great.
Nevertheless, I think it is really annoying that such drivers (look at
the nvidia drivers, too) only come as binary ones - no source and no
flexibility.
But anyway, I am quite pleased that it works now.
Hope, this is helpful for someone
Manfred Vogelgesang
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