Linux-Hardware Digest #879, Volume #14 Fri, 8 Jun 01 01:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Two tulip ethernet cards in a single RH 6.2 machine? (Bit Twister)
?linksys USB100TX / Mandrake 8.0? (reuben ayres)
MAUSB-2 and SDDR09 (Michael P Nugent)
Re: ?Linksys USB100TX / Mandrake 8.0 / IBM Thinkpad i1451? (3FE)
Re: Recommended Linux Reference Books?? ("R.V. Gronoff")
Re: MODEM PCTel HSP56 AMR on PCCHIPS M810 (Robert Heiling)
How to mount CD-RW using ide-scsi?? (Michael Knight)
Re: ATA/100 Setup (Rinaldi J. Montessi)
Re: kernel 2.4.5: create_module: Operation not permitted (Rinaldi J. Montessi)
Re: Dual Xeon and Linux? ("D. Stimits")
Lucent Tech Soft Modem AMR ("BellSouth News")
Re: Modem Prob ("kaidemuyo!")
EPSON 640U PERFECTION USB SCANNER - DON'T WORK? (cash)
Re: Xawtv - what did I screw up? (Corey Bodzin)
Re: How to mount CD-RW using ide-scsi?? (Michael Perry)
Re: Modem Prob (Robert Heiling)
Re: cdrecord fails with kernel 2.4.x ("Mark Tyler")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Subject: Re: Two tulip ethernet cards in a single RH 6.2 machine?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 00:12:37 GMT
to get my two nics to run with tulip,
I set my bios pnp OS to NO and AUTO assign irq to pci slots for my
Linksys pci card. I did not have to supply irq/io values in linuxconf.
No compiles for the card or kernel on Mandrake 7.1 & 8.0 (YMMV)
cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 302148 XT-PIC timer
1: 4 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 2 XT-PIC soundblaster
9: 1991 XT-PIC eth0
10: 1984 XT-PIC eth1
14: 1917 XT-PIC ide0
15: 5 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
ERR: 0
On 07 Jun 2001 07:03:39 -0500, Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"zeppelin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> why not use one card and use an ip alias. I have 2 machines mandrake 8
>> and a RH7.1. the mandrake has one nic with 2 ip's. one ip is dhcp for the
>> dsl connection the other one is static for the proxy server for the
>> redhat machine to use as a gateway to the internet. Linuxconf is easy to
>> use to set up ip alias.
>>
>> The nic in the Mandrake machine uses the tulip driver. can't remember the
>> brandname.
>
>Because if I did this, security would go out the window completely. With
>only the one ethernet card, I'd have to hook the DSL modem straight into
>the firm's hub, and then *nothing* would prevent SMB messages from crossing
>between the firm and the outside world. Not good, especially considering
>the really lousy security in Win95's filesharing.
>
>If I put two ethernet cards in the Linux machine, it can act as a firewall
>and block all SMB traffic, for instance---they're two physically separate
>networks. (Not as secure as an air gap, but about as good as I can get it
>while preserving at least *some* connectivity with the outside world.)
>
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From: reuben ayres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: ?linksys USB100TX / Mandrake 8.0?
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 23:40:47 -0400
can anyone tell me helpful steps to getting a linksys usb100tx network
adapter to work under mandrake 8.0?
according to linux-usb.org it's supposed to use the pegasus driver...
i have compiled Usb support w/ that particular driver into the kernel, but
mandrake control center freezes when i try to activate usb support or get
info on usb devices, and i don't know how to manually activate usb
devices??
i'm also a little rusty on manually setting up ethernet adapters...
any help appreciated...
thanks
-reuben
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From: Michael P Nugent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: MAUSB-2 and SDDR09
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 20:21:06 -0400
In configuring the 2.4.5 kernel for compilation, I am prompted for USB
storage, but not for SDDR09 specifically. Sure enough, both the make
and the compile skip this very important bit:
+#ifdef CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_SDDR09
+UNUSUAL_DEV( 0x066b, 0x0105, 0x0100, 0x0100,
+ "Olympus",
+ "Camedia MAUSB-2",
+ US_SC_SCSI, US_PR_EUSB_SDDR09, NULL,
+ US_FL_SINGLE_LUN | US_FL_START_STOP ),
+#endif
Furthermore, after I make the modules and install the modules, many
modules, including _any_ USB related, are not in /lib/modules.
To solve the first problem, I manually added
"CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_SDDR09=yes" to the .config file. This did produce
the sddr09.o file I wanted. Who knows what it missed if other variables
needed to be set as well.
As for the second, I'm not sure what prevents many .o modules from
landing in /lib/modules.
So, I went back to the original 2.4.2 kernel that ships with RH7.1. It
wouldn't compile the modules at all.
I looked on RH's site, and searched kernel.org and others. I cannot
find a reference to my problem.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (3FE)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: ?Linksys USB100TX / Mandrake 8.0 / IBM Thinkpad i1451?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 01:04:07 GMT
On 7 Jun 2001 15:22:19 -0700, Reuben Ayres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> can anyone tell me helpful steps to getting a linksys usb100tx network
> adapter to work under mandrake 8.0 (running on an IBM thinkpad
> i1451-2611 if that's useful info for anyone)?
>
> according to linux-usb.org it's supposed to use the pegasus driver...
>
> i have compiled Usb support w/ that particular driver into the kernel,
> but
> mandrake control center freezes when i try to activate usb support or
> get
> info on usb devices, and i don't know how to manually activate usb
> devices??
>
> i'm also a little rusty on manually setting up ethernet adapters...
>
> any help appreciated...
Not much help, but peruse the contents of /proc. Don't know if
warnings re: irq's are relevant (how does usb work? maybe there's a
usb howto by now?).
There's usually great and specific documentation under /usr/src/linux
if you have kernel-sources installed.
--
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
TopQuark Software & Serv. Contract programmer, server bum.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Give up Spammers; I use procmail.
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From: "R.V. Gronoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.suse,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Recommended Linux Reference Books??
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 03:04:28 +0200
"X_Factor6" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit dans le message news:
VFST6.30136$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> what are some good reference books for Linux?? I already have a couple
from
> O'reilly & Associates. Let me know Thanks.
>
> X_Factor6
>
>
"Linux Essential Reference", by Raymond Debonne
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From: Robert Heiling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MODEM PCTel HSP56 AMR on PCCHIPS M810
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 18:31:34 -0700
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> Robert Heiling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > At least one fly in the ointment. The insmod gave me a number of unresolved
>symbols, but I
>
> That's crucial. You must load the support modules too, if it relies on
> some.
>
> > think the problem right now is with the interrupts. In Linux the modem is on IRQ 3
>with address
>
> No. If it doesn't load, and it won't if it can't link, then anything
> else is irrelevant. Post the error messages from insmod.
>
> Peter
I had made an error earlier in that the /usr/src/linux I was doing the make against
was the Wolverine
version 7.0x Beta so I had set up /usr/src/linux to be linux-2.4.2 and re-done the
make before
testing again. Here are the unresolved symbols from that, but they were the same both
times.
pctel.o: unresolved symbol bh_mask
pctel.o: unresolved symbol request_region
pctel.o: unresolved symbol IntrOpen
pctel.o: unresolved symbol bh_active
pctel.o: unresolved symbol release_region
pctel.o: unresolved symbol kfree_s
pctel.o: unresolved symbol IntrClose
pctel.o: unresolved symbol timer_table
pctel.o: unresolved symbol IntrWrite
pctel.o: unresolved symbol bh_base
pctel.o: unresolved symbol check_region
pctel.o: unresolved symbol timer_active
pctel.o: unresolved symbol bh_mask_count
Thanks again.
Bob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Knight)
Subject: How to mount CD-RW using ide-scsi??
Date: 7 Jun 2001 18:34:16 -0700
I'm using a RedHat 7.0 system with an HP 9100 CD-Writer Plus.
I was able to mount it just fine as /dev/hdc.
I have, for several months now been using it successfully with xcdroast
to burn CD's identified as a SCSI CD drive using the ide-scsi emulation.
The drive is /dev/sg0 currently, but I am unable to mount it as I was
when it was an ide drive.
mount -t iso9660 /dev/sg0 /mnt/cdrom
results in:
mount: /dev/sg0 is not a block device
Here are the permissions:
crw------- 1 michael sys 21, 0 Aug 24 2000 /dev/sg0
As I said, it works fine with xcdroast. What am I doing wrong?
All help appreciated.
Thanks,
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rinaldi J. Montessi)
Subject: Re: ATA/100 Setup
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 01:30:48 GMT
syxxpac023 wrote:
> Currently, I have the following setup. I have Windows installed on 2
> GB partition of my main IDE drive. On the other 8 GBs is Linux. I
> have the dual boot and all of that nice stuff. I also have a 40 GB
> ATA HDD that is on a Promise ATA-100 PCI Card. I am running RedHat
> 7.0.. can anyone give me some insight on how to get this hard drive to
> work in Linux? Any help would be most appreciated. I know this is
> probably a stupid question but I'm pretty new at this stuff. Thanks
> in advance.
>
> Joey
What kernel are you using? And what Promise card do you have, and does
lspci see it?
Rinaldi
--
We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.
--Linus Torvalds
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rinaldi J. Montessi)
Subject: Re: kernel 2.4.5: create_module: Operation not permitted
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 01:39:49 GMT
Emilio wrote:
> Craig Kelley wrote:
>> You need to compile your kernel with module auto-loading support.
>
> You mean kernel module loader (kmod)?
What happens if you modprobe sg? Note modprobe, lsmod, etc are in
/sbin/ which is not in the user path normally.
Rinaldi
--
We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.
--Linus Torvalds
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Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 20:17:55 -0600
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Dual Xeon and Linux?
Michal Msciwujewski wrote:
>
> Have you any experiences on running Linux on dual-Xeon
> configuration? Is there any problems with it, or an trick to do?
> (Like "x86_serial_nr=1" for athlon.)
>
> Michal
>
> --
> \ \
> |> | <> |> |\ |< Linux is like wigwam --
> ================ \ no gates, no windows and Apache inside.
I won't guarantee it, but I don't think there is any problem running
dual Xeon's. More likely to be an issue is a particular chipset or
related hardware, which is what you should check out next if you are
thinking of Xeon hardware.
D. Stimits, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "BellSouth News" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lucent Tech Soft Modem AMR
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 22:29:39 -0400
I am looking for drivers to make the above modem work with my RedHat 7.0
install. Any ideas if their is not specific drivers for such a modem how if
I can use generic modem drivers somehow???? The modem is integrated on the
motherboard of the PC.
Thanks,
Miller
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From: "kaidemuyo!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem Prob
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 10:27:20 +0800
Okay, is there a way to manually compile a driver for the winmodem on any of
the terminals?
"Robert Heiling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "kaidemuyo!" wrote:
>
> > I've got a Conexant Doft56k Data, FAx Speaker PCI Modem (using the
driver
> > cd) Installed on Win ME and Linux (Mandrake, ver. 8) Detects it as a
> > Rockwell International 56k PCI modem. However, when I try to dial up, it
> > always says that the modem is busy. What do I do?
>
> That's the same symptom I was having (busy). I believe you have a WinModem
as
> I just discovered that I have and it requires a special software driver,
if
> available. See:
> http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html and
> http://linmodems.org/
> I'm currently trying to work this out on the thread: Re: MODEM PCTel HSP56
> AMR on PCCHIPS M810
>
> HTH
>
> Bob
>
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From: cash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: EPSON 640U PERFECTION USB SCANNER - DON'T WORK?
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 19:45:51 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm using a Epson Perfection 640U Scanner. I'm following the directions
given at this URL: http://freecolormanagement.com/sane/faq.html. I'm
getting timeouts using Kernel 2.4.0 (The one that comes with SUSE 7.1). I'm
using the precompiled backend for this distro advertised on this web page.
I need more details. I need .conf files, I need Step-by-Step examples. This
web page is a little ambiguous. Follow up to this news post. Thanks.
Here's a snap of my /var/log/messages:
Jun 7 19:34:51 reesie insmod:
/lib/modules/2.4.0-4GB/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o: insmod
char-major-81 failed
Jun 7 19:34:51 reesie kernel: Linux video capture interface: v1.00
Jun 7 19:34:51 reesie kernel: i2c-core.o: i2c core module
Jun 7 19:34:51 reesie kernel: i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module
Jun 7 19:34:51 reesie kernel: bttv: driver version 0.7.50 loaded
Jun 7 19:34:51 reesie kernel: bttv: using 2 buffers with 2080k (4160k
total) for capture
Jun 7 19:34:51 reesie insmod:
/lib/modules/2.4.0-4GB/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o: init_module: No
such device
Jun 7 19:34:51 reesie insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by
incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Corey Bodzin)
Subject: Re: Xawtv - what did I screw up?
Date: 7 Jun 2001 20:15:00 -0700
No dice; deleted /dev/vido, ran MAKEDEV.v4l and v4l-conf; still have
blank screen at 16bpp, shifted/messy at 24bpp. Now have fixed up
/dev/video, however.
As before, kwintv works fine.
Any other tricks in the guru bag? <g>
"kyi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
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>
> ok then do a 'rm -rf /dev/video' w/out quotes. Then download the
> xawtv source, http://bytesex.org/xawtv/xawtv_3.50.tar.gz , you don't
> have to compile it just run the MAKEDEV.v4l. That will create the
> proper device files. After you do that re-run v4l-conf, it should
> work now, hopefully ;-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Subject: Re: How to mount CD-RW using ide-scsi??
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 03:21:05 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 7 Jun 2001 18:34:16 -0700, Michael Knight
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm using a RedHat 7.0 system with an HP 9100 CD-Writer Plus.
>
> I was able to mount it just fine as /dev/hdc.
>
> I have, for several months now been using it successfully with xcdroast
> to burn CD's identified as a SCSI CD drive using the ide-scsi emulation.
>
> The drive is /dev/sg0 currently, but I am unable to mount it as I was
> when it was an ide drive.
>
> mount -t iso9660 /dev/sg0 /mnt/cdrom
>
> results in:
>
> mount: /dev/sg0 is not a block device
>
> Here are the permissions:
> crw------- 1 michael sys 21, 0 Aug 24 2000 /dev/sg0
>
> As I said, it works fine with xcdroast. What am I doing wrong?
>
> All help appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
Try mounting it as root first at /dev/scd0 after you have the ide-scsi stuff
running. I have exactly the same cdrw and what I did was create a symbolic
link from /dev/cdrom to /dev/scd0. You may want to check the default
permissions on /dev/scd0.
--
Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Robert Heiling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem Prob
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 20:30:09 -0700
That's what I'm trying to get working with my modem right now. I saw some
Conexant stuff mentioned on those links I gave you that you might want to check
out.
"kaidemuyo!" wrote:
> Okay, is there a way to manually compile a driver for the winmodem on any of
> the terminals?
>
> "Robert Heiling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > "kaidemuyo!" wrote:
> >
> > > I've got a Conexant Doft56k Data, FAx Speaker PCI Modem (using the
> driver
> > > cd) Installed on Win ME and Linux (Mandrake, ver. 8) Detects it as a
> > > Rockwell International 56k PCI modem. However, when I try to dial up, it
> > > always says that the modem is busy. What do I do?
> >
> > That's the same symptom I was having (busy). I believe you have a WinModem
> as
> > I just discovered that I have and it requires a special software driver,
> if
> > available. See:
> > http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html and
> > http://linmodems.org/
> > I'm currently trying to work this out on the thread: Re: MODEM PCTel HSP56
> > AMR on PCCHIPS M810
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Bob
> >
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From: "Mark Tyler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cdrecord fails with kernel 2.4.x
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 14:09:03 +0930
"Chris Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Mark Tyler wrote:
> >
> > "Chris Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > I am somewhat at my wits end now, as since I've gone to 2.4 my cdrw
now
> > > fails with scsi errors. I have an IDE Traxdata drive that I can see
> > > through the ide-scsi stuff, as demonstrated below:
> > >
> >
> > < stuff snipped >
> >
> > > I have tried the various versions of cdrecord (1.8, 1.9, and the
latest
> > > beta), I've downloaded the latest version of the kernel and gone from
> > > 2.4.2 to 2.4.5 and its not made the blindest bit of a difference - any
> > > ideas now would be gratefully received.
> >
> > What distribution are you using?
>
> Redhat 7.1, but with 2.4.5 kernel
I had a number of problems getting an IDE CD-RW running with RH7.1 and
kernel 2.4.4. Some of them were my fault (not understanding what was going
on). Here is what I found worked for me.
1. When building the kernel you need the following things when you are doing
make xconfig (or menuconfig):
a) In ATA/IDE etc support menu: SCSI emulation support (y or m)
b) In SCSI support menu:
SCSI support (y not m) - note that if you say modular here it
won't work.
SCSI CD-Rom (m) - you need this if you want to be able to read a
CD in your CD-RW drive
SCSI generic (m) - you need this if you want to write a CD
low level drivers - I turned them all off. I don't know if this
necessary or not but it worked for me. I don't have any other SCSI devices
in my system so I don't need them anyway.
c) Don't forget the ISO9660 and Joliet support in the Filesystems menu.
2. I have found that I have to use kgcc to build the kernel and modules
rather than the default gcc that comes with RH7.1. Others say different. You
can try gcc first, if that does not work then go for kgcc.
3. After you have built and installed the new kernel and modules you need to
put a line in your lilo.conf which tells the kernel that you want to use
your CD-RW as an emulated SCSI device.
4. After you have rebooted with your new kernel first do a "depmod -a" and
check that this does not give any errors. If not try a lsmod and see if the
ide-scsi module is there. If not do a "modprobe ide-scsi" and this should
load it OK. If all is OK do a "cdrecord -scanbus" and your CD-RW device
should show up in a list of SCSI devices (it will be the only one in the
list if you have no other SCSI devices).
If all this works put the modprobe and cdrecord commands into your
/etc/rc.d/rc.local file so they run at boot every time.
5. Now you should be good to go.
Hope you can get it to work - Mark
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