Linux-Hardware Digest #893, Volume #14 Tue, 12 Jun 01 10:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Hoontech Digital-XG Soundcard support? ("Piers Bray")
UGH!!! (mr_e_dude)
Re: TV out on TNT2 M64? (Dewitte Bjorn)
agenda PDA (Giorgio Marzano)
Re: Hoontech Digital-XG Soundcard support? (Thomas Rasmussen)
Re: UGH!!! ("Anthony DeRobertis")
Re: VIA VT82c686b ("Anthony DeRobertis")
Re: Hauppage WinTV PVR Redhat 7.1 ("jumper")
Re: what TV Card to get ("jumper")
Re: DMA timeout problems (Ed Tomlinson)
Re: UGH!!! (Kenneth R�rvik)
Re: VIA VT82c686b (Dances With Crows)
Wheel Mouse ("T Shilo")
Re: Wheel Mouse ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Kernel Panic (Mojo Nichols)
Re: VIA VT82c686b (Michael Perry)
Re: 3c509 card (sarakin)
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From: "Piers Bray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hoontech Digital-XG Soundcard support?
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 18:04:06 +1000
Hello,
Anyone know if the Digital-XG Hoontech soundcard is supported under Linux.
It is based on the Yamaha YMF-744 chip. Great sounding card especially
under BeOS, pity BeOS ain't going anywhere.
Piers
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
please reply via email. Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mr_e_dude)
Subject: UGH!!!
Date: 12 Jun 2001 01:09:59 -0700
I have Linux!!! Linux RULEZ!!!
Linux Redhat 6.1 to be exact.
I have the Diamond Viper II AGP Video Card. Savage 2000 Chipset.
I can not find any drivers for X-Windows for my Diamond Viper II.
This has forced me to do EVERYTHING from the command prompt.
Now I have already figured out that doing EVERYTHING from the command
prompt is the way to go and that the X-Windows interface is really
just for newbies who don't know how to do anything in Linux. You don't
transfer from Windows to Linux to have a GUI interface. If you did,
you've missed the point.
Yes I know all that and totally agree with it. But it still would be
nice to have an X-Windows interface that does more then 640x480 cause
that's all I can do. For one thing, 640x480 make it hard to view all
my online html documentaion for Linux. That not I haven't discover VI
and LESS. And I like VI better then EMACS. And LESS RULEZ!!! MORE
SUCKS!!!
So if anyone knows how to get a Diamond Viper II Savage 2000 Chipset
to work with X-Windows, I would really like to know.
mr_e_dude
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From: Dewitte Bjorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: TV out on TNT2 M64?
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 08:36:12 GMT
Have a look at www.nvidia.com (Linux drivers section)
Download the new drivers... When you install these drivers there is a
TVOUT_README somewhere under /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA...
Greetz...
Bjorn Dewitte
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From: Giorgio Marzano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: agenda PDA
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 11:34:19 +0200
Hi, all!
I am thinking about buying an agenda PDA, it looks a really beautyful
toy, and supported by a good community of developers, but...
1) Agenda site states it has 16M Ram + 16M Flash Rom, more than one guy
told me it only has 8+16...
2) I can't find my country (italy) on the registration page during the
buying process...
3) I Wrote to the customer service but i can't get an answer...
... it doesn't look to me so serious!!
Anyone here having some experience with them?? And with the PDA??
TIA
Giorgio Marzano
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From: Thomas Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hoontech Digital-XG Soundcard support?
Date: 12 Jun 2001 12:37:05 +0200
>>>>> "Piers" == Piers Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Piers> Hello, Anyone know if the Digital-XG Hoontech soundcard is
Piers> supported under Linux. It is based on the Yamaha YMF-744
Piers> chip. Great sounding card especially under BeOS, pity BeOS
Piers> ain't going anywhere.
According to:
http://www.alsa-project.org/~goemon/
Then it appears that it should work with alsa
/Thomas
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From: "Anthony DeRobertis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UGH!!!
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 06:38:03 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "mr_e_dude"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now I have already figured out that doing EVERYTHING from the command
> prompt is the way to go and that the X-Windows interface is really just
> for newbies who don't know how to do anything in Linux.
Huh? I always thought that X was so that you could connect two big
monitors and open 12 xterms, gvims, etc. at once? And for reading a.b.p.*?
Sheesh.
> So if anyone knows how to get a Diamond Viper II Savage 2000 Chipset to
> work with X-Windows, I would really like to know.
http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.0/Status28.html#28
So, apparently you should have /etc/X11/X symlinked to XF86_XVGA, and in
/etx/X11/XF86Config in the screen section you should have the driver as
"s3_savage".
If this doesn't help, what does your XF86Config file look like (in
particular, the Screen and Device sections)?
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From: "Anthony DeRobertis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VIA VT82c686b
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 06:44:31 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David Grant"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do you mean redhat's people put this "fix" to turn off DMA in the 2.4.2
> kernel, and this is what is causing my problems?
Well, the fix to turn of DMA was put in because the hardware bug caused
data corruption. RedHat decided that turning off DMA slows down the
machine, but at least your data is intact.
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From: "jumper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hauppage WinTV PVR Redhat 7.1
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 11:32:16 GMT
The PVR doesn't work with the bttv drivers becuase its based on a different
chip then the other WinTV boards from Hauppauge.
I am waiting for the bttv driver to be updated to include support for the
kfir1 chip too .Also there is a project in sourgeforce that is building the
driver. http://sourceforge.net/projects/pvr/
If any body else has more info I would like to here about it. I may just end
up going with a ATI card or Realmagic card if this Hauppauge card don't work
out.
"John McCabe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9ebo2v$7e5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> That sort of work, I'm getting a picture of sorts, but the tuner refuses
to
> respond to anything, tried Zapping and kwintv...
>
> Any more ideas??
>
> "Vladimir Florinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > In article <9e1o8v$8h2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John McCabe"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > right tried it again without the .o for each module but still no joy,
> > > there is no i2c.o module just i2c-old.o and i2c-parport.o I've tried
> > > both and got the same result, running xawtv I am unable to tune in any
> > > channels all that I get is noise in the top 25% of the tv window...
/me
> > > is going nuts...
> > > "John McCabe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > >> Has anybody managed to get this working? I've tried to use the
> > >> suggestions for the WinTV on the Hauppage support site (modprobe
> > >> /usr/sbin/bttv.o etc...) but it reports that the modules are not
> > >> found...
> > >> Any assistance is greatly appreciated.. /John
> > >>
> > >
> > There is no i2c module. There are i2c-core and i2c-algo-bit (these you
> > need). The new bttv knows how to load them and probes the tuner type all
> > by itself. I recommenmd the following in modules.conf:
> >
> > alias char-major-89 i2c-dev
> > alias char-major-81 bttv
> >
> > I emphasize: don't load modules by hand.
> >
> > I use zapping with the new XFree and the quality and performance are
> > great.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> > Vladimir
>
>
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From: "jumper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what TV Card to get
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 11:37:10 GMT
Stay away from the Hauppauge PVR card all the other ones work accept that
perticular one.
"John Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:OeTR6.8773$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Andrew J. Porwitzky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : I'm in the process of putting together a Linux box, most likely Red Hat,
and
> : want to put a TV in card on board.
>
> : How well do TV in cards run under Linux? What cards should I look for
and /
> : or stay away from?
>
> : Please respond by email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> : Thanks!
>
> : -Andy
>
>
> You want to get Hauppage WinTV card. It uses the bttv driver, which, by
> far, is the best supported chip set under linux.
>
> See http://roadrunner.swansea.linux.org.uk/v4l.shtml for more info.
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> John Taylor
>
> Reply to:
> john
> at
> giffords dot net
>
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From: Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DMA timeout problems
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 07:41:46 -0400
Dave,
Jens Axboe posted a patch to the linux kernel mailing list o allow linux to recover
from
this sort of error. Its in the ac series but can easily be applied to 2.4.5 and
probably
other versions.
Ed Tomlinson
Dave wrote:
> To all,
>
> I just installed Redhat 7.1 two days ago, and I'm getting some problems with
> my hard drive and DMA. I'm using a Asus A7V133 motherboard with VIA ATA100
> on-board controller as well as a Promise Ultra100 controller. I've just
> been using the VIA controller so far.
>
> I have the following partitions on /dev/hda:
>
> /dev/hda1: Linux: mounted to /boot
> /dev/hda2: Windows 98 FAT32
> /dev/hda3: Extended partition (i think)
> /dev/hda4: not sure (i think is where I have a FAT32 data partition)
> /dev/hda5: Linux: mounted to /
> /dev/hda6: Linux: swap
>
> I have LILO in the MBR now.
>
> So, after installing RedHat with no problems, and booted the computer and
> chose linux at the LILO gui prompt. It seems to recognize my hard drive at
> first, it says "hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL...., hdc: LG CDRW 8120....". Then a
> little bit after that, it says:
>
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 236k freed
> INIT: version 2.78 booting
> Welcome to Red Hat Linux
> Press 'I' to enter interactive startup
> <here is pauses for 30 seconds to a minute>
> hda: timeout waiting for DMA
> ide_dmaproc: chipset suppported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14
> hda: irq teimout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> hda: DMA disabled
> <here is pauses again>
>
> Then it goes crazy, saying all sorts of messages having to do with
> INIT: cannot execute "<some filename in /sbin>"
> hda: status error: statue=0x01 { Error }
> hda: status error: error=0x02 { TrackZeroNotFound },
> hda: dive not ready for command,
> ide0: reset: master: formatter device error,
>
> It does this endlessly until finally it says:
>
> INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
>
> Then it does this whole thing again, but this time it says:
>
> INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
>
> By this point I just give up.
>
> Then, if I do a "warm" reboot of my computer, and restart, the hard drive is
> gone. The BIOS doesn't even see it at all. BUT, if I do a cold turn-off
> and turn-on again (of course resetting the hard drive's hardware), the drive
> works again. This is really annoying.
>
> Can someone help me with this please? How should I approach this? I've
> used rescue mode to add hdparm commands to my rc.sysinit file, and also
> played with the /etc/sysconfig/harddisks file. For some reason these
> commands don't seem to be executing at all (which is kind of another problem
> altogether). I'm not sure why these aren't executing.
>
> I've also tried turning down the DMA in my BIOS to DMA level 2 (33 MB/s),
> and then re-installing Redhat. This didn't work. I am still using the
> 80-conductor cable however, as I don't have a 40-conductor cable.
>
> It seems that Linux only really "fully" supports DMA mode 2 at most. So I'm
> just trying to tune-down my controller and hard disk and get Linux to work
> at this lower speed. Help!
>
> Thanks.
> David Grant
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Subject: Re: UGH!!!
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:26:44 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (mr_e_dude) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>I have Linux!!! Linux RULEZ!!!
True :)
>And LESS RULEZ!!! MORE
>SUCKS!!!
That's more or less true ;=)
"cd /pub; more beer; less stress".
Sorry, I just had to comment, don't know anything about the savage 2000.
--
Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22950312
Nordbergv. 60A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: VIA VT82c686b
Date: 12 Jun 2001 12:37:34 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001 22:23:47 -0700, David Grant staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
>Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> You really should upgrade the entire kernel, not just the VIA-whatever
>> driver. 2.4.5 is out now, and IMHO, it works better than 2.4.2 ever
>> did.
>Can you do me a favour, and tell me what you think is the best way to
>upgrade to 2.4.5? Should I run the patch or grab the entire new kernel
>and compile that? I just printed teh entire Linux kernel-HOWTO. Is
>this all I need to accomplish patching the kernel? Sorry, I'm new to
>this.
If you're running a stock RedHat install, you should probably get the
entire 2.4.5 tarball. RedHat's 2.4.2 kernel is not the official 2.4.2
kernel, which makes patching the kernel impossible with the official
kernel patches.
>> Did you boot a rescue system, or did you boot your normal system in
>> single-user mode? Rescue systems very rarely have any documentation
>> attached; the space for the rescue system is almost always filled with
>> utilities. Tom's RootBoot is an exception to this rule. If you booted
>> your system in single-user mode, only the / partition is mounted (and
>> mounted read-only!) If you have a /usr partition, your man pages are in
>> /usr/share/man/ , and you will need to mount that partition manually to
>> make use of these pages.
>I just used the Linux CD, and at the boot: prompt typed #linux rescue.
>Totally basic startup. It basically just ran through the hardware init
>stuff, and that's about it. What's single-user mode?
Single-user mode is when you start the system with "linux single" at the
boot prompt, or when you enter "init S" as root. Just about every
process shuts down, only root can log in (and only from one virtual
console), and the system is in a very limited state. This mode is
useful for doing certain things, like rescuing severely br0ken
filesystems.
A rescue system is a completely separate system, usually on floppy or
CD-ROM. It is usually a minimal system, containing only the tools you
need to repair a system that won't boot. Tom's RootBoot is one of the
best rescue systems for x86; it fits a ton of useful commands on one
floppy. However, there are some things that even Tom's can't handle, so
there's the Linuxcare Bootable Business Card, which contains 100M of
utilities in 40M of CD-ROM space.
I haven't heard good things about RedHat's "rescue" mode.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best
http://www.brainbench.com / friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark
=============================/ to read. ==Groucho Marx
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From: "T Shilo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Wheel Mouse
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 15:19:55 +0200
How do I get the wheel in my PS/2 Logitech compatible mouse to work ?
RedHat 7.x - Fresh out of the box (original RedHat CDs).
Gnome - I am not sure of the version (again, out of the box)
I am new to Linux but not new to UNIX.
Browsing through newsgroups I've seen tons of advices on the subject,
including one repeating link (which escapes me at the moment)
All of them assumed knowledge I don't have.
Can someone please provide/point-to one simple explanation ?
TIA
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wheel Mouse
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 15:26:22 +0200
T Shilo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do I get the wheel in my PS/2 Logitech compatible mouse to work ?
It probably works fine. You maybe want to know how to get X to generate
events corresponding to its use, and how to get applications to take
notice of those events.
> RedHat 7.x - Fresh out of the box (original RedHat CDs).
I think 7.1 has it all set up for you (I don't use RH). 7.0 doesn't
(I think).
> Gnome - I am not sure of the version (again, out of the box)
> Browsing through newsgroups I've seen tons of advices on the subject,
> including one repeating link (which escapes me at the moment)
> All of them assumed knowledge I don't have.
And what is it?
> Can someone please provide/point-to one simple explanation ?
no!
"All you have to do" is set the correct mouse type in X (which version?
it matters) and then edit a few of the defaults in the app-defaults
files, and add a bit to your XF86Config. Then restart X.
If it helps you, the following are possible additions to the pointer
section of your XF86Config:
Protocol "MouseManPlusPS/2" # for ps/2 wheel mouse
or
Protocol "IMPS/2" # for ps/2 wheel mouse
and
ZAxisMapping 4 5
Alternatively/and you could try running imwheel.
And I have various mods in my .Xdefaults, such as
Netscape*globalNonTextTranslations: #override\n\
Shift<Btn4Down>: LineUp()\n\
Shift<Btn5Down>: LineDown()\n\
None<Btn4Down>:LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()\n\
None<Btn5Down>:LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()\n\
Alt<Btn4Down>: xfeDoCommand(forward)\n\
Alt<Btn5Down>: xfeDoCommand(back)\n
But I don't use the wheel for anything. I find it too hard to grip.
Peter
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From: Mojo Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Kernel Panic
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 08:38:56 -0500
The system diagnostic reports a seek error that is repeatable. Then it
recommends a backup of user data and a surface scan. I have a couple of
questions concerning this:
How would I backup this user data? It is a firewall and other then
configuration there is no data I would loose. Obviously it would be
nice if I could simply recover. But the configuration was straight
forward, so rebuilding doesn't sound to bad.
If I do this surface analysis it will destroy the data? .... never mind
it says it will. I guess this is the equivilent to a reformat?
I'm under the impression that it is possible to build a diskless
firewall. I would prefer to do this, since it seems like I would then
not risk the drive failure problem I have now. How hard is this? What
are the drawbacks?
Finally, this is a very old disk (if you can guage age by size it's 1.2
gig), and I would assume more prone to failure. Should I shell out the
cash for a new hard drive, if the whole purpose is a firewall. I assume
I would have to purchase an 10-30 Gig harddrive and then hardware
program it to only use 2 Gig because of the very old bios on this
machine. Is there a better, cheaper way?
I've included comp.os.linux.security for the discussion of the diskless
firewall.
Thanks,
Mojo
Paige wrote:
> After proprorly shutting down my linux box I can no longer reboot. I
> first tried to boot and it didn't work. And came to a point that said
> something along the lines of:
>
> Kernel panic: unable to boot somthing about booting with the parameter
> initd
>
> I shut down and tried again. Now it just hangs never even boots. The
> curser just blinks. So I attempted with the rescue disk I had made
> prior. It successfully lists eth0 and then:
>
>
> EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
> isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=03:05, iso_blknum=16, block=32
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05
>
> I suspect the harddrive has failed. Is this a correct assumtion? Is
> there anything I can do to recover? What should be my next test? I
> guess the system diagnostics would be a good try.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
>
> Mojo Nichols
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Subject: Re: VIA VT82c686b
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 13:41:39 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 06:56:50 GMT, Kenneth R�rvik
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave) wrote in
><9g3epm$j29$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>>Anyone know where I can get the vt82cxxxx driver? I think the latest
>>version might be 3.21. I need this one to support my vt82c686b. The
>>older version 2.something included with 2.4.2 kernel does not like the
>>vt82c686b chip.
>
> Why not just patch your kernel to 2.4.5? It is much better IMHO, and has
> the workaround for the buggy via chipset.
>
> --
> Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22950312
> Nordbergv. 60A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
I have two systems with the chipset and saw this behavior on 2.4.4 initially
with them. I have a K7pro-2a and a K7t which both have the via +
southbridge issues. Definitely, moving to 2.4.5 works and you get the
latest driver without having to slipstream it in. I don't know how
difficult it is to patch a redhat supplied kernel. Perhaps an easier method
would be to just download the tarvall and compile it.
BTW, we had an interesting thread on all this stuff on comp.os.linux.setup
awhile back and since I am affected twice over, I am particularly interested
in finding out information now on this.
The move to 2.4.5 has worked quite well for me with the VIA ide drivers.
--
Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (sarakin)
Subject: Re: 3c509 card
Date: 12 Jun 2001 07:04:37 -0700
Jurij Smakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> On 11 Jun 2001, sarakin wrote:
>
> > i got a bit curious when looking at my 3COM Etherlink III (3c509)
> > card. (don't really have any networking card experience)
> > under the text BOOT ROM on my 3c509 card, there's only an
> > empty place that i think you can put a small (ROM?) chip
> > on. do i have to put something there for the card to work?
>
> Hi!
>
> Nope, card will work even without anything in the BOOT ROM slot.
> This slot is used to insert a chip with the code, used for the
> over-the-network booting of diskless clients.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jurij
will the card work with an ADSL modem plugged into it?
(using the ADSL service from the swedish telephone operator/ISP Telia)
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