Linux-Hardware Digest #737
Linux-Hardware Digest #737, Volume #14Mon, 7 May 01 09:13:13 EDT Contents: Re: Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com (J.Teo) Re: Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com (Cobalt servers)? (Mike N) Re: ProSavage PM133 (Tim Roberts) Re: Framegrabber recommendations? (Louis Boyd) Re: how to use MOD (Magneto Optical) drive under redhat 7.0? (Dave Stanton) Re: Onboard video and eMachines (larry) Re: CONFIG_USB_UHCI vs. CONFIG_USB_UHCI_ALT (a.k.a. JE) (Kenneth Rørvik) Webcam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Re: CONFIG_USB_UHCI vs. CONFIG_USB_UHCI_ALT (a.k.a. JE) (Georg Acher) Ethernet PCMCIA Adapter (Martin Strasser) Re: Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com (Cobalt servers)? (C. Newport) Re: Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com (Cobalt servers)? (Harri Haataja) Buffalo LPC4-TX pcmcia nic (Nick De Roeck) Re: No logitech mouse works with any distribution of linux... (Harri Haataja) ELSA Microlink Modem (sfer) Re: digital camera (Jef Peeraer) Re: CONFIG_USB_UHCI vs. CONFIG_USB_UHCI_ALT (a.k.a. JE) (Kenneth Rørvik) Re: BP6 + Mandrake + reboot problem (Jonadab the Unsightly One) where are the modem settings held? (stevek) From: J.Teo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 05:18:10 GMT There are a lot of cool things happening in Linux, and Sun is right to realise it should get involved and make use of these things. After all the Linux sparc port has been around a while and people like me are scooping up old Sun equipment to run it on because we know it's going to be much better than on a PC, and much cheaper than Solaris! Would you be kind enough to explain to me why buying old Sun equipment and putting Linux on it would make it cheaper than Solaris? -- From: Mike N [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com (Cobalt servers)? Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 05:28:49 GMT On Mon, 07 May 2001 01:03:53 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Brown) wrote: On Mon, 07 May 2001 01:28:28 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... As for your question about why they didn't start producing Cobalts with sparc processors, well maybe the writing is on the wall for the traditional sparc OS[...blah blah] the reason is because intel hardware is cheaper, and one of the main selling points about cobalt boxes is that they are CHEAP. I recently spoke to a fellow at ISPCON whose title at Sun/Cobalt is Evangelism Manager (Kick ass title IMHO!) His take is that the switch to x86 hardware is due to the more readily available base of code for the x86 arch. The MIPS arch. while very good performing has to have the code ported to it which costs time and money in the development department. So why reinvent the wheel? So the descision was made to go to X86. Sigh. [yes, I know they used to be MIPS based. same reason; they got a good deal on the processor they needed. but now it is more cost-effective to use intel hardware] Mike N -- From: Tim Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crossposted-To: jaring.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x Subject: Re: ProSavage PM133 Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 22:30:44 -0700 goolias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,all For those having problems with ProSavage PM133 ( Pro Savage KM133 is for Athlon system ) built in VGA in Via chipset, goto download driver from www.s3graphics.com ( I can't find this url registered in google, however it really exist ) it's s3savage-1.0-13.tar.gz, those listed in s3 nextmill site doesn't work for me until this driver ( in s3 nextmill it was in earlier version 1.0-6 ) The most recent version is 1.1.15, and is downloadable from http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html. However, I can get it start in 640x480 16 bppmode only, I can get it work in 800x600 16 bpp. You should be able to get whatever fits in the memory you've allocated to graphics. -- - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza Boekelheide, Inc. -- From: Louis Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Framegrabber recommendations? Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 06:14:44 + Steve Snyder wrote: Hello. I am looking for hardware/software advice for a framegrabber in Linux. While I am very familiar with Linux, I know roughly zero about framegrabbing. Since I am just getting my feet wet, I'm looking for a simple setup, just a cheap parallel-port-based color camera and the software to use with it. (Yes, I'm sure USB would be better, but this old machine lacks a USB port. It does have an ECP parallel port, though.) I don't care about
Linux-Hardware Digest #738
Linux-Hardware Digest #738, Volume #14Mon, 7 May 01 14:13:08 EDT Contents: Re: Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com (Cobalt servers)? (C. Newport) Re: ELSA Microlink Modem (Chris Howells) Re: NEC 3.5 1.2MB Floppy support (Jonadab the Unsightly One) Re: Pentium I 133 +32 MB enough ? (Jonadab the Unsightly One) RH 7.0 + Maestro.o +USB on Toshiba Laptop (Charlene Hanselman) Re: kppp problems... (Jonadab the Unsightly One) Re: Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com (Cobalt servers)? (Harri Haataja) Re: Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com (Cobalt servers)? (Harri Haataja) Re: ASUS A7M266 motherboard incompatible? (Jonadab the Unsightly One) Re: Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com (Mathew Kirsch) Backing up Windows on Linux (Steve Smith) Help... terminal server (Ramesh K) VIA 686B bug fix (jay) Re: High availability webserver (Jonadab the Unsightly One) Re: High availability webserver (Jonadab the Unsightly One) Re: newbie Req: PCI Audio Vortex on Mandrake 7.2 (Francisco Galvan) Re: Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com (Cobalt servers)? (Abe Lian) reiserfs for new kernel (Homer) Sound Blaster 16 PCI (Marc Rosen) Re: linux kernel 2.2.12 and DAC-960 (Steve Wolfe) Re: reiserfs for new kernel (Kwan Lowe) Re: Backing up Windows on Linux (Kwan Lowe) From: C. Newport [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com (Cobalt servers)? Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 14:11:54 +0100 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Harri Haataja wrote: Sriranga Veeraraghavan wrote: If you are interested in an alternative OS on older Sun hardware, I would recommend you try either NetBSD or OpenBSD instead of Linux. In my personal experience, having run Sparc-Linux on everything from an IPC to a Ultra1, Sparc-Linux is not nearly as stable or fast as the BSDs. Things may have changed now, but it used to be quite difficult to get stable kernels and glibc's on Sparc-Linux. About the only reason I know of to choose Sparc-Linux over one of the BSDs is SMP support. This has been the case ages ago. Unfortunately it's really hard to find a recent distribution that easily installs on sparcs. N/O BSD's works fairly nicely. Take a look at http://www.slackware.com/ for a decent Sparc linux which runs OK on anything from an IPC to an Ultra. No bloat, 96Mb iso image. -- Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. [Albert Einstein]. -- From: Chris Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ELSA Microlink Modem Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 14:13:03 +0100 sfer wrote: I try different things, linmodem driver etc but not work If the Linmodem driver doesn't work then it looks like it's time to buy a proper modem. Soft-modems are in effect nothing more than a glorified sound card. -- Chris Howells E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 93699029 Web: http://www.chowells.uklinux.net -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One) Subject: Re: NEC 3.5 1.2MB Floppy support Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 13:34:03 GMT Jan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a NEC FD1231T 3.5 floppy disk drive (mode 3) using 1.2MB diskettes. Does the Linux (RedHat 7, Kernel v2.2.17) support this kind of disk drives? Are you *certain* about the disk size? 1.2MB diskettes are usually 5.25 (the kind that are _visibly_ floppy). 3.5 diskettes are normally the kind with the stiff case, and they generally come in 720K and 1.4M sizes. - jonadab -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One) Subject: Re: Pentium I 133 +32 MB enough ? Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 13:44:27 GMT Johan Kullstam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 32MB is enough to run X, a reasonable sized window manager like fvwm-1.24r, and emacs. netscape is a hog, but it will run ok too. The original poster asked about KDE. Older versions of KDE can run with 32MB of RAM (as long as you give them some swap space), but KDE2 prefers to have more, or there'll be a lot of swapping going on. I don't know which version of KDE comes with any particular release of SUSE. I know that Mandrake 7.1 uses the older (smaller) KDE, but Mandrake 7.2 uses the newer (bigger) KDE2, which likes to have more RAM. I *have* run KDE2 with as little as 16MB of RAM, given adequate swap space; however, it's quite sluggish. Gnome's memory requirements are at least as great as KDE2. fvwm, of course, doesn't consume as much. Adding big apps on top, like WINE or StarOffice, increases the memory requirements substantially, which is why they're asking what apps you intent to use. -
Linux-Hardware Digest #739
Linux-Hardware Digest #739, Volume #14Mon, 7 May 01 19:13:05 EDT Contents: lilo version 21.7.5 update (John in SD) Re: Supported largest IDE hd size? (rascal) Re: Backing up Windows on Linux (Juergen Sauer) Re: reiserfs for new kernel (Homer) Linux AMD--from LHD (Tim) Re: Backing up Windows on Linux (Steve Smith) Re: Networking -- switches vs hubs ?? (Jonadab the Unsightly One) Re: reiserfs for new kernel (Bjørn T Johansen) Re: Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com (Jim Wallis) Re: Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com (Jim Wallis) Re: Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com (Jim Wallis) Re: reiserfs for new kernel (Chris Howells) Re: Gilat 360 Satellite Modem (freedman) Re: Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com (Jim Wallis) Re: Webcam (Peter) Re: Webcam (olgnuby) Re: Backing up Windows on Linux (Brett I. Holcomb) Re: Backing up Windows on Linux (Kwan Lowe) Re: reiserfs for new kernel (BetrOffDed) From: John in SD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lilo version 21.7.5 update Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 18:34:09 GMT LILO release 21.7.5 is based upon Werner Almesberger's LILO version 21. Version 21.7.5 is a bugfix release. Version 21.7 adds support for higher serial line rates. Version 21.6 is an upgrade for users of the Reiser File System, and adds new diagnostic capabilities. Internal changes allow booting kernels with larger real-mode setup codes (2.4.0 and later). Source code is available for download from: ftp://brun.dyndns.org/pub/linux/lilo (developer's site) Or from the main distribution site: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo(please use) See the distribution file 'CHANGES' for details of the differences between 21.7.5 and prior releases. --John Coffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] LILO version 21.7 (24-Feb-2001) source at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo patches to -2 at ftp://brun.dyndns.org/pub/linux/lilo -- From: rascal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Supported largest IDE hd size? Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 18:44:05 GMT As far as I know, linux now is capable of tera-byte drives even though they do not exist. rascal Axel Roehken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I have 2 Maxtor hard disk each with 81 GB up and running. a. NTK wrote: What is the supported largest IDE harddrive size in the current linux 2.2.x? THanks -- Posted via CNET Help.com http://www.help.com/ -- From: Juergen Sauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Backing up Windows on Linux Date: 7 May 2001 17:29:21 GMT Steve Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am Mon, 07 May 2001 09:14:06 -0500 in comp.os.linux.hardware: This seemed like an obvious idea until I got to the part about file names with spaces, like My Documents. I want to write a script to back up all the directories *except* certain ones, like Windows and Recycled. I'm using ls to generate a list of file names, and tar tries to interpret My Documents as two file names, neither of which exist. I can figure out some hard ways to do this; anyone know any easy ones? http://www.arkeia.com Not a script, but a complete and customizeable backup solution. mfG Jojo -- Jürgen Sauer - AutomatiX GmbH, +49-4209-4699, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** ** Das Linux Systemhaus - Service - Support - Server - Lösungen ** http://www.automatix.de to Mail me: remove: -not-for-spawm- ** -- From: Homer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: reiserfs for new kernel Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 21:22:00 +0200 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwan Lowe wrote: Homer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear newsreaders, I am woking on a new kernel for a machine on reiserfs. I could'nt find the option for reiserfs in menuconfig, I found this one with xconfig only the text was grey, now I need to find the option (?) to open the reiserfs option. Does anyone know wich one this must be? If you are using a stock 2.2.x kernel you'll need to patch the ReiserFS stuff. To do this, grab the patches from http://www.namesys.com/download.html. Run the patch by cd'ing to /usr/src/linux and type patch -p1 /patch-file. Replace patch-file with the actual file you downloaded. Then you can do the make config and see it under the filesystem options. Kernel 2.4 already has ReiserFS included. Thanks. No I'am working an a 2.4.4 kernel and I can't fin the option to open reiserfs support. I have found it in a grey text(make xconfig), now I need to now wich option I also have to open so that the text becomes black and get the possibillity to set this to yes Peter --
Linux-Hardware Digest #740
Linux-Hardware Digest #740, Volume #14Mon, 7 May 01 22:13:07 EDT Contents: Re: avoiding USB support at start-up (Michael Meissner) Re: linux machine croaked :( (Dan Stromberg) 3Com HomeConnect USB webcam and RHL7.1: no driver? (Ronald Cole) Re: Backing up Windows on Linux (Ronald Cole) Re: Backing up Windows on Linux (Brett I. Holcomb) NIC setup Please Help (John Leita) Re: Sound Blaster 16 PCI (arthur) Re: NIC setup Please Help (Rinaldi J. Montessi) Re: BP6 + Mandrake + reboot problem (Jerry Broszkowski) Re: Linux AMD--from LHD (arthur) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup Subject: Re: avoiding USB support at start-up From: Michael Meissner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 07 May 2001 19:22:36 -0400 Massimo Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear community, Some time ago I have upgraded my linux distribution to include USB support, with kernel 2.2.16 from the Red Hat 7.0 distribution. Then I bought a USB Iomega Zip Drive, 100 Mb, that I planned to use on my Toshiba Tecra 720 CDT laptop. Later on I was told that in order to use the usb-storage module I needed to upgrade to kernel 2.4.x, so I compiled 2.4.2 with kgcc and making sure that all the packages needed were up to date. Despite the support received from several newsgroups, I have had little success, as I am still unable to mount my zip drives. The main problem is that, approximately 70% of the times, my laptop would not boot at all, freezing when loading the usb-ohci module (I have a NEC Corporation USB controller, rev 01) or, if that step is passed, it freezes when mounting the USB filesystem, or later, when checking for new hardware. Some times I have to try booting my laptop 6 times and more before I can start working. If the machine boots, I can work happily but loading all the relevant modules and mounting the drive has no effect. I have decided that, on a temporary basis, before I manage to dedicate some time to study what is needed to sort out al these problems, I should let my laptop boot smoothly, thus I would like to remove USB support completely at start-up. I am sure there is a way out, but I have invested so much time to date that is time now to meet the deadlines for the work that I have got to do. I don't know whether this has to be done by Kudzu, by chkconfig or what. Could anyone please help by telling me how to control hardware support at start-up? (Note, I work on GCC, not on Linux, so take what I say about Linux as being personal opinions). Assuming you built the USB controller as a module, I believe what you want to do is edit /etc/modules.conf (it might be under the old name of /etc/conf.modules) and delete the following line: alias usb-controller usb-ohci That would allow you to still load the USB controller by hand, using modprobe. If you have compiled the USB controller directly into the kernel, you will have to rebuild the kernel with the USB support either compiled as modules, or not compiled at all. You probably should remove the lines that refer to the zip drive from /etc/fstab if they exist. -- Michael Meissner, Red Hat, Inc. (GCC group) 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 -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Stromberg) Subject: Re: linux machine croaked :( Date: 7 May 2001 23:43:40 GMT Ok, at first I had a dell powersupply, so that of _course_ didn't work. But later I tried again with a real ATX powersupply, and that still didn't work. I also tried shorting out the power switch connector with a bent paperclip, and that didn't start anything up. So I got a new motherboard, cpu, case and PS without much regret. I'm running much faster, and it only set me back about $260. I'm inclined to say it's the motherboard. The board will power up without a CPU, it'll just beep at you. Since you're talking about having SIMMs, I'd say it's time for you to just get a new computer. My mistake. It's pretty contemporary memory - a mix of pc100 and pc133, mostly pc133. When I moved to the new motherboard, I tossed the pc100 and kept the pc133. I would guess that what happened is when you were changing your drive you sparked and fried the motherboard with some static. Did you have the P/S unplugged when you were in the case, or just off? You're supposed to only have it off so that the case is still grounded. (But you're also supposed to wear an anti-static wrist strap, which I've never seen anyone actually do.) I had the PS plugged into the wall while doing the initial cdrom work, but I wasn't using an antistatic wrap. You can bet that when I did the work of switching over to the new parts, that I used an antistatic wrap! So now I'm mostly up and running, but I'm having a little trouble with the
Linux-Hardware Digest #741
Linux-Hardware Digest #741, Volume #14Mon, 7 May 01 22:13:07 EDT Contents: turn $6 into $40,000 in ONE month! (Matt Warren) Re: CD writers (Christopher Wong) Re: that PCMCIA question (Linksys PCMPC100 V2/Dell Inspiron 4000) (Jerry McBride) From: Matt Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: turn $6 into $40,000 in ONE month! Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 20:41:57 -0500 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ===_NextPart_000_03B7_01C0D736.284E4D80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable : = == === : THIS REALLY CAN MAKE YOU EASY MONEY!! IT WORKS!!! BUT YOU HAVE = TO FOLLOW IT TO A LETTER FOR IT TO WORK : A little while back, I was = browsing through newsgroups, just like you are now, and came across an = article similar to this that said you could make thousands of dollars = within weeks with only an initial investment of $6.00! So I thought, = Yeah, right, this must be a scam, but like most of us, I was curious, = so I kept reading. : Anyway, it said that you send $1.00 to each of the = 6 names and address stated in the article. You then place your own name = and address in the bottom of the list at #6, and post the article in at = least 200 newsgroups. (There are thousands) No catch, that was it. So = after thinking it over, and talking to a few people first, I thought = about trying it. I figured what have I got to lose except 6 stamps and = $6.00, right? Like most of us I was a little skeptical and a little = worried about the legal aspects of it : all. So I checked it out with = the U.S. Post Office (1-800-725-2161) and they confirmed that it is = indeed legal! Then I invested the measly $6.00. Well GUESS WHAT!!... = within 7 days, I started getting money in the mail! I was shocked! I = figured it would end soon, but the money just kept coming in. In my = first week, I made about $25.00. By the end of the second week I had = made a total of over $1,000.00! In the third week I had over $10,000.00 = and it's still growing. This is now my fourth week and I have made a = total of just over $42,000.00 and it's still coming in rapidly. It's : = certainly worth $6.00, and 6 stamps, I have spent more than that on the = lottery!! : Let me tell you how this works and most importantly, why it = worksalso, make sure you print a copy of this article NOW, so you = can get the information off of it as you need it. STEP 1: Get 6 separate = pieces of paper and write the following on each piece of paper PLEASE = PUT ME ON YOUR MAILING LIST. Now get 6 US $1.00 bills and place ONE = inside EACH of the 6 pieces of paper so the bill will not be seen = through the envelope to prevent thievery. Next, place one paper in each = of the 6 envelopes and seal them. You should now have 6 sealed = envelopes, each with a : piece of paper stating the above phrase, your = name and address, and a $1.00 bill. What you are doing is creating a = service by this. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY LEGAL! Mail the 6 envelopes to the = following addresses:=20 : #1) A. Furman : 8747 bay parkway, apt 2c : Brooklyn, NY 11214 : #2) Travis : P.O. Box 815 : Gig Harbor, WA 98335 : #3) Vincent : 4210 Orly : Brossard, Quebec, Canada : J4Y 2K7 : #4) Luke : E13951 CTH D : LaFarge, WI 54639 : #5) D. Nelson: 416 W. North Ave. #65 : Lompoc, CA 93436=20 : #6) Matt Warren: 1770 Slaughter Rd. : Madison, AL 35758 : STEP 2: Now take the #1 name off the list that you see above, move the = other names up (6 becomes 5, 5 becomes 4, etc...) and add YOUR Name as = number 6 on the list. STEP 3: Change anything you need to, but try to = keep this article as close to original as possible. Now, post your = amended article to at least 200 newsgroups. (I think there are close to = 24,000 groups) All you need is 200, but remember, the more you post, the = more money you make! ---DIRECTIONS -HOW TO POST TO = NEWSGROUPS Step 1) You do not need to re-type this entire = letter to do your own posting. Simply put your cursor at the beginning = of this letter and drag your : cursor to the bottom of this document, = and select 'copy' from the edit menu. This will copy the entire letter = into the computers memory.=20 Step 2) Open a blank 'notepad' file and place your cursor at the top of = the blank page. From the 'edit' menu select 'paste'. This will paste a = copy of the letter into notepad so that you can add your name to the = list.=20 Step 3) Save your new notepad file as a .txt file. If you want to do = your postings in different sittings, you'll always have this file to go = back to.=20 : Step 4) Use Netscape or Internet explorer and try searching for = various newsgroups (on-line : forums, message boards, chat sites, = discussions.) Step 5) Visit these message boards and post this article = as a new message by highlighting the
