Linux-Hardware Digest #903, Volume #9 Fri, 2 Apr 99 01:14:08 EST
Contents:
Re: Installing RedHat 5.2 on a Gateway 2000 ("Charles Sullivan")
3Com Etherlink 3C900B-TPO not a recognized PCI device (Bill Cripe)
Re: Is Windows for idiots? (C Sanjayan Rosenmund)
Re: Is Windows for idiots? ("Golcor")
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Donovan
Rebbechi)
am I alone in probs with XFree86 ("Golcor")
Re: Linux on HP-PA systems (Tomasz Korycki)
Re: How to compile RH5.2 kernel?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: how to mount zip drive (Randy Cooper)
Re: ATI video... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: UDMA with ASUS P5A and Linux-2.2.3 (Kyle Gonzales)
Promise FastTrak IDE Raid Card supported? (Jay W. Summet)
Re: 3c509b not found in slackware 3.6 kernel 2.2.5 ("Todd Goyen")
ATI Rage 128 (Darrell Lalonde)
ASUS P2B-DS, linux 2.2.3 and 2.0.36, system restarts without warning (Matthew Lenz)
Re: AIC 7890 SCSI Controller (Matthew Lenz)
Re: how to mount zip drive (cdog)
Re: Sun Adapter (BRUCE FAUST)
Re: Yet Another PIC Modem Question (Mircea)
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Re: Installing RedHat 5.2 on a Gateway 2000
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 23:33:05 -0500
Yeah, I've got RH5.2 on my Gateway G6-450. There's nothing really unique
about my Gateway system as far as Linux is concerned. Any Linux of the
same vintage as RH5.2 will have a minor problem with installation on any
large hard drive.
The wheel mouse shipped with my system is a standard MS Intellimouse PS/2
which isn't well supported by RH5.2, but there's a free package on the web
("imwheel") which makes it run perfectly, wheel and all.
I never had a problem with X.
The anti-virus in my BIOS came disabled from the factory so I can't speak to
that.
The major annoyance I had with the GW system is that it wasn't immediately
clear what the equivalent retail versions of all its peripherals were, but
Linux
seemed to detect most of them by itself. And then of course there's the
infamous
and ubiquitous Winmodem, not unique to GW, which can't be made to run under
Linux.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
<7e1b80$df5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I have a Gateway 2000 (PII/233MHz, 8.3G HDD, 32MB RAM) which I want to
>rid of the Windoze 95 that it came preinstalled with. It's the standard
>box that came with all the Gateway stuff that they bundle in it - no new
>or changed components.
>
>I want to install RedHat 5.2 on it, but I hear RHL installations frequently
>tend to screw themselves up badly on proprietary systems. Some of the
things
>I've heard are pretty serious - the BIOS doesn't let LILO get loaded,
>basically thinking it's a virus! - various components -
>including the large 8.3G disk - are either not supported, or if
>supported are not correctly recognized by Linux correctly. - X
>doesn't work (locks up/hangs the machine) - the stupid little wheel mouse
>(isn't it a PS/2 device) driver is screwed up. I think these
>limitations are pretty severe. Has anyone out there experienced something
>similar? Has anyone - anyone at all - installed Linux (specifically RHL)
on
>a Gateway 2000 G series machine (I think that's what this one is; I'm not
>sure)? What were the problems faced? What are the precautions to take?
>
>Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.
>
>--
>U.V. Ravindra
>
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From: Bill Cripe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3Com Etherlink 3C900B-TPO not a recognized PCI device
Date: 2 Apr 1999 00:46:57 GMT
I've just installed a 3Com EtherLink XL PCI card (3C900B-TPO). When
I boot up or attempt to load the 3c59x module I get the following
message:
Unknown 3Com PCI ethernet adapter type 9004 detected: not configured
I also was directed towards include/linux/pci.h where the author asks
that people report unknown devices, but asks that recent linux
releases be checked to see if it has been added. Does this mean to
just plain get the pci.h from the latest release?
When I look in pci.h I can see that there is a define for a
3C900TPO (0x9000) but not for 3C900BTPO (which looks like it should
be 0x9004). Can I just add this line, rebuild the kernel and have the
device be recognized?
This is the card currently supplied with the US West DSL hardware,
so I'm sure this will get a lot of "hits" in the near future.
Thanks for the help,
Bill Cripe
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From: C Sanjayan Rosenmund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Is Windows for idiots?
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 03:45:20 GMT
Simon Cooke wrote:
>
> Heck, I started on a ZX81 with 1K of memory and a 3MHz Z80 (or was it
> slower...?)
>
I believe the ZX81's were a 1Mhz chip. . .
I started on a 6502 (also a 1Mhz chip) in an Apple ][.
No, not a ][+, not a //e, not a //c. . .just a ][!
I still have it, and it still runs, BTW. . .
--
Sanjay
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Windows has detected that a gnat has farted near your computer.
Press any key to reboot.
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From: "Golcor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Is Windows for idiots?
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 03:46:38 GMT
Good reply on the Y2K, not expecting the systems of those days to last was
not only good foresight, it was true. Seems the new generations of os and
software thought the same, as it is 1999, and microsoft is still working out
the bugs.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: 1 Apr 1999 02:41:47 GMT
On 31 Mar 1999 08:26:10 -0500, Johan Kullstam wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi) writes:
>
>> you do NOT use the same shells for interactive use as for
>> scripting. NOBODY uses /bin/sh as an interative shell, but it is
>> there for scripting.
>
>i use bash for both interactive use *and* scripting. i have used ksh
bash is safe for scripting if you only need to run your scripts on machines
with bash installed. If you want portable scripts, you should use /bin/sh.
Of course, you can write little scripts on the command line in bash ,
and it will usually work with /bin/sh unless you use the more advanced
features of bash. You can write a bash script, then change the first
line and see if it still works. It usually will. But then, if you find
yourself depending on bash's more advanced features, you probably either
(a) need to learn how to squeeze more out of
/bin/sh , or
(b) really should be using a real programming language such as
perl ( which is much more portable than a bash script )
>for both in a past life. i find it convenient and good to not need to
>learn two shells.
I agree 100%. That's why I use interactive shells such as zsh and bash that are
bourne-shell compatible ( more or less )
> you can try out little scripts right on the command
>line and then put it into a file.
Yep. See above.
--
Donovan Rebbechi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/
Web designer for Independence -- Linux for the Masses
http://www.independence.seul.org/
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From: "Golcor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: am I alone in probs with XFree86
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 03:51:10 GMT
I have an amd K6, 64 meg swap and the rest of 1 gig HD. 32 meg ram, AOpen
4meg video (agp) and a monitor that prob was on a 386 (IBM is all it says).
Loading and installing the os was the easy part, but I keep getting and
error when tring to launch XFree86 (Caught signal 11) and it points to the
video card....any suggestions? I need the XFree86 for netscape and mirc.
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From: Tomasz Korycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux on HP-PA systems
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 23:56:53 -0500
Jim Carter wrote:
>
> Especially interested in any information related to implementations of linux
> on Hewlett-Packard 9000/800 (Nova) series systems.
>
> --
> James A. Carter
> Rogers, Arkansas
Try this:
http://www.thepuffingroup.com/parisc/
We're _very_ early in the process...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How to compile RH5.2 kernel??
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 01:08:28 GMT
try:
cd /usr/src/linux
make mrproper
make xconfig
this much will get you into the xconfig utility and when done there:
make dep
after that I have been told to compile the kernel, but I don't know how quite
yet.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Jonathan D. Kramer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have Red Hat 5.2 and want to compile the bttv driver into the kernel.
> When I go to the /usr/src/linux directory and try to run make xconfig or
> any of the other commands to make the kernel I get that there are no
> rules? I have both kernel packages installed. How can I get this
> driver in????????
>
> Thanks
>
>
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From: Randy Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to mount zip drive
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 19:34:45 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
The simply matter of fact is that Iomega chose to use the fourth
partition when formatting the Zip disks to be used in DOS / Windows
systems. Therefore you must mount the fourth partition, as on /dev/hdc4.
Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mail checked week nights and weekends).
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Bernhard Heinrich wrote:
> Hi,
> I think Mike Werner is right.. try
>
> mount -t vfat /dev/hdc4 /zip or
> mount -t msdos /dev/hdc4 /zip
>
> But why hdc4... does anybody know why to mount the fourth partition?
>
> Bernhard
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ATI video...
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 04:26:58 GMT
All in Wonder Pro AGP 8mb works great. I have never had a problem with it -
except with the tuner card.
drew
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Eugene VonNiederhausern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greg H. wrote:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > Will Linux work with an ATI XPert 98 video card? E-mail me if you can,
> >
> > Yes. The Mach64 X server will run with it. I have the Xpert@Play 98,
> > which is basically the same card. It works with no problems.
> >
> > Greg H.
>
> What about the all in wonder pro? I have had some problems getting it to
> work.
>
>
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From: Kyle Gonzales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UDMA with ASUS P5A and Linux-2.2.3
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 05:34:26 +0000
Hi all,
Try NOT enabling UDMA in the BIOS. I have a UDMA drive. I do not have UDMA
enabled in the BIOS. However, when I run hdparm -tT /dev/hda, it tests out
as running at UDMA speeds.
Why does this work? WHO KNOWS? But it is worth a try...
Kyle Gonzales
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Andre Malafaya Baptista wrote:
> I am having the same problem...
>
> André
>
> A. Hirche wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >Hi!
> >
> >I found a few messages stating that the new kernel DOES support UDMA
> >with the ASUS P5A.
> >I have compiled the kernel with default ide dma enabled, checked that
> >the BIOS has UDMA enabled on both controllers and still get the
> >following messages:
> >
> >PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 78, VID=10b9,
> >DID=5229
> >PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> >PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled
> >ide0: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) <----------
> >THIS IS NOT TRUE!
> >PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled
> >ide1: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) <----------
> >THIS IS NOT TRUE!
> >
> >
> >Any hints on what I did wrong? I could not find anything helpful in the
> >kernel documentation.
> >
> >Thanks for the help!
> >
> >Bye,
> >
> >Axel
> >
> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jay W. Summet)
Subject: Promise FastTrak IDE Raid Card supported?
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 05:40:27 GMT
I just saw the Promise FastTrak IDE Raid card, and though, "I'd be
cool if Linux supported that". So, I was wondering if it does now, or
if a driver is in development.
Thanks,
Jay W. Summet
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From: "Todd Goyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.linux.slakware,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: 3c509b not found in slackware 3.6 kernel 2.2.5
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 04:49:43 GMT
OK now its finding it
but its not working
i was passing it too dhcpcd but if just put some bunk value in rc.inet1 it
works
i think i need the new dhcpcd which i am getting right now
after i finish i will post again
thanks so far
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From: Darrell Lalonde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATI Rage 128
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 04:41:44 GMT
This is probably a silly question, but has anyone out there got a ATI
rage 128 card running under Linux. I know it's probably way to early,
but I bought one and would like to get it running under Linux if at all
possible.
--
Darrell Lalonde
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.magma.ca/~dlalonde
http://www.cybsur.com
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From: Matthew Lenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ASUS P2B-DS, linux 2.2.3 and 2.0.36, system restarts without warning
Date: 1 Apr 1999 04:32:04 GMT
I saw that someone else mentioned that their P2B-LS MB was doing the
exact same thing. They had it happen with a bios rev 1002 and currently
with their rev 1003. I'm running the newest rev 1008. This is really
wiggin me out. Cuz when it crashes, its crashing hard, I actually had to
run fsck manually on the drive to have it fix the errors on the drive.
The stuff we had in common with our systems are 300A's oc'd to 450 .. and
128megs of PC100 .. I'd love to know if this bug has been resolved. I
dont even know where to start looking as the system just reboots. The
other guy I've been mentioning has tried it using different memory, and
trying the processor out with different motherboards.
I really would appreciate any help if possible, the system seems to run
fine with win98 (no more instability that win98 has in the first place heh)
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From: Matthew Lenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AIC 7890 SCSI Controller
Date: 1 Apr 1999 04:32:00 GMT
Who'ever the original poster is, download the newest images from the
updates site and try again.. it'll prolly fix your problems.
laurent wrote:
>
> Very strange ! I own an Asus Mother Board, with on-board adaptec SCSI
> controler (adaptec AHA2940 U-Wide 2, based on AIC 7890 chipset),
and It
> works. I met problems, but I solve them by following these steps : - my
IDE
> CDROM was set on UDMA Mode (it seems Ultra DMA is not very well
supported) :
> I disabled it in my BIOS - I changed the SCSI disk ID to 0 - I disabled
> "Extended BIOS transalation for DOS drives > 1 GByte" - I turned off wide
> negociation (transfer rate decreased from 80Mb to 40Mb, but it works well
> like this)
>
> Hope It will help !
>
> Laurent TASTET
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.990126182937.19544A-100000@ysidro>,
> "Alvaro A. Novo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to install RedHat 5.2 on my box which has a AIC 7890 SCSI
> > Controller, but I am running into the following problem after I select
> > installation from "Local CD-ROM":
> >
> > It probes the CD-ROM and asks me if I have a
> > "SCSI or Other". I select SCSI and answer yes to "Do you have SCSI
adapter?"
> > Then, I select from a list the Adaptec AHA 2940, but
> > when I press the autoprobe tab, it locks the computer.
> > No alt-ctrl-del, no power switch... unplug it is the solution.
> >
> > Apparently this hardware is supported, so what should I do?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
> >
> > Alvaro
> >
> > ps. Solutions attempted:
> >
> > 1) Latest boot images from redhat.
> > 2) Disabled the "Extended BIOS transalation for DOS drives > 1 GByte"
> >
> > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
> > Alvaro A. Novo
> > 2116 S. Orchard St., #304
> > Urbana, IL 61801
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~novo/Alvaro.htm
> > 217-337-4893
> > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
> >
> >
>
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From: cdog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to mount zip drive
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 19:50:35 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Because of Iomega's cross platform compatible partition format. If you
were to fdisk and and format it ext2 you could mount it hdc1, but a DOS
machine or a Mac couldn't read the disk. A full ext2 zip disk will look
like a full FAT disk with no files to a DOS machine.
Bernhard Heinrich wrote:
> Hi,
> I think Mike Werner is right.. try
>
> mount -t vfat /dev/hdc4 /zip or
> mount -t msdos /dev/hdc4 /zip
>
> But why hdc4... does anybody know why to mount the fourth partition?
>
> Bernhard
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From: BRUCE FAUST <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt
Subject: Re: Sun Adapter
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 05:48:57 GMT
Carrera Computers has them!
Email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think that they are $25 bucks or so.
Odinaldo Rodrigues wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> Does anybody know where (in the UK preferably) I can get hold of
> a VGA to Sun 13w3 monitor adapter?
>
> This SUN monitor is actually a multi-sync monitor that can be
> used with a PC. The adaptor is available in the US but I'd rather
> get it from the UK if possible at all.
>
> Many thanks for any help.
>
> Odinaldo
> --
> Odinaldo Rodrigues
> Department of Computer Science
> King's College - Strand
> London WC2R 2LS
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Yet Another PIC Modem Question
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 23:43:04 -0500
Here's how a winmodem shows in /proc/pci:
Bus 0, device 9, function 0:
Communication controller: Lucent (ex-AT&T) Microelectronics Unknown
device (rev 1).
Vendor id=11c1. Device id=442.
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11. Master
Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=252.Max Lat=14.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe7000000 [0xe7000000].
I/O at 0xe400 [0xe401].
And an excerpt from the output of lspci -vv:
00:09.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics: Unknown
device 0442 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Unknown device 1668:0440
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 252 min, 14 max, 0 set
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: Memory at e7000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Region 1: I/O ports at e400
Region 2: I/O ports at e800
Mircea wrote:
(...)
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