Linux-Hardware Digest #215, Volume #10 Wed, 12 May 99 08:13:25 EDT
Contents:
Re: Imation Super Disk (Grant Guenther)
Re: Recommendations Please (Siva Alagarsamy)
Re: Amd-k6-2 (Hubert CLEONIS)
Re: Quantum Fireball (Siva Alagarsamy)
Re: PCMCIA modem won't work (David Steuber)
Re: How to low-level format a SCSI (Swietanowski Artur)
Re: RIVA TNT Graphics (Siva Alagarsamy)
Teles ISDN PCI (Stefan Rupp)
Re: How to distinguish ECC memory? (Keith R. Williams)
Re: Newbie vs Linux: Comment on this system. (chris pitzel)
Re: Modem connection speed (gus)
Re: Boycott Intel on your own webpage (Tesla Coil)
Re: making linux go away (Robert W. Curry)
Re: Linux 2.0.34 and AHA1542 (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Trident Cyber9385, TFT & XF86 (Mohd H Misnan)
Is there any multi-port Voice over IP card for linux?
Infrared Driver for Linux? (KaeptnB)
Re: [Q] Is Amquest 56K V.90 PCI modem compatible with Linux? (Rob Clark)
Re: Dual M/B recommendation please (bryan)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Guenther)
Subject: Re: Imation Super Disk
Date: 11 May 1999 16:56:56 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 11 May 1999 08:24:49 -0400, Chris Aiken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have an Imation Super Disk (128MB floppy) attached to my
>parallel port. Has anybody been able to get this external floppy
>drive to work under Linux ? If so, have you been able to get it
>to operate in the 128MB mode or just the 1.44MB mode.
Have a look at the PARIDE suite - if you have a recent system you
should just be able to do
insmod paride
insmod epat
insmod pf
mount /dev/pf0 /mnt
(or whatever you want to do ...)
Otherwise, check out http://www.torque.net/parport/paride.html
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Grant R. Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Siva Alagarsamy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Recommendations Please
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 13:08:01 -0400
I also have a UMAX scanner with uses USB for connection and a Windoze
printer HP 712c. I don't use my scanner much, so I didn't try to
configure it. You can get the driver for UMAX scanner at
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scanner/
and for all windoze HP printers, you could get the driver at
www.httptech.com/ppa
Siva
Allen Flick wrote:
> I'm now definitely in the market for a new printer & scanner that I
> can use w/Linux as well as w/Windoze95. My plan is to stick w/95
> 'til I can get everything I need under Linux, then dump '95.
>
> Why? That's my problem. But, I need some assistance now. I was
> in the MicroCenter here 'bouts last week, and they had a real good
> price on a Umax scanner that was a floor model w/no box. Hell, I
> throw the boxes away anywho. So, I asked the guy if he knew
> whether that model had a driver for Linux, and we were speaking
> two different languages.
>
> My present printer is an HP820cse "Windoze" printer. Irritating.
> So, I plan to ship it off to college w/my son when he goes off to play
> basketball. That way, he won't have to rely on the school's labs for
> printing out reports/papers/etc.etc.etc.
>
> So, what's a good, medium priced color printer that I can get a driver
> for so it will be a snap to install?
>
> Thanks for your support.
> Al Flick
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From: Hubert CLEONIS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Amd-k6-2
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:10:39 +0200
Sorry but I miss the leading posting from this thread. Is it about K6-2 r=
andom
lockups under Linux? If so I am desesperately seeking a solution to this
problem. Lockups happen in console mode as well as under X (more often th=
ough).
I have a K6-2 350 + VIA MVP3 based motherboard with 1 M cache + 64M RAM +=
10 Go
HD + Creative Blaster Banshee video card and I am running kernel 2.2.3 wi=
th the
Banshee server from Creative. Will upgrading to a newer kernel solve the
Problem. 2.2.3 claims to supports AMD K6-2. Please help me or I'm afriad =
I have
to get back to Windows.
Eric Wurbel wrote:
> Agent Cooper wrote:
> >
> > What about Cyrix systems?
>
> No problem at all.
> I run a Cyrix 6x86L P200 with RedHat 5.2. It works fine
>
> Eric
>
> --
> le dernier h=E9bergeur gratuit (sans pub obligatoire...) frapp=E9 =3D=3D=
>
> http://altern.org
> Eric Wurbel
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From: Siva Alagarsamy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Quantum Fireball
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 13:17:33 -0400
I had a problem while installing RedHat linux for the first time on my new
Dell machine which had a large disk( 12 gigs). while configuring the
partitions during installation, the linux always recoganized it as a 1024
cylider disk with a lesser space, then I found that for large disk, during
installation, I had to boot with hda= 16383,16,63. after that everything was
configured properly and there is no problem. I don't know whether this is
reuired for all machines,
check out the Linux HowTo document for Large Disk.
Siva
"Drew A. Dunn" wrote:
> Does anyone know how well quantum hard drives work under linux? I have
> heard that the Bigfoot drives have problems. I'm thinking of buying a
> Fireball Plus KA. It's a EIDE Ultra ata/66 drive, either 13.6 or 18.2 GB.
> I just wanted to find out if anyone knew of any problems. Also, does
> anyone have any suggestions for other large drives?
>
> Drew A. Dunn
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: PCMCIA modem won't work
Date: 11 May 1999 11:35:52 -0400
When I see 'v.90' in a PCMCIA modem, I get the fear that it may be a
Winmodem. If this is the case, you are screwed.
Cardmanager will send the ID string for the modem to
/var/log/messages. If you are root, or if you compiled PCMCIA-CS as
trusted and hace xforms, you can open up Cardmanager and see if it
recognized.
--
David Steuber | s/trashcan/david/ if you wish to reply by mail
When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him -- that's where the
money is.
-- Robespierre
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From: Swietanowski Artur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: How to low-level format a SCSI
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 11:00:31 +0200
Villy Kruse wrote:
> BTW, why has the word 'format' now become synonymous to 'make
> filesystem'.
The reason is called DOS (for Dirty Operating System, short form of
QDOS, or Quick and D.O.S., later renamed Disk O.S. as Dirty wouldn't
sell to well). The command to make a filesystem there is, of course,
'format'.
This terminology breach gave rise to neverending confusion...
Regards,
=====================================================================
Artur Swietanowski mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Institut für Statistik, Operations Research und Computerverfahren,
Universität Wien, Universitätsstr. 5, A-1010 Wien, Austria
tel. +43 (1) 427 738 620 fax +43 (1) 427 738 629
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From: Siva Alagarsamy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RIVA TNT Graphics
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 13:26:30 -0400
Yes.
I am using one. I was able to configure it and use it. Its great the
XServer which came with my RedHat 5.2 didn't support it, I had to download
the latest XServer. Then I used the XF86Setup program, it did a good job of
configuring it.
Siva
frits wrote:
> Does anyone know if nvidia RIVA TNT based graphical cards
> do have good support by Linux.
> I have a Hercules Dynamite TNT card and I want to install Linux,
> but I heard my card is not supported by any Linux distribution, I wonder
> if this is true.
> Frits
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From: Stefan Rupp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Teles ISDN PCI
Date: 12 May 1999 11:52:57 +0200
Good morning,
as it seems, Teles completely changed the hardware on their PCI ISDN
card from the generic Siemens HiSax chipset to some wierd "Tiger"
chipset, which doesn't seem to work at all unter Linux. Did anybody
get this piece of hardware running?
Doei,
struppi
--
Dipl.-Inform. Stefan Rupp Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Geodaetisches Institut der RWTH Aachen Tel.: +49 241 80-5295
Templergraben 55, D-52062 Aachen, Germany Fax: +49 241 8888-142
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith R. Williams)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc
Subject: Re: How to distinguish ECC memory?
Date: 12 May 1999 00:31:40 GMT
On Sun, 9 May 1999 21:42:34, Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> It's not that simple. I have in one of my machines a 128M DIMM ECC; it
> has 18 chips.
Last I checked 18 divides evenly by three. THere will be an odd
number of chips per bank. If it's double-sided it's very likely
two banks. Besides, I don't believe 18 is a power of two. How
could it be anything other than parity?
I think you're being a bit picky here.
----
Keith
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From: chris pitzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie vs Linux: Comment on this system.
Date: 7 May 1999 06:09:55 GMT
>ASUS P5A motherboard, (3dm,pp,2I,1A,ALI,ATX) [whatever all that means]
The P5A's a relatively good motherboard -- but the 'relatively' is where
all of the problems seem to come in.
You see, the P5A uses the Ali chipset, and other Super Socket 7 boards use
other chipsets. These chipsets aren't nearly as stable as the Intel
i440LX/BX/FX chipsets which seem to be in direct competition with them.
The K6 is a very good processor -- the problem really is that all of the
chipsets that are available out there to exploit it, to put it lightly,
just suck. Tons of problems with AGP boards, and lots of other weird
issues you just don't hear of on the Intel chipset boards.
>AMD K6-2/400MHZ cpu
Good processor for the money.. Roughly comparable to a Pentium II - 350,
and quite a bit less expensive as well.
>64 meg PC-100 DRAM
>Samsung 6.4 Gig IDE UDMA drive.
I've heard nothing but problems with the Samsung hard drives
that were sold a few years ago.. I don't know if they've improved much
over the past couple of years, but I'd recommend that you stick to
Seagate/IBM/Quantum/Maxtor for the time being..
>Samsung 32X IDE CD-ROM
>Soundblaster 16 ISA
>USR 56K/V.90 ISA Voice FAX modem.
>(I eyeballed this, it had jumpers for interupt and com port.
>I also know where I can get an A-Open ISA modem)
>ATI expert 98 AGP 8meg video.
>
>That's the main part of it. It finishes off with an ATX tower
>case, floppy, mouse, keyboard, and Win 98 (GAG!)
Why are you paying for Windows98 if you don't want it (hence the 'GAG!').
If you don't want something, then just insist to the retailer/builder that
you don't get it, and that you don't pay for it.
>Total cost with taxes is $1044.50
Sounds a bit on the high side -- considering that I can almost build the
same system for the same amount of money in Canadian dollars. Plus, if
you don't already have one, you'll need a monitor with that system as
well..
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From: gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem connection speed
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 11:36:57 +0100
I tracked down my problem .... ;-)
I knew there was something I was missing. In minicom, using AT &F1
(hardware flow control default for USRobotics Sportster), then ATDT...
got me connected at 44400. Then, using the same AT commands in a Chat
script connects me *always* at 19200. I was very confused.
I was also using the slightly modified ppp-up scripts wich came with
SuSE6.0 (or are they a remnant of my SuSE5.3, IDK).
I was missing the [speed] parameter to pppd. I am unsure of how it
works, still, but all I know is that:
pppd debug modem lock connect 'chat -v -f chat.script'
connects at 19200 and
pppd 115200 debug modem lock connect 'chat -v -f chat.script'
connects at 44400.
This is on "setserial /dev/ttyS1 spd_normal"
Thanks for your help, though. Maybe someone could help me understand the
HOWTO's a bit better so that I know what I am setting when I specify
bauds, etc. Serial Flow control confuses me. Maybe I should start
looking at building SCSI bus controllers ;-)
gus
Andrew Comech wrote:
>
> On Mon, 10 May 1999 16:14:54 +0100, gus wrote:
> >Setserial shows the serial port at 115200baud (spd_normal ... should it
> >be spd_hi?),
> You need spd_vhi, like this:
>
> setserial /dev/ttyS... spd_vhi
>
> >and the modem is at AT&F1 (default factory settings for
> >hardware flow control) with a couple of modifications such as E1, V1,
> >and such (nothing set with floor and ceiling connection speeds). My
> >modem will never connect at more than 33600, and often at 19200, but on
> >the Windows machine it will conect at normally always around 44000.
> >
> >What have I missed?
>
> You _missed_ the list of AT commands. There are all those
> fancy commands like
>
> AT+MS=12,1,300,56000,0,0,33600
>
> Actually, this is fairly strange that AT&F1 (did you try AT&F0 ??)
> would not restore the optimal setting.
> I'd know two ways around that (that is, if you do not want to find the
> list of AT commands and to figure out what is needed):
>
> 1. In the Hyperterminal (under Windows), try to look up the INIt
> string which Windows use, logging the connection to a file.
> Try the link http://www.aopen-usa.com/tech/faq/modem/k56.htm
> on how this can be done. (I do not have a Windows computer to check
> whether this works; please post a follow-up if it does!!)
>
> 2. If for some reason this does not work, then in the same
> Hyperterminal, after the modem is initialized, try AT&V
> This would report the status of all S-registers of the modem,
> and you can compare them with what you have in Linux...
> But this would take some time..
>
> Best,
> a.
>
> --
> Looking for a Linux-compatible V.90 modem? See
> http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modem
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From: Tesla Coil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Boycott Intel on your own webpage
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 15:37:03 -0500
On 8 May 1999, Andrew Comech wrote:
> As to reselling CPUs, again, this does not happen often (on the average,
> _at most_ once a year, right?), while THE BIG GUYS will notice the
> change in the ownership the same business day, and will reassign the
> PSN to someone else's driver's license. (It is not that they will certainly
> do this, but this is _easy_.)
I've changed the CPU on *this* machine two times in the past year.
Whereas someone else would throw their mad money at software,
I run Linux and throw it at hardware. I have a few friends who cycle
through machines at a higher velocity. They also pop up a terminal
window to type in their logons, so any of us will dial up our account
at whomever's place we happen to be working on equipment today.
We're just hobbyists; we won't be changing our lifestyle to suit any
PSN identification bogosity.
.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert W. Curry)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: making linux go away
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:09:53 GMT
All you need to do is boot with a "DOS" disk and then enter the
command " fdisk /mbr"
This will write the DOS boot loader over the Lilo one.
Good luck, Bob
On Wed, 12 May 1999 10:11:46 +0200, "JP Mestres"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>THEVENIN a écrit dans le message
>>>
>>> Using FDISK to blow away the partitions though doesn't seem to do the
>>> trick. The LILO boot still comes up. If I disconnect the drive and put
>>> another one there even, then the machine just keeps asking me to reboot
>>> over and over.
>>>
>>> How do I get rid of Linux in the boot sector (I guess that's where it
>>> is) once and for all?
>
>you have to use delpart.exe to remove linux (and any other partition)
>then fdisk/mbr
>then formar..
>
>sincerely
>
--
Robert W. Curry KC1IB [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MCP / MCSE http://www.thcs.com
PGP RSA key ID:0x7E4A9793
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Linux 2.0.34 and AHA1542
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 06:19:07 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott) writes:
Please adjust your newsreader to be adding the new text _below_
the cited text. Thanks.
>Hey,
> I ran into a similar problem with an AHA1542CF card. Can you
>provide a bit more information with the IO port, DMA and IRQ for your
>card? I know the AHA15* series need to be on port 0x330 (there's
>another but I can't remember off the top of my head. 0x300 maybe ?).
[...]
Not all possible addresses that the 1542CF may be setup to use
will be detected by the autoprobe feature. The list of probed
addresses can be found in the aha1542.c file . The author explicitely
mentiones that only 0x330 and 0x334 will be autoprobed.
Michael
--
Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mohd H Misnan)
Subject: Re: Trident Cyber9385, TFT & XF86
Date: 11 May 1999 13:55:46 GMT
On Tue, 11 May 1999 11:02:22 +0200, Björn-Åke Segrell wrote:
>Mohd H Misnan wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 05 May 1999 17:25:01 +0200, Björn-Åke Segrell wrote:
>> >Using RH5.2 on my laptop
>> >
>> >I visited www.suse.de
>> >and they have issued a warning about TFT's and the Cyber9385 Trident
>> >chip.
>> >I got the symptoms without any damage.
>> >Does anyone know if there's a fix available ?
>>
>> What the symptoms you're getting? I've TFT + Trident Cyber9385 and have been
>> running Linux and XFree since the day I bought it.. the only thing that I still
>> can't fix it is when the APM kicks-in, the X will be messed-up during the
>> restore.. need to reset it using ctl-alt-backspace.
>
>I'm using XF86 3.3.3.X SVGA 800x600x24Bit.
I'm using XFree86 3.3.3.0 SVGA 800x600x16bit.. couldn't get 24bit working
properly (blackend icons inside NS etc...).
>They say the symptoms are that the screen start to flicker and that it
>could be damaged
>and warn You to to shut X down immediately untill there's a fix.
>And that is what mine does. Of course there is a "slight" possibilty
>I've misconfigured other things too :-).
I don't have the above problem. My current setup is:
Mitac 5033
2Meg Trident Cyber9385
12.1" TFT screen.
Check out dejanews.com for an archive on my previous posting for the above
chipset.
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|Mohd Hamid Misnan|[EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] |i|
|MacOS 8.5.1 + |http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/3319/ |M|
|AMD K6-2/300 + |We want to take over the world, but we don't have |a|
|Linux 2.2.7 i586 |to do it tomorrow. It's OK by next week - Linus T.|c|
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is there any multi-port Voice over IP card for linux?
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 14:24:55 +0800
Does anyone know if any multi-port voice over ip card out there that works
with linux and PBX? Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (KaeptnB)
Subject: Infrared Driver for Linux?
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 12:53:46 +0200
Hi!
i have installed SuSE Linux 6.0 and it works fine.
But yesterday i got a i486DX4/100 16MB Laptop without a cdrom-drive.
So i decided to install linux on the laptop via plip. first it worked
fine, but after a few reboots (and perhaps =B4too much=B4
yast-configurations) plip doesn=B4t start anymore (=B4Device or resource
busy, or SIOCSIFADDR: Operation not supported by device, or
SIOCSIFDSTADDR Operation not supported by device, plip1: unkown
interface) on both computers, my big one and the laptop! i compiled a
new kernel with lp and plip support as modules, but it doesn=B4t work!!
Now =
think it=B4s better to buy a irda-adapter for my Pentium-Bigtower-Compute=
r
because the laptop has a irda interface. But i haven=B4t found a
irda-network-driver! Thank you, if you can help me!
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Crossposted-To: fj.os.linux
Subject: Re: [Q] Is Amquest 56K V.90 PCI modem compatible with Linux?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 11:47:36 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Hiro Masuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anyone know or have experience if
>Amquest 56K V.90 PCI Internal Modem-Voice/Fax/Data
>is compatible with Linux?
There are several Amquest PCI models, but I believe that all of them are
software modems of some kind-- please check your model number/FCC
registration number on the "big table" at
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
Be sure to use your browser's "Find in Page," because the Amquest modems
are made by various manufacturers.
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual M/B recommendation please
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 02:41:20 GMT
2) 300a slot 1 chips (modified) running in an asus p2bd. two systems
built like this and both are running fine.
I say go for asus - it costs more, but their bx boards are tops.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I am putting together a PPG Celeron-based dual Linux system (using MSI
: slot-1 adapters). I would like to overclock the system a little bit, so
: control over the bus frequency is needed (also control over 66/100
: override setting with Celeron). Can somebody with a similar system
: recommend and/or share their motherboard experiences. The economics for
: such a system are excellent now with 400+ Celerons well under $200 a
: piece.
: --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==--
: ---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.---
--
Bryan
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