Linux-Hardware Digest #694, Volume #10 Wed, 7 Jul 99 16:13:37 EDT
Contents:
Re: SbLive Linux drivers and RH 6.0 (Carsten Cimander)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (chrisv)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Jay Patrick Howard)
HP Colorado 5 GB (Jose Manuel Benitez Sanchez)
Re: @home schitzophrenia with RH ("Crossbones")
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? ("Dean Kent")
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Andrzej Popowski)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Andrzej Popowski)
Re: @home schitzophrenia with RH ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Help: SMC EZ on Compaq Deskpro EP/SP ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SCSI CD-RW: yamaha 4416s: HowTo REWrite CD-RW's? (Carsten Cimander)
Re: eject from an internal Jaz drive (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: dual processor setup? (Alex Lam)
Re: Problem with Banshee AGP ("j. de groot")
Help! My awe32 suddenly stopped working (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Torbj=F8rn?= Grindhaug)
Re: FWD. Toshiba back-tracks on anti-Linux stance (Anthony Campbell)
Re: 3C515 NIC probs (bill davidsen)
AMI MEGARAID (Joe Yau)
I have a Intel 740??? ("Laurence")
Re: Can we write to NTFS? (David Graham)
Re: Support for PCI Ethernet controller ? (Ratz)
ide tape blocks (Andrew H. Evans)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Jeffrey Karp)
format >2GB hard (Kamran Mohseni)
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From: Carsten Cimander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SbLive Linux drivers and RH 6.0
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 19:15:52 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Russel,
perhaps try the link
http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/
there you'll hopefully find the desired.
Have fun!
Carsten
"Russell E. Smith" schrieb:
>
> I'm having a problem getting the Linux drivers for the SoundBlaster Live!
> working under RedHat 6.0.
--- snipp
What can I do?
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (chrisv)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Celeron, what's the catch?
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 14:03:37 GMT
On Wed, 07 Jul 1999 03:03:35 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Hill) wrote:
> Well, as a user of Linux off and on for the past 4 years now,
>I'd say that it's still a bit trickier then that if you want a nice
>Linux setup. Sure, you can just answer "Yes" to all the easy
>questions and hope that it works (with a number of modern
>distributions it usually does), however I find it tough to recommend
>that someone custom build their computer only to not customize
>anything in their software setup all in the same message. One of the
>real nice points about Linux (aside from the fact that it doesn't
>crash on me several times a week :> ) is that you can make extensive
>customizations to it.
Really. Exactly how many different text editors would you have if you
installed them all? A dozen? You'd have tons of useless crap. You
may as well stay with Microsoft! 8)
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From: Jay Patrick Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Celeron, what's the catch?
Date: 7 Jul 1999 11:55:38 -0500
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips Dean Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: K6-2 300 (non o'c) - about 2 seconds...
This under Netscape I presume? Win9x? Hmmm. It is surprising that your
system would handle those so much faster. Obviously the K6-2 300 is much
quicker than my P200, but by that much of a margin? Let me add some more
depth levels and see what that does. If this gets exponentially slower,
it shouldn't take much more to bring even a K7 to its knees.
If you're bored, try:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/jhoward/tables/13.html
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/jhoward/tables/14.html
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/jhoward/tables/15.html
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/jhoward/tables/16.html
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From: Jose Manuel Benitez Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: HP Colorado 5 GB
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 18:22:35 +0200
Hi friends:
I'm thinking about getting a streamer for backup purposes. A local
dealer has make me a good offer on an HP Colorado 5GB unit. But before
making a final decision I'd like to know if someone has had any
experience with it, namely, wehter someone has already used it under
Linux, how to install and the software to take best out of the streamer.
Thanks in advance!
Greetings!
José Manuel
--
Jose Manuel Benitez Sanchez e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dpto. de Ciencias de la Computacion e Inteligencia Artificial
E.T.S. Ingenieria Informatica
Universidad de Granada Tel. +34 - 958 - 24 61 43
18071 - GRANADA (Spain) Fax: +34 - 958 - 24 33 17
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From: "Crossbones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: @home schitzophrenia with RH
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 17:10:09 GMT
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:7lu7be$tnq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <Pine.LNX.4.04.9907052354250.7317-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> where do i put/run this script? I also had loads of trouble getting my
> Linux machine with @home on-line, then used vs 1.3 of dhcpcd and it
> worked fine with kernel 2.2.0. Just installed kernel 2.2.10 and lost
> the connection.
>
>
> any help would be appreciated...
Look for an updated dhcpcd... That might help ya.
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From: "Dean Kent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Celeron, what's the catch?
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 08:19:10 -0700
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.intel
K6-2 300 (non o'c) - about 2 seconds...
I'm sure, however, that a P-III with it's dancin' SSE instructions would
have made my experience *much* more exciting... ;-)
Regards,
Dean
Jay Patrick Howard wrote in message <7lusp6$na4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>: Amen to that. That's the problem in all these discussions. As a
>: business user, the K6 III runs rings around the Celeron 466 on the way
>: I use Windows.
>
>Just based on the way I use Win95, I would think the difference between a
>Cel 466 and K63-450 would be almost imperceptible. Using my lowly Pentium
>200 (non-mmx), only really nasty webpages show a noticeable delay before
>rendering.
>
>On that topic, it seems Netscape's algorithm for rendering nested tables
>is not very smart. Not sure about IE. This could be a good
>benchmark...heh. See how well your wiz-bang Celeron or K6-III handles
>these:
>
>http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/jhoward/tables/11.html (depth = 11)
>http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/jhoward/tables/12.html (depth = 12)
>
>These seem to be the magic numbers. 10 and below load fine, 11 took my
>P200 30 seconds to render, I gave up on 12 after waiting a minute and a
>half.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrzej Popowski)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Celeron, what's the catch?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 17:42:49 GMT
7 Jul 1999 02:40:13 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Robato Yao)
wrote:
>Looks good but how the hell did you run the P2s and Celerons
>asynchronously?
I did nothin else then putting CPU into a slot :-)
I think, that only FSB specs are important for dual setup. Both CPU
can work at 100MHz. Probably Linux has a little problems with proper
load dividing between CPUs (it is not SMP :-), but this setup is
faster then single CPU.
Andrzej Popowski
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrzej Popowski)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Celeron, what's the catch?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 17:42:48 GMT
7 Jul 1999 02:08:08 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen M. Caplan)
wrote:
>> CPU time in seconds
>> Celeron 450 + P2 350 273
>> Cel. 450 + Cel. 550 233
>> Celeron 550 + P2 350 223
>
>Okay, I'm a little perplexed by these; not the benchmarks, but the platforms
>being tested. Are you saying you have dual CPU setups with asynchronous CPUs?
>How was this accomplished?
CPUs are synchronous, but with different multipler (multipler is
locked, I cannot change it), they use the same clock signal. The FSB
is 100MHz and bus protocols and timings are within specs for dual (so
I hope :-). I used Asus P2B-D with P2 or Celeron PPGA with slotkets.
Of course Intel does not support that kind of setup, but it works.
Andrzej Popowski
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: @home schitzophrenia with RH
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 17:24:35 GMT
Crossbones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:7lu7be$tnq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
:> In article <Pine.LNX.4.04.9907052354250.7317-
:> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
:> Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> where do i put/run this script? I also had loads of trouble getting my
:> Linux machine with @home on-line, then used vs 1.3 of dhcpcd and it
:> worked fine with kernel 2.2.0. Just installed kernel 2.2.10 and lost
:> the connection.
:>
:>
:> any help would be appreciated...
: Look for an updated dhcpcd... That might help ya.
I had some problems are one time with hdcpcd and decided to
try dhclient. It has been working famously for the list
217 days (since the last time I took my computer down).
There have been a couple of ip changes in that time.
Best regards,
Stephen Jenuth
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help: SMC EZ on Compaq Deskpro EP/SP
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 14:27:08 GMT
I followed the directions at
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.html
and it mostly worked. Supposedly these cards use the RealTech 8139
chipset, so that driver should work. It does get the card up and you
can send and recieve data, though I'm having some (possibly unrelated)
problems.
Good luck.
In article <7juadk$f9d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to get working a linux kernel ( 2.2.9 ) on a
> Compaq Deskpro EP/SP using a SMC EZ 1211(TX) card.
> I tried inserting the module with the io address as parameter
> but with no result... Also i tried to compile the kernel with
> no other device as
>
> Can anybody help me ??
>
> thank you in advance,
>
> Ion Constantinescu
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Carsten Cimander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI CD-RW: yamaha 4416s: HowTo REWrite CD-RW's?
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 19:56:36 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I have a SCSI-CD-RW drive yamaha 4416s in my linux box
(4x write, 4x re-write, 16x read)
along with a SCSI CD-ROM TEAC CD-532S (/dev/scd0)
1) How to get it work with CD-RW's?
2) How to erase CD-RW's?
3) How to (re-)write?
I have cdrecord and xcdroast installed.
Many questions. I know
Any help is welcome.
Carsten
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: eject from an internal Jaz drive
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 21:58:02 +0200
Dimitri Papadopoulos wrote:
> - It works for root:
> - It does not work for non-root users - it is _not_ a file permission
> problem as I tried rwxrwxrwx permissions on the device:
I don't have any solution to your ioctl problem, but maybe a workaround:
It might help if you do a "chmod u+s" on the eject program. This is not
a nice solution so it would really be better to find out why you get
permission denied on the ioctl call. Did you set the permissions not
only on /dev/sda4 but also on /dev/sda?
regards Henrik
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From: Alex Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dual processor setup?
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 07:24:04 -0700
wizard wrote:
>
> Vincent Fox wrote:
>
> > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > >All that being said in the future I intend to go the dual Celeron route.This
> > >seems to balance many performance and cost issues. Of course if Intel
> > >modifies the Celerons as the're talking, I may end up just getting a K7 or
> > >Alpha. Intel would loose a customer for life if they follow through with
> > >locking out dual processor capablity on the Celerons, it really is no way to
> > >jerk your customers around. To me this is far worst than there attempts at
> > >limiting overclocking but I'm not happy about that either.
> >
> > I just got an Abit BP6. Had a couple of Socket 370 Celeron 300A's sitting
> > on the shelf waiting for the motherboard, but from calling around a few
> > places like Micro Source to find more for a friend, you can still buy them.
> > At around $125 for the board, and $60 each for CPU's, this is SO DAMN CHEAP
> > it's impossible to resist. I replaced my BH6 with it, booted up the SMP
> > kernel, and it flies. Purely on a user subjective level, I used to have
> > to wait a bit after clicking for a kterm, now it's blink there. As someone
> > else in this thread said, depending on what you are doing you may not see
> > any big difference, but then again when it is this damn cheap, why not?
>
> ***** Exactly this is the point many can't seem to grasp. Its so cheap to
> put another 400 MHz processor on a mother board its almost funny. The only time
> that I could psossibly see this as bad is if you have a specific problem set that
> could see the money applied else where to get better results.
>
> An example would be an application that truely benefits from a RAID type disk
> controller or one that could use massive amounts of real RAM. But even here
> the dual processor is so cheap that is should only be eliminated if the system
> performance should happen togo down.
>
> Dave
>
But don't forget one thing, for a production machine, the little extra
costs is meaningless. The $150.00 or so saving between a pair of
Celeron 400MHz vs. a pair of P-II 400MHz might be important to a
student, or a home user. But if you're working in the IT or related
fields, the whole system is tax deductable. So...
Alex Lam.
> >
> > You do see some performance diffs in some things. We have kind of a hotrod
> > thing going around here to see who can crack the most RC5 keys on one box,
> > and my dual Celerons at 2x450 are doing a pretty notable > 2.40 Mkeys/sec at
> > a darn site cheaper price than most other unixen around here.
> >
> > As to the future of Celerons, who cares? I got my duals now, the future
> > will probably hold some new motherboard with chipsets newer than BX anyhow.
> >
> > --
> > "Who needs horror movies when we have Microsoft"?
> > -- Christine Comaford, PC Week, 27/9/95
--
*remove all the Xs (upper case X) if reply by e mail.
** no more M$ Windoze.
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From: "j. de groot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with Banshee AGP
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 21:21:58 +0200
You don't have to send me those files, I've got it working now. I just
downloaden the wrong files.
Tim Smith heeft geschreven in bericht
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Works great with red hat. Check to see which version of glibc you are
>using...you need the newer stuff and I don't know what SuSE installs.
>
>I'd send you my config files, but they're old...I am still running an
>earlier
>beta version of them. Go to the news server on the 3Dfx web site...there
>are
>plenty of folks there who can help you (including the guy who wrote the
>drivers).
>
>"j. de groot" wrote:
>>
>> I've got a Banshee AGP card. I can't setup it in Linux. I downloaded a
>> driver, but I don't know how to install it.
>> I'm using SuSE 6.0
>> When i give the "rpm -Uvh *.rpm" command, it says it couldnt find the
tclk
>> and VGA16 server or something.
>> I'm also using a windows modem. Will there ever be a solution to get this
>> thing working in Linux?
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Torbj=F8rn?= Grindhaug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.kde
Subject: Help! My awe32 suddenly stopped working
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 18:45:23 GMT
I was listening to an mp3-file in xmms, then I closed this app and
started 'krabber' to rip an audio-track.
When I shut down krabber, and I started xmms again I was told to check
if my soundcard was set-up correctly. I didn't even restart KDE after
this.
A reboot didn't seem to help either. (Btw. the sound card currently
works fine in win95.)
When starting/exiting KDE again I noticed it couldn't load 'maudio' or
whatever it's called. I also tried using 'window maker', but the sound
was not working there either.
After using Linux for more than one year I haven't had a single
problem with my soundcard.
Here are (some of) my configuration settings:
RedHat 5.1, Kernel 2.2.10 (Also tried with 2.0.36)
KDE 1.1.1
SBawe32 (not PnP) at irq 7, dma 1,5
SB16 driver compiled into kernel.
-
Torbjorn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Campbell)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: FWD. Toshiba back-tracks on anti-Linux stance
Date: 7 Jul 1999 18:47:00 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 07 Jul 1999 06:52:37 -0700, Alex Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>-----------------FWD------------------
> Posted 07/07/99 1:35pm by Tony Smith, The Register, London, UK.
>
> Toshiba back-tracks on anti-Linux stance
>
> Toshiba appears to have reversed its policy on Linux and decided to
>support the open source OS on its notebook PCs after all.
>
> To prove it, the company's Japan-based Computer Engineering Group has
>opened a Web site devoted to users keen to run Linux on their Toshiba
>laptops.
>
> The site, which went live on 1 July, doesn't offer much information
>right now, but it's a start. The site promises full details of how to
>install Linux on Toshiba's notebooks, though it doesn't say when this
>will happen.
>
> Other promised features include the creation of an information desk
>for developers, Linux installation information and a list of supported
>hardware, both PCs and peripherals.
>
> The company's move follows Australian notebook owner Geoffrey
>Bennett's attempt to get Toshiba to refund to him the cost of the
>bundled copy of Windows 95. Bennett eventually got his money back, and
>sparked a worldwide protest against Microsoft in the process. ®
>
>source- http://theregister.co.uk/990707-000021.html
>-------------------------------------------------------------
This is interesting. I returned my registration card when I bought a
Toshiba laptop few months ago, suggesting that there should be support for
Linux. Recently I received a personalized letter from Toshiba, thanking me
for my remarks (though not specifically mentioning Linux) and asking me to
join a small panel of users to give them feedback from time to time. In
view of what you say, this may well be connected with their apparent
conversion to supporting Linux. This is all good news.
Anthony
--
Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 (Windows-free zone)
Book Reviews: www.achc.demon.co.uk/bookreviews/
"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on..." - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: 3C515 NIC probs
Date: 7 Jul 1999 18:47:55 GMT
In article <c0ud3.9966$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Don Awalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Anyone successfully running on the NIC 3C515-TX? Autoprobe did not find it,
| I am kinda lost on how to get the card recognized in RH 6.0...
RH 5.2 had a 3c515 module, did you try a modprobe? I assume it's not
built in, and being recent may not be detected (or even detectable).
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
The Internet is not the fountain of youth, but some days it feels like
the fountain of immaturity.
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Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 02:57:01 +0800
From: Joe Yau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AMI MEGARAID
Hi all expert,
I got an problem when setting the AMI MEGARAID in Red Hat 6.0
It's so great that Red Hat have got the MEGARAID Driver, however, when I
try to probe the card, the machine will be hanged.
I guess this is due to the problem of the Astor II Chasis which is used
to connect to the Single Adaptor SCSI Harddisks. The Astor II Chasis
(HSBP M5) will also occupy SCSI ID 6, when red hat try to scan the SCSI
harddisks, it will hang when it reach this ID.
But before Red Hat try to probe the AMI MEGARAID, it have an option to
let me pass the parameters to it. So, is there any parametes I can use
to solve this problem ? Please let me know if you got any idea. Thanks
for your help!
Regards,
Joe
P.S. I have setup Slakware 3.6 before with Astor II Chasis (without any
RAID card), it also have problem if I use scsinet.s as bootdisk, it will
have a dead loop also when it reach the SCSI ID 6 (The Chasis itself).
The problem is solved after I switch to use aic7890.s to make the boot
disk.
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From: "Laurence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I have a Intel 740???
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 21:22:58 +1000
How do I get drivers for my Intel 740???
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From: David Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can we write to NTFS?
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 13:23:41 -0400
In the 2.2.x series, R/W is available if you enable the "experimental"
features. Still beta. See
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt.
You might look for "ntfsdos" - a DOS driver which allows NTFS access.
Don't remember whether it is R/W or just R/O.
Is it feasible for you to use smbmount on a Linux box to mount the NT
shares and do the repairs remotely?
David Graham
--
>
> I was thinking of making a small Linux bootable disk with NTFS compiled
> into the kernel to help me make some repairs to some NT servers from a
> command prompt. However, the only information I have been able to find on
> the web about this so far is dated 1997 and says the driver is read-only.
> So.. in newer kernels do we yet read/write access.
> --DavidM
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From: Ratz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Support for PCI Ethernet controller ?
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 21:00:57 +0200
Hi
I just checked Ethernet-HowTo and it says:
5.3.5. AT2540FX
Status: Semi-Supported, Driver Name: eepro100
This card uses the i82557 chip, and hence may/should work with the
eepro100 driver. If you try this please send in a report so this
information can be updated.
5.22.3. Ether Express PRO/10 PCI (EISA)
Status: Semi-Supported, Driver Name: ? (distributed separately)
John Stalba ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has written a driver for the PCI
version. These cards use the PLX9036 PCI interface chip with the Intel
i82596 LAN controller chip. If your card has the i82557 chip, then you
don't have this card, but rather the version discussed next, and hence
want the EEPro100 driver instead.
You can get the alpha driver for the PRO/10 PCI card, along with
instructions on how to use it at:
EEPro10 Driver <http://www.ultranet.com/~stalba/eep10pci.html>
If you have the EISA card, you will probably have to hack the driver a
bit to account for the different (PCI vs. EISA) detection mechanisms
that are used in each case.
5.22.4. Ether Express PRO 10/100B
Status: Supported, Driver Name: eepro100
Note that this driver will not work with the older 100A cards. The
chip numbers listed in the driver are i82557/i82558. For driver
updates and/or driver support, have a look at:
EEPro-100B Page
<http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html>
So perhaps this will help you. If not contact Donald.
Regards, ratz
>
> Hello,
>
> Can anybody tell me if there is already support for a PCI Ethernet
> controller which is based on the Intel 82557 (rev 5). This is a
> controller which is used in Compaq computers.
>
> Jurgen Defurne
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew H. Evans)
Subject: ide tape blocks
Date: 7 Jul 1999 19:13:25 GMT
Folks -
I've been successful using ide tape drives but cannot get
mt to recognize eof records so that I can fsf, or use scripts
to record positions after various operations. Typically, mt
reponds with:
# mt -f /dev/nht0 stat
Unknown tape drive type (type code 0)
File number=0, block number=0.
mt_resid: 0, mt_erreg: 0x0
mt_dsreg: 0x6800, mt_gstat: 0x0
General status bits on (0):
I'd really like it if "File number=" reflected reality. Has
anyone got this going? I have a:
hdd: CONNER CTT8000-A, ATAPI TAPE drive
among other similar devices...
Thanks for any input, I haven't seen this documented, at least
not within the searches I conducted.
- Andy
Andrew Evans Computer Science Department
Computer Specialist University of New Hampshire
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Durham, NH 03824
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From: Jeffrey Karp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Celeron, what's the catch?
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 16:04:26 -0400
Michael wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (chrisv) wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 07 Jul 1999 03:26:40 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael) wrote:
> >
> >> The save dialogue boxes come up instantly, versus a second
> >>or the celeron as an example.
> >
> >Get real. There's something wrong with your machine. Celerons are
> >very snappy in Windows, much more so than AMD machines I have seen.
> >
> >Do you really think that the cache differences take you from
> >"instantly" to "a second or so"? Nonsense.
> >
> No the only nonsense is your non belief. There is nothing wrong with
> either system. The celeron does not multitask as well as the AMD k6
> III. The difference isn't huge, but its enough to bother me. Celeron
> is a great single tasking processor. A celeron with no cache is slow,
> a celeron with 128 cache is sufficient for gamers, but its not for
> business use with numerous multiple windows open. To deny this is to
> deny the effect of main memory speed on the processor. If it were as
> you say, cache wouldn't matter....why does cache matter? How many
> programs can loop in the cache on the celeron? How many can loop in
> the PIII, how many in the AMD k6 III with a L2 cache?
>
> Now, the celeron is a fine low cost solution for many. Its not dog
> slow, but its not as fast as a K6 III.
Or a K6-2 running business software, or 3D games optimized for
3D Now, or under Direct X. It is also not so cheap. A Celery
466 is $141-, while a K6-2 450 is only $87(even a K6-2 400
beats a Celery 466 running business applications).
Sorry if you believe
> otherwise.
>
> Mike
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From: Kamran Mohseni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: format >2GB hard
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 13:09:56 -0700
Hey guys;
I have a HP pentium II 233MHz machine with 6GB hard disk. I Want to have
both Windows and Linux on my machine. So I partitioned the system with
2.6GB (created as FAT32) for windows and 3.6GB for Linux. I've installed
linux RH6.0 without any problem. The problem is that I can only format
2GB of my windows partition (I used the boot disk from Windows98 to
format c). It doesnot let me to format more than 2GB. I used the
command
format c: /s
Note that the size of the partitions are correct on fdisk. How can I
format all of c:?
send me an email at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks.
Kamran.
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