Linux-Hardware Digest #75, Volume #11 Sun, 22 Aug 99 22:13:34 EDT
Contents:
Re: Netgear FA310TX (John Oliver)
Re: Netgear FA310TX (Jim Edwards)
Sound Blaster 128 Live Value ("Wayne C")
Re: Dual Celeron (Bryan)
Hard drive problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Netgear FA310TX (Darrin Smart)
Re: IDE SCSI host adapter emulation.. need help ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
Re: Netgear FA310TX ("Aldog")
Re: Avoid ATI Graphics like the plague ("zerocool")
Deskjet 1120C (Robert McGwier)
DLink DFE650TX and Linux ("Dirk Freese")
Re: Drivers for SoundBlaster Live (Robert McGwier)
Re: Sequenzer Part on SB LIVE (Robert McGwier)
K7 Athlon! ("Phoenix Multi-Tech Inc.")
Re: Netgear FA310TX (Robert McGwier)
HUB6 ("Shawn T. Rutledge")
Re: accessing linux partitions from windoze ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: ess 1869 Sound (root)
Re: Zip 100 and Linux-Mandrake. (Joseph L Davis)
Re: password difficulties (Brian)
login script error (help!) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Oliver)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.dev.net
Subject: Re: Netgear FA310TX
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 00:10:52 GMT
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999 23:05:55 GMT, Robert McGwier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Is there a driver for FA310TX (10/100 PCI card) in existence or development?
You mean the one with the "NetGear" chip? I believe the newer tulip
drivers will work with these...
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been too long since I've received anything other than spam
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From: Jim Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.dev.net
Subject: Re: Netgear FA310TX
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 19:18:52 -0500
There are supposed to be drivers on the CD-ROM that comes with the
card, although I have yet to try them. I think the readme file should
help. Jim E.
Robert McGwier wrote:
>
> Is there a driver for FA310TX (10/100 PCI card) in existence or development?
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From: "Wayne C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound Blaster 128 Live Value
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 19:34:16 -0400
Hi, I'm a Linux newbie, finally got SB live working (figured out how to
compile a new kernel (2.2.11) 'cause I was told I needed the latest and
greatest only find out that the SB driver I have ( emu10k1-0.3b) doesn't
support anything past 2.2.5-15 (which is what I started with). So now I'm
back to 2.2.5-15 and I have sound. The first question is "what's up with
midi? It doesn't seem to support it (I don't know if the programs I'm using
support it, I'm using the apps in Gnome (X11amp for one)) but I don't even
see a control for midi in the mixer panel. Do I have something configured
wrong in the driver, the kernel, or do I need a different App. The second
question: is there a newer driver that supports 2.2.11 or how do I "force"
emu10k1-0.3 to load with it (and is this a good idea) ?
Thanks all (for any answers
to this post and to all the other answers that I didn't even know the
question for <G> )
Wayne
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From: Bryan <Bryan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual Celeron
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 00:13:38 GMT
point of info:
even though a vendor may 'test' for overclocking, I found a good test
that will show weakness in many 'qualified' chips. its called
'seti@home' ;-) ;-)
I was running a dual 300a celeron (slot1) system at 450mhz. it was
fine and VERY stable for dual kernel builds, etc, etc. ran without a
hitch doing lots of web serving, compiling, browsing, cd-r burning -
the works.
but about 4 days of continuous seti@home work, doing 4 work-units (4
processes) in the background, the system finally locked up. had to
hard reboot it.
I'm now looking into better cooling (more fans, vents, etc).
bottom line: I doubt a vendor with a vested interest will totally beat
on the chips to guarantee they'll be stable under ALL conditions. its
up to you to do this.
and seti@home is a good cause and a good (great) cpu tester.
tycho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I recommend that you buy from a vendor that will pretest for you--there are
: many out there that will, and those chips that won't oc to 550 they use in
: non-oc'ed systems. Use a reputable vendor if you are not familiar with
: them. On the web I know that www.gamepc.com sells tested chips. They are an
: excellent vendor.
: Jeremy Fincher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
: news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
: >
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Bryan, http://www.Grateful.Net - Linux/Web-based Network Management
->->-> to email me, you must hunt the WUMPUS and kill it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Hard drive problem
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 23:38:49 GMT
While trying to install linux, It did not find my filesys or hard
drive. I have 13.6G Ultra ATA HD with Ultra ATA 66 controller. Someone
suggested partitioning the HD into C and D. I already did this but
still encountering the same problem. I am currently running
I appreciate any help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darrin Smart)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.dev.net
Subject: Re: Netgear FA310TX
Date: 23 Aug 1999 00:44:21 GMT
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999 23:05:55 GMT, Robert McGwier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is there a driver for FA310TX (10/100 PCI card) in existence or development?
Depending on the revision of the card, you may need the the dec tulip
driver or the via-rhine driver.
- Darrin
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From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE SCSI host adapter emulation.. need help
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 07:58:27 +0800
"Daniel R. Tarsky" wrote:
> Hi. I am trying to get xcdroast-0.96e running in Mandrake 6.0.
> Actually, it already runs, but I have a Philips CDRW400 series drive and
> it is ATAPI IDE. The docs say to compile tthe kernel with generic SCSI
> driver and to turn off generic IDE support. This doesn't seem to do
> anything. My system still seems to boot in normal IDE mode and when the
> SCSI module starts up it detects no host adapter. What am I missing
> here? I'm sure someone else must have agonized over this one before..
>
> Please reply with email as I don't read the few hundred posts a day that
> come up here :)
>
> Thanks In Advance
Did you compile with "SCSI emulation" too ?
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From: "Aldog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.dev.net
Subject: Re: Netgear FA310TX
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 00:52:10 GMT
Robert McGwier wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Is there a driver for FA310TX (10/100 PCI card) in existence or
development?
Robert,
The Netgear FA310TX uses the DEC 21143 chip...which uses the 'Tulip' series
of ethernet drivers. Just about every Linux distribution has the 'Tulip'
driver...but it is constantly being updated...so you may want to find the
latest.
Netgear includes an enhanced Tulip linux driver on the floppy disk that
comes with the card. ( it's a source file that must be compiled..) If you
don't have the Netgear diskette, then take a look at Don Becker's site:
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html
..he originally wrote and maintains the tulip drivers...just get the latest
version...0.90Q or higher.
Cheers...Al
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From: "zerocool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Avoid ATI Graphics like the plague
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 00:20:28 GMT
zerocool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:ZQ%v3.83$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I'll tell anyone who will listen, NOT to buy ANYTHING with an ATI
> > product installed. ATI really deserves the worst of the worst award.
> >
>
> Alas, I just dropped 250 bucks for an All-in-wonder 128 card, and I'm SOL
in
> regards to X support. I just downloaded the latest demo of Accelerated X,
> and I'm hoping that might work, I may have to drop down another 100 bucks
to
> buy that IF it works. But the neat features of this card will probably
> never be supported under X
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
Good news, the AcceratedX 5.0 demo works like a champ on my All-in-wonder
128 card! But only for the 10 minutes that the demo allows, I may go end up
buying it...
Hope this helps
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From: Robert McGwier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Deskjet 1120C
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 01:11:49 GMT
I am looking for support for Deskjet 1120C under Red Hat 2.2.11. I
would buy a commercial driver
if there was one. Anyone know of one?
Bob
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From: "Dirk Freese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DLink DFE650TX and Linux
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 02:26:44 +0200
Hi everyone,
I was trying to install a D-Link DFE 650 TX 10/100Mbit network-card under
SuSE Linux 5.3 (kernel 2.0.35) - unfortunately without success.
The cardmgr recognizes the card as NE2000 compatible and seems to configure
it (two high beeps). But if I try to ping another PC in our network, ping
simply replies:
"PING 192.168.19.3 (192.168.19.3): 56 data bytes"
and nothing happens.
The /var/log/messages file says that a NE2000 compatible card was found
using I/O 0x300 and IRQ 11 but it also contains lines like
"laptop kernel: eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt?"
What I don't understand is: I installed this Linux over the network using
Yast. So the install-routine found the card - and used it. But: Yast found
the card on IRQ 3. All tries to force the card to use this IRQ failed.
("RequestIRQ: Resource busy")
Has anyone ever used this card and knows a way to get it to work??
Thanks in advance,
D.Freese
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From: Robert McGwier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Drivers for SoundBlaster Live
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 01:19:40 GMT
su
enter root password
cd /dev
ls -l dsp
ls -l mixer
if the user and other groups do not have read/write permission, this is
the typical error message you
get.
Bob
for some reason, unknown to me
> David wrote:
> >
> > http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/
>
> I got the emu10k_v0.3b drivers.. runing RH 6.0 , 2.2.5-15 kernel...
> Windomaker 0.60.0
>
> carried out the steps listed in the README..
> set BIOS to PnP disabled,
> reconfigured the kernel for modular sound, (also modularized OSS),
> no other soundboards enabled,
>
> ran the install script w/o any errors being reported
> rebuild the kernel, rebooted
>
> /dev/dsp, dsp1, audio, audio1, mixer all exist.. tried to run
> WSoundPrefs for WM and it said the device file
> was misconfigured or non-existent.. ???
>
> maybe some good Samaritan has gone thru this as well and could give
> me some advice/solutions to try.
> --
> Alan Arbizu
> Hewlett-Packard
> Engineer ECSL - NST
> TN-447-0240 / Mailstop 43LN
> Cupertino, CA
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From: Robert McGwier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sequenzer Part on SB LIVE
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 01:38:41 GMT
Check the device permissions (ls -l) and the chmod them as root to 666
Bob
Chang Lin wrote:
> Yeah, I just installed SB Live Value and I had the same problem:midi can't
> be played because /dev/sequenser can't be be opened.
>
> On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Josef Maltan wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > i have problems to get /dev/sequenzer feeded by emu10k1.
> > Except the synth everything gets feeded ok and sounds a great.
> > Only SoundTracker and VoodooTracker giving me a core-dump and
> > are crashing.
> > Please write also if you KNOW that this is a driver-bug not fixed yet.
> > (saves me going nuts about it).
> >
> > Thank folks, Mike
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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From: "Phoenix Multi-Tech Inc." <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K7 Athlon!
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 21:40:54 -0400
Does anyone have any information on Linux running with the new K7
Athlon, 500mhz and up?
PLEASE email me back.
thanks :)
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From: Robert McGwier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.dev.net
Subject: Re: Netgear FA310TX
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 01:47:17 GMT
Thanks a lot to all. It worked immediately. I am running 2.2.11. The readme
file on the
floppy had the dec 21143 listed but I did not know it was the tulip series.
I can
add another card to my pile of 3c595TX's that work.
Thanks to all.
Bob
Aldog wrote:
> Robert McGwier wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >Is there a driver for FA310TX (10/100 PCI card) in existence or
> development?
>
> Robert,
> The Netgear FA310TX uses the DEC 21143 chip...which uses the 'Tulip' series
> of ethernet drivers. Just about every Linux distribution has the 'Tulip'
> driver...but it is constantly being updated...so you may want to find the
> latest.
>
> Netgear includes an enhanced Tulip linux driver on the floppy disk that
> comes with the card. ( it's a source file that must be compiled..) If you
> don't have the Netgear diskette, then take a look at Don Becker's site:
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html
> ..he originally wrote and maintains the tulip drivers...just get the latest
> version...0.90Q or higher.
>
> Cheers...Al
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From: "Shawn T. Rutledge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.serial
Subject: HUB6
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 01:49:40 GMT
I see the kernel supposedly supports these now but I can't find any
documentation on how to set it up. When the kernel boots it says
Serial driver version 4.27 with HUB-6 enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
so it is detecting the standard serials but not my HUB-6.
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: accessing linux partitions from windoze
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 21:42:40 -0400
Download 'explore2fs' from the web.
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/
Another which is read-only but which I frequently find
more useful, is 'fsdex2'. Each Linux partition is
mounted as a logical drive letter in DOS/Win. Sorry
I don't have the URL at hand for it.
Dave Aspinall wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Can anyone tell me how to access a linux partition from win98?
>Cheers
>
>
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ess 1869 Sound
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 20:53:49 -0500
Perry Mobley wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if the ess 1869 sound card will work in mandrake/redhat
> 6.0? I have the card and sndconfig sees it but I do not see it listed in
> the chipsets. Is it by another name? Thanks Perry
Try setting up as ESS 1688...that's what works here under SuSE.
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From: Joseph L Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Zip 100 and Linux-Mandrake.
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 21:54:11 -0400
Steffen Sobiech wrote:
> "Joseph L. Davis" wrote:
> >
> > Steffen Sobiech wrote:
> >
> > > "Joseph L. Davis" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I have found a strange problem and am not sure the best way to fix.
> > > > After upgrading to Linux-Mandrake (RedHat 6.0) my Parallel Port Zip will
> > > >
> > > > only allow me to insmod ppa after I have tried to print to my printer on
> > > >
> > > > lp. If I try to insmod lp or insmod ppa I will get error messages :
> > > > ./ppa.o : unresolved symbol paraport_release_Ra542614f
> > > > ./ppa.o : unresolved symbol paraport_enumerate_Re26cc4d7
> > > > *********************
> > > > ********************* continues as the same for insmod lp.
> > > > After trying to or printing to my printer all is fine *after* module lp
> > > > is present from using the printer? I then can insmod ppa. I would like
> > > > to do this on boot. Both are on the same port and cable. Not a Zip
> > > > Plus. Any thoughts would be appreciated greatly, thank you
> > >
> > > Did you also try modprobe ppa ?
> >
> > That worked fine without any problem, then I mounted the drive. Can I replace
> > the "insmod ppa" on boot with this, if so where is the best place to change
> > it to "modprobe ppa" on boot. Thanks alot for your help, I have much to
> > learn with Linux. I am an OS/2 user at heart, but working on the switch to
> > Linux.
> > Thanks again.
> You could add that command to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, but the proper
> solution
> would be to alter your /etc/conf.modules file so that the driver is only
> loaded when you actually use your zip.
> *Maybe* this works (add to conf.modules):
>
> alias block-major-[your device major here] ppa
> pre-install ppa modprobe parport
>
> As said, only maybe as I can't test it (got no ZIP...)
Thanks to all that helped. After adding "modprobe ppa" to my rc.local file all was
good. I was able to set up different mounts with fsconfig and kwikdisk. I like
things very well. Thanks again.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian )
Subject: Re: password difficulties
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 01:53:22 GMT
with mandrake 6.0, after it asks for a root password, it also asks you
to make an secondary user account. If you do this, the root password
gets kluged (for some reason). reinstall, enter in your root
password, do NOT(I repeat NOT) add a secondary user account. Your root
password should work fine. At least, it did for me. after you log on
as root, use the "useradd" feature to make your secondary account.
That's all I know. Have a beer for me
Rorshok
On 22 Aug 1999 05:18:55 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy Fincher)
wrote:
>I was installing linux-mandrake (R) on two computers the other night, and set
>the root password to "web$ter". Both computers would then not let me log on as
>root with that password. I check capslock and everything. Reinstalled, used a
>different password, and it worked. Anyone know why "web$ter" would not work?
>
>Thanks,
>Jeremy
>
>
>----------------------------------
>If i ever forget to capitalize a proper noun, forgive me. i'm a big fan of ee
>cummings
>
>My ICQ # is 28153190. My AIM/AOL name is either jemfinch02 or Cassius80.
>Have a good day, and good luck in your endeavors!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: login script error (help!)
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 01:45:36 GMT
Hello,
I am running RedHat Linux 6.0 straight out of the box. I have finally
gotten my isdn adapter to dial my isp it does not however stay
connected. After running a tail -f /var/log/messages 5 minutes into it
the connection is dropped and it reports login script error. I tried
to ping several I.P.'s and the computer reports "no route to host". I
am very new to linux but not new to computers. The info I have entered
is my username, passwd, and dns servers in netconfig. Please any
information would be helpful, I have read a few man and info pages, but
I can't find the root of my problem.
Thanks,
Erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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