Linux-Hardware Digest #257, Volume #11 Wed, 15 Sep 99 09:13:51 EDT
Contents:
Re: How to copy files from FAT32 to linux partition ??? ("David Filipe Manuel")
Re: Help with hardware, PLEASE!! (Thorsten Lange)
Abit BP6 motherboard + RH6 can't see UDMA/66 C: (Robert McMillin)
Re: Genius GE2500III PCI Ethernet Card ("John Clancy")
Re: " No CDDB Entry" "Error Getting CDDB Entry" ??? (Detlef Gaisser)
RedHat 6.0 & my VOODOO 3 AGP ("f Gimenez")
Advantages for Linux over other OS ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can a Linux Expert Answer This?? (shoggoth)
Re: Linux & smp (Thorsten Lange)
Re: Help with hardware, PLEASE!! (Thorsten Lange)
Re: Bttv drivers won' work ("Sr. D. Antonio Contreras")
Re: AMD K6-2/300 (Jaakko Heikkila)
How do I add & configure new hardware????? (Ziggy Stardust)
Re: RW CD Rom drive (Brandon)
Re: anyoen tried a BE6? (Brandon)
Re: Modem Question. (Brandon)
RH6 and Compaq Prosignia 300 SCSI (Nicholas Horwood)
intel810 ("T.K")
Re: Abit BP6 motherboard + RH6 can't see UDMA/66 C: (Brandon)
FS:Cheap Pentium and Dual Pentium Machines for Linux (DeepSpace Technologies)
Re: AMD K6-2/300 (Jaakko Heikkila)
BP6 (Bergeron Bernard)
Re: Help with hardware, PLEASE!! ("Robert Kaylor")
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From: "David Filipe Manuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to copy files from FAT32 to linux partition ???
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 15:32:15 +0100
pulsar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7rl2qi$3se$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Except those two partitions, I do posses a DOS16, on which I put files
> (XBF-i740-glibc ... which should persuade my AGP i740 to work with linux),
> but I can't red that from linux (not because it's impossible, but rather
my
> ignorance taken part in it)
>
> Somebody help, please
>
>
first the drivers for windows don 't work
second go to linuxconfig and make the auto mount of the fat32
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From: Thorsten Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with hardware, PLEASE!!
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 10:10:54 +0200
>
> In order to use it, you have to compile a new kernel with
The same goes for the zip-drive, the kernel must support it.
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From: Robert McMillin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Abit BP6 motherboard + RH6 can't see UDMA/66 C:
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 00:26:27 -0700
I have an Abit BP6 motherboard, and I'm trying to run Red Hat 6.0 on it.
I have a UDMA/66 C: drive that the motherboard BIOS seems to see okay (I
think -- it doesn't show up on the primary or secondary IDE ports, but
this box has four IDE ports -- two conventional and two UDMA/66). Does
anybody have experience with this motherboard/drive combination?
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From: "John Clancy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Genius GE2500III PCI Ethernet Card
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 08:29:46 +0100
waid wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Is this network card supported by Linux.
>If so how do I get it to work, and what version does it need.
>
>Just installed Linux, so any help would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance
>Paul
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
I have a couple of PCs running Linux (Red Hat 6.0) with GE2500III PCI
Ethernet cards - they work fine!
Configure them in the kernel as PCI NE2000 compatibles
John
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From: Detlef Gaisser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: " No CDDB Entry" "Error Getting CDDB Entry" ???
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 09:50:24 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Luckydaze1 wrote:
> Hmmm I'm not getting any sound thru my speakers even though the sound card is
> configured and the CD is playing. What do think the problem is then? By the
> way thanks for the reply
Well I suppose you use the KDE Desktop.
Then first try to use the xqmixer app and check if the cd AND vol
channel is open.
Also play your CD with the kscd app.
(Sometimes some mixer apps and cd-player apps don't like each other)
And I think you know the SB 64 PCI needs active boxes.
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From: "f Gimenez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat 6.0 & my VOODOO 3 AGP
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 09:38:00 +0200
Hi there!
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to set up my video card, that is a
VooDoo 3 AGP with 16Mb for i couldn't find any driver allowing me to pass
the test nor to launch startX in more than 320*200 ? Do i Have to throw my
card and buy a new one ?
thanks..
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Advantages for Linux over other OS
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 09:34:11 GMT
Hi,
May I ask if there is any links and sites that I can get more info on
this subject, on applications such as Process Control?
Thanks a lot!!
Best regards,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: shoggoth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can a Linux Expert Answer This??
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 07:13:36 GMT
On 15 Sep 1999, Luckydaze1 wrote:
> When I use the CD player in Suse 6.2 to play a music Cd, it uses my CDRW which
> is dev/hdc. I want the player to default to my CD Rom drive which is hdd.
> How do I do this? Please remember I'm a newbie to this. Thank you.
>
>
Try ln -sf /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom .
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From: Thorsten Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux & smp
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 09:42:22 +0200
>
Oh, and another thing I noticed is that the Linux kernel says at bootup
time "Intel MP Spec. bla V 1.1"!
Although, I read that Linux supports V1.1 AND V1.4, my MoBo (BP6) reports
V1.4, and NT4.0 also says it is MP V1.4. Now, what is that about?
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From: Thorsten Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with hardware, PLEASE!!
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 10:08:07 +0200
Robert Kaylor wrote:
> I just installed redhat 6.0 and I am very much a newbie to Linux. It seems
> to be working just fine but I cant seem to figure out how to set up my
> modem, sound card, or my zip drive. All of which are very common brands and
> models, so I know linux must support them!! Can someone give me a little
> insight or direct me to some documentation on this matter. I'de really
> appreciate it!! Thanks
I don't know RedHat as I use SuSE, but at least for the soundcard, I can give
you a hint.
In order to use it, you have to compile a new kernel with "Sound support".
To get to the kernel configurstion in X, go to /usr/src/linux and say "make
xconfig".
You should also say "Yes" to Plug and Play support, if you are lucky, you
don't have to make use of "isapnp" at all.
Which soundcard do you own?
If you have further questions, don't hesitate to contact me.
I had a bad feeling when I compiled my first kernel.... but now, this is not a
very uncommon task to me! :-))
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From: "Sr. D. Antonio Contreras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bttv drivers won' work
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 10:25:58 +0000
Ron Venema wrote:
>
> Hi all, I'm having a problem getting my TurboTV card working.
>
> When I do a insmod bttv.o I get the following errors:
>
> /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/bttv.o: unresolved symbol i2c_unregister_bus
> /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/bttv.o: unresolved symbol
> video_register_device
> /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/bttv.o: unresolved symbol
> video_unregister_device
> /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/bttv.o: unresolved symbol i2c_register_bus
> /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/bttv.o: unresolved symbol i2c_control_device
>
> I don't understand why make modules would not have croaked when I
> recompiled the kernel?
>
All these messages tells you that modules were not loaded in the right
sequence.
bttv module needs previous load of videodev and i2c modules, and you
also need to load tuner module after bttv.
bttv and tuner usually needs some options.
To automatize the loading of modules you'll have to insert some lines
at /etc/conf.modules
bye.
Antonio Contreras
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jaakko Heikkila)
Subject: Re: AMD K6-2/300
Date: 15 Sep 1999 11:46:31 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In comp.os.linux.hardware OldUncleMe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> IIRC, the AFR designation on the k6-2(300) means it tops out at 66mhz bus
> speed. This is for the cpu, and would be true used on any motherboard.
> OTOH, I had one of the non-bus-speed limited 300's and it was fast as any
> procesor I've had and stable even at 100mhz fsb.... /ts
Oops! I have taken wrong markings (don't ask how). Real date code seems to be
9833BPFW. Year 98, week 33.
--
Jaakko
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ziggy Stardust)
Subject: How do I add & configure new hardware?????
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 12:03:21 GMT
I've just installed Redhat 6.0, but the installation couldn't find my
network-card (RealTek8019, ISA). After the installation I found a driver on
the disk that came with the card, but I don't know what to do with it, and
there is no documentation on the disk.
The files within the tar-archive are called: config.in, makefile, rtl8019.c,
space.c . Is there some sort of hardware configuration-"program" or what
should I do.
I would much appriciate some help
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 05:10:43 -0400
From: Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RW CD Rom drive
tons of posts relate to this....answer is easy to find, it's yes.
if it didnt work in linux that would (in my mind) mean linux cant find
it....if linux coudlnt find it then how could it be affected by it?
u will have to do different steps to seting up your cdrw depending on
whether its an ide or scsi drive....based on ur pc though i doubt its
scsi unless u got it separate from the comp.
brandon
Mark Stankus wrote:
>
> Can Linux handle Read Write CD Rom drives?
> If the answer is no, then is having one in the machine
> (so that Windows95 can use it) adversly affect Linux?
>
> I have a Dell Dimension machine.
>
> Mark Stankus
--
"Bill Gates?, I dont know any Bill Gates. Oh, you mean 'by putting
every conceivable
feature into an OPERATING SYSTEM, whether you want it or not, is
innovation' Bill
Gates? Yeah, I know the monopolizer"
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For Beginners in Linux, Emulation, Midis, Playstation Info, and
Virii.
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 06:10:44 -0400
From: Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: anyoen tried a BE6?
Great board. I got it with my PIII 450. Im overclocking to 504, works
nicely. Came with temp sensor program on the cd so i can monitor to
temp, fan speed, and voltages in windows or in the CMOS.
Very nice, plus u can have 8 ide devices attachedw/o additional cards
and its cheap too. I paid $114 for mine.
Brandon
David Isaac Stclair wrote:
>
> Wahlau-eh the News-Man wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 00:18:05 -0400, "David St.Clair"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >>I'm using a BE6. It works in ATA33, but not ATA66 yet. I still got my
> >>UDMA66 HD to work by using a 33 pin ribbon cable intstead of the 66 pin
> >>cable it came with. Linux works after that. Very nice board.
> > what distribution are you running? hmm.. stable board eh?
> >
> > regards,
> > wahlau-eh.
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> I'm running Redhat Lorax Beta right now, but it worked also with Redhat
> 6.0
> Board is suppose to be stable. I hear its good for overclocking too, but
> I havn't tried that. It comes with a temperature sensor.
>
> --
> _______________________________
> David I. St.Clair
> North Carolina State University
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
"Bill Gates?, I dont know any Bill Gates. Oh, you mean 'by putting
every conceivable
feature into an OPERATING SYSTEM, whether you want it or not, is
innovation' Bill
Gates? Yeah, I know the monopolizer"
http://web.mountain.net/~brandon/main.htm
For Beginners in Linux, Emulation, Midis, Playstation Info, and
Virii.
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 06:07:19 -0400
From: Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem Question.
I bought a Modem Blaster. AFter 5 min of working with it in linux i
realized it was probably a winmodem. I didnt get any response from it.
I got one from actiontec.com. Cost $105 but its worth it, has some nice
features.
Brandon
Charles Sullivan wrote:
>
> Try using Minicom at the console - it's a lot easier to get
> working and will hopefully allow you to determine if everything
> is connected properly.
>
> Dan Price wrote in message <7rkibf$a22$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > Ok, Dan gives up ! I bought a Creative Labs Modem blaster model DI5601
> >because it was reported to work under a website listed in this group. I set
> >it to non PNP mode using the jumpers and Com 2 irq 3 (also using the
> >jumpers). Windows took it fine and I am using it to post this message.
> Limux
> >is another story. At bootup, my SuSe 6.1 executes Setserial (i think) and
> >the message displayed indicates that ttys01 is at address 0x2f8 irq 3
> which
> >matches what is set physically on the modem.
> >
> >So i go to use the Kppp dialer under KDE and set the device to ttys01. When
> >I try to dail the program hangs on the "setting modem volume" message and
> >eventually times out. I have tried the faq's but they dont seem to be of
> >help. Is there perhaps a more approiate FAQ or webpage for me ? Or can
> >anyone here help me ?
> >
> >I have been using linux for 2 days now. I am picking things up quickly, but
> >have hit a snag here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> >Thanks again.
> >
> >Dan
> >
> >
> >
--
"Bill Gates?, I dont know any Bill Gates. Oh, you mean 'by putting
every conceivable
feature into an OPERATING SYSTEM, whether you want it or not, is
innovation' Bill
Gates? Yeah, I know the monopolizer"
http://web.mountain.net/~brandon/main.htm
For Beginners in Linux, Emulation, Midis, Playstation Info, and
Virii.
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From: Nicholas Horwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH6 and Compaq Prosignia 300 SCSI
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 12:37:33 +0100
I'm having trouble installing RedHat 6 on a Compaq Prosignia 300 with a
SCSI bus.
I can boot off the install boot disk, finds the CD-ROM and I can partition
using fdisk. Swap space is formatted, but then is hangs on 'Making ext2
filesystem on /dev/sda2'
The console says
'Superblock backups stored on blocks:
-a huge list of numbers here-
Writing inode tables: 30/109'
then is hangs.
I can change vt's but nothing happens.
Another terminal says 'detected non SMP capable motherboard' if it helps.
oh, and I've tried this on two seperate SCSI HDD's, although identical
(Fujistu for Compaq, one gig)
Has anyone had similar probs and found why?
Anyone has advice?
cheers
Nicholas Horwood
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From: "T.K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: intel810
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 20:54:09 +0900
Where can I find the driver?
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 05:16:20 -0400
From: Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Abit BP6 motherboard + RH6 can't see UDMA/66 C:
Hi Rob,
Someone posted this problem a while back. I happened to have saved the
link they gave to goto to download drivers for the new UDMA ports. Go
here: http://opensource.captech.com/LinuxIDE/
I haven't tried it myself or looked it over much though. Let me know how
it goes ok?
Brandon
Robert McMillin wrote:
>
> I have an Abit BP6 motherboard, and I'm trying to run Red Hat 6.0 on it.
> I have a UDMA/66 C: drive that the motherboard BIOS seems to see okay (I
> think -- it doesn't show up on the primary or secondary IDE ports, but
> this box has four IDE ports -- two conventional and two UDMA/66). Does
> anybody have experience with this motherboard/drive combination?
--
"Bill Gates?, I dont know any Bill Gates. Oh, you mean 'by putting
every conceivable
feature into an OPERATING SYSTEM, whether you want it or not, is
innovation' Bill
Gates? Yeah, I know the monopolizer"
http://web.mountain.net/~brandon/main.htm
For Beginners in Linux, Emulation, Midis, Playstation Info, and
Virii.
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Subject: FS:Cheap Pentium and Dual Pentium Machines for Linux
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DeepSpace Technologies)
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 12:23:28 GMT
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jaakko Heikkila)
Subject: Re: AMD K6-2/300
Date: 15 Sep 1999 12:18:36 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In comp.os.linux.hardware JL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> More likely you have a motherboard with flaky components on it. Windows has
> grossly inferior error reporting (I think by design), so its likely that at
> least some of your Windows problems have hardware issues at the root of them
> as well.
> You should first move to a distrib with a 2.2.x kernel (like RH6.0), which
> supports the K6 better than 2.0.x kernels.
Now I have AMD K2-350 attached. I fixed file system and installed RH6. So far
everything seems to work fine. I have to try K2-300 once again before I throw
it away...
--
Jaakko
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From: Bergeron Bernard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: BP6
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 22:04:04 +0200
My Mother bioard is a ABIT BP6
I can't get any of my IDE HDs working on the UDMA66 ports recognized...
(even in UDMA 33 using the UDMA 33 cable)....
What to do?
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From: "Robert Kaylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with hardware, PLEASE!!
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 12:46:25 GMT
Thanks for the advice. As for the sound card, it is a sound blaster live
value. I have not had a chance to try your suggestion yet, but I'll give it
a try this evening. Thanks again!!
Robert
Thorsten Lange wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Robert Kaylor wrote:
>
>> I just installed redhat 6.0 and I am very much a newbie to Linux. It
seems
>> to be working just fine but I cant seem to figure out how to set up my
>> modem, sound card, or my zip drive. All of which are very common brands
and
>> models, so I know linux must support them!! Can someone give me a little
>> insight or direct me to some documentation on this matter. I'de really
>> appreciate it!! Thanks
>
>I don't know RedHat as I use SuSE, but at least for the soundcard, I can
give
>you a hint.
>In order to use it, you have to compile a new kernel with "Sound support".
>To get to the kernel configurstion in X, go to /usr/src/linux and say "make
>xconfig".
>You should also say "Yes" to Plug and Play support, if you are lucky, you
>don't have to make use of "isapnp" at all.
>Which soundcard do you own?
>If you have further questions, don't hesitate to contact me.
>I had a bad feeling when I compiled my first kernel.... but now, this is
not a
>very uncommon task to me! :-))
>
>
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