Linux-Hardware Digest #282, Volume #11 Sat, 18 Sep 99 08:13:24 EDT
Contents:
Re: adaptec AHA-2940 U2W (David Cooley)
Re: printer, was: Drucker ohne Lizenz zum Drucken ("Klaus-G. Nielsen")
Ricoh CD-RW MP 6200A ("Martin Musgrave")
Athlon Motherboard!!?? (Jason Wong)
ethernet hub/linux compatibilty? (claire)
Re: Modem Blaster (Rob Clark)
Re: Dell Optiplex GX1 Sound under RH6 ? ("William B. Cattell")
help:Segmentation fault when shutdown -h (James Ho)
Re: help with OEM internal IDE zip drive? (Joseph Murphy)
Re: Newbie and a SCSI zip question (Joseph Murphy)
Re: modem setup problems (Joseph Murphy)
Re: Buy a computer WITHOUT RedHat (Nils Freese)
Apple LW16/600 on a PC w RH6.0 ("Stefan Larsson")
Re: 13GB Hard Drive problems -- appears much smaller... (Andries Brouwer)
Re: New Dell Inspiron processors soon? (Doug)
Re: Anyone have USB Scanner support ("Gene Heskett")
Fujitsu Lifebook C5130 Display (Jo3 McCarthy)
Which CD-RW drive to buy? (Gerald Cecil)
Re: Which CD-RW drive to buy? (Mircea)
Xircom Modem ("Stephan")
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From: David Cooley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: adaptec AHA-2940 U2W
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 03:44:31 -0400
Josh Gentry wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> Anyone know if the Adaptec AHA-2940 U2W scuzi controller is
> supported by Linux?
Yep...
Use the AIC7xxx drivers
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From: "Klaus-G. Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: printer, was: Drucker ohne Lizenz zum Drucken
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 22:26:49 +0200
Nils Freese wrote:
> [...]
> > What might be wrong when the printer does not print and tunelp says:
> > printer status 255, printer out of paper, on-line
> [...]
> > The printer is a HP Laserjet 5 MP and the computer comes with RedHat 5.2 > > > and
>kernel 2.2.12. With my older computer under Debian 2.0 and 2.1 printing
> > works without problems (the older computer does not support IEEE 1284).
>
> Some questions:
> [...]
> --Did you do any weird changes in the mainboard-BIOS concerning the
> lp-port ?
> (You mentioned something of IEEE1284.)
>
> Just check this out.
> [...]
Additional to what Nils and Michael said:
-- Had that printer-port ever worked with any printer and any OS? I
have computers on which the onboard printer ports don't work and they
don't give any warnings (under NT & Linux). Checking the general
functionality under DOS (if possible) seems to be a good first test.
And only if the hardware works you should check the configuation under
Linux.
--
Klaus-G. Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hamburg/Germany
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From: "Martin Musgrave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ricoh CD-RW MP 6200A
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 17:57:55 +1000
I am new to Linux.
I have recently purchased Redhat 6.0. I have a Ricoh 6200A CD-RW drive, and
went to use it with XCDROAST for Redhat 6.0, but it doesn't recognise the
drive as the CD writer. It recognised my first drive, a CD-ROM, perfectly.
Is there anything I can do to fix the situation? Is it just that it is not
compatible, or is there another programme that works?
I read somewhere that all of the 6200s were compatible, and then I read
somewhere else that only the SCSI version (6200S) was.
Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance
MM
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From: Jason Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Athlon Motherboard!!??
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 01:28:58 -0700
I was wondering if anyone knows that will Linux work under the new
Athlon motherboard, such as FIC, it has UDMA66, will Linux boot? I have
Redhat 6 and a BX board now, plan to upgrad to Athlon 500... Thanks...
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From: claire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ethernet hub/linux compatibilty?
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 02:10:54 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi I'm a newbie thinking of networking my mac and pc (both running
linux-ppc/linux).
I can't seem to find a linux compatibility list for ethernet hubs, only
for network interface cards. Can anyone help?
I'm thinking of getting CNet's CN8805TPC 5 port 10BaseT hub and and
3coms 3c509 network interface card.
The built-in ethernet card in my mac is recognised by the linux-ppc
kernel, and the 3com network card is supposed to work with linux. So I
just wanted to double-check to make sure I won't have a problem with the
hub before I go ahead and buy it....
thanks in advance for any help,
--Claire
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Subject: Re: Modem Blaster
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 07:31:57 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Luis Amezcua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I "upgraded" my 33.6 modem to a 56K V90 Modem Blaster DI 5635
>and the thing seems to be winmodem although it was not explicit in the
>box. Called Tech Support and "she" didn't know if is a winmodem
It is a winmodem based on a Rockwell HCF (controllerless) chipset.
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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From: "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Dell Optiplex GX1 Sound under RH6 ?
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 07:23:44 GMT
Niann Shiang wrote:
>
> What is the kind of sound card in Dell OptiPlex GX1 ? I think the
> audio driver is Crystall 4xxx under win95. Does it mean Crsytall 4xxx
> pnp card ? I tried to recompile kernel and got an error message
> indicating kernel too big. Any suggestion ? Thanks.
I ran sndconfig and it found the sound card and wrote the isapnp.conf I
needed.
Bill
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From: James Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: sg.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: help:Segmentation fault when shutdown -h
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 16:58:25 +0800
Hi,
I am getting segmentation fault whenever I try to "shutdown -h".
I am running kenel 2.2.10 whith the apm enable. The os came from the
SUSE Linux6.1, and I upgraded to 2.2.10 just to get the sound card
working.
hardwares
amd k6-4 400
Aopen AX59pro MB---MVP3 chipset (This is an ATX MB)
192Mb pc-100 ram (Hyundai)
Asus AGP-V3400TNT videocard.
Creative SB Live value sound card
It becomes annoying whenever I shut dowm the system I have to manually
turn off the power switch.
Thanks
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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 23:38:11 -0700
From: Joseph Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: help with OEM internal IDE zip drive?
I'm no expert but I got my scsi zip to recognize both dos and linux zip disks.
You need to have two lines in the fstab, one for the ext2 file system and one for
vfat,i.e. dos, something like this.
/dev/hdd1 /mnt/zip ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdd4 /mnt/zipdos vfat user,noauto 0 0
When I set up mine because it is a scsi zip I use /dev/sda1 for Linux file system
and /dev/sda4 for dos formatted zipdisks. I also use different mount points so I
know what I have in the drive, dos or Linux but you don't have to. The zip disks
I use come preformated for dos so I have never set up a file system for them under
Linux but you need to repartition the disks for Linux. But you most likely have
already done this is you got it to work with an ext2 file system. Make sure that
you umount the disk before ejecting it.
Hope this helps
Joseph
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running Mandrake w/KDE on an HP Pavilion 7110Z ("Z" for Zip)
>
> Mandrake sees the drive and I can read and write to it, but I want it to
> behave basically like a big ol' floppy drive. No special party tricks or
> nothin'. (When IS Iomega gonna write a Linux version of Tools?)
>
> Anyway, Mandrake set it up as /dev/hdd1, here's the fstab:
>
> /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> /dev/hdd1 /mnt/zip ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
>
> I tried editing the parameters for /dev/hdd1 to match those of the
> floppy...but that didn't work. I just want to be able to read and write to
> ext2 and msdos/vfat zip disks and mount & unmount them easily. I read the
> mini-HOWTO, but it really doesn't cover the IDE drive. I know this is just a
> matter of not knowing how to edit the fstab and an incomplete understanding of
> Linux/Unix filesystems. If someone can help me, I'll write it up and submit
> it to the LDP for inclusion in the zip drive mini -Howto.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Please post here, or e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 23:42:01 -0700
From: Joseph Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie and a SCSI zip question
I have an internal scsi zip drive. I just use a ribbon cable that
connects both my CD-writer and the zip drive to the card. As long as
they are set to different numbers it should work just fine. AS for the
external scsi I don't know.
Joseph
Ned Latham wrote:
> I'm running RH 5.2 on a SCSI HD; the controller
> is an Adaptec aha152x. I don't have a backup
> device as yet, and am looking at using zip.
>
> The external connector on my card is a lot smaller
> than the connectors I've seen before (SCSI 1), but
> if my count is correct, it's 50 way. Is this
> SCSI 2?
>
> Over at the hardware shop, the zip drive box tells
> me that I need an ASPI (25 pin) SCSI connector.
>
> Can anyone tell me what the hell that is?
>
> (I've read the zip HOWTOs; they're all about parallel)
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Ned
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Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 00:30:11 -0700
From: Joseph Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: modem setup problems
Are you sure these are not win modems? If they are you have no hope. Do you
have a dos boot disk? If you do boot into dos then see if you can access the
modem. You can try something like echo "ATDT411" >> Com<port number> This will
usually make the modem dial.
You might want to go to http://consumer.3com.com/modem/index.html and see if the
stuff there can help. It is the site for USR now that 3com bought them. I
looked at the manual for the sportster and they are supposed to have jumpers.
Yours might not be a sportster. If it is a win modem you don't have any hope.
Joseph
Jon Waitneight wrote:
> I have an aptiva that has two isa cards and no pci cards. I want to setup
> the two isa cards in linux but I'm having trouble. neither of the cards
> have any jumpers, so I'm trying to use isapnp to configure those cards.
> It's very hard for me to unnderstand, so I tried using "pnpdump" which
> worked, but do I send that output to the file isapnp.conf and then comment
> the stuff out, or what? I guess my question to anyone that may know is what
> do I do with the output on my terminal screen to get these cards working
> right?
> I'm really trying to get my pnp isa modem to work!! It's not so easy to
> do. It's a usr sportster 33.6 fax/voice. My bios sets the first 2 com
> ports, so I want to assign ttys02 to the modem. Red Hat lists the ports on
> startup i.e.
>
> ttys00 3f8 irq4 is 16550a
> ttys01 2f8 irq3 is 16550a
> ttys02 3e8 irq4 is 16550a
>
> But what's the best way to get my devices configured correctly?
> Help me... you're my only hope.
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From: Nils Freese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Buy a computer WITHOUT RedHat
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 17:12:22 +0200
"Mark P. Nelson" wrote:
>
> Nyralotep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : "Mark P. Nelson" wrote:
> :>
> :> Do any of the vendors sell a good multi-processor Linux server
> :> with SOMETHING OTHER THAN REDHAT? Anything? Please? (And Caldera
> :> doesn't count).
> :
> : Suse, [...]
>
> Thanks, but I'm looking for a _hardware_ vendor.
Lookput for SuSE & VA-Research
<http://www.suse.com/Partner/var.html>
or SuSE themselves:
<http://www.suse.de/suse_comp/index.html>
regards,
Nils
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From: "Stefan Larsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Apple LW16/600 on a PC w RH6.0
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 12:15:53 +0200
I´ve got an IBM Aptiva 300Mhz P2 (in Sweden it´s known as the
Volvo-computer) with an Apple LaserWriter 16/600 connected too it. Is there
anyone that knows how to make this work under Linux (RedHat 6.0), it works
really fine under Win-98.
I´ve just recently installed Linux so I would appreciate if youre answers
could be written in a beginner-friendly level.
/Stefan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andries Brouwer)
Subject: Re: 13GB Hard Drive problems -- appears much smaller...
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 21:06:29 GMT
Jesse Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: I purchased a 13GB Western Digital hard drive and partitioned it for Linux
: I finally noticed that I'm missing part of my hard drive.
No, you are not.
: Here's the output of df -h:
: Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
: /dev/hda1 6.7G 3.0G 3.3G 47% /
: /dev/hda2 3.3G 19M 3.1G 1% /home
: Here's the output of fdisk with a warning and then the output of p.
: Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1582 cylinders
: Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
: /dev/hda1 1 1000 8032468+ 83 Linux native
: /dev/hda2 1001 1500 4016250 83 Linux native
: /dev/hda3 1501 1582 658665 82 Linux swap
: Where's the rest of me? Or my disk?
You are using all of it, so no reason at all to worry.
See also the section
14.3 Nonproblem: fdisk sees much more room than df?
of the Large Disk HOWTO, e.g. at
http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk-14.html#ss14.3
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: New Dell Inspiron processors soon?
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 21:07:30 GMT
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 08:09:37 -0700, Gerald Cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Go to www.dell.com/products/notebook/inspiron/insp7500/index.htm
>
>for tantilizing info. Not mentioned anywhere else ASAIK. It looks from the
>picture
>like the display STILL overlaps the base and that it is STILL a brick. Less,
Yup, it's big and heavy. Gateway's Solo 9300 is much prettier and
lighter, but a couple of hundred bucks more.
>surprising,
>it also STILL has a 66 MHz frontside bus.
That's because there is no Intel-based system with a 100 MHz front
side bus for notebooks yet. ...sometime next year, I hear. (That
includes your Compaq; did you have a different impression?) Celerons
at 66 MHz are still faster than AMD at 100 MHz for floating point
apps. ...and a Celeron at 400 is as fast or faster than the PII at
366, but I hear there is some trouble with Win NT and Celeron?
>
>Thanks, I'll pass and still w/ my Presario 1825. Now THAT is a light, slick
>package.
>Works like a charm and I get 1600x1280 w/o flicker on my Viewsonic P815
>21" at work, Windows or Linux.
>
Compaq has some nice-looking, inexpensive machines. I was scared off
by their reputation for non-customer service. ...and my I7000 comes
with the same configuration, no DVD, Celeron 400, and a three year
warranty for $500 less. (I haven't called Dell yet to see how much I
can get back now that the new 433 is less expensive than my 400.) I
can carry an extra two pounds for $500. ...and DVD on a laptop? I
guess some folks like it, but I'd rather spend the money for a real
DVD for my home theater. ...and I had to spring $50 for a NIC;
..built-in would be nice. If Dell won't throw me a bone and give a
little rebate in addition to the free color printer, I just might send
it back for a Gateway 9300. Now there's a nice machine.
That said, Compaq's machines are really nice, but I was just too put
off by too many horror stories regarding support.
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Date: 18 Sep 99 05:57:54 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Anyone have USB Scanner support
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Mohd H;
MHM> On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 14:13:02 -0700, Duane Smeckert wrote:
>>I am not having luck getting my USB scanner
>>working under RedHat 60., Anyone have suggestons that might help?
>>
>>Thanks.
MHM> Wait until the USB is fully supported under kernel 2.4.
That statement sounds like you may have an inside track on that. Can
you say that the buggier than a 10 day old carcass VIA chipsets USB can
be prodded into working? This is on a TYAN S-1590S mobo, with its last
bios (1.16) installed.
The reason I ask is because I'm also seeing windoze users asking about
it on the TYAN list from time to time.
Cheers, Gene
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From: Jo3 McCarthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fujitsu Lifebook C5130 Display
Date: 18 Sep 1999 01:52:52 PDT
Hi, all;
I have combed the web pages, and the FAQs and the like, and I can not
get the display on this new Fujitsu Lifebook C5130 laptop to display
correctly under any flavor of Linux. It has a 13.3" lcd display which
the Fujitsu website claims is a 1024 x 768 display.
I have determined that it has an ATI Rage chipset for the video
adapter, but whether I use a LCD monitor setting or any of the many
other video display settings, the best I can do is get about half the
screen to display. It displays the lower two thirds of the screen in
the upper two thirds of the display, and the lower third of the screen
is an "overscanned" version of what would be the upper third of the
screen. The entire right side of the screen is black.
I have tried Suse 6.1 and 6.2, RedHat 6.0 and Caldera 2.2 and 2.3. I
have also downloaded an extra XFCom package for neomagic, but to no
avail.
Has anyone else got one of these to work? I have seen feedback on other
lifebooks on line, and the rest of the machine works well. It
recognizes my pcmcia ethernet card and behaves well on the network. I
am neither new to linux nor new to laptops, I have two others working,
but this one has me stumped.
I would sincerely appreciate any assistance.
--
Jo3
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From: Gerald Cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Which CD-RW drive to buy?
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 15:42:16 -0700
Hi folks.
I'd like an external unit, to switch between my laptop &
2 desktop machines for backups, etc. of Linux & Win NT/98
partitions. Doesn't need to be very portable.
All 3 machines have SCSI adapters, so my preference
is for a SCSI EXT box. Recommendations (yes, I know, stay
away from Philips!)
Thanks.
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which CD-RW drive to buy?
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 19:32:42 -0400
Gerald Cecil wrote:
>
> Hi folks.
>
> I'd like an external unit, to switch between my laptop &
> 2 desktop machines for backups, etc. of Linux & Win NT/98
> partitions. Doesn't need to be very portable.
> All 3 machines have SCSI adapters, so my preference
> is for a SCSI EXT box. Recommendations (yes, I know, stay
> away from Philips!)
>
> Thanks.
I'm very pleased with the Ricoh MP7040S. Mine is scsi internal, but I'm
sure it comes as external, too.
MST
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From: "Stephan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Xircom Modem
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 11:27:00 +0800
Anyone with experience install a xircom modem card (cm56) on their Linux??
Would appreciated if someone willing to sharing their knowledges with me,...
Thanz,........
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