Linux-Hardware Digest #613, Volume #12 Wed, 5 Apr 00 01:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: PPP modem problem: bug in chat? (Daniel Savard)
Re: Linux/Samba printer configuration (John Hill)
high altitude modern systems performance (Kenneth Mankoff)
Partition -Boot problem. (Den Zoner)
scsi, eth0 irq conflict ("Jerry O'Brien")
Linux with Cisco 605 internal xDSL modem (Robert Adams)
Re: printing problems with ye old Epson740 (Dale Pontius)
Creative Ensoniq card in Mandrake 6.1 (Michael Longval)
telnet via serial? ("John Bald")
Re: BP6: Linux hangs on udma66 HD access (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Linux with Cisco 605 internal xDSL modem (Hal Burgiss)
Re: PCMCIA!!! (Bob Martin)
Re: IDE problems with Linux (John Hill)
Re: CD's play but there is no sound (Craig Peterein)
Re: Which of these Ethernet Cards? (Lucky)
Recommend a modem? (Ed Hourigan)
Re: Promise FastTrak 66 RAID controller (Rod Roark)
Integrated Motherboards ("Dylan McClung")
Re: Dual processor (Robert McCormick)
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From: Daniel Savard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: PPP modem problem: bug in chat?
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 22:10:00 -0500
Dans l'article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "S. Park"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :
> Dragos-Anton Manolescu wrote:
>>
>> I have 2 computers running Mandrake 7.0. The main difference between
>> them is the clock speed--120 vs 500MHz. I've been using a TDK
>> Cyberexpress modem (PCMCIA) for dialup in the 120MHz computer for
>> about 3 years now. However, I can't get it to work with ppp on the
>> 500MHz computer. The modem is recognized Ok by the PCMCIA package, and
>> setserial displays the same status on both computers. As far as I can
>> tell, the problems are caused by one of the programs in the ppp suite:
>>
>> Mar 26 07:53:55 hoth pppd[2872]: pppd 2.3.10 started by root, uid 0
>> Mar 26 07:53:56 hoth chat[2896]: Can't get terminal parameters: Input/output error
>> Mar 26 07:53:56 hoth pppd[2872]: Connect script failed
>> Mar 26 07:53:57 hoth pppd[2872]: Exit.
>>
>> I have searched with altavista and someone suggested redirecting the
>> I/O for chat. I've changed /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-ppp and
>> now it reads:
>>
>> connect "/usr/sbin/chat $chatdbg -f $CHATSCRIPT </dev/modem >/dev/modem"
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> However, this hasn't solved my problem. Is the version of chat
>> distributed with Mandrake ($Id: chat.c,v 1.25 1999/09/06 05:10:23
>> paulus Exp $) broken?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Dragos
>
> If there is I/O error, it doesn't look like solely chat problem. Did you
> test with minicom to see if the modem responds correctly to at commands?
> If not, you have to look up if the modem is set up properly.
>
> Cheers.
I had exactly the same problem. The minicom test worked fine and I
was able to startup pppd using the manual method with minicom. After
many tests, it seems the chat scripts from which I wrote my own were
buggy. I rewrote it on a single line taking care to remove all unecessary
options (TIMEOUTs, ABORT, etc) until it works. I ended with a minimal
chat script, but a working one...
Hope this can help
Daniel Savard
CIDS Inc.
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From: John Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux/Samba printer configuration
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 03:09:54 GMT
Mark Bratcher wrote:
>
> One question: if the jobs are just sitting in the spooler, what is the
> status the jobs? Spooling? Printing?...
>...
> BWMiller wrote:
> >
> > I have installed Samba and am attempting to establish it as a print
> > server for one HP LaserJet4Mplus on our NT network. I can print
> > locally from within Samba, have created the proper printer share,
> > installed the printer using printtool, and can see the printer on the
> > network from any NT workstation. Assuming the identical print drivers
> > are already loaded on the local file system, I should be able to print
> > through the Samba server, but nothing happens. I don't recieve any
> > error messages, and the documents just sit in the spool on the
> > workstations.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I have had this happen to me seemingly at random. If the files sit in
the Windows machine, it is a Windows issue. I usually reinstall the
printer driver in Windows, making sure to print directly to the printer
- why even involve the Windows spooler??
Good luck!
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From: Kenneth Mankoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems
Subject: high altitude modern systems performance
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 21:16:58 -0600
Hello everyone,
I live at 10,000 feet and have had all systems newer than a 486DX33Mhz
computer fail me. Since november, this is:
* 3 Dell Inspiron 7500 latptop motherboards (450Mhz). 2 months to failure
* 3 Dell Inspiron 7500 hard drives (12 to 18 gig). 2 months to failure.
* one gateway latop internal modem. 3 days to failure
* one 200 Mhz (overclocked) Gateway tower (2 days, then writing to zip and
floppy drive in linux failed)
Running for days (and years):
486 DX 33Mhz desktop
286 5Mhz desktop
I know airplane computers have radiation sheilds. I also know i have a 3%
higher chance of cancer than the average altitude of the global population
(or maybe it was sea level)
I'm grasping at straws, but hoping some of you may have experience with
high altitude computing, or can point me to a resource.
thanks in advance,
ken.
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From: Den Zoner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.beos
Subject: Partition -Boot problem.
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 20:27:19 -0700
I'm trying to triple boot, Win98, Mandrake 7 and BeOS-5-PE.
My hard drives are as thus,
16.8 gig IBM HD 2 partitions:
C:(2gigs primary with windows98 installed)
D:(14gigs extended w/ fat 32)
3.2gig IBM HD 4 partitions:
/boot/ (Primary 10meg linux ext2)
/home/ (extended 2gigs linux ext2)
/swap/ (extended 170megs linux swap)
/BeOS (primary 780megs Be )
I can't get Be or Linux to load from Bootman, only Windows!!!
I cant get LILO to boot at all...(corrupted MBR!!!)
what am I doing wrong, can someone give me an Idea what I'm doing wrong
and how to rebuild my MBR???
Thanks...
dennis
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From: "Jerry O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: scsi, eth0 irq conflict
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 22:29:28 -0700
I have an onboard Adaptec aic-7880 scsi and a 3com NIC in PCI slot 1. They
always come up with the same IRQ from the bios. Even if I assign the IRQ in
the bios, the scsi takes the same one.
Both work after boot, but the scsi keeps resetting, causing the system to
hang for a few seconds, after which eth1 has to be restarted.
Any ideas?
I haven't been able to find a current scsi-howto that includes this device.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
--
Jerry O'Brien
Cutting Edge Systems
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From: Robert Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux with Cisco 605 internal xDSL modem
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 03:30:09 GMT
I currently have a dsl connection to the internet and would like to use
this connection under linux. Is there a way to use this modem under the
linux environment?
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale Pontius)
Subject: Re: printing problems with ye old Epson740
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 20:59:30 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Abraham Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi, I'm having a small problem with my Epson 740 as far as getting it to
...
>
> When I try to print, I don't get anything. The jobs just sit there in
> the queue. I try to print out a test page with printtool, and I still
> (as expected) get the non-result. I'm a little worried that installing
> all these different print drivers might have messed up an important
> configuration file some place.. yet another reason I installed 6.2... I
> checked my BIOS, its set to ECP+EPP, with EPP 1.7 (I think thats EPP,
> and not EPC).. I'm not entirely sure what these mean, but this is the
> setting I had it on when it worked before...
>
I found that after upgrading to RH 6.1, if the printer was on when
the system was booted, I couldn't print. If the printer was off,
and then turned on later, I could print. Simply unloading and re-
loading the modules did the same thing. Dunno why. Just the other
night, my first print job failed, again because the printer had
been on when I booted. I turned the printer off, did an lprm to
get rid of the spooled file. When I turned on the printer again,
I was able to print without the other fiddling. Given time, I may
actually figure this out. For the time being, I know how to make
the silly thing print when I really want it to.
Dale Pontius
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
From: Michael Longval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Creative Ensoniq card in Mandrake 6.1
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 23:38:06 -0400
Hello,
I have a Creative Ensoniq Card with the ES1371 Chipset, installed in a
P-120 64Meg, with GNU/Linux-Mandrake 6.1
My problem is: I cannot seem to record at a sample rate above 15000 Hz
without drop outs, using the stock sound driver that 'sndconfig'
installed.
My question is: Will installation of the ALSA driver allow me to do
sampling above 15000 Hz, specifically to 44100 Hz (required for +/- CD
quality sound). Or is it simply a configuration problem with the stock
sound card drivers and/or my hard drive transfer rate?
I want to transfer a couple of old (and almost worn out) cassette tapes to
CD.
Thanks
Michael J. Longval
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "John Bald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: telnet via serial?
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 03:51:04 GMT
What must be done to telnet via serial port?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit
Subject: Re: BP6: Linux hangs on udma66 HD access
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 03:57:07 GMT
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 02:59:50 GMT, syrynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>"Hal Burgiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
>> Try the QQ Beta BIOS just to see. This has solved lockups for many,
>> including me, though I think our problems are different. I just had a
>> 42 day uptime before rebooting (and it was by choice this time!).
>
>Aw-RIGHT Hal! ^5 :-) I've been following your efforts to achieve
>stability since I got my own BP6 last September. I dual-boot, so I
>haven't been able to offer any assistance. I have much admired your
>patience, your persistence, and the durability of your sense of humor
>during the effort, and I'm very glad it was finally rewarded. :-)
Thanks, but no more than me! Very frustrating experience indeed.
Later!
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Linux with Cisco 605 internal xDSL modem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 03:58:15 GMT
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 03:30:09 GMT, Robert Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I currently have a dsl connection to the internet and would like to use
>this connection under linux. Is there a way to use this modem under the
>linux environment?
Doubtful. DSL modems are like dialup modems, external always works with
any OS.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: PCMCIA!!!
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 23:02:39 -0500
EKK wrote:
>
> Does RedHat's site actually serve a purpose?
>
> ...
>
> Hello,
>
> does the RH6.1 pcmcia-RHEA-1999:044.img boot image actually work?
>
> it gives me a blank list of drivers to pick from when I boot from
> this image on my laptop!
>
> the only other option is to try "linux supp" with
> RH6.0 which means I would first have to install RH6.0 and
> then upgrade to RH6.1.
> This also fails miserably.
>
> The PCMCIA card I have is a 3Com589D, fully supported.
>
> None of the combinations of commands suggested by RH on their site
> seems to work.
>
> Please feedback anyone who has gotten this to actually work.
>
> Thanks,
>
> AG
> --
For what it's worth, I never got RH 6.x to install from CD on my laptop
with a pcmcia CDROM ( 5.2 installed flawlessly ). I got around it by
creating a DOS partition, copying the RedHat directory from the CD to
there, then doing a HD install.
--
Bob Martin
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From: John Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE problems with Linux
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 04:07:31 GMT
"Robert S. Phillips" wrote:
>
> HELP! I have a problem that has me completely stumped. I have built
> half-dozen linux boxes without a problem like I've run into this time.
> Two weeks ago I upgraded my home dual-boot machine (also home built).
> It is dual-boot to allow my wife to use AOL on Win98 for e-mail. I got
> a new motherboard, memory, video, replaced everthing except the hard
> disk. It worked OK but it was slow because the old harddisk did not
> support DMA. So, I decided to finish the upgrade with a new hard
> drive. I went to Best Buy and got a WD 15.3 Gb 7200 rpm UDMA-66,
> plugged it in, and I used the WD install disk to copy the Win98
> partitions. Then I booted linux, created the file system, mounted and
> copied my linux system into a new tree. After swapping disks, I planned
> to finish by booting from a rescue disk, mounting my linux file system,
> and installing LILO. Win98 comes up as it should, but I can't boot
> Linux from a floppy! I have tried RedHat and SuSE install disks and
> RAMLinux rescue disks and they all hang when they probe the IDE
> channels. Even if I unplug the harddisk and CD-Rom, Linux still hangs
> when the kernel loads. The final message is:
>
> VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb000-oxb007, BIOS settings: hda: DMA, hdb: pio
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb008-0xb00f, BIOS settings: hdc: DMA, hdd: DMA
>
> Is there a problem with the mobo? Why did it work before I changed
> drives?
>
> Motherboard: FIC VA-503A, 1MB cache
> Memory: 128MB PC-100
> CPU: AMD-K6-2, 500 MHz
> Video: 3dfx Velocity 100
> HD: Western Digital 15.3 Gb, 7200 rpm, UDMA-66
> CD-Rom: generic IDE 10X
>
> I am writing this using Win98 [:-( instead of Linux. There is a big
> improvement in the performance of Win98, by the way.
>
> Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Rob
I have a 15 GB IBM IDE drive that my BIOS says is DMA-OK, but when my
2.0.38 kernel probes it, it turns DMA off. I thought I'd look into
forcing DMA on, but after seeing your post, maybe I won't after all.
WAIT A MINUTE! Why are your drives hdb and hdd??? Your primary master
should be hda! hdb is your primary slave, and hdd is your secondary
slave. What have you got for an IDE master device?
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Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 23:14:13 -0500
From: Craig Peterein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD's play but there is no sound
Greg Wimpey wrote:
> CDs and sounds (WAVs, MP3s, etc) play fine
> through the speakers under Win98. Under RH6.0, sound samples play
> correctly. However, using the GNOME CD player, the CD spins, but no
> music through the speakers.
IIRC, this can be fixed with "aumix -c R" on RH6.0. Just fix the
cd launcher's "Command" to be "aumix -c R;gtcd". It's also fixed
in either 6.1 or 6.2 (I have 6.2 and the cd player is fine).
HTH,
--
Craig Peterein
mailto:`echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] | sed 's/[NOSPAM]//g'`
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Subject: Re: Which of these Ethernet Cards?
From: Lucky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 21:17:48 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Dr. Tim Schmidt) wrote:
>I need to replace a Farallon ethernet card to continue having
use of
>my cable modem and am looking for feedback and suggestions on
what to
>get. The card being replaced is a simple PCI 10Base-T card.
What I
>have availabe to me are the following:
>
>1) Linksys Etherfast 10\100 LAN Card ~ $27.00
>
>2) Netgear FA310TX Card ~ $29.95
>
>3) D-Link DFE-530TX Card ~ $37.00
>
>4) Intel EitherExpress Pro 10/100 Card ~ $69.00
>
>I am new to Linux/Slack 7.0 so I am not sure which of these are
well
>supported or run well under Linux. I also dual-boot NT.
>
>Thanks for your suggestions!
>
>Dr. Tim Schmidt
>
>
I like the 3Com 900b PCI. It's 10T-base only. So far it works
great in BeOS,3 distros of Linux,98 and 2k. It's $59. If you
don't need a 100T also I recommend it. I had mucho problems with
the Netgear. The Linksys is not bad but some distros need a
recompiled Tulip driver to work. I say spend the extra bucks go
with a quality card.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Hourigan)
Subject: Recommend a modem?
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 04:21:22 GMT
I would appreciate someone recommending a very good modem
that will work with both windows and linux. My current
modem is one of those darn win-modems that won't work w/ linux.
Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Roark)
Subject: Re: Promise FastTrak 66 RAID controller
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 04:26:00 GMT
Why bother? Use Linux's software RAID. There's a new improved
version of it in the recent 2.3 kernels, and patches for some of the
2.2.x kernels.
-- Rod
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Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software
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On Tue, 04 Apr 2000 20:28:35 GMT, diggida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It's on Toms hardware guide. This technique rules. I used it. . .
>
>http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/00q1/000329/index.html
>
>diggida
>
>On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 23:55:43 -0000, "btinternet"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>I am interested in this as i run a dual boot system and came across
>>some thing about altering cheap promise ide controlers(add 100 ohm resistor
>>and its a fastrak).
>>i thought i could then run it in win and linux?? the article was on a SMP
>>page somewhere.
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From: "Dylan McClung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Integrated Motherboards
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 23:40:55 -0500
Everything in my system is common except for the integrated sound and
graphics. Between SuSE 6.3 + 6.4, Mandrake 7.0, and TurboLinux 6.0
Workstation, which one works best with the SiS 530 Chipset? I would like to
use the X window system, so this is important.
-thanx
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From: Robert McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual processor
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 23:05:50 -0500
Hi, below is a paste from someone who replied to another post. This
person has a dual PIII (non-coppermine) but you can see that the cache
is clearly shown. So I would expect that the coppermines should have
their cache sizes listed as well.
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 7
model name : Pentium III (Katmai)
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 560.800991
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr xmm
bogomips : 1117.39
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 7
model name : Pentium III (Katmai)
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 560.800991
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr xmm
bogomips : 1120.67
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