Linux-Hardware Digest #60, Volume #13 Sat, 17 Jun 00 18:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Re: External Modem`s (Bob Martin)
help! ethernet ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: trouble installing 3com 3c509B TOP card (A Guy Called Tyketto)
Water cooling system (Simon Lemieux)
How to change BIOS setting from ATA66 to ATA33 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
How to change BIOS setting from ATA66 to ATA33 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
How to change BIOS setting from ATA66 to ATA33 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
How to change BIOS setting from ATA66 to ATA33 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ##HELP!!!!!## RAID question.... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ATT: Dance with Crows pls read again! Need your help pls! (Dances With Crows)
Re: Water cooling system (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Water cooling system ("B. Joshua Rosen")
Quick Question ("Jeremy Gregorio")
Re: all-in-one printer/scanner/fax for linux ("Nathan Appleton")
Re: Adaptec AHA1520B SCSI card problems ("Nathan Appleton")
Video card suggestion ("Kevin")
Re: Quick Question ("Nathan Appleton")
RH Kudzu hardware detection? (Kevin J Dressel)
Re: Adaptec AHA1520B SCSI card problems (mark carroll)
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: External Modem`s
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 14:49:51 -0500
Ali wrote:
>
> Will any external modem work with linux or is it specific brands.
> Also are ISA modems easy enough to set up.
>
> Thanks in Advance
>
> Ali
Any modem will work as long as it is not a winmodem.
--
Bob Martin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: help! ethernet
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 19:49:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
my physical ethernet seems to be working. the driver is installed in
the kernel, and half way through the bootup, the ethernet light starts
blinking. then, after a few minutes, the light goes out and no ethernet
:(
any advice? also, is there a way to "capture" or somehow get all the
stuff that scrolls by during the boot?
(still trying to get floppy working, of course!)
Nils_h
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From: A Guy Called Tyketto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: trouble installing 3com 3c509B TOP card
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 20:00:26 GMT
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In comp.os.linux.hardware Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 15:54:20 -0500, Nathan.L.Craig-1
> <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>>I am new to Linux and was hoping someone could tell me how to install
>>correctly the 3c509B 3COM ethernet card drivers. Any help would be
> The 3Com509B is an ISA card without jumpers (yech!). Therefore, you need
> to set the IRQ and I/O values for the card somehow. You can download a
> DOS setup program from 3Com's website--it's called 3c509x2.exe. You'll
> have to run it under DOS, where it will extract itself into a whole mess
> of files. The only one you need to care about is 3c5x9cfg.exe. Run that
> program, follow the menus, and set the IRQ and I/O of the card to known
> values. Make sure these values don't clash with IRQs that Linux is
> already using; ISA cards are very bad at sharing interrupts.
> Copy the 3c5x9cfg.exe to a bootable DOS disk just in case you ever have to
> set the card's IRQ again.
> Boot Linux. "modprobe 3c509 irq=X" where X is the IRQ you assigned to the
> card earlier. Voilą.
Actually, the 3c509 cards, when loading them with a module, do
not require options to be passed to them at loading time. It should find
it by itself. A simple "modprobe 3c509" will find the I/O address, and
IRQ. If using LILO, just add a line into /etc/lilo.conf, saying:
append = "ether=0,0,3c509"
And you're good to go.
BL.
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From: Simon Lemieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Water cooling system
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 20:07:06 GMT
Hi,
I currently have one Celeron 433 which is Always functioning at 100% of
capacity ( i always have a few animation renders of povray runing with low
priority)... when the CPU is not in use it's at 38C and when it's at 100%
capacity it's at 40-42C... I have a fan on the CPU which expulse the heat out
into the room... That's fine... but the room in which the heat is expulsed is
actually my bedroom... and this summer it's kind of real hot in it... And
since I'm going to buy another computer in a month or two to make a
supercomputer I figured I could probably not survive the heat!
That's why I thought about a water cooling system, the heat could be given to
the water passing through some tube and back into a reservoir... That reservoir
could then heat my bedroom unless I added ice into it! And of course a fish
pump would be more silent, since I could have only one fish pump for all the
tubing network across all my computers!
The only detail would be the little device that would catch heat from the CPU,
the heatsink should be modified to fit my water requirement...
Has anybody work on the subjet, can anybody direct my to a few documentation
webpage or a FAQ, primer.... anything! Or if you have any other suggestion that
wouldn't cost much (I'm quite out of cash!)
Any help would be VERY apreciated ;)
Thanks,
Simon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to change BIOS setting from ATA66 to ATA33
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 20:09:05 GMT
I attempting to install Linux on my machine and it doesn't recognize the
ATA66 driver. I simply want to change the setting from ATA66 to ATA33,
install Linux, add the ATA66 module to the kernal and then change the setting
back to ATA66. I would appreciate any help that you could give.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to change BIOS setting from ATA66 to ATA33
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 20:09:08 GMT
I attempting to install Linux on my machine and it doesn't recognize the
ATA66 driver. I simply want to change the setting from ATA66 to ATA33,
install Linux, add the ATA66 module to the kernal and then change the setting
back to ATA66. I would appreciate any help that you could give.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to change BIOS setting from ATA66 to ATA33
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 20:09:07 GMT
I attempting to install Linux on my machine and it doesn't recognize the
ATA66 driver. I simply want to change the setting from ATA66 to ATA33,
install Linux, add the ATA66 module to the kernal and then change the setting
back to ATA66. I would appreciate any help that you could give.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to change BIOS setting from ATA66 to ATA33
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 20:14:33 GMT
I'm attempting to install Linux on my machine and it doesn't recognize
the ATA66 driver. I simply want to change the setting from ATA66 to
ATA33, install Linux, add the ATA66 module to the kernal and then change
the setting back to ATA66. However, I don't know how to modify this
setting. I would appreciate any help that you could give.
Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ##HELP!!!!!## RAID question....
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 20:19:59 GMT
Hi,
I installed a MegaRaid in RedHat 6.2 box this morning. Back in 6.0,
the drivers weren't quite up to para. AMI has the latest driver on
their website and instructions on how to get going with 6.0.
Hope this helps,
John
In article <8id468$3km$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"unclebob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there all,
> I've got an old HP NETSERVER 5/75 LC.
> I have just scored a NetRAID-1 contoller, with following specs;
> - 4MB Cache
> - Firmware A.04.01
>
> I have 2 hard-drives attached as follows;
> - HP D4911A (Made by IBM)
> - 9.1GB
>
> I have been trying to install Redhat 6.0.
> I have used the drives in a striped configuration (RAID 0).
>
> Upon install, Redhat detects the adapter as AMI MegaRAID adapter. The
card
> is actually a re-badged AMI MegaRAID 428 (this is listed as a
supported
> device in the www.redhat.com support pages.)
>
> Once the card is detected, it attempts to locate the MBR for a
partition
> table (I assume) and at this point spits the dummy.
>
> Any ideas???????
>
> I'd hate to have to NT as Linux and SCO are the only supported
UNIX-type
> OS's supported, and I can't afford SCO.
>
> Cheers,
> UncleBob
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: ATT: Dance with Crows pls read again! Need your help pls!
Date: 17 Jun 2000 16:35:17 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[posted and mailed]
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 20:33:15 +0100, turbo
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
[massive snip]
What in the seven circles of hell was *THAT*? And why did you feel the
need to post it *twice*?
It is incredibly bad form to post HTML to Usenet. It is even worse to
post very long messages to an unmoderated group like this one. What takes
the cake, though, is the fact that your gigantic post contained *NO USEFUL
INFORMATION* that you hadn't already posted!
Usenet is a globally distributed medium. If you post a 300K message, that
message will be stored on hundreds if not thousands of servers worldwide--
taking up disk space on every server, and wasting network bandwidth every
time it is transferred to another server or a person with a newsreader.
>Hi I've sent you the spec of the computer. Would you pls check it over to
>make sure it is linux compatible? The video adaptor is 32 nVida M64 TNT
>2X will that work under linux. Pls find the spec in a attachment.
That wasn't even close to a detailed spec.
I reiterate: TNT2 video cards will work with Xfree86 >= 3.3.5. All
modern distros, including Redhat 6.2, ship with 3.3.5 or higher. The
Soundblaster 64V is either an ES1371, an ES1370, or an emu10k. All of
those are supported, and Redhat's "sndconfig" program will find them and
set them up correctly--just run sndconfig as root, from the command line.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows /\ "Man could not stare too long at theface
\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell "So did
But only Light too dim for us to see\ they become Gods, or Usenetters?" --/me
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Water cooling system
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 20:57:19 GMT
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 20:07:06 GMT, Simon Lemieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>Has anybody work on the subjet, can anybody direct my to a few documentation
>webpage or a FAQ, primer.... anything! Or if you have any other suggestion that
>wouldn't cost much (I'm quite out of cash!)
I ran into a homemade howto on this, but can't recall where. Maybe
overclockers.com. The guy used an aquarium pump, and a 2 litre empty
coke bottle, etc. Sounded _interesting_ ...
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "B. Joshua Rosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Water cooling system
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 17:09:16 -0400
Simple physics, the heat has to go somewhere. Running it thru a fish
tank just means that you are going to be making chowder while you are
heating your room. So tip number 1, try adding a dash of sherry to the
chowder, delicious. Tip number 2, buy an air conditioner.
Simon Lemieux wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I currently have one Celeron 433 which is Always functioning at 100% of
> capacity ( i always have a few animation renders of povray runing with low
> priority)... when the CPU is not in use it's at 38C and when it's at 100%
> capacity it's at 40-42C... I have a fan on the CPU which expulse the heat out
> into the room... That's fine... but the room in which the heat is expulsed is
> actually my bedroom... and this summer it's kind of real hot in it... And
> since I'm going to buy another computer in a month or two to make a
> supercomputer I figured I could probably not survive the heat!
>
> That's why I thought about a water cooling system, the heat could be given to
> the water passing through some tube and back into a reservoir... That reservoir
> could then heat my bedroom unless I added ice into it! And of course a fish
> pump would be more silent, since I could have only one fish pump for all the
> tubing network across all my computers!
>
> The only detail would be the little device that would catch heat from the
>CPU,
> the heatsink should be modified to fit my water requirement...
>
> Has anybody work on the subjet, can anybody direct my to a few documentation
> webpage or a FAQ, primer.... anything! Or if you have any other suggestion that
> wouldn't cost much (I'm quite out of cash!)
>
> Any help would be VERY apreciated ;)
> Thanks,
> Simon
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From: "Jeremy Gregorio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Quick Question
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 14:15:13 -0700
Does anyone know of any problems with the new Microsoft Intellimouse
Explorer and Linux? I love the idea of an optical mouse that works on any
surface but if it's not going to work I don't want to blow $70 bucks. Thanks
in advance.
Jeremy Gregorio
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Nathan Appleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: all-in-one printer/scanner/fax for linux
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 14:25:44 -0700
There isn't a multifunction device specifically made for Linux, but there
are drivers for several of the HP OfficeJet devices. These sites may be
useful:
http://hpoj.bstc.net/index.shtml
http://www.linhardware.com/db/searchproduct.cgi?name=multifunction
"Bruce Edge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Is there such an animal, or are all these things windows only?
>
> TIA, Bruce.
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From: "Nathan Appleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA1520B SCSI card problems
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 14:27:43 -0700
The workaround posted on LhD _might_ be helpful:
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispproduct.php3?DISP?614
"mark carroll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8ig1g9$gg6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Thanks to those of you who pointed out the aha152x driver. I've now
> compiled it as a kernel module.
>
> However, my aha152x card's being uncooperative. In its firmware
> configuration utility it seems happy and can see my SCSI devices.
> My BIOS seems to insist on doing some configuration of it even if
> I tell it I have a PnP OS.
>
> However, I just can't make the thing work under Linux. In the firmware
> configuration I suggest that it live on IRQ 11 and has SCSI ID 7,
> which doesn't seem to be used according to the BIOS startup stuff (it
> mentions a couple of things) or /proc/interrupts. (0x140 and 0x340
> aren't mentioned in /proc/ioports, either.) Some poking with pnpdump
> -d on that card reveals things like: "# IO descriptor 0 at 60..61:
> Base address 0x0340" which looks fine. So, I try things like
> aha152x=0x340,11,7,1 on the LILO command line after the image name,
> but insmod aha152x always gives:
>
> niagara:/root# insmod aha152x
> Using /lib/modules/2.2.15/scsi/aha152x.o
> scsi : 0 hosts.
> /lib/modules/2.2.15/scsi/aha152x.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
> Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
invalid IO or IRQ parameters
>
> I can't find an IO port/IRQ combination that works, and there are only
> so many plausible ones; could anything else be wrong?
>
> -- Mark
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From: "Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Video card suggestion
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 17:32:08 -0400
I have decided to build my own computer and will be building a 850MHz Athlon
with an Asus K7V motherboard. I'm going to install the newest version of
Mandrake and I'd like to know what 32MB AGP video card works the best with
Mandrake. Any help would be much appreciated. I'm looking for something
that will have minimal configuration problems. Thanks
Kevin
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From: "Nathan Appleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Quick Question
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 14:38:39 -0700
Looks like at least one person has it working under SuSE:
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispproduct.php3?DISP?749
"Jeremy Gregorio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Does anyone know of any problems with the new Microsoft Intellimouse
> Explorer and Linux? I love the idea of an optical mouse that works on any
> surface but if it's not going to work I don't want to blow $70 bucks.
Thanks
> in advance.
>
> Jeremy Gregorio
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: Kevin J Dressel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: RH Kudzu hardware detection?
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 16:34:10 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've got RH 6.1, and my something went nuts with Kudzu, so I decided to
upgrade to the version that comes with 6.2. However, it tells me I need
libpopt.so.0 or something. Anyway, does anyone know which dependencies
I need to install for kudzu to work right (what rpm files, etc.)?
Thanks,
Kevin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mark carroll)
Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA1520B SCSI card problems
Date: 17 Jun 2000 21:44:59 GMT
Thanks! I now actually have it working as a module. Setting the
options as I was doing may not have been working correctly, as putting
the options into /etc/modules.conf and using modprobe instead of
insmod seems to be working. (-: So, anyone else who has problems,
I'm happy to mail bits of my setup.
-- Mark
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