Linux-Hardware Digest #328, Volume #13 Mon, 31 Jul 00 05:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Intel PRO/DSL 2100 Modem (internal-pci) drivers ? ("Milo")
2.4test4 and ethernet: not so happy together (Mike)
Re: UPS with serial port (fred smith)
Re: Kernel Panic (Kenneth Rørvik)
Re: TV Card support (Kenneth Rørvik)
Re: HPT366 Support in Linux-- PLEASE HELP! (Kenneth Rørvik)
serial modem us robotics 56k ("Jason meyer")
Installing my IDE CDRW (Anirudh)
Re: Why is Athon 650 slower than P-II/400? (sideband)
ATI TV card in Linux? (sideband)
CD-RW Philips CDD3600 quits after burning 1 audio track (Feite Brekeveld)
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From: "Milo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Intel PRO/DSL 2100 Modem (internal-pci) drivers ?
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 22:15:40 -0700
Does anyone have any linux driver info for Intel's PRO/DSL internal pci
model. Its a DSL card that accepts the phone line right into the computer.
Its what came with my DSL account. I wanted the Cisco mini-router but was
stuck with this thing.
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From: Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2.4test4 and ethernet: not so happy together
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 00:28:27 -0700
hey guys
I just upgraded to the newest test kernel from 2.2.14 (Suse
6.4 version) Somehow the ethernet which worked before the
upgrade doesn't like to work now.
I have a Supermicro dual PIII-600 motherboard with a BX
chipset (if that matters) and 2 NICs, one a 3com etherlink
III 3c509 ISA card and the other a 3com etherlink 3c509B
PCI card.
I tried compiling in support for the card into the kernel
(not a module) and the computer detected the ISA card at
boot but failed duing the eth0 initialization (I think
there is an IRQ conflict since this card and the offboard
PCI UDMA66 controller both want 11) In the past, various
linuxes I've used have just sort of avoided that card and
worked with the PCI. I don't really care about getting
that card working anyhow, and just have it in the computer
because I'm too lazy to take it out. (all those damn
screws)
Anyhow, my problem comes in how the kernel doesn't find the
PCI card during boot up. I tried using the 3com modules
instead of the built-in support, and niether card was
detected as a result. I've tried "ether=" boot parameters,
but in retrostpect I may have been using the wrong
numbers. I even tried "ether=0,0,eth1" to force detection
of the second card. IFCONFIG finds only the loopback
device.
Since I'm using SuSE, I used YAST to get the cards working
the first time. I don't like that tool much and find it
sorta constrictive. When I upgraded the kernel, I didn't
go through the program. Maybe it handicapped my system in
retaliation. (I'm only half serious) In any event, I
think it is pretty useless now, and I don't know what to
use to get everything working again.
Just as a side note, I posted an earlier message in this
group on 7/28 regarding Storm Linux and UDMA66. I got one
good response, but I was wondering if anybody might have a
simpler solution which I could maybe do from the boot
prompt or once the installer loaded at the command line.
I'd appreciate it if anyone reading this could take a look
at that as well.
If anyone needs more specific information, my email is
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks for the help everybody. You are what makes this a
community.
Mike
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
From: fred smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UPS with serial port
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 01:45:38 GMT
Dan Amborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 00:00:04 GMT, David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: wrote:
:>Dan Amborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:>
:>' Make sure you get the cable that works with Linux. They have two cables and
:>' have a tendency to send the Windows cable out by default without asking.
:>
:>I don't understand this. I thought there were two types of RS-232
:>cable: a straight cable and a null-modem cable. What is APC doing
:>different?
I dunno why they'd have different cables, but...
The two Tripplite UPSes we have here (at my home) both came with a cable
which works with either windoze or Linux, and their software also works
with Linux!
They've also released the source code to their software!
Fred
: I am not really sure. I am kind of new at this but here are the two cable
: listings as I found them off of the web site. My Linux cable part number isn't
: even close to theirs though it works great in Redhat so I am assuming they sent
: me the correct one. The other cable kept giving me errors on setup.
: ===Cable #1===
: Simple Signaling Unix Cable
: APC part # AP9823 (My part # 940-0023A)
: (Application/Description)
: SCO Unix, IBM AIX, Solaris(SPARC), UnixWare, Solaris X86(Intel), SunOS, NCR
: Unix, Olivetti Unix, SVR4, SINIX/RM, Unisys Unix, HP-UX, Linux $39
:
: ===Cable #2===
: NT/LAN Server Cable (Simple Signaling)
: APC part # 940-0020 (My part# 940-0020B)
: (Application/Description)
: MS LAN Manager 2.0, 2.1, Artisoft LANtastic 4.0, DEC Pathworks for OS/2, IBM LAN
: Server 3.0, Windows NT 3.1, 3.5, 4.0, Acer/Altos OS, System 700 & 7000, Windows
: Apps, NetWare $39
: --
: Dan Amborn
: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Yoda of Borg are we: Futile is resistance. Assimilate you, we will.
--
---- Fred Smith -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------
"For him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his
glorious presence without fault and with great joy--to the only God our Savior
be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before
all ages, now and forevermore! Amen."
============================= Jude 1:24,25 (niv) =============================
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Subject: Re: Kernel Panic
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Rørvik)
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 07:24:48 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Data Zone) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>And since i really don't want to open back up the machine, disconnect
>the hard drive, inserted it into another machine, fix the problem,
>rebuild the kernel, then disconnect it, then put it back in the
>i-opener, then close the case, and hope it works.... you see my point
>:)
So there's no floppy drive either? If so, you could always build a boot
floppy elsewhere. If not, swapping the disk to another machine will
probably be your best option.
--
Kenneth Rørvik 91841353/22718452
Steenstrupsgate 5 B [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0554 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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Subject: Re: TV Card support
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Rørvik)
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 07:28:18 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cor H. Scholte) wrote in <397CBA13.39652DAE@uni-
one.nl>:
>Hello,
>
>I am planning to buy a TV card, but also like it to work under Linux.
>Who has positive results with using one under Linux?
>Thanks for your reply,
I have gotten the TerraTec Tvalue functioning, but I am having some trouble
tuning in on our cable network, as both xawtv and kwintv seems to support
only a few of the frequencies here in Norway.
Most cards with Brooktree bt8x8 chipsets should work just fine.
Check out http://www.exploits.org/v4l/ for some more info on the subject.
--
Kenneth Rørvik 91841353/22718452
Steenstrupsgate 5 B [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0554 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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Subject: Re: HPT366 Support in Linux-- PLEASE HELP!
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Rørvik)
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 07:35:21 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (I) wrote in <8luvsh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Some details: I'm using an Abit BE6-II motherboard with a celeron II
>533a (clocked to 800...), a 15 gb 7200 rpm Ultra66 HD, running Redhat
>6.1. Obviously, I tried booting up with my hard drive connected to the
Getting 2.4.0-test4 solved the problem for me (HotRod66:) I found that the
generic IDE patch didn't work at all (Hang on ide detection), but the
problem seems to be fixed in the 2.4.0-test kernels. Also try using the
"Boot offboard chipsets first" option, so you don't have to mess around
changing the devices in fstab and lilo.conf all the time. When using this
option, you can use ide=reverse as a boot option to swap the device names
back if needed.
--
Kenneth Rørvik 91841353/22718452
Steenstrupsgate 5 B [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0554 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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From: "Jason meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: serial modem us robotics 56k
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 09:29:02 +0200
ok,
what is the proceedure to install a serial modem 3com.U.S.Robotics 56k fax
aparently it is not too much of a mission. is there some documentatio out
there or cn someone just say the points to the instalation.
thanks jason.
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From: Anirudh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing my IDE CDRW
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 10:09:41 +0300
Hello!
For the past few days i have been trying to install my HP CD-Writer 9300
Plus on Redhat 6.1 (kernel 2.2-12). I have read the how-tos and some
documentation but remain confused.
I have achieved this much:
1. I rebuilt the kernel with SCSI CDROM support, generic support and
emulation.
I built them as modules.
2. I removed ATAPI CDROM support and all SCSI low level drivers.
3. On bootup, it detects 1 SCSI host - my writer.
4. But when I try to run cdrecord -scanbus, it tells me that it cannot
detect anything.
I figure it has something to do with the modules. I just found out that
one should run depmod -a to rewrite the modules.conf file (or in my case
conf.modules file). Is this what is missing?
Or should I just rebuild my kernel (with the SCSI support built in
instead of modules) and see what happens?
I have read conflicting procedures, some which say to include ATAPI
CDROM and some which say not to. This is quite confusing to a newbie
like myself.
Thank You
Anirudh Vemprala
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From: sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Why is Athon 650 slower than P-II/400?
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 04:41:07 -0400
Uh.... Mebbe I'm smokin crack again, but I don't think it'd be really fair
to compare a dual-proceesing P-II-400 to a single Athlon.... First off, the
dual processors are going to push all IO faster. That will affect memory
access, hard drive access, etc.
Second, unless you've got both motherboards BIOS' set up identical (or as
close as possible) you're going to see performance differences anyway.
Just my two cents.
-SSB
root wrote:
> I recently replaced a slightly dated motherboard with an Athlon 650 and
> K7M motherboard and a new 128MB DIMM. Running RedHat 6.2.
>
> I'm a little frustrated with performance. Memory access is roughly half
> the speed of another machine (dual P-II/400 on ASUS P2B-DS 256MB).
>
> I don't really notice the performance difference until I do anything,
> meaning I can boot, log in, and everything works fine... it's just a
> slow pig when I want to push the machine and make it do anything
> significant.
>
> Any ideas? I assume that this is a hardware issue, not a setup issue,
> but I've been wrong before.
>
> ---
> Rambling symptoms:
>
> I've noticed this through several indicators:
>
> 0) VMWare (latest download) crawls (to the point of being useless) on
> the Athlon and is perfectly usable on the P-II.
>
> 1) hdparm -T /dev/hda
> P-II: ~108MB/s
> Athon: ~48MB/s
>
> 2) Boot-up RAID 5 test:
> P-II:
>
> raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
> pII_mmx : 872.871 MB/sec
> p5_mmx : 925.068 MB/sec
> 8regs : 689.229 MB/sec
> 32regs : 377.571 MB/sec
> using fastest function: p5_mmx (925.068 MB/sec)
>
> Athon:
>
> raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
> pII_mmx : 74.676 MB/sec
> p5_mmx : 72.771 MB/sec
> 8regs : 91.821 MB/sec
> 32regs : 37.719 MB/sec
> using fastest function: 8regs (91.821 MB/sec)
>
> 1/10th performance? Ugh!
>
> 3) I wrote a program that allocates a huge chunk of memory (16/64/96
> MB), and fills it with zeroes sixteen times. This program is always
> twice as fast on the P-II than the Athlon according to the 'time'
> command.
>
> On both machines I've had to manually put append="mem=xxxM" in lilo.conf
> else neither machine recognises anything more than 64MB RAM.
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From: sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: ATI TV card in Linux?
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 04:44:18 -0400
Anyone gotten an ATI TV card (daughterboard for a 3D Xpression+PC2TV) or
an All-In-Wonder to work in Linux? That is, can you actually watch TV in
a window on a Linux box in X?
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
-SSB
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From: Feite Brekeveld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD-RW Philips CDD3600 quits after burning 1 audio track
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 12:10:32 +0200
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Hi,
I'm running Redhat 5.2 / 2.0.36 kernel aswell as Mandrake 7 / 2.2.14
and have the problem that my CD-writer will not burn CD's correctly
anymore (didn't have this problem in the past)
Reading CD's is no problem, reading an audio CD using cdparanoia is also
no problem but when it comes to the burning I allways get a SCSI-error
after the first track is burned
Hardware:
Tyan-DLUAN-1837-with LVD-SCSI
3 IBM 4.4 G disks on channel A the 68 pin plug (terminated with
terminator on cable)
1 IBM 4.4 G disk on channel B the 68 pin plug (disk terminated)
1 DAT streamer and the CD-writer on channel B (CD is last device and
terminator enabled)
When burning using:
cdrecord -v speed=1 dev=1,6,0 -audio track*.cdaudio
I get the following output:
Cdrecord release 1.6.1 Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Jörg Schilling
TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA
scsidev: '1,6,0'
scsibus: 1 target: 6 lun: 0
atapi: -1
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 2
Response Format: 2
Capabilities : SYNC
Vendor_info : 'PHILIPS '
Identifikation : 'CDD3600 CD-R/RW '
Revision : '2.00'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
Track 01: audio 9 MB (00:56.42) no preemp
Track 02: audio 43 MB (04:16.00) no preemp
Track 03: audio 31 MB (03:08.40) no preemp
Track 04: audio 50 MB (04:58.44) no preemp
Track 05: audio 53 MB (05:19.29) no preemp
Track 06: audio 54 MB (05:25.04) no preemp
Track 07: audio 48 MB (04:45.60) no preemp
Track 08: audio 38 MB (03:51.66) no preemp
Track 09: audio 39 MB (03:56.73) no preemp
Track 10: audio 85 MB (08:28.86) no preemp
Track 11: audio 45 MB (04:29.42) no preemp
Track 12: audio 41 MB (04:05.93) no preemp
Track 13: audio 54 MB (05:24.24) no preemp
Track 14: audio 56 MB (05:37.60) no preemp
Track 15: audio 48 MB (04:50.46) no preemp
Total size: 706 MB (70:02.13) = 315160 sectors
Lout start: 707 MB (70:04/10) = 315160 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP start of lead in: -11850 (97:24/00)
ATIP start of lead out: 336075 (74:43/00)
Disk type: Cyanine, AZO or similar
Manufacturer: Taiyo Yuden Company Limited
Blocks total: 336075 Blocks current: 336075 Blocks remaining: 20915
RBlocks total: 346741 RBlocks current: 346741 RBlocks remaining: 31581
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 1 in write mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 1 seconds.
Waiting for reader process to fill input-buffer ... input-buffer ready.
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01: 9 of 9 MB written (fifo 100%).
Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 9953664/9953664 (4232 sectors).
Starting new track at sector: 4384
cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
CDB: 2A 00 00 00 12 7F 00 00 0D 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: F0 00 05 00 00 00 00 28 00 00 17 73 21 17 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x21 Qual 0x17 (logical block address out of range) [No
matching qualifier] Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (valid)
cmd finished after 16.611s timeout 40s
write track data: error after 825552 bytes
Sense Bytes: F0 00 00 00 00 00 00 28 00 00 1A AD 00 00 00 00 00 00
Writing time: 96.468s
Fixating...
cdrecord: faio_wait_on_buffer for writer timed out.
cdrecord: Input/output error. close track/session: scsi sendcmd:
retryable errorCDB: 5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: F0 00 03 00 00 00 00 28 00 00 19 9B 02 F8 00 80
Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x02 Qual 0xF8 (no seek complete) [No matching qualifier]
Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (valid) actual retry count 0
cmd finished after 162.807s timeout 480s
Fixating time: 162.818s
cdrecord: fifo had 481 puts and 354 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 318 times full, min fill was 96%.
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<pre>Hi,</pre>
I'm running Redhat 5.2 / 2.0.36 kernel aswell as Mandrake 7 / 2.2.14
and have the problem that my CD-writer will not burn CD's correctly anymore
(didn't have this problem in the past)
<p>Reading CD's is no problem, reading an audio CD using cdparanoia is
also no problem but when it comes to the burning I allways get a SCSI-error
after the first track is burned
<p>Hardware:
<p>Tyan-DLUAN-1837-with LVD-SCSI
<br>3 IBM 4.4 G disks on channel A the 68 pin plug (terminated
with terminator on cable)
<br>1 IBM 4.4 G disk on channel B
the 68 pin plug (disk terminated)
<br>1 DAT streamer and the CD-writer on channel B (CD
is last device and terminator enabled)
<p>When burning using:
<br> cdrecord -v speed=1 dev=1,6,0
-audio track*.cdaudio
<p>I get the following output:
<br>
<p>Cdrecord release 1.6.1 Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Jörg Schilling
<br>TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA
<br>scsidev: '1,6,0'
<br>scsibus: 1 target: 6 lun: 0
<br>atapi: -1
<br>Device type : Removable CD-ROM
<br>Version : 2
<br>Response Format: 2
<br>Capabilities : SYNC
<br>Vendor_info : 'PHILIPS '
<br>Identifikation : 'CDD3600 CD-R/RW '
<br>Revision : '2.00'
<br>Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
<br>Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
<br>Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
<br>Track 01: audio 9 MB (00:56.42) no preemp
<br>Track 02: audio 43 MB (04:16.00) no preemp
<br>Track 03: audio 31 MB (03:08.40) no preemp
<br>Track 04: audio 50 MB (04:58.44) no preemp
<br>Track 05: audio 53 MB (05:19.29) no preemp
<br>Track 06: audio 54 MB (05:25.04) no preemp
<br>Track 07: audio 48 MB (04:45.60) no preemp
<br>Track 08: audio 38 MB (03:51.66) no preemp
<br>Track 09: audio 39 MB (03:56.73) no preemp
<br>Track 10: audio 85 MB (08:28.86) no preemp
<br>Track 11: audio 45 MB (04:29.42) no preemp
<br>Track 12: audio 41 MB (04:05.93) no preemp
<br>Track 13: audio 54 MB (05:24.24) no preemp
<br>Track 14: audio 56 MB (05:37.60) no preemp
<br>Track 15: audio 48 MB (04:50.46) no preemp
<br>Total size: 706 MB (70:02.13) = 315160 sectors
<br>Lout start: 707 MB (70:04/10) = 315160 sectors
<br>Current Secsize: 2048
<br> ATIP start of lead in: -11850 (97:24/00)
<br> ATIP start of lead out: 336075 (74:43/00)
<br>Disk type: Cyanine, AZO or similar
<br>Manufacturer: Taiyo Yuden Company Limited
<br> Blocks total: 336075 Blocks current: 336075 Blocks
remaining: 20915
<br>RBlocks total: 346741 RBlocks current: 346741 RBlocks remaining: 31581
<br>Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 1 in write mode for single session.
<br>Last chance to quit, starting real write in 1 seconds.
<br>Waiting for reader process to fill input-buffer ... input-buffer ready.
<br>Starting new track at sector: 0
<br>Track 01: 9 of 9 MB written (fifo 100%).
<br>Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 9953664/9953664 (4232 sectors).
<br>Starting new track at sector: 4384
<br>cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
<br>CDB: 2A 00 00 00 12 7F 00 00 0D 00
<br>status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
<br>Sense Bytes: F0 00 05 00 00 00 00 28 00 00 17 73 21 17 00 00
<br>Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
<br>Sense Code: 0x21 Qual 0x17 (logical block address out of range) [No
matching qualifier] Fru 0x0
<br>Sense flags: Blk 0 (valid)
<br>cmd finished after 16.611s timeout 40s
<br>
<br>write track data: error after 825552 bytes
<br>Sense Bytes: F0 00 00 00 00 00 00 28 00 00 1A AD 00 00 00 00 00 00
<br>Writing time: 96.468s
<br>Fixating...
<br>cdrecord: faio_wait_on_buffer for writer timed out.
<br>cdrecord: Input/output error. close track/session: scsi sendcmd: retryable
errorCDB: 5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
<br>status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
<br>Sense Bytes: F0 00 03 00 00 00 00 28 00 00 19 9B 02 F8 00 80
<br>Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0
<br>Sense Code: 0x02 Qual 0xF8 (no seek complete) [No matching qualifier]
Fru 0x0
<br>Sense flags: Blk 0 (valid) actual retry count 0
<br>cmd finished after 162.807s timeout 480s
<br>Fixating time: 162.818s
<br>cdrecord: fifo had 481 puts and 354 gets.
<br>cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 318 times full, min fill was 96%.
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