Linux-Hardware Digest #726, Volume #13 Sat, 14 Oct 00 11:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Scanner Mustek 12000SP installation problem (Richard Breuer)
old scsi from adaptec ("Peter Grübl")
3COM-3c575 - locking-problem (Dirk Jennerjahn)
Re: AMD THUNDERBIRD (Bartek Kostrzewa)
Re: Nvidia 0.95 + Xfree86 v4.0.1 ("City Jim 3000")
Linux / TRAXDATA CDRW-8432 ("dudulle")
Linux and PRIMAX USB 9600 ("dudulle")
Linux and Cannon BJC-5000 ("dudulle")
Re: where I could download scheme of IrDA (dodsii)
Re: Laptop sites? (Heinz Rohde)
failure detecting ESS Maestro card (Mark Ferraretto)
PCMCIA strange behaviour (Mark Ferraretto)
cable to connect Apple Printer to PC Serial port (Keith Rhodes)
Digitizer: Aiptek Hyper Pen 8000 (Christian Ordig)
Re: Which distribution? (Keith Rhodes)
Re: Which distribution? ("Gary")
Re: Fisakars UPS + Linux (Keith Rhodes)
Re: LILO version 21.6 released (John in SD)
Re: old scsi from adaptec ("Gene Heskett")
TV Tuner/Video Capture cards that support Win2K or Linux? (Igor)
Re: TV Tuner/Video Capture cards that support Win2K or Linux? (Jem Berkes)
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From: Richard Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Scanner Mustek 12000SP installation problem
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 11:13:43 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello all,
i try to get my Mustek 12000SP plus SCSI scanner running with sane. The
device is SCSI device is detected as #4, but I suspect a problem here,
because its diag messages are not the same as with the other devices.
The resulting problem is that xscanimage says: "xscanimage: no devices
available.". Here's a part of my boot.msg:
<6>(scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7890/1 Ultra2 SCSI host adapter> found at PCI
0/6/0
<6>(scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs
<6>(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 392 instructions downloaded
<4>scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI)
5.1.31/3.2.4
<4> <Adaptec AIC-7890/1 Ultra2 SCSI host adapter>
<4>scsi : 1 host.
<6>(scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
<4> Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-39130W Rev: S92A
<4> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
<4>Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
<6>(scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 16.
<4> Vendor: TEAC Model: CD-ROM CD-532S Rev: 1.0A
<4> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
<4>Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
<6>(scsi0:0:2:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
<4> Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-39130 Rev: S97B
<4> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
<4>Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
<6>(scsi0:0:3:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
<4> Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-R PX-R412C Rev: 1.04
<4> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
<4>Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
<4> Vendor: SCANNER Model: Rev: V101
<4> Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 01
CCS
<4>sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/0x caddy
<6>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11
<4>sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 12x/12x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda caddy
<4>SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17850000 [8715 MB]
[8.7 GB]
<4> sda: sda1 sda2
<4>SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17850000 [8715 MB]
[8.7 GB]
<4> sdb: sdb1
Is there something wrong with my SCSI adapter?
Regards,
Ricki
PS: The scanner is connected to the normal SCSI port, not using the
proprietary SCSI card.
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From: "Peter Grübl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: old scsi from adaptec
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 11:07:28 +0200
Hi
I have a problem with my old Adaptec AHA-1542c. I compiled my kernel
(2.2.14) with the aha1542 support. At startup the following error message
appears :
can not reset bus ... lun 0 target 0
It takes a half an hour to boot linux. Can somebody help me please. I think
I have to edit the aha1542.h file but I don't know what to do.
Please send me a e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you
Peter
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From: Dirk Jennerjahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3COM-3c575 - locking-problem
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 11:44:55 +0200
hi there,
have the pcmcia-cs-3.1.21 installed on omnibook 4150. can connect to the
network, my 3c575 is noticed. everything seems to be alright. but when i
ftp to another network host, the connection locks up under heavy load.
do you have some suggestions?
cheers, dirk
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Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 12:21:55 +0200
From: Bartek Kostrzewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD THUNDERBIRD
Mauro Del Giudice wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I have a 'little' trouble.
> My PC is:
> - ASUS A7V (great!)
> - AMD Athlon Thunderbird 700 Mhz
> - 128 MB
> - HD Quantum Fireball 20GB
> - CDROM 50x
>
> I installed linux redhat 6.2 using a bootable CD created with the ISO
> image.
> Well, the installation was successfull, all software has been installed
> apparently well, but when I reboot the PC to start linux,
> a kernel panic error occurs.
> At the moment I don't remember the complete error, but it happens when
> the kernel try to find out the CPU. It infact is able to detect the AMD
> Athlon processor, but immediately after it tries to perform "Disable
> CPUID serial number". In this case a general protection fault error is
> raised followed by the kernel panic error and the system stucks!
>
> Any comment?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Mauro
The problem is following:
The default RH 6.2 kernel tries to disable the CPUID serial number tag,
which doesn't work with a T-Bird, and so the kernel panics.
Solutions are:
Go to a friend, compile a kernel on his system for you machine and
create a bootdisk with LILO on, with the proper settings for your
machine, boot your system with that kernel and recompile your own
kernel.
Go to a friend, compile a kernel and get it on a disk, now use Winblows
(in DOS mode) and loadlin to boot that kernel, recompile your own kernel
without "CPUID disabling".
Mail me and I will compile a kernel for you if you do not have any
person near you having Linux installed, I'll compile ye a static kernel
without drivers, only the basics so it is small.
--
Best regards,
Bartek Kostrzewa - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<< http://technoage.web.lu >>>
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From: "City Jim 3000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Nvidia 0.95 + Xfree86 v4.0.1
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 12:08:37 +0200
force the install with
rpm -i --force xxxx.rpm
then you also need to force insmod to load the driver even thugh kernel
versions mismatch.
But best bet would be to recompile from source I think.
"root" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> AAARGRGGGHHHH
>
> I'm going mad with this. Could someone please tell me if Im doing
> something totally stupid or I really have a problem.
>
> I am trying to install the Nvidia Kernel 0.95 with SuSE Linux 6.4 kernel
> 2.2.14. When I try to install the RPM it just tells me that I need
> kernel version 2.2 or greater. Forgive me for being stupid but I'm
> running 2.2.14 right, which if Im not mistaken is higher than 2.2. What
> is going on?
>
> PS:
>
> I tried the TAR as well and this just refuses to install the NVdriver
> after building it saying "unresolved symbol tqueue_lock"
>
> Please help me!!
>
> Dave
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From: "dudulle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux / TRAXDATA CDRW-8432
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 11:13:41 GMT
I have a problem with my cdrecoder:
My cdrecorder is check by Linux like a CD-ROM, I can mount.
But when I launched X-CD-Roaster he say: that I must use SCSI-emulation.
I create the kernel ( version 2.4.0 test 1) but I can't mount the CD-R by
/dev/hda or /dev/sr0.
I want to know if somebody have the same problem and what's the remed.
Thanks !
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From: "dudulle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux and PRIMAX USB 9600
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 11:18:12 GMT
I want to know how to install this peripheric under Linux
Thank !
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From: "dudulle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux and Cannon BJC-5000
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 11:20:25 GMT
I try to install this printer under Linux but I failed.
Can you help me ?
Bye
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dodsii)
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.hardware,comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc
Subject: Re: where I could download scheme of IrDA
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 12:32:09 GMT
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 17:48:46 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brett C.
Cammack) wrote:
>On Tue, 5 Sep 2000 12:35:29 +0300, "Ian Dichkovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>>Where I could download scheme of IrDA?
>>(detailed electronic scheme, not only schematic principles)
>>My friend want to make a device connected to PC
>>which transmit information
>> PC <-> Toshiba Notebook Satellite Pro 400CS
>>(or PC<->something with infrared)
>
>As a followup, I did finally find a source for the transmit/receive
>module for a decent price. Asus, the motherboard company, has an
>internal, OEM infrared kit which consists of the cable and small
>printed circuit board that contains the rx/tx circuitry. The part
>number is IRM-100N and it's available for about $25.00 US.
>
>Here's the first source I found for them:
> http://www.lc-sys.com
>
>I know you were looking for a schematic, but so was I because the
>premade adapters cost way too much money, if you could find one at
>all. I thought maybe this might be a little more in your budget for
>constructing your own and could save you the extra work.
>
>Regards,
>Brett C. Cammack
Just thought i would add for anyone in oceania or australia
EYo www.eyo.com.au is selling these headers it took much looking to
find someone with them. They work for aopen motherboards and i think
soyo motherboards as well. Definitely on aopen as have seen one
installed and working on one
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From: Heinz Rohde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Laptop sites?
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 15:21:58 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John Hong schrieb:
>
> Anyone know any really good laptop sites that offer information
> on Linux support? I would like to know which low-mid range laptop models
> work well under Linux.
http://f7.parsimony.net/forum8029/
http://linux-notebook.org/home/
http://mobilix.org/misc.html
--
Heinz Rohde NetUSE AG
Siemenswall, D-24107 Kiel, Germany
Fon: +49 431 386435 00 -- Fax: +49 431 386435 99
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Ferraretto)
Subject: failure detecting ESS Maestro card
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 13:27:34 GMT
Hello,
I just bought a Gateway Solo 5300. It has a ESS Maestro card. The
doco says it's a ESS ES1980 Maestro-3, ESS ES1921 Audio CODEC
When I run sndconfig, it tells me it found a 'ESS Technology|unknown
device 125d:199a' which it says isn't supported.
Fair enough if it isn't but can't I get sndconfig to set it up as
a soundblaster compatible or something similar?
I'm running Mandrake 7.1
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Ferraretto)
Subject: PCMCIA strange behaviour
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 13:29:33 GMT
Hi, I have a Gateway 5300 Notebook running Mandrake 7.1.
It has a Ricoh R5C47811 CardBus controller in it. Whenever I insert
a pcmcia card, my system freezes. But, if I stop pcmcia
(/etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia stop) before inserting the card and then start
pcmcia, the card is detected OK! I then have to stop pcmcia before removing
otherwise the system freezes as well.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks
Mark
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From: Keith Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cable to connect Apple Printer to PC Serial port
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 15:26:53 +0200
Thanks to B. Joshua Rosen for the information you sent me a few months back...
I'm about to start cuttin up cables and soldering them to make the adapter I
need.
However, before I really get down to soldering, and before I connect the printer
and computer, I wonder if somebody has done this before, and can judge whether
this is right or disastrously wrong...
OK, Macintosh pin-out:
8 7 6
5 (9) 4 3
2 1
(9 +5 Volts, only for GeoPort)
8 Rx Data
7 Not Connected
6 Tx Data
5 Rx Data (inverted)
4 Ground (is this "Signal Ground" ?)
3 Tx Data (inverted)
2 CTS
1 DTR
Shell
Does "inverted" mean that this line is the opposite to the corresponding Tx or
Rx line?
By this, I mean that line 3 goes to -5 v when line 6 goes to +5 v?
Can I simply ignore the inverted lines?
PC pin-out:
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9
9 Ring (what's that? Modem incoming call?)
8 CTS
7 RTS
6 DSR
5 Signal Ground
4 DTR
3 Tx Data
2 Rx Data
1 DCD
Shell
So, I crossover the Tx Data and Rx Data so the PC Tx line goes to the Pitner's
Rx line, and all other lines get connected "as-is", right?
Meaning,
Mac line <--------------------> PC line
8 Rx Data Tx Data 3
6 Tx Data Rx Data 2
4 Ground Sig Ground 5
2 CTS CTS 8
1 DTR DTR 4
Shell Shell
ignoring the other lines...
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From: Christian Ordig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Digitizer: Aiptek Hyper Pen 8000
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 15:30:39 +0200
Hi,
is there anyone having any experiences with the digitizer mentioned
above? I've seen it quite cheep and wondered if it'd be worth buying.
Thank you for your hints.
--
Christian Ordig | Homepage: http://thor.prohosting.com/~chrordig/
Germany | eMail: Christian Ordig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Keith Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which distribution?
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 15:35:22 +0200
Avoid Mandrake: it's compiled for Pentiums, so it will almost certainly not work
on a 486. (By the way, I've been using Mandrake for over 18 months, and I'm
quite happy with it.)
I used to use a very small-footprint distribution, with a name like MonkeyLinux
on an 80MB hard drive (and there was Win 3.11 on there, too!) with 8MB Ram. It
was fine. Then I put in a 2.5gB Western Digital, and installed RedHat 4.2 that
was my printer and file server for quite a long time.... If you install none of
the development stuff (compilers, dev libraries) and none of the X11 stuff, none
of the documentation, none of the source code, you can trim down the footprint
enormously.
KR.
Gary Atkinson wrote:
> I have an old 486 machine with a small (230mb) hard drive that I want to use
> as a firewall on my network. Could anyone suggest which is the best
> distribution for an older PC like this?
>
> Gary
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From: "Gary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which distribution?
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 14:35:30 +0100
Thanks for the advice, I'll give it a whirl.
Gary
"Gary Atkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8s769s$9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have an old 486 machine with a small (230mb) hard drive that I want to
use
> as a firewall on my network. Could anyone suggest which is the best
> distribution for an older PC like this?
>
> Gary
>
>
>
>
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From: Keith Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Fisakars UPS + Linux
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 15:39:11 +0200
Fiskars makes UPS units??? Last time I looked, it made kitchen knives and
scissors!
So, after making things to cut, it now makes things to avoid cuts...
Anyway, if your UPS has a serial port output that keeps one line high while the
mains power is on, and lets this line fall low when the mains cuts out and the
UPS kicks in, you should have no difficulty in modifying the UPS daemon. Look in
the UPS HowTo.
KR.
James Morris wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just installed a nice big Fiskars UPS on our home network. We're
> running Redhat 6.2 as our proxy and I want to hook the ups to it so it will
> shut down gracefully when the power goes (80 gigs and ext2 = a long time of
> fsck).
>
> Does anyone know of any Linux Fiskars compatible UPS programs ?
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
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From: John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: LILO version 21.6 released
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 14:39:22 GMT
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 20:02:12 GMT, Rudi Sluijtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> LILO release 21.6 is based upon Werner Almesberger's LILO version 21.
>
>Could you please provide us with, or point to, some documentation about
>the usage of the "- Completely new menu-driven user interface."
Usage information on what keys to press is contained in the menu itself.
Customization information is provided in the 'man' pages for 'lilo.conf'.
--John
LILO version 21.6 (04-Oct-2000) source at
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo
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Date: 14 Oct 2000 8:31:51 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: old scsi from adaptec
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Peter Grübl;
PG> Hi
PG> I have a problem with my old Adaptec AHA-1542c. I compiled my
PG> kernel
PG> (2.2.14) with the aha1542 support. At startup the following error
PG> message appears : can not reset bus ... lun 0 target 0 It takes a
PG> half an hour to boot linux. Can somebody help me please. I think
PG> I have to edit the aha1542.h file but I don't know what to do.
PG> Please send me a e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I had similar problems. There were no resources being used at the
0x330 address it defaults to, but it simply wouldn't respond until I set
the cards address down to 0x230, and edited that address in the source
down to 0x230, then it worked, and worked 'nominally' until the card
died, I think from a static charge while plugging in, or unplugging, an
external tape drive.
Just do a search for '0x330,0x334' in the sources and change them to
0x230,0x234 to do that I did. I'm not claiming that will work on your
mobo, but on my TYAN TRINITY it worked great while it lasted.
Cheers, Gene
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Igor)
Crossposted-To: rec.video.desktop,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: TV Tuner/Video Capture cards that support Win2K or Linux?
Date: 14 Oct 2000 15:02:05 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you know of any decent TV/Video Capture card that supports EITHER
Win2k or Linux, please let me know. (I expect that most people would not
know a card that supports both just because they do not deal with the
two operating systems. So please let me know the cards that support
one of them).
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From: Jem Berkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: rec.video.desktop,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: TV Tuner/Video Capture cards that support Win2K or Linux?
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 10:08:00 -0500
Igor wrote:
>
> If you know of any decent TV/Video Capture card that supports EITHER
> Win2k or Linux, please let me know. (I expect that most people would not
> know a card that supports both just because they do not deal with the
> two operating systems. So please let me know the cards that support
> one of them).
Check out
http://www.ati.com/na/pages/resource_centre/dev_rel/linux.html
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DOS, Win32, Linux software
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