Linux-Hardware Digest #257, Volume #14 Fri, 26 Jan 01 21:13:11 EST
Contents:
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz (Robert Synnott)
Re: ISA Modems. Suggestions? ("Patrick Bartek")
multiple ethernet cards (James Johnson)
Re: Soundblaster Live! MIDI Support ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
newbie-ethernet config problem (David)
How to build a USB rescue floppy disk ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: No sound from SB Live x-gamer ("Ruediger Arp")
Re: Tina will beat that stupid german ("Ruediger Arp")
Re: Compatibility ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Robert Synnott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 23:48:23 +0000
Has anyone any idea how to set this up on linux? I've heard of someone
getting it to work with the drivers for the Cirrus Logic DSP.
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From: "Patrick Bartek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 26 Jan 2001 14:05:23 +0800
Subject: Re: ISA Modems. Suggestions?
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On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 00:03:55 GMT, posting in
comp.os.linux.hardware wrote:
> I need an isa modem for my freesco router. 56 k modem. I found a Modem
> Blaster 56 k on mwave.com. Will a modem blaster work w/ minor setup
> problems or tweaking? What isa modem do you suggest? I would get an
> external but it is on a 386 and the freesco site said that internal is
> better with the old compters because they had slow comm ports.
Why don't you look on eBay for a used USRobotics (3Com) 56k or
33.6k flash upgradeable to 56k one.
I got an external USR 56k x2 Fax modem complete with all manuals,
box, etc. off eBay for $29.90, including shipping. Works great with
Windows, Linux and Amiga OSs.
Or for an internal, I acquired (for free) from a friend an old USR
33.6 internal that was originally running on a 486 and had been
sitting in a closet for sometime. I flashed it to 56k (also FREE!)
and it now resides in a Pentium 133, multiboot (W98, DOS/W31,
Linux) box.
There are deals out there. You just have to look for them.
--
Patrick Bartek
NoLife Polymath Group
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From: James Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: multiple ethernet cards
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 19:32:57 -0500
If my box has two ethernet cards, can I explicitly assign one to be eth0
and the other to be eth1?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Soundblaster Live! MIDI Support
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 00:48:34 GMT
This is what I did on Slackware 7.1 using the ALSA drivers for
my SBLive! Value card.
1. Get and compile the sfxload utility from
ftp://opensource.creative.com/pub/snapshots
It is in the package awe-xxxxxxxx.tar.gz
2. Load a soundfont file from the CD-ROM you got with your
soundcard. (I used 8mbgmsfx.sf2)
3. Make sure you have the snd-synth-emu10k1 module loaded. (Just
type "/sbin/modprobe snd-synth-emu10k1" to load it).
4. Play the midi file with your midi player. Make sure you have
selected the soundcard wavetable port (I think its 65:0 or 65:1
for the ALSA drivers. Try all the choices you have.)
Hope that helps.
-Lalit Chhabra
In article <93n629$obl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Mark. Hymers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anybody know what the state of support is for the internal MIDI
synth on the SBLive
> (platinum; though I doubt that makes a lot of difference). By this, I
mean the things that are
> listed in Windows (in Cubasis VST) as A:SBLive and B:SBLive. I can't
seem to get them to work in
> Linux using the ALSA drivers even though WAV playing and CD audio etc.
are all fine. Is there any
> way of getting these to work as my keyboard (musical one that is :-) )
no longer makes any sound due
> to being broken and so I use these so I can play on it and actually
hear something....
>
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> University of Newcastle Medical School
>
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: newbie-ethernet config problem
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 17:27:34 -0800
I had a fairly successful installation of turbolinux
workstation 6.1.(linux kernel-2.2.16). Everything seems
to be working satisfactory so far, except for the ethernet/DSL
network card. It is a Linksys fast Ethernet 10/100 model NC100.
It is mounted on the PCI bus and is supposed to be compatible
with the tulip.o driver. When reading the documentation for
the network card it states that it is not possible to set the
IRQ for the card directly and that you must use the bios or OS
software to do this at bootup or when the OS takes over.
My pci bus has 4 slots, of which only two are currently being used.
PCI slot 1 has the ethernet card and PCI slot 3 has the video card.
The video card is being acknowledged by Linux but not the network card.
I am running a dual boot system with boot magic. On the first part of
the first hard drive is win95 and on the second part of the first hard
drive is Linux.
My bios is Award bios XXX with XXX plug and play extension. So far, I
have
left everything the same in the bios, where it states the OS is a Pnp OS
and that mapping of the IRQ should be done by the OS. From what I have
recently read this should work with this version of the kernel.
I think my problem is in one or two areas. Either the tulip.o driver
in the 2.2.16 kernel does not support this card. Or I am having IRQ
conflicts?
I noticed in the /proc/pci that both the USB controller and the ethernet
controller are using IRQ 11?
Any help anyone could offer is very much appreciated, thanks!
David Edelstein
Please email me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
or respond to this posting, thanks again!
Here is the boot messages: (It's not finding eth0 at all?)
Linux version 2.2.16-3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Fri Aug 18 14:51:29
JST 2000
relocating initrd image:
initrd_start:0xc0faf000 initrd_end:0xc0fff9a8
mem_start:0xc0285000 mem_end:0xc8000000
initrd_size:0x000509a8 dest:0xc7faf000
Detected 200457 kHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 399.77 BogoMIPS
Memory: 127492k/131072k available (1116k kernel code, 412k reserved,
1656k data, 72k init, 0k bigmem)
Dentry hash table entries: 262144 (order 9, 2048k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k)
Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: Intel Pentium MMX stepping 03
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfaff0
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 131072 bhash 65536)
IPVS: Connection hash table configured (size=4096, memory=32Kbytes)
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.13)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
loop: registered device at major 7
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: WDC AC29100D, ATA DISK drive
hdb: FUJITSU MPA3026ATU, ATA DISK drive
hdd: , ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: WDC AC29100D, 8693MB w/1966kB Cache, CHS=1108/255/63
hdb: FUJITSU MPA3026ATU, 2503MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=5086/16/63
hdd: ATAPI 17X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.10
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
pII_mmx : 295.656 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 351.282 MB/sec
8regs : 213.741 MB/sec
32regs : 159.258 MB/sec
using fastest function: p5_mmx (351.282 MB/sec)
Loading I2O Core - (c) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software
I2O configuration manager v 0.04
(C) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 >
hdb: hdb1
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 72k freed
Adding Swap: 1004020k swap-space (priority -1)
When displaying turbonetcfg Select Network Interface:
[ ]eth0: 0.0.0.0
[*]lo : 127.0.0.1
When running turbonetcfg network diagnosis
FQDN of This System: localhost
Physical Interfaces Available: Failed: eth0
Gateway Device : (none)
Gateway Device Available : N/A
Gateway Device Active : N/A
Default Route Activated : Yes
Gateway is Reachable : No
Primary DNS is Reachable : N/A
Secondary DNS is Reachable : N/A
Tertiary DNS is Reachable : N/A
Hostname Lookup Works : No
/etc/modules.conf file looks like this
keep
path[usb]=/lib/modules/'uname -r'
path[extra]=/lib/modules/'uname -r'
path[pcmcia]=/lib/modules/'uname -r'
alias net-pf-5 appletalk
alias eth0 tulip.o
# This file is created by PCI device probing routine.
# You might need to add another alias or options.
/proc/ioports
0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
0170-0177 : ide1
01f0-01f7 : ide0
02f8-02ff : serial(auto)
0376-0376 : ide1
03c0-03df : vga+
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
f000-f007 : ide0
f008-f00f : ide1
/proc/pci looks like this
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: Integ 82439TX (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32.
Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
ISA bridge: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev1).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capbale. Master Capable. No bursts.
Bus ), device 7, function 1:
IDE interface: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Fast back-toback capable. Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xf000 [0xf001].
Bus 0, device 7, function 2:
USB Controller: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Fast back-toback capable. IRQ 11. Master Capable.
Latency=32.
I/O at 0x6400 [0x6401].
Bus 0, device 7, function 3:
Bridge: Intel 82371AB PIIX$ ACPI (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable.
Bus 0, device 9, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. ViRGE (rev 6).
Medium devsel. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=4.Max
Lat=255.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe0000000].
Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 17).
Vendor id=1317. Device id=985.
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11. Master Capable.
Latency=32. Min Gnt=255.Max Lat=255.
I/O at 0x6500 [0x6501].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe40000000 [0xe40000000].
/proc/interrupts looks like this
CPU0
0: 225847 XT-PIC timer
1: 6868 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
4: 23845 XT-PIC serial
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
14: 158158 XT-PIC ide0
15: 6 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to build a USB rescue floppy disk
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 01:06:36 GMT
Hello,
Has anybody able to build a usb rescue floppy disk yet.
I have a bios support that support booting from usb floppy (ie, it can
boot DOS). I have a linux rescue floppy (that boot off regular floppy).
But when I put the rescue floppy into the USB, the system fail to boot.
Just wondering, if there are any special step that I need to do to
build
a usb floppy?
Here is the error message that I got:
Loading ....
Uncompressing Linux
ran out of input data
-- System halt
I know kernel 2.4 support usb but when I look into the code I could not
find anything specific to USB floppy.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
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From: "Ruediger Arp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No sound from SB Live x-gamer
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 02:12:40 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "David Filion"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My new system has a SB Live (x-gamer) sound card card and I can't here
> anything. The driver loads OK (emu10k1), lspci lists it.
>
> Under kde and gnome I can here mp3s if I crank up the volumn and press my
> ear to the speaker. I can't here anything at all from my CD (it is seen
> as sr0). The CD player read it ok (it gets the info CDDB etc.).
>
> What can I do to remedy this?
>
> At boot up the driver lists the IO at 0xe000 - 0xe01f where as lspci
> lists it at 0xe400. Could the difference in IO addresses be causing the
> problem? Is the model correct (see below)?
>
>
> Stats: Sound: Creative SB Live x-gamer 5.1. Kernel 2.4.0 SMP Abit VP6
> motherboard Dual Intel P3 866
> 512M SDRAM
> Driver: emu10k1 compiled into kernel IO: 0xe000-0xe0ff, IRQ 18 bus 0,
> device 13
>
>
> Driver bootup message for driver: Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver
> version
> 0.7 emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 7 model 0x8061 found at 0xe000-0xe01f, IRQ 18
>
> lspci:
> 00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: creative sb live ... (etc)
>
just to make sure: you have checked the mixer settings, haven't you? I
have an SBLive, and I sometimes need to just move the volume slider a
little bit.
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From: "Ruediger Arp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tina will beat that stupid german
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 02:15:14 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How did you all get in here?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Compatibility
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 01:19:36 GMT
Not sure if I'm getting anywhere ... I finally got an Internal
Actiontec modem to connect, but that's all. At present my Linux box
does not have an IP. I'm dialing a local ISP. Netscape (the only
browser installed at present) says it can't find the server.
What next?
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