Linux-Hardware Digest #263, Volume #14 Sun, 28 Jan 01 05:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux Internal Modem Setup (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9?= Luis Correia)
RH 7.0 install w/ Plextor CD-RW (Chuck Broeker)
Re: Kernel 2.4.0-test11 does not boot after Mainboard exchange (Loki)
CanoScan N650U (Loki)
Re: Cirrus Logic (Dances With Crows)
Re: Im curius...why is ISA modem cost more than PCI modem?? (Joe Pfeiffer)
installing alsa drivers (James Faris)
Re: newbie-ethernet config problem (David)
Re: Problem Prolbem (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Linux Internal Modem Setup (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Hey! Dial Up Question! ("Builder")
RH7 + 2 Montiors - How? (William O'Higgins)
Re: Hey! Dial Up Question! (coma)
Re: SMP and sound driver question (spicerun)
Re: SMP and sound driver question ("jujubeesRULE")
Re: Compatibility ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Kernel 2.4.0-test11 does not boot after Mainboard exchange (Otto Wyss)
Re: Proliant 2500R + Red Hat 6.2 - RAID5 suddenly loses drives (jwk)
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9?= Luis Correia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Internal Modem Setup
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:35:10 +0000
Hi
I Have the same prob. Could you please let me know how did solve this.
Thanks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi
> I m not able to install linux internal modem.
> i have got Supra Express 56i .,
> how can i install it.
> as i m a newbee pls give me guidelines step by step.
> thank u.
>
> --
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From: Chuck Broeker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH 7.0 install w/ Plextor CD-RW
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 00:31:46 GMT
I'm trying to install Redhat 7.0 on a system I built last November.
Here's the setup:
ASUS A7V
AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1Ghz
256 MB RAM
ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon
Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live! Platinum 5.1
Creative Labs Encore PC-DVD 12x
Plextor PlexWriter 12/10/32 ATAPI
Imation LS-120 Parallel
Maxtor 30GB UDMA100 HD
Maxtor 15GB UDMA66 HD
Linksys LNE100TX NIC
Windows 98se is loaded on the 30GB drive. Both drives are connected to
the UDMA100 Primary port.
I used the suggestions in this news group about boot params to force
Linux to see the Promise UDMA100 controller. This looks to work.
However, I can't actually install anything.
The problem is that during the inital boot, when the script reached the
point where /sbin/loader is run, the system hangs. At this point I can
hit ctrl-alt-f2 and get a shell prompt. The mount command shows the
RedHat CD-ROM is mount as /mnt/install and /mnt/source. If I then
manually run /sbin/loader I get the first couple of screens asking me
what language I want etc. When I get to the screen that asks where the
distribution is, I select the 'Local CD-ROM' option. It then tells me it
can't find a RedHat disk in any drive.
I have the disk in the Plextor drive. My understanding is that this
drive looks like a standard CD-ROM drive. Am I missing something?
I can't load from the DVD drive because RedHat reports errors trying to
talk to that drive.
Even more frustrating is that as an alternative, I tried to do an NFS
install. Unfortunately, I can' get RedHat to recognize my NIC. The
Linksys card is supposed to use the tulip driver, but this doesn't seem
to work. First off, the Linksys card is not listed in the driver disk. I
tried a variety of listed cards until I found one that also used the
tulip driver. I entered the IRQ and I/O port but I just get the message
'Unable to load module'.
If I can't find any answers I'll probably swap out the Plextor for a
vanillia CD-ROM drive a then do an install. I hope this isn't necessary.
Chuck Broeker
P.S
I have RedHat 7.0 running on three 486 boxes and a custom built box with
an ASUS CUR-DLS mobo. This is the first time I've had an install problem
with Redhat.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Loki)
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.0-test11 does not boot after Mainboard exchange
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 00:50:22 GMT
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 10:37:44 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss)
wrote:
>A few month ago I exchanged the mainboard Shuttle HOT591P with an
>identical one and now the kernel 2.4-test11 doesn't boot anymore.
>Allways I get the following:
>
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
>ide0: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA timing Config Success
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
>ide1: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA timing Config Success
>spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
>
>and anything is blocked. Where do I have to look for the defective
>hardware?
>
>I have an harddisk IMB-DTTA-31351680 on ide0(master) and a CDRom
>MATSHITA CR-587 on ide1(slave). The BIOS detects them right, so I can't
>think what's wrong.
>
>O. Wyss
hmm, maybe the new "identical" mainboard carries a different BIOS or
it is a different revision where some wirings are different ...
something like that.
Try booting a generic kernel from a bootdisk and recompile your
2.4-test11 kernel.
The 2.4 final is out, by the way ;-)
Hope that helps ..
Loki
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Loki)
Subject: CanoScan N650U
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 00:54:43 GMT
Hi,
does anybody know a way to make a CanoScan N650U (USB) run under Linux
(RedHat 7) ?
It doesn´t seem to be supported by SANE...
Thanx,
Loki
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Cirrus Logic
Date: 28 Jan 2001 01:42:56 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 13:28:32 -0500, Richard Derouin staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>I have a Cirrus logic hardware modem CL-MD3450 Internal that I need
>drivers for. Is there a site such as drivershq or driverguide where I
>can go to when I need a driver?I'm using Mandrake 7.0.
If it's a hardware modem, you don't need any drivers beyond what you
already have. http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO.html and take a
look. There's a lot of info there; don't be scared. Remember the
"lspci" (if this is indeed a PCI card) and "setserial" commands; if
you're lucky, that's all you'll really need. HTH,
--
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Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
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From: Joe Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Im curius...why is ISA modem cost more than PCI modem??
Date: 27 Jan 2001 18:26:23 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> One of HUGE advantages of external modems is that if a modem hangs (not
> that infrequent event with noisy analog lines, to which modems are
> connected by function, and with bugs in their firmware) then it is much
> easier to cycle power on a modem than to reboot the whole machine in
> order to reset that modem.
Not a phenomenon I've *ever* noticed.
>
> And on the top of it with an external you have blinkenlights. 1/2 :-)
This one is *very* true. I've wondered for a long time why no
internal modem comes with a 5 1/4" or 3 1/2" panel and a cable so I
can have the lights... I'd sure pay an extra $5.00 or so for it.
--
Joseph J. Pfeiffer, Jr., Ph.D. Phone -- (505) 646-1605
Department of Computer Science FAX -- (505) 646-1002
New Mexico State University http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~pfeiffer
VL 2000 Homepage: http://www.cs.orst.edu/~burnett/vl2000/
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From: James Faris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: installing alsa drivers
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 21:02:27 -0500
I get the alsa drivers compiled and everything, but when I try to load
the module, I get a few "unresolved symbol" errors and "snd-mixer:no
such file or directory" and "snd:no such file or directory". I assume
it's looking for /dev/snd which exists as a link to /proc/asound, but
that does not exist. I've compiled and installed the drivers, libs, and
utils, run snddevices but there is no /proc/asound. How do I load this?
I think the "unresolved symbol" errors have something to do with module
dependencies, but when I look at the modules.dep file and try loading
the modules with no dependencies I still get "unresolved symbol"
messages, so I'm stumped. Can anyone help me with this?
I've been using the OSS drivers but the trial period just ran out so I
thought I'd give the alsa drivers a shot rather than paying 20 bucks.
I'd appreciate any help in getting them working. Thanks,
Jamie
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie-ethernet config problem
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:55:44 -0800
Thanks for responding Ray, I appreciate any help you can give me.
> It sounds like the documentation may be badly worded. PCI devices are
> ALWAYS assigned their IRQs by the bios.
You are right about the documentation what it says is: "There is no easy way to
change a Plug-and-Play card's IRQ and other settings outside of the BIOS menu
that your computer provides. If the resources that are assigned to your Fast
Ethernet card seem to conflict with other devices in your computer, you will need
to use your system's BIOS to resolve the conflicts." - my fault.
> Did you add that last alias or did your config. tools? I don't think the
> ".o" should be in there. What happens if you just do "modprobe tulip" from
> the command line? After trying that look at the output of "dmesg" again.
You are right about the o in tulip.o that should not be in modules.conf.
Initially I used
turbonetcfg to ad an interface eth0, but after when checking modules.conf there
was no
alias eth0 tulip entry. So I entered it manually, obviously I entered it wrong.
I fixed it though and it now reads 'alias eth0 tulip'.
After entering the above into modules.conf. I did a 'modprobe tulip'
This is what I got back:
/lib/modules/2.2.16-3/net/tulip.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
When I reboot the system I notice that in the original boot display messages it
does try to
connect to eth0 a number of times (maybe 4 or 5) with similar messages to the one
above.
After booting, when typing 'dmesg' there is no mention of eth0 or any attempts to
connect
to it?
Once again thanks Ray for your help, it would be great if we could resolve this.
Best regards,
David E.
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem Prolbem
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 02:55:23 GMT
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>
> spicerun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > group. How dare you accuse us of being
> > communists! BTW:
>
> Why? Is that a bad word in the US or something? Peculiar.
Peter, I understand your point. Let's just say "communist" has certain
negative connotations to us US'ers for historical reasons, but nothing
personally held against most average communist party members. :-)
> > 4. You are an arrogant French Bigot. (I have seen your *@*.fr e-mail
>
> She's just crazy. Don't feed her. She obviously has some mental
> problem or other... go read up on her posts in alt.white.supremacists.
I think you hit that right. Tina has indeed got some problems. When I
searched on dejanews, there must have been over a hundred posts in the
last day or so alone on several newsgroups leaving a wake of pissed-off
NG members everywhere. Offline I tried to send her a note privately
offering to help her specifically with her alleged modem problem. I
received no reply of any kind. It appears she purposely wanders around
the NGs to "stir the pot".
Annoying. Weird. And sad.
Mark
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Internal Modem Setup
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 02:57:57 GMT
José,
We'll need a little more info in order to help:
* What Linux distribution do you have? (RedHat, SuSe, etc)
* Can you tell us what you've done so far and what the results are
(error messages, etc)
* What kind of modem (internal/external, make, model)
* What are you trying to do with the modem? (eg, dial up to an ISP?
Which one?)
Mark
José Luis Correia wrote:
>
> Hi
> I Have the same prob. Could you please let me know how did solve this.
> Thanks
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > hi
> > I m not able to install linux internal modem.
> > i have got Supra Express 56i .,
> > how can i install it.
> > as i m a newbee pls give me guidelines step by step.
> > thank u.
> >
--
Mark Bratcher
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Reply-To: "Builder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Builder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.2600.hackerz,alt.hackers.groups,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Hey! Dial Up Question!
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 03:17:33 GMT
Hell of a good answer Coma. I give long ones like that sometimes, but
they're no where near as clear an informative.
Builder
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William O'Higgins)
Subject: RH7 + 2 Montiors - How?
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 03:19:51 GMT
I'm running RH7 and recently inherited a second monitor. I've got an
old video card that's supported, so I was hoping to get both monitors
running.
The question is, how?
If I simply install the card and monitor I get kudzu-ed, it installs
the video card and then changes the video mode on my *primary* video
card without causing the slightest flicker in the second CRT. Any
suggestions?
Thanks,
Willy-Yam
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From: coma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.2600.hackerz,alt.hackers.groups,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Hey! Dial Up Question!
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 03:58:49 GMT
In article <hbMc6.42961$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Builder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hell of a good answer Coma. I give long ones like that sometimes, but
> they're no where near as clear an informative.
>
> Builder
>
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From: spicerun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMP and sound driver question
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 05:22:27 GMT
Jim Shaffer, Jr. wrote:
> I remember reading a while ago that there was some sort of problem with the
> driver for the Soundblaster Live card and SMP systems. Has this been fixed?
> Also, are there any other known hardware issues with SMP?
>
>
Admittedly, I'm using the linux-2.4.0smp kernel, but my Soundblaster
Live is doing marvelously on my system.
Much better than my AWE-64 ever did.
--Redhat 6.95 running linux-2.4.0smp-ac11 on a dual PII/333Mhz System.
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From: "jujubeesRULE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMP and sound driver question
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 06:20:46 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jim Shaffer,
Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I remember reading a while ago that there was some sort of problem with
> the driver for the Soundblaster Live card and SMP systems. Has this
> been fixed? Also, are there any other known hardware issues with SMP?
>
The open source drivers (http://opensource.creative.com/) have worked for
me on SMP machine for ages. I haven't had problems for _at least_ 9 months
here.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Compatibility
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 08:21:46 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> 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?
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
You have to put the ISP's dns server IP addresses (one will do if it's
all you have) in your resolv.conf file. The resolv.conf file is found in
the etc directory. Here is the dns entry from my resolv.conf file for my
ISP:
search earthlink.net
nameserver 207.217.126.81
nameserver 207.217.120.83
If you don't know your ISP's dns IP addresses a quick call to their tech
support should supply the answer.
Hope this helps,
jamess
--
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it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
-Anonymous
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss)
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.0-test11 does not boot after Mainboard exchange
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 10:24:45 +0100
> > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
> >ide0: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA timing Config Success
> > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> >ide1: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA timing Config Success
> >spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
> >
> >and anything is blocked. Where do I have to look for the defective
> >hardware?
> >
> >I have an harddisk IMB-DTTA-31351680 on ide0(master) and a CDRom
> >MATSHITA CR-587 on ide1(slave). The BIOS detects them right, so I can't
> >think what's wrong.
> >
> >O. Wyss
>
> hmm, maybe the new "identical" mainboard carries a different BIOS or
> it is a different revision where some wirings are different ...
> something like that.
>
No they are as identical as possible. I both flashed to the same BIOS
version.
> Try booting a generic kernel from a bootdisk and recompile your
> 2.4-test11 kernel.
>
I've already tried kernel 2.2.16 from a bootdisk without success. There
must be something defective (either mainboard or anything else) I only
don't know what. Does anybody know what hareware creates this ">spurious
8259A interrupt: IRQ7"?
> The 2.4 final is out, by the way ;-)
>
:-) I'm currently running 2.4.0 on my running system.
O. Wyss
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jwk)
Crossposted-To:
alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq,alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq.servers,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Proliant 2500R + Red Hat 6.2 - RAID5 suddenly loses drives
Date: 28 Jan 2001 09:53:02 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 13:37:29 GMT, The Archimage
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Second, are there any log-messages that might indicate WHY some drives
>> failed?
>Logs below. They are long.
>
>Jan 26 06:05:10 archimage kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id
>3 lun 0 return code = 2
>Jan 26 06:05:10 archimage kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:31, sector
>1747688
>Jan 26 06:05:10 archimage kernel: raid5: Disk failure on sdd1, disabling
>device. Operation continuing on 6 devices
This is the important part, I think. What happens after a disk has
failed is interesting, but it shouldn't fail in the first place.
Is it always at the same sector? Always the same disk? Is there
something always happening just before these errors?
The message seems awfully short to me, when I get a scsi-error it looks
something like this:
Jan 5 13:13:30 middle kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 6254,
scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 01 a9 ca 00 00 20 00
Jan 5 13:13:30 middle kernel: sym53c8xx_abort: pid=6254 serial_number=6272
serial_number_at_timeout=6272
Jan 5 13:14:00 middle kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 6263,
scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 01 aa d0 00 00 20 00
Jan 5 13:14:00 middle kernel: sym53c8xx_abort: pid=6263 serial_number=6282
serial_number_at_timeout=6282
Jan 5 13:14:31 middle kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 6274,
scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 01 ac 30 00 00 20 00
Jan 5 13:14:31 middle kernel: sym53c8xx_abort: pid=6274 serial_number=6294
serial_number_at_timeout=6294
Jan 5 13:15:06 middle kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 6537,
scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 01 cb 77 00 00 04 00
Jan 5 13:15:06 middle kernel: sym53c8xx_abort: pid=6537 serial_number=6558
serial_number_at_timeout=6558
If it is always the same sector, it still looks like a hardware failure.
If it varies, perhaps a driver / cabling problem?
Good luck,
Jurriaan
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