Linux-Hardware Digest #907, Volume #14 Sat, 16 Jun 01 05:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Redhat 7.1 and SMC 1211 network card on ix86 PC (Adrian McMenamin)
Re: How Change serial device name: ttyS4 -> ttyS2 (Kenneth Crudup)
Re: What's this SMP CPU error? (Kenneth Crudup)
IDE CD-ROM audio interface specs needed ("Mike Lowey")
Re: Promise Ultra100Tx2 EIDE controller ("Mickey Stein")
Re: Budget Linux compat. Laser printer recommendations ? (Cokey de Percin)
Re: LAN Card Detection (Dances With Crows)
Lexmark z52 USB on Debian 2.2r3 (Potato) ("Aetos")
What puts the monitor into power saving (yellow light) mode? (Leonard Evens)
linux video capture card -- please recommend ("Scott Baker")
Re: What puts the monitor into power saving (yellow light) mode? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Middle mouse button depressed when going in to X? ("grendel")
Re: Fast NICs (Paul E. Larson)
US Robotics 56k Fax Win Int + RedHat 7.1 ... HELP !!! (Rahul)
Re: SCSI emulation (Juergen Pfann)
Floppy disk prolem in Mandrake 8 (BAZILLIO)
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From: Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 7.1 and SMC 1211 network card on ix86 PC
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 23:18:12 +0100
My apologies, your suggestion was essentially correct, except for a
slightly different layout of files on the RH 7.1 set up.
When I thought about it a bit more this occured to me - and I wouldn't have
got there without this post.
Many thanks, I had to tinker around, but without your post I'd never have
done it!
Adrian
Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> Harald van Pee wrote:
>
>> if
>> ls /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/net/rtl8139.o
>> will find the driver,
>> then you can try to modify your file
>> /etc/modules.conf
>> alias eth0 off -> alias eth0 rtl8139
>>
>> then use the commands
>> depmod -a
>> modprobe rtl8139
>>
>> for me this works with SuSE Linux
>
> Thanks for the help, but this doesn't work.
>
> Firstly, I don't have the driver (the version that ships appears to be
> empty and I can't compile). When I use the version compiled against
> earlier kernel it report errors.
>
> Any other help anyone?
>
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Subject: Re: How Change serial device name: ttyS4 -> ttyS2
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Crudup)
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 23:35:38 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says:
>I have a machine that has onboard serial support for two ports, and an
>additional serial card (Siig CyberSerial 1-port) that supports 1 port.
>I'd like these three ports to show up as ttyS0, ttyS1, and ttyS2 at
>boot, the the kernel always seems to want to assign them ttyS0, ttyS1,
>ttyS4. Does anyone know how to achieve this?
Why not just use symlinks?
cd /dev
ln -s ttyS0 serial0
ln -s ttyS1 serial1
ln -s ttyS4 serial2
... then reference /dev/serial0, etc.
Besides, what are you running where the lack of a ttyS3 matters?
-Kenny
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Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Washington, D.C.
Home1: PO Box 914 Silver Spring, MD 20910-0914 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Home2: 38010 Village Cmn. #217 Fremont, CA 94536-7525 (510) 745-8181
Work: See: "Home2". The hell with slow Bay Area drivers! (510) 745-0101
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Subject: Re: What's this SMP CPU error?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Crudup)
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 23:33:02 GMT
Anthony Ewell wrote:
>> Jun 11 14:43:53 server kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 08(08)
>> Does anyone know what this error is and how to stop it?
In article <7avV6.59795$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
J Hayward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
>Intel SMP boards support 'IO-APIC', which is an enhanced interrupt
>controller, able to route hardware interrupts to multiple CPUs. Some
>motherboards have "broken" support for 'IO-APIC', disable it by using with
>"noapic" when booting. ie. at the boot prompt use: linux noapic
No, no, no- that'll just slow you down. I get these all the time- I just
*ignore* 'em, 'they're harmless. My Abit BP-6 has funky routing, NBD.
-Kenny
--
Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Washington, D.C.
Home1: PO Box 914 Silver Spring, MD 20910-0914 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Home2: 38010 Village Cmn. #217 Fremont, CA 94536-7525 (510) 745-8181
Work: See: "Home2". The hell with slow Bay Area drivers! (510) 745-0101
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From: "Mike Lowey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IDE CD-ROM audio interface specs needed
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 17:34:12 -0700
I am looking for specs (pins, timing, etc..) to control a new cd-rom drive
to play audio CDs. I figured that some Linux people might be writing an
audio-cd interface and would have the info that I need. I am going to be
controlling the drive with a Xilinx FPGA so I need some low level specifics.
I have found information on IDE ATA interface for data CDs but I need more
audio specific info. Does anyone have any suggestions? IT would be greatly
appreciated.
Thank you,
Mike
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From: "Mickey Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Promise Ultra100Tx2 EIDE controller
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 17:43:51 -0700
Possibly. You should just follow the chain of linux betas available by
running down the ftp trees at ftp.promise.com. I've got a fasttrak100tx2,
and am able to boot from any single disk into RH 7.1, but there's nothing
out there that supports either the raid or even (as far as I know) the UDMA
access from my card. I could swear I've seen some promise support built into
the kernel for the straight-ahead ide-port cards like you've got. If you've
got linux running anywhere, download the 2.4.5 kernel and do a make xconfig,
check on IDE devices and look for the ones that promise actually supports
and enable any that match the chipsets on your board. If it's anything like
mine, then they don't make the source available and only have some limited
functionality modules for RH 6.2 and RH 7.0 (and the kernels those dist's
shipped with i.e. 2.2.x). If you just want to boot linux from the card, that
should be simple. Using it to it's full speed advantage isn't known to me
for the ultra's. Just get to a lilo prompt and type in something like "linux
ide2=0x<ioaddr1>, 0x<ioaddr2+2>, irq ide3=0x<ioaddr3>,0x<ioaddr4+2>,irq"
where you've determined either from linux "more /proc/pci" or the win device
mgr what the i/o addrs used by the card are as well as the irq. If it boots
ok, then add the exact same line to lilo but like: append="ide2= ........",
make lilo and it should reboot without a problem the next time.
good luck
"Marc-Philip Werner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9gbdlm$v23$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
> is there a linux distribution available, which supports this card? Does
> Linux support this card at all?
> Regards,
> Marc-Philip
>
>
>
>
>
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From: Cokey de Percin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Budget Linux compat. Laser printer recommendations ?
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 00:35:57 GMT
Georges Giralt wrote:
>
> Sean Akers wrote:
>
> > My trusty old Laserjet III has finally died after years of faithful
> > service. It's therefore time to replace it with the latest trendy
> > model. I'm on a very tight budget so can any of you wonderful fellows
> > recommend a cheap Linux compatible laser printer. I imagine even the
> > crappest model on the market today can out perform my old Laserjet
> > which I've been very happy with so I really don't need anything fancy,
> > but it must be able to print full page graphics and be compatible with
> > Linux and Windows.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Sean.
>
> Hello !
> Have you considered the buy of a second hand HP laserjet 4 or 5 ?
> If you buy the 4 go for the 4Mplus which is postscript enabled and
> perhaps you could buy it with the MIO ethernet Jetdirect card and some
> extra memory for it (really usefull for graphic printing)
> Check the total printed pages (but this can be changed if the guy wo
> sold it is somewhat undelicate) mine has passed the 890 000 barrier...
> Hope this helps
Just bought a LaserJet 1200 (_not_ inkjet) for $375US. Does 15 Pages/min,
1200x1200 resolution, 10 sec startup and has 8 megs of memory with hardware
postscript. Works like a dream. Also has a small foot print and is very
quiet. Can't believe it cost less than my HP 870CSI inkjet.
Best
Cokey
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F. 'Cokey' de Percin, DBA Email:
CSC (formerly Mynd) Work - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Columbia, South Carolina Home - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: LAN Card Detection
Date: 16 Jun 2001 01:34:12 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 14 Jun 2001 23:48:23 -0700, Qasim Ijaz staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
>I recently installed Red Hat Linux 6.2 recently. The problem is I
>don't know how to make linux detect my LAN Adapter . I have made the
>TCP/IP settings using netconfig but i dont know how to make Linux
>detect hardware and install drivers for them . Can anybody help?
Do you know what kind of card you have? (Hint: Try "cat /proc/pci |
more" and look for "Ethernet".) Once you know that, all you should have
to do is load the appropriate module and apply the appropriate settings
with "ifconfig" and "route". The stock install of RedHat 6.2
includes modules for just about every Ethernet card that was in
existence when 6.2 was released. For example, a 3Com509B ISA card
that's on IRQ 9 would use:
modprobe 3c509 irq=9
And a 3Com905 would use:
modprobe 3c59x
And an NE2000 clone on the PCI bus would use:
modprobe ne2k-pci
You can use "kudzu" to try autodetecting hardware. Doesn't RH 6.2
automatically start kudzu at boot time?
There was a... spirited discussion about hardware autodetection not too
long ago here. Autodetection is not always reliable, though it works
better for PCI things than ISA things. If you know what you have, do
the configuration manually and you will probably save yourself some pain
and learn a few things in the process.
Consult http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.html for further
information.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best
http://www.brainbench.com / friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark
=============================/ to read. ==Groucho Marx
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From: "Aetos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lexmark z52 USB on Debian 2.2r3 (Potato)
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 03:20:58 GMT
Hi all,
I've been trying to get a Lexmark z52 USB printer running on my Debian
potato box with no success yet.
This is what I've tried, after consulting the Debian mail archives, google
and the Linux Documentation Project.
1. Recompiled kernel 2.2.18pre21 for modular usb support
2. Installed first with alien, then with rpm the lexmark driver package,
then created script to find the vdk libraries,
so that the control program would run.
3. Installed Ghostscript 6.01
4. Installed Printtool
5. Using printtool, generated the following printcap entries:
##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL
z52-outfiles:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:lp=/dev/usb/lp0:
##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL
lexmarkz52:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lexmarkz52:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:lp=/dev/usb/lp0:\
:if=/usr/local/lexmark/z52/z52.sh:
##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL
lp:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp0:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:lp=/dev/usb/lp0:\
:if=/usr/local/lexmark/z52/z52.sh:
So far, all I've been able to do is run the lexmark control program. I can
send a test page to the printer on /dev/usb/lp0 using the control program
and it will print. If I try to use the test pages from printtool, I get a
message indicating the pages have been sent to the queue, but they don't
print. At some point, I had tried using Lprng instead of lpr and got a more
verbose error message ("LINK_TRANSFER FAIL....). I suspect my problems lie
with either lpd or ghostscript but I am really at a loss as to how to
proceed. Any thoughts?
Kind regards,
Don Nash
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,redhat.general
Subject: What puts the monitor into power saving (yellow light) mode?
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 21:06:44 -0500
I am running RedHat 7.1 with a Panasonic S70 monitor. In in gnome I
choose none for screensaver and power saving mode for the monitor for
some number of minutes after the screensaver has started, it goes into
power saving mode. But if I choose any other screensaver, it doesn't
go into power saving mode. I don't know whether or not this is
specific to my monitor or some minor gnome bug. But I am now
curious as to what puts the monitor into power saving mode.
I can't find any program which admits being connected to that.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: "Scott Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux video capture card -- please recommend
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 21:39:38 -0700
Hello,
I need to setup a linux box for remote video monitoring. I need a
recommendation for a good video capture card (and software?). Something that
either supports multiple inputs, or would allow multiple cards would be a
plus. The solution needs to be cheap. This doesn't need to be real fancy or
have a high frame rate -- it just needs to monitor my house while I'm on
vacation.
Thanks,
Scott
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: What puts the monitor into power saving (yellow light) mode?
Date: 16 Jun 2001 05:01:08 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[NG trimmed]
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 21:06:44 -0500, Leonard Evens staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>I am running RedHat 7.1 with a Panasonic S70 monitor. In in gnome I
>choose none for screensaver and power saving mode for the monitor for
>some number of minutes after the screensaver has started, it goes into
>power saving mode. But if I choose any other screensaver, it doesn't
>go into power saving mode. I don't know whether or not this is
>specific to my monitor or some minor gnome bug. But I am now
>curious as to what puts the monitor into power saving mode.
>I can't find any program which admits being connected to that.
"xset q" should show that DPMS is enabled, and should also show the
inactivity time for each mode. I don't know--could turning on a
screensaver be disabling DPMS? The power-saving mode is a feature of
the X-server, and not generally of the screensaver since screensavers
are always drawing something on the screen (not saving power). Take
with a grain of salt; I don't use GNOME much.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best
http://www.brainbench.com / friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark
=============================/ to read. ==Groucho Marx
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From: "grendel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: Middle mouse button depressed when going in to X?
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 06:25:19 GMT
hmmmm..not a USB one like I'm using. I looked for some strange setting for
this but couldn't find anything. Don't have the EMulate 4 buttons selected
since that's only needed for 2 button mice...I take it I have 3 since the
wheel is set to be the 3rd when you set up XAxis.
"Trev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9febcv$k4g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Could be a setup problem. But how about this;
>
> My mouse worked fine in Windoze, but when I installed Linux Mandrake it
used
> to get erratic problems.
> I opened it up and found a piece of plastic for the right button micro
> switch was seated incorrect.
> After fixing that all was fine.
>
> Moral is that it could be hardware. Can you borrow another mouse?
>
> Trev
>
>
> "grendel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:%AkS6.121399$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I've noticed that sometimes when first going in to KDE or GNOME that the
> > middle button (wheel) is depressed. I can tell this because I have to
hit
> > the middle button again before any of the other buttons will work. I
have
> it
> > set in my XF86Config for Buttons with 4 and 5 XAxis. Any ideas?
> >
> >
>
>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Fast NICs
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul E. Larson)
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 06:44:45 GMT
Chema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:3B2A1ACD.27F45D68
@NOSPAMetsin.upm.es:
> Hi everybody:
>
> I am looking for fast and reliable 10/100Mbs NICs for a new cluster. I
> can not find pure speed benchmarks published or press reviews about it.
> The NICs should be well supported under GNU/Linux and I do not mind the
> price, the matter is top speed and a good manufacturer support.
> Please give me your opinions or point me to an adequate URL.
>
I believe this site will help -
http://www.dslwebserver.com/main/fr_index.html?/main/nictest.html
Paul
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rahul)
Subject: US Robotics 56k Fax Win Int + RedHat 7.1 ... HELP !!!
Date: 16 Jun 2001 00:30:44 -0700
Hi All,
Please help me out of this!
I have first time installed RedHat 7.1 (Dual-boot with Windows-2000).
My Windows-2000 is correctly recognizing the modem, but Linux is not.
I have heard that if modem is winmodem(?), then Linux may not
support it at all :-( I am not sure whether mine is winmodem or not
(how to identify that it's winmodem or not ?)
Any kind of information on this will be appreciated!
Following are the details of my modem :
----
US Robotics 56K Fax Win Int - COM3 (From Windows->Control-Panel)
Device Location : PCI slot-5 (PCI bus 1, device 11, function 0)
Driver Version : 4.1.21.4
Found on Internal Modem Card(?):
On the Chip :
US Robotics AD1807JS
ERL 2086A-0-8
0052
On the white label :
SN:24B4G3HBHGWR
PRODUCT:3CP5699A
----
Thanks a lot for your replies, in advance!
Regards,
Rahul. (first time Linux user!)
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From: Juergen Pfann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI emulation
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 09:57:09 +0200
Denis Leroy wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Briggs) wrote in message
>news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >
> > Having looked back through a few days' postings on similar topics, I think
> > the change to /etc/lilo.conf should be something like:
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
> > append="hdd=ide-scsi"
> > {other stuff}
> > Yes?
> >
Yes.
> > And does this then load whatever is necessary to run "taper -T scsi" and
> > access the tape drive via /dev/st0?
> >
Not sure about that. RH tries to load module(s) for tape devices already
on bootup (file /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit). Don't know if that succeeds,
though,
that is, whether the "hostaadapter" module ide-scsi is already loaded at
this stage, or whether it will be loaded on demand then, using only the
above "append=..." statement.
>
> Another way is to add some lines in the modules.conf (following was suggested
> by Paul Johnson) :
>
> alias ide-tape off
> below st ide-scsi
>
Huh ? Never heard of the keyword "below". You're sure that _is_ a valid
keyword in modules.conf ? I doubt that.
I'm used to that approach :
----excerpt /etc/modules.conf
#first, tell the kernel what kind of "SCSI hostadapter" you've got.
alias scsi-hostadapter ide-scsi
#then, if there's a request for a char device with major number 9,
#tell the kernel to load the st module for that.
alias char-major-9 st
----end excerpt /etc/modules.conf
> Then just accessing /dev/st0 will autoload the right modules. But i prefer
> adding the 'append="hdd=ide-scsi"' line to /etc/lilo.conf.
>
Well, check out either approach, and pragmatically use the one
that works with your system.
And, yes, I do have to admit I have no personal experience with
SCSI emulation, or ATAPI tape drives, - I just deduct that, in
analogy to the situation with *real* SCSI.
Juergen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BAZILLIO)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Floppy disk prolem in Mandrake 8
Date: 16 Jun 2001 01:52:05 -0700
Hello everybody,
When I try to access my floppy disk in Mandrake 8 for reading a FAT disk.
The system freezes with no error message.
Then, I can't do anything except a Reset of the computer.
Materially, I know my flopy disk is working.
In my /etc/fstab :
/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
I changed fs=vfat in fs=fat but it's the same problem : Mandrake 8 freezes.
Can someone help me?
Thanks
David
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