RE: [gentoo-user] Laptop modem
I have been trying to get a similar modem working on my ASUS A2400H. The modem is shows as a SIS with lspci -v. My research has led me to believe that the net-dialup/slmodem package supports the modem. A couple of pointers: 1. When you emerge slmodem use: USE=-usb emerge slmodem This stops the extra usb functionality being used. 2. When testing my modem and turning on ppp logging I have gotten it to connect to my ISP but it appears that it doesn't get a IP address and then disconnects. 3. I have the ALSA support turned on and the Intel modules compiled in the kernel, but when dialling out the modem makes no noise. 4. Tip. When configuring /etc/conf.d/slmodem turn on the option that creates a symlink to the /dev/modem device. I am currently using udev and have found that there is a problem with the device node creation on boot up. Restarting /etc/init.d/slmodem seems to fix it. After restarting slmodem I normally try dialling out with gnome-ppp and turn on logging. My connection to the ISP keeps failing but I suspect it is because of my ppp options file - I recommend keeping it bare. I haven't taken the time to find a solution to this because I'm currently connected through ADSL and have only been trying to get this working so I can dialup when needed ( work etc.) If you have any success please share your experiences with us. David Stewen -Original Message- From: Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 6 January 2005 9:38 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop modem Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller (rev a0) FATAL: Module ppp_generic not found. Did you make modules_install? If so, try increasing the verbosity of modprobe so you can get more info on what is failing. system4 ~ # /etc/init.d/slmodem restart * Waiting for slamr modem driver initialisation [ ok ] * Starting slmodemd for /dev/ttySL0 [ ok ] Well, that looks good. and the ppp daemon looks like this: You'll need to edit /etc/conf.d/net.ppp0 to use the correct deivce and other options. You can get a description of the options under man 8 pppd. I can get rid of the SIOCDELRT error by changing to: DEFROUTE=no but it still doesn't seem to dial up. I don't hear any dialing and I don't seem to be connected. Maybe I won't hear dialing because I didn't choose the alsa option when emerging? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] RE: Wireless lan with netgear wg511 and Gentoo
I have a ASUS A2400H Laptop. I followed the following two forum threads and have WEP working on my PCMCIA Netgear WG511. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=177446highlight=wg511 The thread above is the for the WG511 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=225871highlight=wg511 This thread is for wireless configuration and startup. It currently supports WEP encryption. Last I checked UberLord is still working on getting WAP working. This will get your wireless configuration working. A couple of hints: 1. I noticed you have madwifi-driver installed. Do a: emerge unmerge madwifi-driver To remove it. Trying to use multiple drivers at once may cause problems. 2. I have not yet used it but the net-wireless/wpa_supplicant package supports WPA and the Prism chipset. I'm not sure if it uses the PRISM54 kernel driver and have not as yet messed with a working configuration. David Stewen -Original Message- From: Marc Schlienger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 5 January 2005 8:33 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Wireless lan with netgear wg511 and Gentoo Hi, I just bought a Netgear WG511 wireless lan cardbus card. I never used wireless lan or pcmcia before. I'm using Gentoo 2004.3 together with a 2.6.7-r9 kernel. The laptop is a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo with a Pentium3 based Celeron processor. Now that's what I have done yet 1. Kernel configuration: - Bus options - PCMCIA/CardBus support - yes - Bus options - PCMCIA/CardBus support - CardBus yenta-compatible bridge support - yes - Device Drivers - Networking support - Wireless LAN - yes (CONFIG_NET_RADIO) - Device Drivers - Networking support - Wireless LAN - Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo PCI/Cerdbus (CONFIG_PRISM54) - Device Drivers - Networking support - PCMCIA network device support - yes (CONFIG_NET_PCMCIA) 2. Software I emerged: - pcmcia-cs - madwifi-driver - wireless-tools - prism54-firmware 3. Configuration: - ln -s /etc/init.d/net.eth0 /etc/init.d/net.eth2 - modprobe ath_pci - /etc/conf.d/wireless: essid_eth2=wireless mode_eth2=managed adhoc_essid_eth2=wireless sleep_scan_eth2=10 associate_test_eth2=MAC scan_mode_eth2=managed key_wireless=any - /etc/conf.d/pcmcia # Put cardmgr options here CARDMGR_OPTS=-f # To set the PCMCIA scheme at startup... SCHEME=home # If using kernel PCMCIA drivers, PCIC should be yenta_socket. If # using the pcmcia-cs drivers, this shhould be either i82365 or # tcic, # depending on your pcmcia hardware. # If using kernel drivers not as modules, set PCIC to PCIC=i82365 # Put socket driver timing parameters here PCIC_OPTS= # Alternative PCIC driver to use if PCIC driver fails PCIC_ALT=i82365 PCIC_ALT_OPTS= # Put pcmcia_core options here CORE_OPTS= 4. Part of dmesg output Yenta: CardBus bridge found at :00:0a.0 [10cf:10e7] Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0820, PCI irq 9 Socket status: 3006 Yenta: CardBus bridge found at :00:0a.1 [10cf:10e7] Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0820, PCI irq 9 Socket status: 3820 ... eth2: prism54 driver detected card model: Netgear WG511 ... ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel. ath_hal: 0.9.12.5 wlan: 0.8.4.3 (EXPERIMENTAL) ath_rate_onoe: no version for ether_sprintf found: kernel tainted. ath_rate_onoe: 1.0 ath_pci: 0.9.4.6 (EXPERIMENTAL) cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7 cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1 eth2: islpci_open() eth2: resetting device... eth2: uploading firmware... eth2: firmware uploaded done, now triggering reset... eth2: device soft reset timed out eth2: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, trigging device eth2: timeout waiting for mgmt response eth2: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, trigging device eth2: timeout waiting for mgmt response eth2: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, trigging device eth2: timeout waiting for mgmt response eth2: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, trigging device eth2: timeout waiting for mgmt response eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: mgt_commit has failed. Restart the device eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: islpci_close () The Card has two LEDs which are both on but it didn't get
[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Asus A7N8X-Deluxe - What kernel works? -Itboots SATA!
No I'm not running SATA. I'm running IDE, old 1 and 2Gb drives. I've looked into it because I wanted to optimize this install as much as posible. I remember seeing a very good HOWTO for SATA on the Gentoo forums. David - Original Message - From: Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.user Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 12:01 PM Subject: Re: Re: Asus A7N8X-Deluxe - What kernel works? -Itboots SATA! David, Thanks. I'm actually pretty familiar with hdparm itself. My lack of boldness was whether to push the envelope on this new SATA drive. Are you running SATA? I see some threads on the web where people are getting 120MB/S from SATA, which is exciting. I just haven't pulled the trigger yet and tried it. Thanks, Mark On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 17:12, David Stewen wrote: Mark, Try editing your /etc/conf.d/hdparm file and customizing for the sata drive. I have something like: # disc0_args=-d1 -X66 # disc1_args-d1 # cdrom0_args=-d1 # Or, you can set hdparm options for ALL drives using all_args.. # eg. # this mimics the behavior of the current script all_args=-d1 -c1 -u1 -Z So when I run hdparm I get: hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq= 1 (on) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 8 (on) geometry = 620/64/63, sectors = 2502308, start = 0 Try the hdparm man page for a complete listing of all options. If you know exactly what your motherboard and hard drive support you can tweak it a lot. NOTE: Do an rc-update add hdparm boot to get the parmeters in the above mentioned file to work on bootup. WARNING be carefull because you can kill or corupt the hard drive with unsupported options. Good luck. David - Original Message - From: Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.user Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 5:18 AM Subject: Re: Asus A7N8X-Deluxe - What kernel works? - Itboots SATA! On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 10:07, Hall Stevenson wrote: As I told him, get the newest kernel possible. When 2.4.20 was released, did the nForce2 chipset exist ?? If not, it's hard to support it ! :-) Now you throw in SerialATA support on top of nForce2 and you really something current. I couldn't get USB support to work with my nForce2 (MSI) based board until I tried 2.4.23_preX kernels. Hall Hall, Alan, Javier and Jeffery, Thanks for your help. I have now managed to boot my A7V8X-D motherboard from the onboard SATA drive. It turned out that my 1st, and most major problem was that I somehow ended up with multiple copies of grub installed on the SATA drive. It gets a bit complicated to explain where things are supposed to be in this setup, and all of the drive partitionas, but obviously I confused myself in the process of bringing it. Anyway, problem solved and the machine is booting. Thanks for all your help! I am now running 2.4.22-aa1 and it's booting fine from SATA. I did build 2.4.23-pre8 using my own quick configuration but there is some problem there right now. I'll try that again later today possibly using Javier's config file. The initial SATA drive performance isn't bad, but isn't that great. I haven't been bold enough yet to turn on any specific optimizations in this new machine yet, so it will likely get better: Gandalf root # hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq= 0 (off) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 8 (on) geometry = 155061/16/63, sectors = 156301488, start = 0 Gandalf root # Gandalf root # hdparm -tT /dev/hde /dev/hde: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128MB in 0.34 seconds=376.47MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64MB in 1.78 seconds= 35.96MB/sec Gangalf root # Not bad, but actually not as good as the EIDE system I'm responding on right now: Wizard root # hdparm -tT /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 1320 MB in 2.00 seconds = 660.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 140 MB in 3.04 seconds = 46.13 MB/sec Wizard root # Both systems are Athlon-XP and Asus motherboards (A7V333-X with a 2600+ vs. A7N8X-Deluxe with a 2500+ Barton) and both drives are 80GB. Now, on to getting more hardware working and X running! Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Asus A7N8X-Deluxe - What kernel works? - Itboots SATA!
Mark, Try editing your /etc/conf.d/hdparm file and customizing for the sata drive. I have something like: # disc0_args=-d1 -X66 # disc1_args-d1 # cdrom0_args=-d1 # Or, you can set hdparm options for ALL drives using all_args.. # eg. # this mimics the behavior of the current script all_args=-d1 -c1 -u1 -Z So when I run hdparm I get: hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq= 1 (on) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 8 (on) geometry = 620/64/63, sectors = 2502308, start = 0 Try the hdparm man page for a complete listing of all options. If you know exactly what your motherboard and hard drive support you can tweak it a lot. NOTE: Do an rc-update add hdparm boot to get the parmeters in the above mentioned file to work on bootup. WARNING be carefull because you can kill or corupt the hard drive with unsupported options. Good luck. David - Original Message - From: Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.user Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 5:18 AM Subject: Re: Asus A7N8X-Deluxe - What kernel works? - Itboots SATA! On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 10:07, Hall Stevenson wrote: As I told him, get the newest kernel possible. When 2.4.20 was released, did the nForce2 chipset exist ?? If not, it's hard to support it ! :-) Now you throw in SerialATA support on top of nForce2 and you really something current. I couldn't get USB support to work with my nForce2 (MSI) based board until I tried 2.4.23_preX kernels. Hall Hall, Alan, Javier and Jeffery, Thanks for your help. I have now managed to boot my A7V8X-D motherboard from the onboard SATA drive. It turned out that my 1st, and most major problem was that I somehow ended up with multiple copies of grub installed on the SATA drive. It gets a bit complicated to explain where things are supposed to be in this setup, and all of the drive partitionas, but obviously I confused myself in the process of bringing it. Anyway, problem solved and the machine is booting. Thanks for all your help! I am now running 2.4.22-aa1 and it's booting fine from SATA. I did build 2.4.23-pre8 using my own quick configuration but there is some problem there right now. I'll try that again later today possibly using Javier's config file. The initial SATA drive performance isn't bad, but isn't that great. I haven't been bold enough yet to turn on any specific optimizations in this new machine yet, so it will likely get better: Gandalf root # hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq= 0 (off) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 8 (on) geometry = 155061/16/63, sectors = 156301488, start = 0 Gandalf root # Gandalf root # hdparm -tT /dev/hde /dev/hde: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128MB in 0.34 seconds=376.47MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64MB in 1.78 seconds= 35.96MB/sec Gangalf root # Not bad, but actually not as good as the EIDE system I'm responding on right now: Wizard root # hdparm -tT /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 1320 MB in 2.00 seconds = 660.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 140 MB in 3.04 seconds = 46.13 MB/sec Wizard root # Both systems are Athlon-XP and Asus motherboards (A7V333-X with a 2600+ vs. A7N8X-Deluxe with a 2500+ Barton) and both drives are 80GB. Now, on to getting more hardware working and X running! Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Offtopic: Network switch driving me crazy.
I hope I've understood the problem. You can't get the Windows XP machine to connect to your network while connected to the switch and it works when connected to the hub? OK Try this Right click My Network Places Select properties A window will open listing your Local Area Connection(s) Right click Local Area Connection Select Properties A window will open that says the name/model of the network card. Click Configure A window will open Select the Advanced tab. You want to change the setting for Duplex Setting (or something similar) It should currently be set to Auto-Negotiate. Change this to 10MB or 100MB. DO NOT USE 100MB FULL DUPLEX unless you have straight network cables (NO CROSSOVER cable) They use different wiring patterns and are incompatible. If this fixes the problem then the reason that the problem has occurred is that some switches do not Auto-Negotiate speeds with certain models of network cards. I hope this solves your problem. Don't forget that the ping command is your friend when testing network connectivity. David - Original Message - From: Tom Eastman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.user Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 12:03 AM Subject: Re: Offtopic: Network switch driving me crazy. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Where have all the (POST Sep 21) snapshots gone?
Does anyone know why I have no permission to browse snapshots in the following gentoo mirrors: http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo http://adelie.polymtl.ca/ http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.om.com/ http://oss.redundant.com/pub/gentoo/snapshots/ Other mirrirs that use http based in USA don't show the snapshot directory. I was looking for updated snapshots - the Australian mirrors only have up untill http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gentoo/snapshots/portage-20030921.tar.bz2 Thanks David - Original Message - From: Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.user Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 5:21 PM Subject: Re: Where have all the (POST Sep 21) snapshots gone? On Friday 26 September 2003 14:52, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: does anybody know why there are no recent portage snapshots? The last one is dated 21st of september. Is snapshot creation broken? It was broken but was meant to be fixed on Sep 21. What's the snapshot previous to that? Sep 14th? Anyway, I changed the subject so hopefully it will get some attention again. Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Portage snapshot
Thanks, the archive of openssh worked fine. For future reference is it possible to download this through a web page showing CVS? David - Original Message - From: Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.user Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 11:48 PM Subject: Re: Portage snapshot On Saturday 20 September 2003 22:45, Stroller wrote: On 19 Sep 2003, at 3:41 pm, David wrote: Does anyone know of a mirror that has a portage snapshot after portage-20030914.tar.bz2 I've been looking for days for a newer snapshot after reading about the recent update to openssh. I can't emerge sync because of the firewall I'm behind so a new snapshot is my only hope. If no-one else has offered already, let me know if you'd like me to send you an up-to-date .tar of my Portage tree. I've finally found the answer. Somebody broke the script that automatically creates the snapshot. Should be fixed soon was what I was told. I've attached an archive of /usr/portage/net-misc/openssh. Untar it from /usr/ portage. I checked dependencies and all are satisfied by packages from before 20030914 so you should not have any problems there. I suggest you get the same files from somebody else as well and compare them for security reasons. Stroller? Others: apologies if you hate attachments on mailing lists but it's only 12kb so I figured would be okay... Regards, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: how to install gentoo without a CDROM?
I found this on a web page about 3 months ago and have been using thismethod of installing ever since. I hope someone finds it useful.from DavidGentoo Floppy InstallAuthor: Matthias Kerstner - [EMAIL PROTECTED]Last changed: 16.06.2003NOTE: This tutorial provided on this page is free to be used anddistributed. If you have anything to add please write a mail to[EMAIL PROTECTED].IntroductionFor people who have an old BIOS and due to this have no CDROM support atstartup or even no CDROM at all might wonder how to install Gentoo Linux ontheir computer. Don't panic since there still is the option left to installGentoo Linux (http://www.gentoo.org/) from a floppy disk. This might seemodd for the first moment but you can learn a lot by setting up your computerwith the old good floppy!Please note that much of the information provided in this tutorialoriginated from a Gentoo Forum FAQ which can be found here:http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=8690. Although I found it quitehelpful there still were some open questions that were not covered by thisFAQ and so I decided to write this tutorial.Bootdisk RootdiskTo start off the installation grap a Slackware boot disk installation imagefound on their homepage http://slackware.com/install/bootdisk.php. Followthe instructions on the website on how to create the floppy. There shouldn'tbe any problems arising during the install, although good M$ Windows XPmanaged to screw up a few of my old floppies during the image creation (withrawriteXP.exe). So if you have the chance to create a floppy on a linux boxbe sure to make profit of it. For a guide an how to create the floppy imageon linux please refer to the slackware website mentioned above.Fire up your machine with the floppy you just created to start the hardwaredetection. If you want to install Gentoo on a SCSI system you probably alsohave to download the SCSI boot images (for example adaptec.s) from aslackware mirror nearby you. Of course there are generic ones in case youdon't know what controller you have or if there does not exist an image foryour specific controller. Nevertheless the appropriate image will obviouslywork much better since it will use 100% of your controller's possible power.Check your BIOS for any entries of your SCSI Controller, in most cases thecontroller's brand and version is also displayed during boot time (like withthe Adaptec ones). If you are using an IDE interface be sure to try thegeneric bare.i image first before starting to grab any other image since thebare.i works in almost any case.Now that you have a working bootdisk for your HDD controller the next stepis to create a so-called rootdisk which you can also download from anyslackware mirror nearby you. Create the image the same way you did with thebootdisk image. When prompted during the hardware detection of the Slackwarebootdisk insert the rootdisk image you just created and wait for it to haveloaded. You should now have a working shell with some of the most importantcommands ready to be used.Setting Up NetworkingTo setup your network card(s) you have to do the same thing as with theboot/rootdisk since the provided bootdisk kernel does not have all optionsenabled and therefore your NIC might not be recognized by it. Get a networksetup image from a slackware mirror called network.dsk. Then insert yourfloppy with the network image on it and type network in the shell to startthe NIC detection, which is something like net-setup used during thestandard Gentoo installation with the LiveCD. If your card is not recognizedby the kernel simply configure it manually by typing the following in yourshell:Code #1# ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 255.255.255.0# /sbin/route add -net default gw 192.168.0.100 netmask 0.0.0.0 metric 1eth0The above code assigns your network card eth0 the IP address 192.168.0.1,192.168.0.255 as broadcast address and 255.255.255.0 netmask. If you don'tknow your broadcast address there is a little trick how to find out. Youtake your standard IP address, so in our case 192.168.0.1 and binary invertit so that all bits are set in the last octet. Your IP address consists of 4octets which can be seen like this (binary view):... IP: 0.0.0.01100.10101000..0001 IP: 192.168.0.1The binary inverted IP (=broadcast address) would look like this:1100.10101000..0001 IP: 192.168.0.11100.10101000.. IP: 192.168.0.255Compare the last octet (last 8 digits on the right end) with the ones fromthe above IP (192.168.0.1) and you will realize what is meant by binaryinverted.In case you are not using a gateway to connect to the internet you don'tneed to type the second line of the code, since it only tells your system toroute all packages to the gateway 192.168.0.100. Now you should have aworking connection!If you
