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Linux-Hardware Digest #169, Volume #14 Sat, 13 Jan 01 00:13:05 EST Contents: Re: Help - Serial v USB modem? (Jonathan Buzzard) Re: intel express 100 known to the kernel but can't be identified? (Eric P. McCoy) What pcmcia modem + ethernet to buy? (Francois Fleuret) Floppy woes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Re: SB Live on Asus A7V , Red Hat 7.0 error "device or resource busy" ("Maris Orbidans") Re: intel express 100 known to the kernel but can't be identified? ("Alexander Deztroyer") SCSI cabling problem (Steve Thompson) GeForce2 (Sverre) Re: S3trio3d in text mode (Dances With Crows) Promise Ultra with SMP? (Chris Hansen) Re: intel express 100 known to the kernel but can't be identified? (Eric P. McCoy) Re: Promise Ultra with SMP? (Eric P. McCoy) Sound Blaster 128 PCI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Faulty Travan Tape Drive ("Andrew") Power troubles with RH7 (EvilPenguin) Re: GeForce2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Re: soft ide raid (5?) vs. SCSI raid (Eric Frey) Linux box?!? ("jazz") From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Buzzard) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,uk.comp.os.linux Subject: Re: Help - Serial v USB modem? Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 23:16:59 + In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [SNIP] > > (A virtual UART at 460.8kbps? That's gotta help :) > > ~Tim Put a virtual UART on a PCI or ISA modem and people start screeming blue murder about WinModems. JAB. -- Jonathan A. Buzzard Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Northumberland, United Kingdom. Tel: +44(0)1661-832195 -- Subject: Re: intel express 100 known to the kernel but can't be identified? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 23:40:35 GMT "Alexander Deztroyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've attempted to get my on board LAN card to work with Linux but failed. > The problem is my kernel (2.1.125) has configured to identify my express PRO > 100, but when I type ifconfig eth0 . the system said unknown device!! You're using a development kernel. That may be part of the problem. > The same problem not just only happened to my Debian 2.1, but also RH 5.2. > Red Hat can't even "auto detect" my LAN card. The Express Pro worked > perfectly under Windows environment, so I assume it is working fine. Now, > what should I do in order to solve the problem? Does /proc/interrupts show the card? I have an onboard i82557 and a PCI EtherExpress PRO/100, both on the same computer, and they worked out of the box with 2.0.38, 2.2.18pre21, and 2.4.0. Shared interrupts and all. -- Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Knowing that a lot of people across the world with Geocities sites absolutely despise me is about the only thing that can add a positive spin to this situation." - Something Awful, 1/11/2001 -- Subject: What pcmcia modem + ethernet to buy? From: Francois Fleuret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12 Jan 2001 17:51:30 -0600 Hi people, What would be your choice for pcmcia modem 56k + ethernet ? The built-in lucent modem of my thinkpad 570e juste makes me crazy Regards, F. -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Floppy woes Date: 12 Jan 2001 23:53:28 GMT I keep having random errors when writing floppies on my Toshiba Satellite 2060 CDS, system based on RedHat, kernel 2.2.18. Sometimes there are I/O errors, sometimes driver timeouts. These are most notable when formatting or writing a 1.722MB disk. The drive works perfectly in single user mode - hence I know the extended format is not to be blamed. I haven't found any conflict with IRQs or other resources. Anyone else experiencing the same? Any suggestions? Thanks, Risto -- Mr Risto A. Paju ::: http://iki.fi/teknohog/ ::: http://bluesci.com/ With his every he said Ford, what? The battle machine can do very long to visit our leader; pushed upwards: up. -- From: "Maris Orbidans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: SB Live on Asus A7V , Red Hat 7.0 error "device or resource busy" Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 01:58:13 +0200 The problem was that SB and ATA100 controller (on motherboard) used the same IRQ 10. I solved it when disabled "PNP OS" in Bios Setup. thanx -- Maris j m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:MgD66.2692$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > i had the same problem on my box > > try disabling all your USB ports and hubs, etc, to free the irq your live > needs, make linux recognize it and then restart your USB hardware.. it > should work fine > > > "Maris Orbidans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:9357ah$sgs$
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Linux-Hardware Digest #169, Volume #13Mon, 3 Jul 00 08:13:07 EDT Contents: X on EOne433 (JC) Re: Asus K7V and the VIA sound chip problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Re: your PC is your $$$ machine !! ("Gerald Waugh") Re: Soundblaster 128 PCI (Dex) Re: How do I turn on IDE DMA at boot time? (Dex) Re: Intel 2100 ProDsl Modem (Dex) Re: Soundblaster 128 PCI (Kenneth Rørvik) MSI K7Pro on board audio (Darko) Re: How do I turn on IDE DMA at boot time? (Kenneth Rørvik) Re: Why is my harddisk so slow? (Cliff Pennock) Re: MPEG-2 Decoding Query (Eric) soundblster 2.0 (@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de) s.n.a.f.u. 1b-i (Uncle) Re: How do I turn on IDE DMA at boot time? (Andrew Onifer) Re: diamond Supra express 56k v90 i (Ian Vaughan) SB Live / mp3 problems ("qwerty") Rackmounts (Yan Seiner) Re: How do I turn on IDE DMA at boot time? (J Bland) Re: your PC is your $$$ machine !! (J Bland) Terratec Xlerate ("Ralf Riedel") What's wrong with this syntax? ("B. Joshua Rosen") Re: soundblster 2.0 ("Karl E. Jorgensen") Is my motherboard (PCChips M748LMRT) defective? (Cliff Pennock) Kernels and problems ("andy beetz") Re: What's wrong with this syntax? (Kenneth Rørvik) From: JC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: X on EOne433 Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 07:30:03 GMT I am using an eOne 433 (Emachine). It's got USB, PCMCIA, parallel, serial, ethernet. A 433 MHz Celeron, about 6 GB of hard drive. I tried using Mandrake and Redhat 6.0. Both have Xfree 3.3.3.1 The installation correctly detected a ATI Rage XL 3D video card with 8MB video SDRAM. Mach64 server works fine but that's not the point. The monitor control under win98 mentions Mach64 GT with an internal DAC. I don't think it's an Xserver problem though, since this video chipset seems well supported by XFREE86. I think this is a monitor problem, though I maybe wrong. When I set everything up according to normal procedures, I get a blank screen and/or the monitor goes crazy. Someone here managed to fire up X using VGA16 and/or mono. I'll be happy with that. I just need the monitor settings. Is there something I can do setting up the monitor. I'm using Horz 57.1, 60.0, 63.7 and Vert 50-160. Here's the monitor specs 15 inch CRT (260mm (H) * 195mm (V) display size) 0.28 dot pitch, non-glare & MPR II Input signal R,G, and B analog, 700mVp-p, and 75 Ohm impedence video signal 3 mode (57.1, 60.0, 63.7 KHz) frequency, TTL level, and positive & negative horizontal synchronous signal 50-160Hz multiscan, TTL level, and positive & negative vertical synchronous signal maximum 1024 * 768 resolution Power rating AC 90~264V voltage 50Hz plux/minus 3hz, 60 plus/minus 3Hz freqency 120W power consumption Help! How do I set up the monitor? Email me please at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Posted via CNET Help.com http://www.help.com/ -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Asus K7V and the VIA sound chip problem Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 07:39:16 GMT > I've got a problem with the VIA sound chip AC'97 on the Asus K7V. > Namely, the via82cxxx kernel module hangs the system solid when installed > (e.g. with modprobe). Has anyone experienced such a behavior? Nop. I've got 3 Athlons on Asus K7M running (which has the same codec) and all works fine. I use Alsa 0.5.7. In the SuSE support there was some Issue about this codec. Perhaps this can help Ulrich Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy. -- From: "Gerald Waugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.m68k Subject: Re: your PC is your $$$ machine !! Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 03:56:05 -0400 Dex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Scott Alfter wrote: > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Dex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >A danged pop-up box on a newsgroupwhat's the world coming too > > >::sigh:: > > > > trn didn't display any pop-up box. (What, you mean you don't use trn, which > > is God's Own Newsreader (TM)? :-) ) So, Where can I get tm? ((:-); > > > > _/_ > > / v \ > > (IIGS( Scott Alfter (remove Voyager's hull number for email address) > > \_^_/ http://salfter.dyndns.org > > Bad habits acquired from using a bad OS. What else can I say, lol. > -- From: Dex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Soundblaster 128 PCI Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 04:05:19 -0400 "Kenneth Rørvik" wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans van den Bos) wrote in > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >I'm running kernel 2.2.16 and although my Creative/Ensoni
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Linux-Hardware Digest #169, Volume #11Fri, 3 Sep 99 01:13:28 EDT Contents: Please help! UPS (dbp) Re: Xircom PE3 (Rob Clark) Re: Need Help with Sony CDU-31A CD-ROM (Greg Leblanc) Inkjet Printer Recommendation (Michael J Campbell) Re: Linux on eOne ("Andrew Chan") Re: Hardware support: Linux vs. BeOS (Richard Steiner) Re: midi for ES1868 (SB driver) (Michel Catudal) Re: Optimal Linux RAID Support? Questions. (Greg Leblanc) Linux 2.2.10 doesn't recognize > 64 MB memory (Herman Chen) Re: Token Ring 16/4 Speed Problem (Holger Marzen) 3DFX Voodoo3 3000 supported? (f5alcon) Re: Getting the Ethernet ID from directly from the network card. (Nicholas Dronen) video card problems ("Alexander Mundy") Re: IBM PS/1 Install (Fred Scott Thompson) Re: Linux 2.2.10 doesn't recognize > 64 MB memory ("diener") Re: HP Pavilion ( 8570C to be precise ) (Alex Flinsch) Re: RFI - Analog Modem Channel Bonding ("Daniel O'Neil") newbie - compaq presario 1690 x not running ("Igor Fedulov") Any got a Compaq Proliant 3000R working? ("Tim Gaastra") Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 13:07:51 +0800 From: dbp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Please help! UPS May you tell me which UPS is suitable to use with Linux? The UPS How-To just tell ... tons of hacking ... which I do not understand! Thx! -- Please reply me at [EMAIL PROTECTED], thank you. -- Subject: Re: Xircom PE3 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark) Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 02:04:04 GMT In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Neil C. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Anyone got one of these things (Xircom PE3) > >I picked one up from a boot fair, no leads or docs, but rumour has it I >may be able to get it going! > >Any ideas/help would be cool! [Parallel port 10BT Ethernet adapter] Well, no support in Linux, I'm afraid-- which is too bad since it's a neat little toy. Mine can be powered off a PS/2 port or an AC adapter, which I can't locate. The driver disk ought to be available at Xircom's web site; contact me if you can't find them. Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html -- From: Greg Leblanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Need Help with Sony CDU-31A CD-ROM Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 02:31:14 GMT In article <7ql6h0$uci$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been trying to get my Linux box working with the Sony CDU-31A > CD-ROM for the longest time. It's in in an old 486 that I got passed > off to me. I have tried everything that I could think of to configure > it. There is stuff on the Web, but nothing has worked as of yet. Woohoo! I've got one of these in my 486 here, and I did get it working at one point. Always glad to see people using these machines. > > I am using the boot disk to setup Linux through the Local CD-ROM. I > have tried using the "Autoprobe" in Red Hat Linux 5.2 and it could find > it. I tried using the 0x300 as the I/O base address and IRQ 0, but that > hasn't worked either. Well, I'm pretty darn sure that the IRQ isn't 0, since there is no IRQ 0. If you're trying to use that a a parameter to get it to probe for the card, don't bother, those cards don't probe. You'll need to find out what the IRQ of your CD controller card is. Mine is on a sound card that's a SoundBlaster clone, and it used IRQ 5 and IO 0x330 for the CD interface. I think I got RedHat 5.2 on that system, although it might have been 5.1. It definately wasn't 6.0, since this was a while ago. > > The proprietary card is not made by Sony, but by some other company > which makes my situation more complicated. I don't remember if Sony made any cards to control these drives, the only ones that I've seen have been by other manufacturers. > > If anyone out there can help me, I would deeply appreciate it. > > Thanks in advance. > > -- Andrew > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > Share what you know. Learn what you don't. > -- It's pronounced "sexy" not "scuzzy"! Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't. -- From: Michael J Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Inkjet Printer Recommendation Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 22:07:09 -0400 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello all- Can anyone recommend a good inkjet printer to use with Red Hat Linux 6.0 that is fairly straightforward to setup and that will print in color - I mainly print from Wordperfect 8.0, Acrobat Reader, Ghostscript, and Netscape. Also, is it better to use a Postscript printer with
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Linux-Hardware Digest #169, Volume #10Thu, 6 May 99 02:13:36 EDT Contents: Re: [SURVEY] Who has an internal modem in his linux box ? ("Jon Pennington") s3 Trio3d (John Wang) Re: Fibre Channel for Linux? (Patrick Rea) Re: Boycott Intel on your own webpage ("Bill Frisbee") SBLive Linux Drivers HELP (ShaoK14) HP Deskjet 1600CM print from Linux??? (Robin Jackson) Re: Caldera Linux 2.2/Pentium III (Donovan Rebbechi) Re: Cheapest FULL system that works well with Linux? (Donovan Rebbechi) Re: Boycott Intel on your own webpage (Andrew Comech) Re: RedHat 5.2 install on Gateway GP7-500 (Donovan Rebbechi) Re: Cheapest FULL system that works well with Linux? (Donovan Rebbechi) Re: "soft" modems in emachines (Andrew Comech) Re: How do you know if you have a WinModem? (Andrew Comech) A PC Processor benchmark derived from RC5-64 from distributed.net!!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Re: Suse 6.0 networking problem Help please (mike) using AMD K2 in a heavily loaded web server??? ("stephen") "soft" modems in emachines (David C. Greig) From: "Jon Pennington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [SURVEY] Who has an internal modem in his linux box ? Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 01:04:16 GMT I really like my Best Data 56SF. v.90/KFlex, ISA, Jumpers -- -=|JP|=- Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > On Thu, 29 Apr 1999 09:51:55 +0200, David Guyon Martin > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Do you have an internal modem working with linux ? -- From: John Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: s3 Trio3d Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 03:41:57 + Hi, all: I have a IBM 300 PL PC. It has a s3 Trio 3D video card built in on the mother board. I am trying to install RH6.0. However, the video is only VGA16. NT and Win95 can get higher colors. I am wondering if anyone can get a better color than VGA16. I did check out the video card support for XFree86. For that type of card, it did say XFREE_VGA16. Does it mean I cannot have better color than VGA16? I have not tried other options. Thanks John Wang. -- From: Patrick Rea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Fibre Channel for Linux? Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 23:46:56 -0400 Curt wrote: > 155Mb ATM from your server to 25Mb ATM to each workstation or STB. > Utilize the QOS feature. Makes for a nice video pump. > > Patrick Rea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > I am looking to do massive bandwidth file serving around our office and > > 100BaseT just isn't fast enough for Uncompressed video files > > (20-25MB/s). We cuurently have all of our NT systems running through an > > 8 port FC switch but I need to get my RedHat 5.0 box onto that as well. The problem with that is I have no other ATM hardware and I already own an Ancor 8 port Fibre Channel switch. Given my druthers (BTW if anyone sees them let me know), I would like to use hardware I already own. -- From: "Bill Frisbee" Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Boycott Intel on your own webpage Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 22:16:58 -0400 Andrew Comech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Bill F. Proud Owner of Pentium III Dual Even, > why would not _you_ get the F. out of here? > > Regards, > a. > > -- > Looking for a Linux-compatible V.90 modem? See > http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modem No, last time I checked one of my systems was running Linux. As these are Linux groups, I have every right to post here and talk smack back to people who claim Intel is doing the public wrong. Last time I checked you all had IP addresses, MAC addresses and some like Sun boxes and several other Uber processor machines had serial numbers. Bill F. -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ShaoK14) Subject: SBLive Linux Drivers HELP Date: 6 May 1999 02:24:18 GMT I just tried installing the SBLive drivers for Linux, but I keep getting undefined symbol errors and my sound is still not working. I've tried the automatic install and the manual install...although I'm not sure I did the manual install correctly. I'm running kernel 2.2.5 with Mandrake (RedHat 5.2). Anyway ANY help on this matter would certainly be greatly appreciated!! Here is the readme file: Installation Instructions for Soundblaster Live! Linux drivers (v0.1 beta) == Where to Download ftp://ftp.soundblaster.com/pub/creative/beta/sblive-0.1b.tar.gz Kernel Versions === Modula
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Linux-Hardware Digest #169, Volume #9Wed, 13 Jan 99 14:13:42 EST Contents: Re: SoundBlaster Live (Jeremy Probber) HP 710 series printers (Jeremy Probber) VGAlib and X are no more (Craig Robertson) Re: How about th e intel 740 AGP with 8 Meg 100Mhz ram (Rod Roark) Exabyte and Linux ("David S. Stephenson") Re: Brother printing difficulties ("Appelt (snafu)") Re: A Call To Arms (Ancipital) Re: SCSI Timeout (ub1r) FS: DEC ALpha and VME I/O Surplus Hardware ("Adam Pemberton") Re: A Call To Arms (Alan L.M. Buxey) Re: Linux lock's up computer completly. ("Earl Malmrose") Re: SCSI Timeout? (pcdfield) Re: Who has 2 ISA NE2000 cards? ("Jeff Volckaert") From: Jeremy Probber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: SoundBlaster Live Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 14:50:43 -0500 Hi, I wrote to 4front tech.(www.opensound.com) a few months back. At the time they stated that they would be getting the SB live specs from Creative in January. So I dropped them a note again last week and they said that the specs from Creative have yet to arrive but they should have them very shortly. The problem with the SB Live is that even though it shares the Sound Blaster name, architecturally is a totally different beast. I don't think its possible to just kludge another driver to get this puppy working. Brian Pettit wrote: > > I just went to the opensound web site. Looks like it's commercial software. > $20 for the driver and an extra 10-80 for options. Not sure what this means. > > On 14 Dec 1998 04:49:01 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Pettit) wrote: > > >SB has a news server (news.creativelabs.com) that I found this info. I've seen > >a few posts about this, so I thought some people would be interested. I don't > >know who opensound is? > > > > > >Cards/chips we plan to support in > >future > >We are currently working on support for the following chipsets. > >Unfortunately > >it's not possible to give any estimates about when these drivers will be > >released. Please check http://www.opensound.com for announcements. > > > >- SB Live. > > > >- ESS Maestro-1 and Maestro-2 chips.- Aureal Vortex and Vortex 2 chips. > >- ESS Solo-1 chip. > >- Terratec EWS64 and EWS64XL. (EWS64XL is already partially supported). > >- Turtle Beach Tahiti, Multisound and Monterey cards.- Yamaha YMF724. > >Regards, > > > >Brian Pettit > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >When responding to this posting via e-mail, remove > >the "NOSPAM" from the return address. > > Regards, > > Brian Pettit > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When responding to this posting via e-mail, remove > the "NOSPAM" from the return address. -- From: Jeremy Probber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: HP 710 series printers Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 15:06:00 -0500 Hi , Im curious if anyone has had any luck getting any Hewlett Packard 710 series inkjet printers working under Linux. I have the HP 712C and have been unable to get it to even print an ASCI test page. Im using the printer configuration tool that comes with RedHat 5.2 (in the control-panel) which I have successfully used on my old machine with my now deceased laser printer, and it worked fine. Any help would be appreciated. -- From: Craig Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: VGAlib and X are no more Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 10:24:32 + I had a totally stable installation of slackware, 1.2.13 kernel, gcc 1.2.7. System is an archaic K5-75, 96Mb ram, crappy 1Mb Cirrus Logic 5426 video card. Everything was fine until 3 things happened: 1) I installed a dumb 2 port serial board (IRQ 10 and IRQ 11), this meant moving my network card to IRQ 12 (from 10). 2) I deleted the contents of /dev. (I had the flu, well that's my excuse). 3) I installed Win'98. I managed to recover from 2) with reasonable ease (I don't recommend trying it) and rebuilt all the devices sensibly. I mention it only because it might be pertinent. 3) Represents no real problem, and everything seemed OK. However, I seem to have lost all graphics under linux for some reason. Even the VGAlib progs don't work ('Not running in a graphics capable virtual console'). The X server says 'Cannot find a free VT' and then crashes. Why ? Ironically Win'98 works beautifully. I'm so upset at killing my lovely linux machine that I can't think of a solution. Can anyone help ? -- Cheers, Craig. -- From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: How about th e intel 74