Linux-Hardware Digest #220
Linux-Hardware Digest #220, Volume #14 Mon, 22 Jan 01 02:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: It's racism to hate Microsoft with fraudulent and inflammatory argument (Ray)
Re: To Linux Nazi (Ray)
Re: To Linux Nazi (Eric P. McCoy)
Re: How does "Tom's Hardware PC" sound for Linux? (Ray)
Re: 3rd Day Same Modem and Same story.. (Ray)
Intel i815e and Linux (Karrade)
Re: Please tell me your motherboard name if it works properly in Linux
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
RH ppp dialer (Jeff Moore)
[HELP]: LS-120 Setup as Floppy /dev/fd0 (Youngert)
A7V promise IDE controler WITH UDMA MODE ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux reboots suddenly ("L-X-Q")
Re: What's wrong with BTTV driver in 2.2.18 ? ("Vladimir Florinski")
Re: [HELP]: LS-120 Setup as Floppy /dev/fd0 (Noble Pepper)
Re: Linux reboots suddenly ("D. Stimits")
HOW DO I INSTALLED WVDIAL??? ("Tina Carter")
HP Colorado ("Gustav J Kramer")
Re: 3rd Day Same Modem and Same story.. ("Tina Carter")
Re: A7V promise IDE controler WITH UDMA MODE ("Tina Carter")
Re: To all linux user.. (Chris Elvidge)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray)
Subject: Re: It's racism to hate Microsoft with fraudulent and inflammatory argument
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 02:01:06 -
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 05:26:23 -0500, Tina Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Snap off if it is a winmodem, the fact that it
works with wintendoze is irrelevant.
I'm sorry to get personal here. But have to say this.
Not a good start.
It's about Linux. Have you ever tried to use this Operating System? yes..
Well, yes actually.
Good Luck.
Thanks.
You can't get nothing done there.
Thankfully most of us don't aim to get nothing done.
First word come RE COMPLE. What is that?
Well they won't tell you but say to you RE COMPLEE.
If you're using a modern distribution and well supported hardware you really
shouldn't have to compile anything. Save that for later when you've gotten
your feet under you.
It really means that In Linux you can't install program like we do in
windows, NT, or even in Mac.
And Linux is very SENSITIVE. How is that? Well all the words have to be
exactly big or small other wise it won't read it.
That's called being "case sensitive" and it's a common feature of all
unices. It's really no big deal once you get used to it.
Now comes grand finally. You installed Linux some how in your computer after
all fdisk, lilo and other halaballooo.
Now you gotta configure your Mouse, Video Card, Modem and all what ever you
bought for PC windows, Mac or whatever,
Well, some distributions do a pretty good job of doing this for you with
most common hardware and even Windows can be a major PITA with some
hardware. Have you installed WinNT or 2K recently?
Sure one won't mind doing all this things. BUT LINUX DOESN'T MAKE IT
EAS.
There are n simple way to do it.
Too much info and all info seems garbage because there are too many sect of
linux and all of them hate each other. Finally if you get information from
some linux user about what ever you have, it won't worth it, ironically they
will blame you for having bad modem and IT'S NO RELEVEANT IF YOUR WINDOWS IS
FINE WITH MODEM/ETC, what count it's LINUX UN fix and UN stable program for
multimedia, devices.
I think you took the previous poster's statement all wrong. The reason
winmodems are soo cheap is because the manufactuer has left out important
parts that make up a real modem and use a special driver (ie software) to
emulate (ie. fake) Windows into using it. In a very literal sense, large
portions of the modem reside on the CD that came with the modem and without
a version of that special software your modem is little more than a
paperweight. I won't get into fault except to say that you chose that
particular piece of hardware. Noone in this group told you to buy it or
twisted your arm.
My point of typing this is that don't insult Windows b/c linux look lot
stupid and lot UN organize.
Windows is just an operating system, it can't possibly be hurt by insults.
Although I wouldn't call Linux unorganized it does lack the consistancy
among different distributions that some would like. That said, different
versions of Windows arn't exactly consistant either.
Microsoft Windows, Mac and OS/2 are easy.
Does your winmodem really work with MacOS and OS/2?
Linux
(sects) are not, they have to be "educated" about what I have in our
computer. It's an amateur operating system only powerful for networking
which is not done BY 100% POPULATION.
That's just plain silly.
Over 90% people do multimedia and
typing writing and surfing and want easy and comfort not painful program.
Over 90% of the people use the OS that came with their computer and even
then they have to get someone else to help install new hardware or
re-install
Linux-Hardware Digest #220
Linux-Hardware Digest #220, Volume #13 Wed, 12 Jul 00 04:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Creative Soundblaster PCI128 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: hp colorado 20gig under linux (Tim Moore)
Re: hp colorado 20gig under linux (Tim Moore)
Re: hp colorado 20gig under linux (Tim Moore)
Re: D-Link DFE-530TX network card ("Andreas Oppermann")
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Creative Soundblaster PCI128
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 17:57:08 -0400
I tried contacting you by e-mail, but the mail took "too many
hops." The headers contained about 10 of these:
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by mail1.abac.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.3b8)
with ESMTP id 3789490 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 18:27:11 -0700
Received: from mail1.abac.com (mail1.abac.com [216.55.150.6])
by smtp.abac.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e6B1REW56249
for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 18:27:14 -0700 (PDT)
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Anyway, here is the message I was trying to e-mail you:
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sandrews wrote:
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I have an es1373 late model card that didn`t work without the OSS
drivers.
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(Great technical details snipped for brevity.)
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Makes mine work.
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I have been led to believe that it is impossible to get MIDI
working on the SB PCI128 because it doesn't do MIDI in the hardware,
but rather in the (Windows) drivers. Does your card do MIDI? Is it
because of the OSS drivers? Thanks.
- --
Bernie Hoefer
PGP e-mail is welcome! Key ID is 0x446A6F93 with fingerprint
1EA6 025D 9DFB 224E 69D4 CE0E 7241 A6A9 446A 6F93.
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(Change my address to fname.lname@company to e-mail me.)
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From: Tim Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: hp colorado 20gig under linux
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 00:42:52 -0700
I've the same drive. Comments follow quoted segments.
fact the 'messages' log appears to be full of 'ide-tape' errors. I don't
know if anyone can shed some light on this or what information is needed
$ dmesg
hda: FUJITSU MPE3136AT, ATA DISK drive
hdb: CD-540E, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdc: HP COLORADO 20GB, ATAPI TAPE drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: FUJITSU MPE3136AT, 13031MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1661/255/63
hdb: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
ide-tape: hdc - ht0: HP COLORADO 20GB rev 4.01
ide-tape: hdc: overriding capabilities-speed (assuming 650KB/sec)
ide-tape: hdc: overriding capabilities-max_speed (assuming 650KB/sec)
ide-tape: hdc - ht0: 650KBps, 13*32kB buffer, 6336kB pipeline, 100ms tDSC
I'm running 2.2.14 + Andre's ide.2.2.14.2124 patch:
...
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: FUJITSU MPD3084AT, ATA DISK drive
hdb: HP COLORADO 20GB, ATAPI TAPE drive
hdc: FUJITSU MPD3084AT, ATA DISK drive
hdd: YAMAHA CRW4416E, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: FUJITSU MPD3084AT, 8063MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63, UDMA(33)
hdc: FUJITSU MPD3084AT, 8063MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63, UDMA(33)
ide-tape: hdb - ht0: HP COLORADO 20GB rev 4.01
ide-tape: hdb: overriding capabilities-speed (assuming 950KB/sec)
ide-tape: hdb: overriding capabilities-max_speed (assuming 950KB/sec)
ide-tape: hdb - ht0: 950KBps, 13*32kB buffer, 9248kB pipeline, 60ms tDSC,
DMA
Note: /usr/src/drivers/block/ide-tape.c is modified by Andre's ide patch:
- * linux/drivers/block/ide-tape.c Version 1.15Jul 4,
1999
+ * linux/drivers/block/ide-tape.c Version 1.16f Dec 15,
1999
I've had no timeout errors during r/w after the following hack which more
accurately represents the KBps write throughput for this particular tape on
my hardware. I never dug into the code to understand why it worked, so the
usual cautions apply.
--- ide-tape.c.old Tue Jul 11 23:47:43 2000
+++ ide-tape.c.new Tue Jul 11 23:48:14 2000
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
if (!capabilities-speed) {
- printk(KERN_INFO "ide-tape: %s: overriding
capabilities-speed (assuming 650KB/sec)\n", drive-name);
- capabilities-speed = 650;
+ printk(KERN_INFO "ide-tape: %s: overriding
capabilities-speed (assuming 950KB/sec)\n", drive-name);
Linux-Hardware Digest #220
Linux-Hardware Digest #220, Volume #11 Fri, 10 Sep 99 03:13:44 EDT
Contents:
Re: Using linuxconf question (Chris)
Re: NEED ADAPTEC 2940u DRIVER (David Cooley)
Re: zImage ("Daniel P. Gelinske")
Re: scsi controler(AVA-1502) HELL! (David Cooley)
Re: UDMA problem? (David Cooley)
Re: Ethernet 100 vs 10 BT (Bryan)
Re: Please help: Can't use external SCSI devices !? (David Cooley)
CD burner suggestions? ("Rick Carlson")
Re: Changing Monitor Resolution (The dude)
Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-M1212 for playing CD's ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: scsi controler(AVA-1502) HELL! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CD burner suggestions? ("Rick Carlson")
device to /dev/sd* binding, and other Q's (Fred Christiansen)
Re: Q? - best combo of linux distrib and apps for 3rd world (B'ichela)
Re: NEED ADAPTEC 2940u DRIVER (Mircea)
Scanner for RH5.2? (me)
Ditto 2G Paralel Port/ Ftape Driver ("Bob")
Re: SONY SuperStation 10GB IDE Tape Drive. ("JL")
Re: AOpen FM56P PCI Internal Modem (help needed!) (Mircea)
CD ROM Treiber ("Maik")
Re: LINUX and SCSI Adaptec AIC 7890 ("Super Pete")
Re: Ethernet 100 vs 10 BT (Eugene Blanchard)
FS: Cisco 1601 router ATL 1540 csu/dsu (meeble)
Re: Please help: Can't use external SCSI devices !? (M. Buchenrieder)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris)
Subject: Re: Using linuxconf question
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 20:24:22 GMT
On Thu, 09 Sep 1999 01:55:52 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in
comp.os.linux.hardware:
I'm a Newbie and have installed RH Linux 6.0 as the only OS on system.
I am now trying to setup the protocols for card so I can connect with
other systems in my Home Area Network. Will I be able to see the
Linux machine on my other puters using Windoze? When I try to use
Yes, assuming you install Samba. Samba is a reverse-engineered module
that allows Linux to participate in a Windows network. Depending on the
network addresses and netmasks of your other computers, you may need to
configure them to use a WINS server. Samba can act as a WINS server.
Linuxconf I go to the IPX to enable card, but I'm not able to activate
because Linuxconf drops below the end of screen. How in the heck do I
move the Linuxconf up so I can get it to activate? This may seem like
a silly question but Linuxconf is not maximized and takes up whole
screen anyway. I am using an 800x600 resolution. Also, we have a
You have three choices: Tell your X server to use a larger virtual
resolution (in which case the screen will scroll when your mouse gets to
the edge); stop X and use the curses-based linuxconf from a text screen;
or use linuxconf via the http interface (http://localhost:98) and your
favorite web browser.
You probably don't want to activate IPX on Linux anyway. The world is
moving to TCP/IP (and soon IPv6). You would probably be better off if you
removed IPX from your Windows machines and used TCP/IP on them as well.
cable modem connected to a hub with 4 puters plugged in. Will I be
able to access the cable modem with Linux? If so, how? Thanks to all
for any response.
Yes. The configuration requirements will depend on both the version of
Linux you are running and the protocols supported by your ISP. In most
cases you can simply install a DHCP client into Linux and it will get its
IP address from the cable service automatically.
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From: David Cooley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: NEED ADAPTEC 2940u DRIVER
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 23:43:53 -0400
dja7 wrote:
Where can I find it ?
It's the AIC7xxx driver in Linux
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From: "Daniel P. Gelinske" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: zImage
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 21:25:54 -0700
Stephan wrote:
Hi All,
Would appreciated if anyone can tell me how to make zImage and
first.hdimage.
Regards,...
Stephan,.
Installing a new kernel in a nutshell:
When you get a new kernel, and you untar the tar archive, you go into
the linux directory it made (/usr/src/linux or something like
/usr/src/linux-2.2.xx) and you type 'make menuconfig' You go through
the menu, see what you want your kernel to support, and make heavy use
of the "help" option, and when you got what you want you are done with
that step. You exit menuconfig, and then you do a 'make dep' after
that is done, you can 'make zImage' and the zImage file will appear in
the /usr/src/linux*/arch/i386/boot directory. Then you can set it into
the /boot directory (if your old kernel is also called zImage, you will
want to move it to a new filename, ie zImage-2.2.2 for kernel version
2.2.2) If your kernel is too big, you will want to "make bzImage"
instead. If the "make zImage" dont work because the kernel is too big,
you can type "ma
Linux-Hardware Digest #220
Linux-Hardware Digest #220, Volume #10 Wed, 12 May 99 18:13:58 EDT
Contents:
Seeking advice for a new machine (Sam Choi)
Linux installation on Generic box ("Alex Balboa (HPTi|crimmins) " [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Brad BARCLAY)
Sony AIT 300C: Linux Driver? (sam)
HP c1504 DDS tape drive (Brian Hostetter)
ide 0 :irq timeout (charlg)
Re: SCSI ZIP Drives (root)
Re: ext2 not recognized on floppy (Rob Komar)
Microsoft IntelliMouse (Douglas Ritschel)
Re: Onstream Tape Drives ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux dials modem but Browsers can't find it? (diahedrial)
Re: ??? HP DESKJET 720C and linux ??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Dual M/B recommendation please + rant on Shuttle 649a (J A)
No DRQ after issuing write (Douglas Ritschel)
AHA 153x SCSI, where can I find it ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to low-level format a SCSI (Bernhard Brueck)
"read XX" and backspace key in console vs in X solved (Robert Bernecky)
Re: SCSI Problem ("Tony")
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam Choi)
Subject: Seeking advice for a new machine
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 15:49:20 -0400
Hi,
I'm interested in using linux on an intel box to run a
MOO for educational purpose.
Can someone give me some general advice?
1) Are there particular platforms that work better or
worse than others? Any particularly good or bad
for linux?
2) Is any version of linux significantly better or
worse than another? I'm thinking of just going
out and buying Red Hat for convenience.
3) Are there any issues related to flavors of MOO that
work better with linux and, specifically, linux on
an intel machine?
I appreciate any advice you can offer. Please email
responses and I'll summarize if people request it.
Cheers,
Sam
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Alex Balboa (HPTi|crimmins) balboa" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux installation on Generic box
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 19:51:51 GMT
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I am currently trying to install Redhat 5.2 Linux on the following
system configuration:
System board brand: Tyan ATX S16820 Tahoe 2 ATX (Pentium II PCI ATX)
CPU: Pentium II 266 MHZ (dual) with 512 K of cache)
Memory: 512 MB EDO (GENERIC)
Floppy 3.5" 1.44MB FDD
Hard drive: Seagate Barracuda ST19171W (SCSI:1 drive at 4 GB and 6
additional ones at 9.1 GB)
CDROM: Toshiba XM-5701TA (12-Speed Fast SCSI2)
Tape Drive: HP C5133A
Network Card: Intel EtherExpress Pro (32Bit PCI 10/100 BT)
Video Card: Matrox Millenium (8MB)
Sound Card: Creative Lab SB AWE 64 Gold (ISA 20 Bit 4 MB)
SCSI Adapter: Adaptec (2 of them) model AHA 2940 U/UW
Zip drive: IOmega 100MB SCSI
JAZ drive: IOmega 1GB SCSI
PCMCIA card reader: ANTEC DESCARTES 761345-64113
I was wondering if some one has installed Redhat 5.2 Linux on such a
system and, if so,
please advise on any special procedures or drivers for any of the above
components that I would need.
Thank you in advance (please forward your replies to the newsgroup and
my email)
Sincerely,
Alex Balboa
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brI am currently trying to install Redhat 5.2 Linux on the following
system configuration:
brSystem board brand: Tyan ATX S16820 Tahoe 2 ATX (Pentium II PCI ATX)
brCPU: Pentium II 266 MHZ (dual) with 512 K of cache)
brMemory: 512 MB EDO (GENERIC)
brFloppy 3.5" 1.44MB FDD
brHard drive: Seagate Barracuda ST19171W (SCSI:1 drive at 4 GB and 6
additional ones at 9.1 GB)
brCDROM: Toshiba XM-5701TA (12-Speed Fast SCSI2)
brTape Drive: HP C5133A
brNetwork Card: Intel EtherExpress Pro (32Bit PCI 10/100 BT)
brVideo Card: Matrox Mille
