Linux-Hardware Digest #42
Linux-Hardware Digest #42, Volume #14Sat, 16 Dec 00 18:13:08 EST
Contents:
PCMCIA EthnetCard not recognised ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SIMM's types and IDE for DMA ("Guennadi V. Liakhovetski")
Re: dial up modem on demand? (Henry B. Tindall, Jr.)
Re: Kernel panic with Mandrake 7.2 (x86_serial_nr=1 doesn't seem to work) (Don Hinds)
HELP with USB iomega 100 drive
Re: SIMM's types and IDE for DMA (Gareth Randall)
Re: DVD playing in Linux (Mark Patton)
new configuration ("Cédric CHEN")
Re: PCMCIA EthnetCard not recognised (Andreas Mohr)
ASUS A7V ATA 100 problems (Michael Wilms)
harware install solution that works ("Default User")
Sound Card Problem ("Joshua Beard")
X window font server crash: help ("Gilles Lamoureux")
Re: X window font server crash: help ("Dan White")
Re: ASUS A7V ATA 100 problems ("Dan White")
Re: harware install solution that works (Joshua Beard)
Re: how diagnose hardware - Hard lockup then crc error ("Dan White")
Re: Hard disk partition problem ("Dan White")
Re: How can I change the booting order? ("Dan White")
weird keyboard/mouse problem (Brad Friedman)
Re: ASUS A7V ATA 100 problems (Harald van Pee)
Sound Blaster not working ("Chris")
Re: Crystal audio (AC_97.o) on SMP, linux02.2.16 ("Robert L. Klungle")
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: PCMCIA EthnetCard not recognised
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 17:03:47 GMT
I have a new PCMCIA ethernet which is a replacement for another card.
The first did not work on my machine or any of the three colleages's
machine's I tried.
The new one does work on a colleage's Acer with Win98 installed. It
does not however get recognised by my 486 Sharp running Slackware linux
(kernal 2.2.17). I have tried other PCMCIA NICs in my computer, all of
which are instantly recognised and function fine.
Upon inserting the RE450, I get the high tone indicating recognition of
insertion of a card, but then a low tone indicating an unrecognised
card.
The output from "cardctl ident" is:
Socket 0:
product info: "Ethernet", "Adapter", "2.0"
manfid: 0x0149, 0xc1ab
function: 6 (network)
Socket 1:
no product info available
The output from "lsmod" is:
Module Size Used by
pcnet_cs 10512 0 (unused)
83906272 0 [pcnet_cs]
ds 6256 2 [pcnet_cs]
tcic6688 2
pcmcia_core43296 0 [pcnet_cs ds tcic]
lp 5920 0 (unused)
parport_pc 7424 0 (unused)
Again, other cards are recognised and functions (as does a flipdisk in
the PCMCIA slot).
Any help or suggestions for further diagnostics appreciated.
Yours,
Tim
PS -
The output of "cardctl ident" when I switch in a functing card is:
Socket 0:
product info: "PCMCIA LAN", "Ethernet", "A", "004743118001"
function: 6 (network)
Socket 1:
no product info available
and for "lsmod":
Module Size Used by
pcnet_cs 10512 1
83906272 0 [pcnet_cs]
ds 6256 2 [pcnet_cs]
tcic6688 2
pcmcia_core43296 0 [pcnet_cs ds tcic]
lp 5920 0 (unused)
parport_pc 7424 0 (unused)
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From: "Guennadi V. Liakhovetski" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SIMM's types and IDE for DMA
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 16:53:38 +
DMA of any kind (PCI bus-mastering, PC DMA etc.) has nothing to do with
the type of memory. This should make no difference at all. Don't confuse
DMA on your motherboard (typically used in soundcards with DMA1, DMA5
etc) with the so-called "DMA" on disk drives. They are different
systems.
Yes, I know they are different systems, can't say I understand
_everything_ about them, e.g., is a DMA channel allocated for an IDE
bus-master?
To my understanding DMA on hard disks is just where the PCI based
controller can be a bus master and may (not sure) access main memory
within the defined and well thought out (unlike other DMA) methods of
the PCI bus. You need to have a PCI bus master controller which is
supported by your kernel to the point where DMA can be turned on.
The 'PCI bus master controller' resides on the hard drive, right?
Oh, a have a look at "hdparm"
Yep, sure, hdparm, kernel config, IDE patch, kernel boot parameters, have
been playing with all that for a few weeks already... (kernel
2.2.17). And, what's the worst - yesterday I took a Win-95 (OSR1 - which
officially does not support IDE bus-mastering) hard disk from my drawer,
Linux-Hardware Digest #42
Linux-Hardware Digest #42, Volume #13Wed, 14 Jun 00 06:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Dos partition (Dances With Crows)
Mandrake-Update ("lumien")
Re: Diamond modem problems (any init string I can try?) (Lesley Lawless)
Re: Installing RH 6.1 on Gateway Desktop system ("Alex Robinson")
Re: Anandtech and powersupplies (Was Re: Silent Power Supply?) (Alexander Fong)
Acecad Tablet XFree4 ("Gertjan")
Re: Bad Partition ?? (Thomas Hommel)
Re: speed hit with two drives on one ide controller ? (Thomas Hommel)
Re: IDE lockup problems (2.4.0-test1 w/ a bp6 motherboard) (Tim Moore)
SMC Ultra ISA NIC setup ("cyfur")
Problems with HP Laserjet 6P (=?iso-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen?= Knauth)
QU: Dual head (mdacon) problem ("Eddie De Roos")
Re: IDE Zip disk faster via ide-scsi ??? (Igor Boukanov)
Does XFree86 support the ATI Rage Mobile-M1 Chip (Eduard Paul)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Dos partition
Date: 14 Jun 2000 00:41:45 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:07:51 -0400, Martin Smith
8i6tj0$3bio$[EMAIL PROTECTED] shouted forth into the ether:
I have a Win98 partition I want to mount (Slackware)
so I did: mkfs -t msdos /dev/hda1
You're damned lucky that the following error message occurred.
attempting to make a file system too large :it says?
Hint: mkfs is roughly equivalent to FORMAT in the MS-DOS world. If this
had gone through, you'd have completely wiped /dev/hda1! Not what you
wanted, surely.
ANyway, the error message means your Lose98 partition is 2G, and your
mkdosfs program is old enough that it doesn't handle FAT32
correctly. Upgrade your filesystem utilities--better yet, if you're using
a really old version of Slack, upgrade the entire distro.
The commands you're looking for are:
# mkdir /mnt/win
# mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win
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Matt G / Dances With Crows /\"Man could not stare too long at the face
\[this space for rent]-/ \ of the Computer or her children and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell "Online
But only Light too dim for us to see\ gender bending going too far?" --/me
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From: "lumien" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mandrake-Update
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 04:55:32 GMT
i am running mandrake 7.1 through a proxy server (winproxy) to get to the
net. i need to put proxy settings into the madrake-update program in order
to get it to connect to the internet to download the updates, but everytime
i run the program it fails to find any servers (because it cant connect to
the net without the proxy settings) and then it closes the program without
giving me a chance to enter the correct proxy settings. has anybody
experienced this before, is there a fix? possibly a newer rpm/binary? any
help would be appreciated.
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From: Lesley Lawless [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: it.comp.hardware.modem,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Diamond modem problems (any init string I can try?)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 07:02:29 +0100
Wouter Verhelst wrote:
Thank you for the init strings. I tried it out last night
and, although one session is not enough to be certain, I was
connected for over an hour without any hangups at a
reasonable speed. I was even able to download the active
newsgroup list from my ISP, for the first time ever, in krn.
I used +ms=10 with the line speed set at 57600 and I had
reasonable speeds without hangups.
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Lesley Anna
Lesley Lawless [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef in berichtnieuws
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lesley Lawless wrote:
Wouter Verhelst wrote:
Lesley Lawless [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef in berichtnieuws
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[snip original]
I can add the following.
The failure to get a response from the modem was cured by
running Lothar. I think I tried changing symbolic links and
that stopped it being available. I'm afraid I'm a newbie and
make a lot of mistakes, in spite of the reading I do (and
sometimes because I try something I read but don't
understand yet).
I cut the speed to 19200 and managed a stable connection at
the same slow sped for 40 minutes before being disconnected.
I do have very long line to the modem and that may be at
least partly the trouble. 56K modems are much more sensitive
to errors than slower ones, I believe.
That is indeed true, but that does not mean you cannot use a very long line.
I do use a line of 10 meters to my modem, and do not have problems...
Does anyone have an init string that they've used
successfully with a Rockwell chipset modem, who has also had
to use a long line from the phone socket to the modem? And,
as I am such a newbie, where do I put it, in the pppd
arguments?
Various things may be happening.
1. I don't think it's a
Linux-Hardware Digest #42
Linux-Hardware Digest #42, Volume #11Wed, 18 Aug 99 18:13:50 EDT
Contents:
Re: Need help! want to intsall Linux but Compusa says No! (Sorin Balea)
Re: Voodoo vs. Riva TNT (QuestionExchange)
Re: usb camera support? (QuestionExchange)
Re: 100BaseTX NIC recommendations? (David Ripton)
Re: How to use Floppy and ZIP driver in Linux Redhat 6.0? ("Andy Erickson")
Re: Redhat 6.o w/viper 550 agp (Roy Grimm)
floppy problems (MuRpHy)
ISDN in Linux ("news.wmol.com")
Can I compile the kernel using a cc other than gcc?
Re: SB Pro and MP3's (David Ripton)
Re: Linux PeniumIII ("Tim Teller")
DIALD HELP FOR DUMMY ("Marco")
Re: [Q] Parallel port access program permission (Brent R Brian)
Re: How to use Floppy and ZIP driver in Linux Redhat 6.0? (Ernst-Udo Wallenborn)
Re: Problem solved (Re: Another Soundblaster Live! problem) (Josef Maltan)
Re: Need help! want to intsall Linux but Compusa says No! (T.J. Boberek)
Re: purchasing new system - suggestions? (Sorin Balea)
tulip.c recognizes Macronix MX98715AEC but brings link down (Benjamin Kunz)
Re: ide-scsi/cdrecord problem (Larry Ozarow)
From: Sorin Balea [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Need help! want to intsall Linux but Compusa says No!
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 19:57:55 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am thinking about installing Linux on a new computer.
It will have the below listed hardware.
AMDK6-3 400
128M PC100
FIC-2013a MB
8.4G HD
44X CDROM
Ricoh CDRW
Adaptec-SSCII 1569??? Can?t remember number
SB value 64 sound card
STB TV adapter card
ATI Rage Pro AGP or New AGP card.
Cardinal Connecta 3440 modem V.90 ISA
NE2000 PCI net card
I went to CompUSA to buy a copy of Linux for $29.95, but the sales
Staff told me I would have problems with the OS and my hardware. They
said that Linux had no support for CD?s (The program was on a CD) or CD
Writers and that I would have a problem setting up my sound card and
Modem and most of the hardware.
First of all, DON'T trust the sales stuff. They make some $$ with every
windows
licence the sell, so they will tell you to use windows. And I'm not very
pleased with
the level of knowledge of our local CompUsa staff, at least when it comes
to Linux.
(Read "they don't have a clue")
Now for your hardware:
CPU, MB, HDD, CDROM are all ok
CDRW: see here cdrecord's list of supported units (that's the software
you'll use):
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdwriters-1.8.html
Ricoh may or may not be supported, depending on the model.
videocard is supported
netcard is supported
soundcard should be supported AFAIK, though you may need to tweak it
manually
Netcard is supported
Modem: if it is a regular modem, with a real DSP chip on it, it should
work. If it is a winmodem, or
so called host based DSP, then it won't be supported...
The TV card: dunno, maybe...
Also I heard that the OS is free on the Internet. How do you download
and install it? I have a T1 line here and should be able to get it
fairly fast. Which directories do I copy from the FTP sites? I also
heard Corel was giving away WordPerfect for Linux.
Yep, you can download it from various sources.
I would recommend to get the CD-images if possible, so you can burn your
own set of
CDs..
www.debian.org
www.mandrake.org (I would recommend this one)
Or you can go to ftp.redhat.org (or mirrors)and get the distribution under
the i386 dir (dunno exact path)
But you'll need to dld it under a Unix system, so you'lll preserve the
case for the file names and
the links...
But i'll say to go for mandrake, it's redhat based... and a little bit
better
Or, if you want to be really funky and make your T1 burn, do a network
install, RedHat
supports this, just get the boot disks, write them on a couple of floppies
and start the install.
You'll need to know how to set up a TCP/IP connection. Then connect to the
RedHat mirror
of your choice and start installing
Thanks in advance for the information!
You're welcome
Sorin
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From: QuestionExchange [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Voodoo vs. Riva TNT
Date: 18 Aug 1999 20:27:45 GMT
Ok, lets not try to step on someones religion here, this could
get ugly I am a big fan of the Riva cards, they do work
quite nicely with linux, and Nvidia even ships linux drivers
off theyre website. 3DFX voodoo 3's are essentially the same,
except bear in mind, it will be a while before full rendering
support is created. If I recall, glide is not supported by
linux, so the major bennifet to 3Dfx is lost. Instead you have
to use OpenGL which is supported by both. Depending on the
test, most often the Riva comes out on top, however when
comparing the Riva TNT with the Voodoo 3, you tend to have a
problem, as your jumping generations, the voodoo 3 being
(technically) a third generation card,
Linux-Hardware Digest #42
Linux-Hardware Digest #42, Volume #10Fri, 16 Apr 99 06:13:39 EDT
Contents:
Re: CAN I RUN LINUX AND WHICH IS BEST (Ed Wilts)
Re: an easy hardware question (jason)
Re: OPTi 931 soundcard: it's alive? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("Jürgen
Exner")
Re: Creative Pci64 unsupported ?? ("4Season")
Non-destructive HD repartition? ("4Season")
Re: Creative RIVA TNT 16Mb ("M.C. van den Bovenkamp")
ATA-66 Driver (Jim Battin)
Re: 3dfx VooDoo3 (Eric Bohn)
Adapdec 2940UW on Linux (Timshel Yarrah Knoll)
Re: ELKS-- Does anybody have any experience with it? Can the people who do supply
ideas? (Gary Momarison)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("Jürgen
Exner")
X Windows problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: sndconfig - PnP problems (Thomas Keats)
Re: I/O error on SCSI disk ("Carl R. Friend")
Re: Where do I find a Linux driver? (Gary Momarison)
Re: Problems with ATI All-in-Wonder video card config using xf86config, startx
("DFarmer")
Tyan 1590s, K6-2, and IDE-ZIP (Skip Egdorf)
The Fastest way to prepare for a successful IT career!
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("Rob Eamon")
Re: Jaz Drive support? (Jarl Friis)
STB Desktop TV PCI Card. (S Sachdeva)
Re: sndconfig - PnP problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (jedi)
Re: AVer TV 98 or ASKEY TView 99 under Linux (jedi)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (jedi)
From: Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CAN I RUN LINUX AND WHICH IS BEST
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 20:34:14 -0500
Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
The machines main purpose is Word processing, net surfing, CAD and image
manipulation, and creating music using software such as cubase, cakewalk
etc. What software is avaliable for linux for such tasks and where do i
obtain it.
We should really try and convince Steinberg to make a Linux version of
Cubase. That would be COOL.
There is a project underway called Koobase that is aimed to be similar
to Cubase. It isn't there yet, but at least parts of it are working.
.../Ed
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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: jason [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: an easy hardware question
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 19:27:55 -0400
Brian Langenberger wrote:
Does anyone know where I could find Linux plates to replace those on an
IBM ThinkPad? You know, those little metal things that say "IBM ThinkPad"
on them? A 1"x1" plate/sticker should suffice. Then the whole world can
know in advance not to ask "you're running Windows, right?"
Any ideas? Thanks!
Have you looked at http://scotgold.chillin.org ? They have some nice stickers...
just got mine today. :-)
-jason
(to reply via email, make the appropriate substitution in my email address)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: OPTi 931 soundcard: it's alive?
Date: 14 Apr 1999 23:45:01 GMT
Oscar Kind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've a OPTi931 soundcard SB Pro compatible. I've recompiled my Kernel
(it's 2.0.34) for this card
I could configure a card like that on a 2.2.x kernel, even with FULL DUPLEX.
Check the Documentation of the new kernel's...
If you want, i can send you my isapnp.conf and conf.modules, but for that
send me an email ( slug (at) alumni.dee.uc.pt ) so i can remember
Bye
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From: "Jürgen Exner" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:32:11 -0700
Reply-To: "Jürgen Exner" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Leslie Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:7f5lr4$dvk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
In article 1ZqR2.12$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
Rob Eamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I program under NT (with Emacs, of course)
all my filenames are lowercase, and I'd wager that almost every
programmer out there does the same. When I save my Word document,
however, it is another story because "CD Report May 1999" is more
descriptive.
But do you actually ever retype that mess from memory? If you[...]
Of course not, and it's not necessary in the first place.
A "CDTAB" will do just fine (provided you are using a decent shell).
jue
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Jürgen Exner
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From: "4Season" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Creative Pci64 unsupported ??
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 23:27:20 -0600
Odd, I have the Ensoniq AudioPCI, which, under Windows98, uses Soundblaster
64 PCI software
