Linux-Hardware Digest #669
Linux-Hardware Digest #669, Volume #14 Sun, 22 Apr 01 15:13:06 EDT
Contents:
How to setup Proxim Symphony PnP ISA Wireless NIC under RedHat 7.1? ("Peter Mahnke")
Re: Modem trouble ("Roy Bamford")
Re: Modem trouble (Steve Martin)
Re: es1371 - No Sound (Bob Bucy)
Re: Modem trouble ("Peter T. Breuer")
Partition questions... ("dmayo")
UDMA/100, Via 686b, mainboard recommendations (Philipp Lehman)
Re: Interesting failure rebooting LINUX ("Salim Douba")
Re: Partition questions... ("Michael Pye")
Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video? (Keith R. Williams)
Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video? (Keith R. Williams)
Promise RAID with RedHat 7.1/Mandrake 8.0 ("Larry Snyder")
Re: Can=B4t find a Printer Driver ("Klaus Amereller")
Re: Pentium133 down for the count?? ("Monte Milanuk")
Re: es1371 - No Sound (Dougie Richardson)
Re: Interesting failure rebooting LINUX (Dougie Richardson)
From: "Peter Mahnke" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: How to setup Proxim Symphony PnP ISA Wireless NIC under RedHat 7.1?
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 11:37:45 -0400
I don't know how, can someone give me set by set help?
Thanks,
Peter
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Reply-To: "Roy Bamford" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Roy Bamford" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Modem trouble
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 16:52:10 +0100
Keith,
I think you are being a bit harsh on Krstanovics' modem. As its ISA, it's
unlikely to be a winmodem - you would really struggle to get the bandwidth
down the ISA bus. I go along with the 'upgrade' instructions for winmodems
though.
Since it works on IRQ#3 and COM2, it is more likely to be a real modem and a
16550A based serial port on the same card and is being masked by the
motherboard serial port. I have not seen winmodem installs clash with real
ports.
The setup is turn off the motherboard COM2: serial port to let Linux see the
ISA card. After the serial port can be seen, just tell Linux that it has a
modem on that port. Better would be to move the modem to COM3 or COM4.
Regards,
Roy Bamford
--
There are two classes of computer users,
those who do backups and
those who have never had a hard drive fail.
Anon.
"Keith Mastin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Its a winmodem. Remove the modem. Get a hammer. Hit the modem. Hit it
again. It not a real modem. Go to the linmodem site, which has some
drivers for one or two winmodems. Mostly, I'de say that you're sol. Get a
real modem,
but first check the linux_hardware_compatability_howto at linuxdoc.org.
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Krstanovic wrote:
I have Rockvell 56k ISA modem.It works on IRQ#3 and COM2 port under Win
Me
and DOS,but will not work under Red Hat 7
Help me to configure it.Without the modem Linux is not so useful,in my
opinion :)
Thanx!
--
Keith Mastin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BeechTree Information Technology Services Inc.
137 Laird DriveM4G 3V5Tel(416)696-6070
http://www.beechtree-its.com
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From: Steve Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Modem trouble
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 09:39:31 -0400
Roy Bamford wrote:
Keith,
I think you are being a bit harsh on Krstanovics' modem.
I don't know... I've often had the impulse to take a hammer to
some computers along the way. ;)
As its ISA, it's
unlikely to be a winmodem - you would really struggle to get the bandwidth
down the ISA bus.
Yeah, 8 MHz would really constrict the data. I should have thought of
that.
The setup is turn off the motherboard COM2: serial port to let Linux see the
ISA card. After the serial port can be seen, just tell Linux that it has a
modem on that port. Better would be to move the modem to COM3 or COM4.
At that point, it might also be a good idea to change the IRQ on the
modem
to some unused IRQ (5, 9, 10, 11, whatever's available that the modem
will support) and use setserial to tell Linux about the change. I'm not
really up on the latest advances, but conventionally it's been a bad
idea
to share IRQs.
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From: Bob Bucy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: es1371 - No Sound
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 11:37:09 -0500
Dougie Richardson wrote:
Bob Bucy wrote:
Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 6).
IRQ 5.
Master Capable. Latency=96. Min Gnt=12.Max Lat=128.
I/O at 0x1440 [0x147f].
Its not a Soundblaster 128 - its an ES1371 - th
Linux-Hardware Digest #669
Linux-Hardware Digest #669, Volume #10Sun, 4 Jul 99 23:13:34 EDT
Contents:
Crash/Reboot with Adaptec 3940UW (Jeffrey Veiss)
Re: Add 2nd vfat IDE to linux box (John McKown)
Re: Floppy boot to linux-only scsi hardrive on Win95 PC? (Collin W. Hitchcock)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (nope)
Re: mandrake install hangs on intel NIC (Jean-Michel Dault)
Info about AMD K6 sig11 bug (Raymond)
Re: Ensoniq Audio PCI 1370 (SoundBlaster 64/128 PCI) (Ed Wilts)
Re: Dell Inspiron compatibility? What is best laptop? ("H. Michael Smith, Jr.")
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Chris Robato Yao)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Chris Robato Yao)
Re: ADSL versus Cable modem. (Ed Wilts)
need to survey which laptop is good for Redhat6.0? (bono)
From: Jeffrey Veiss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi,linux.dev.scsi,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Crash/Reboot with Adaptec 3940UW
Date: 4 Jul 1999 20:35:25 -0400
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NOTE: Remove NOSPAM from my address above before replying
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Calling all SCSI experts:
I have a bit of a challenge with an Adaptec 3940UW SCSI card. To start off,
here's the specs:
Tyan Trinity 1590 Motherboard v1.16
AMD K6 233MHz CPU
128M SDRAM
Windows 98 loaded on a Western Digital 4G EIDE drive (4 part VFAT)
Redhat 6 loaded on Seagate Cheetah (3 part VFAT, 4 part ext2, 1 part swap)
See below for more info
The Problem:
I was happily computing along, backing up my laptop to the /home partition
on the above machine (hostname = fuzzy) using rdist when fuzzy restarted.
This happened three times before I decided to do something else and work
on why later. The next day (I don't remember what i was doing), fuzzy
was rebooting into linux and needed to fsck the / partition (sda5). As
it was trying to fsck, it crashed/rebooted with no errors. Every reboot
has the same result. The only major change to the system was a
motherboard BIOS update.
Things I tried:
o Booting from Slackware 3.5 SCSI boot/rescue root floppies and running
fsck on sda5.
o Booting from Slackware 4.0 aic7xxx boot/rescue root floppies and running
fsck on sda5.
o When booting/rooting from floppy, I can mount sda5 but if I poke
around too much (cd's ls's), it eventually crashes/reboots.
o I can fsck the other ext2 sda* partitions, but poking around too much
eventually crashes/reboots (tar'ing each partition causes a crash).
o Tar'ing a CD from either CD-ROM drive doesn't cause a crash.
o Setting Bus A termination to Disabled and Bus B termination to Enabled.
o I booted with aic7xxx=panic_on_abort,verbose and it still rebooted.
o I downgraded the motherboard BIOS to the original version and it still
crashes.
o Windows 98 (scarily enough) works fine. I did a thorough scandisk on
all EIDE SCSI partitions with no problem. Both CD-ROM's work fine.
o The cheetah was repartitioned and installed with Redhat 6 a few weeks ago
and except when I had to turn off wide negotiation on the CD-ROM and Zip
drives, has been working fine.
At this point, I'm at a loss as to what to try next. Possibilities include
hardware failure on either the SCSI Card or Seagate Cheetah or a SCSI BIOS
mis-configuration, but then why does Windows 98 work? (No really, why
does Windows 98 work? :-) )
Any assistance would be gratefully appreciated!
Please contact me if there are any further questions via internet mail at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you very much!
Jeffrey Veiss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 13 Lynn Court
Network Engineer/System Administrator Somerville, NJ 08876
Sir Veiss, Inc. (908) 431-1318
Here's some other useful info:
Significant IRQ's:
3 COM2
4 COM1
5 IDE Creative Labs AWE32
7 PCI Adaptec AHA-3940 Ultra/Ultra Wide v1.25
10 PCI Adaptec AHA-3940 Ultra/Ultra Wide v1.25
11 PCI 3Com Fast Ethernet
14 Enhanced IDE Bus
15 USB
NA PCI Creative Labs Voodoo 2
NA AGP ATI All-In-Wonder Pro 8M
(Parallel and 2nd IDE ports turned on in the CMOS)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Adaptec AHA-3940UW BIOS Settings:
A:
ID 0: Seagate Cheetah ST19101W Ultra 9G Internal (Terminated)
ID 5: External Iomega Zip Drive (Terminated)
SCSI Bus Interface Definitions
Host Adapter SCSI ID... 7
SCSI Parity Checking... Enabled
Host Adapter SCSI Termination.. Automatic
Additional Options
Boot Device Options
Boot Channel B First
Boot
