Linux-Hardware Digest #906
Linux-Hardware Digest #906, Volume #14 Fri, 15 Jun 01 18:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Re: Fast NICs (Michael Heiming)
Re: Redhat 7.1 and SMC 1211 network card on ix86 PC (Harald van Pee)
pcmcia network card (uzon)
Re: How Change serial device name: ttyS4 - ttyS2 (Ray Kraft)
Re: SCSI emulation (Denis Leroy)
Re: Linux software RAID mirroring eq. HPT370 RAID mirroring ? (Anthony DeRobertis)
AHA1542 SCSI Problem in 2.4.4 (Michael Drüing)
Digitalcamera Kodak DC 4800 (Manfred Wendler)
Re: Digitalcamera Kodak DC 4800 (Manfred Wendler)
Re: PCMCIA Ethernet Card for Linux? (Jim Chisholm)
Problem with 3Com NIC, GUI not brought up. (Leon Caruana)
Re: Redhat 7.1 and SMC 1211 network card on ix86 PC (Adrian McMenamin)
Re: Workaround to get HP Colorado IDE tape drives to work under RH7.1 (2.4
kernels). (Denis Leroy)
USB webcam tool (Crazydj)
Re: Linux X goes away??? (George Shapovalov)
Re: What to install for a laptop? (George Shapovalov)
From: Michael Heiming [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Fast NICs
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 20:24:07 +0200
Chema wrote:
Hi everybody:
I am looking for fast and reliable 10/100Mbs NICs for a new cluster. I
can not find pure speed benchmarks published or press reviews about it.
The NICs should be well supported under GNU/Linux and I do not mind the
price, the matter is top speed and a good manufacturer support.
Please give me your opinions or point me to an adequate URL.
Thank you very much.
Chema Box
System Administrator
ETSI Navales UPM
Madrid Spain.
Hello,
there was a similar question some month ago, and Donald Becker (author
of
most Linux NIC driver) gave the hint that 3com 905B/C cards would be
the fastest:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=enlr=safe=offic=1th=53ac7c73e3315704,20seekm=95l9t3%24d02%241%40disci.greennet#p
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: Harald van Pee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Redhat 7.1 and SMC 1211 network card on ix86 PC
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 20:28:52 +0200
if
ls /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/net/rtl8139.o
will find the driver,
then you can try to modify your file
/etc/modules.conf
alias eth0 off - alias eth0 rtl8139
then use the commands
depmod -a
modprobe rtl8139
for me this works with SuSE Linux
Regards
Harald
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uzon)
Subject: pcmcia network card
Date: 15 Jun 2001 11:29:53 -0700
hi,
my pcmcia NICs (both a 3com and an ibm) give me the following infamous
error on bootup: delaying eth0 initilization
i am running RH7.0 on a (POS) toshiba laptop 320CDS.
the only way if it will work is if i take out the card and put it back
in after i login.
i tried using cardctl eject 0 and then cardctl insert 0 (it's in
socket 0) and that works also. BUT, it only works if i type it in
myself at the prompt. when i put it in rc.local it will execute but
the network will not be configged.
can someone give me a rundown of the files which have something to do
with pcmcia and network initilization and what i should look for in
them?
i also read that there is a problem some toshibas think on bootup that
the 3coms are memory cards. i did see memory_cs loaded (lsmod) after
bootup. and when i reinsert the nic it is gone (and then the network
works).
also, i read there is an IRQ 9 issue with some 3com cards. but i dont
know linux enough to find out.
as i said, two different NICs didn't init. properly (3com and ibm) so
might this be an issue with the laptop or the installation???
help would be greatly appreciated.
i gotta config this in time for DEFCON ;)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray Kraft)
Subject: Re: How Change serial device name: ttyS4 - ttyS2
Date: 15 Jun 2001 12:09:58 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows) wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
If you want to pretend that /dev/ttyS4 is /dev/ttyS2 , then just rm
/dev/ttyS2 ; mv /dev/ttyS4 /dev/ttyS2. It's inelegant, but it'll work.
The fact that it's showing up as ttyS4 instead of ttyS2 is probably
because COM1..4 were standardized back in the early days of PC
architecture, and the board is being careful not to step on any of the
I/O ports or IRQs that those serial ports were defined to use. Are
there jumpers on the board or some DOS program you can use to change the
COM port number that the board reports? Did you check in the BIOS and
see if there's anything in there to disable COM{3,4}?
Thanks for these suggestions. The first option doesn't really work for me.
I checked the BIOS, and unfortunately there is no provision for disabling COM 3
or 4. For some reason, when we were using a 2.4.0 kernel, the
ttyS0-ttyS2 were assigned just fine, and the change showed up when we went to
a 2.4.4 kernel (other factors may also have been at work).
So, we decided to just go ahead and accept
Linux-Hardware Digest #906
Linux-Hardware Digest #906, Volume #13 Fri, 17 Nov 00 19:13:05 EST
Contents:
UMAX Astracam (David W Talmage)
Addtron AWP-100 Wireless card locking up Linun (Zot O'Connor)
PCTel Modem Driver ("liquidFX")
Re: Agpgart module ("Me")
Logitech Quickcam USB Pro ("Christopher Lam")
NewCom 56kefxC external modem ("liquidFX")
ViaVoice problems w/Linux (John Harlow)
Finding a device file? ("Cesar M. Ruiz Meraz")
Re: ISA NIC Redhat 7 ("John D. Peedle")
Communication Trouble w/ 3c905B-TXNM (Bill Holloway)
Re: Linux: 440BX Chipset or i815? ("John D. Peedle")
Re: Old School ("John D. Peedle")
Re: Finding a device file? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Communication Trouble w/ 3c905B-TXNM (Andrei Ivanov)
hard drives: Can I just unplug one's power cable, leaving the flat data cable still
plugged in? ("Dan Jacobson")
Re: UPS for two machines (Michael Meissner)
Problems setting up TV-Card (Jan Oliver Koch)
Re: Any Yamaha 8x8x32 CD-RW successes? ("Barry L. Kline")
Re: hard drives: Can I just unplug one's power cable, leaving the flat data cable
still plugged in? (Rick Nelson)
Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error? (Joe Cool)
Re: Any Yamaha 8x8x32 CD-RW successes? ("Barry L. Kline")
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. (Henry_Barta)
From: David W Talmage [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: UMAX Astracam
Date: 17 Nov 2000 15:31:58 -0500
I'm looking for a way to use my Astracam with Linux or *BSD. Can
anybody here help me out? UMAX in the US can't help. They're just
for product support, not development.
--
David Talmage ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
ITT Industries, Advanced Engineering Sciences,
Advanced Technology Group
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From: Zot O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Addtron AWP-100 Wireless card locking up Linun
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:42:22 -0800
System:
Mandrake 7.1
Kernel 2.2.15-4mdk
pcmcia-cs-3.1.44
addtron AWP-100 PCMCIA Card
Sony Vaio P-540
I built the module from the cdrom. Followed direction (in word formatof
all things). The file 11-driver226.gz is a tgz. Had to link
pcmcia-cs-3.1.44 from kernel tree to /usr/src/ for the make files to
work.
In order to get card to work, I had to modify:
/etc/sysconfig/pcmcia:
PCIC_OPTS=cs_irq=7
Without this the card locked Linux up tight most times. This was true
for a network card (ambicom) until I added the above and build the
ambicom drivers. I rebuild the the system, and did not need the above
again until this card. Other PCMCIA cards work wel (network, modem,
CF).
Driver files are dated: Feb 7 2000
Card worked fine in Windows. Worked fine in Linux.
As I test the range though, When I move quickly the machine locks up in
the kernel (panic copied below).
Card light stays on.
Things are locked tight. Each time this happen I am walking with the
device. Once I was at a reasonable range limit, the other time I was
walking upstairs.
Any way to prevent this? I could upgrade the kernel, pcmcia patched, to
Mandrake 7.2 (which runs 2.2.17). Is there a better/newer driver?
Do other wireless devices do this?
===
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
004
current-tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000
*pde =
Ooops: 0002
CPU 0
EIP:0010:[c015d92f]
EFLAGS: 00010247
eax: ebx: 0001 ecx: c0d12020 edx:c3b14990
esi: c3b14920 edi: c3b145c0 ebp: c3b14920 esp: c0257ea4
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process swapper (pid: 0, process nr:L -, stackpage=c0257000)
Stack: c015d305 c3b14920 0001 0003 c025f48 0001 c028d24
c0280ce4
0003 c3b144a0
Call Trace: [c015d305] [c0106000] [c0158185] [c011a5f9]
[c0106000]
[c010c347] [c011a5f9] [c010bab8] [c0106000]
[c0100018]
...
Code: 89 50 04 89 02 c7 01 00 00 00 00 c7 41 04 00 00 00 00 c7 41
Aiee, killing interrupt handler
Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill idle task!
In Swapper Task - not syncing
===
Thanks!
--
Zot O'Connor
http://www.ZotConsulting.com
http://www.WhiteKnightHackers.com
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From: "liquidFX" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PCTel Modem Driver
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:49:14 -0500
Has anyone seen a modem driver for a pctel hsp56 micromodem which will work
under Mandrake 7.2? driver pctel.o worked fine under Mandrake 7.0 but won't
work under 7.2. Thanks.
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From: "Me" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Agpgart module
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 20:51:15 GMT
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Phil Millwee" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Can anyone tell me where to get the agpgart module to add agp support to
my system. Kernel is 2.2.1
Linux-Hardware Digest #906
Linux-Hardware Digest #906, Volume #10Mon, 2 Aug 99 05:13:29 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux and IDE CDRW drive ("William B. Cattell")
Re: LILO and a 10GB disk??? ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: Large Drives without LBA Support (Mike Frisch)
Re: Best mobo for Linux ? (Vincent Fox)
Diamond Monster Sound ("David Brown")
Re: Let's build a perfect Wintel-free PC ("Anthony de la Rosa")
pogo stuff ("Kevin M. Clark")
Re: pogo stuff (Daniel Walker)
Re: SCSI vs. IDE (Jeremy Fincher)
Re: SCSI vs. IDE (Richard Steiner)
Re: CHMOD command ("Bobby D. Bryant")
Diamond A50 (SiS 6326AGP) Help (Shaggy4833)
Starne ATAPI ZIP Problems (Joerg Paysen)
Re: SCSI vs. IDE (Jeremy Fincher)
Re: ZIP ATAPI FLOPPY DRIVE (Jochen Eggemann)
Re: Linux Training ("joe")
Re: HEPP !!! I just installed RedHat 6.0 - I have a Voodoo 3000 AGP
("Piet Blommaart")
From: "William B. Cattell" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux and IDE CDRW drive
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 03:14:53 GMT
Alan Liu wrote:
You might start by reading appropriate documentation on the subject. LDP is
your friend.
metalab.unc.edu/LDP
In particular there's a CD-Writing-HOWTO that you should
look at. Start there. If the drive is supported then
you'll be in good shape.
Bill
Alan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I have a HiVal IDE CDRW drive (manufactured by JVC for HiVal) that I would
: like to get working under linux so I can burn CDs... Any ideas on how I
: might be able to set this up?
: --
: David H. Calvarese
: "To thine own self be true."
: http://www.well.com/~dhcalva/
: ICQ #:5068465
--
==
http://members.home.com/wcattell
==
Park not thy Harley in the darkness of thine garage, that it
may collect dust for want of being oft ridden. Ride thy
Harley
with thy brethren, and rejoice in the spirit of the road.
==
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From: "Charles Sullivan" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: LILO and a 10GB disk???
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 00:21:54 -0400
Michel Catudal wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Charles Sullivan wrote:
Michel Catudal wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Phil Cox wrote:
RH 5.2
Maxtor Ultra 10GB
I am having problems getting LILO to write to the boot sector. I get
the
following error:
Warning: device 0x0302 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit
Any pointers or help?
Phil
If LBA is turned on the 1024 limit is around 8.4G, if not it is
512MB. You can't boot anything past the 1024 cylinder. Make sure
that anything that is to be bootable doesn't cross the 1024 cylinder
boundary, this includes any logical partitions (your extended partition
must not cross the boundary)
A likely valid installation would be
this
1- Winblows 98 of whatever size
2- Ext2 of 15M for /boot
3- Extended partition with logical partition(s)
4- Ext2 of 3-4G
There's actually no problem with the extended partition
itself crossing the 1024 cylinder boundary, so long as the
/boot logical partition contained therein is entirely below
this boundary.
Have you tried it?
On my PC it would not boot. I put a primary partition at the end
and it booted.
That's the way my current installation of RH 6.0 is partitioned,
and the same with a previous installation of RH 5.2. I have
had no problem booting from LILO in the MBR with either.
I have a 10 Gb drive, which with LBA enabled in my bios looks
like C/H/S = 1240/255/63. I have a 7 Gb Win 98 primary partition
with the remaining 3 Gb devoted to Linux as /boot, swap, /home, and
/(root) logical partitions in an extended partition, in that order.
Note: I did have a problem booting with LILO when I originally
installed RH 5.1. I had thought it was just my inexperience, but
perhaps it was something more after all.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Frisch)
Subject: Re: Large Drives without LBA Support
Date: 2 Aug 1999 03:45:51 GMT
On Sun, 1 Aug 1999 19:43:21 -0400, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a Intel Premiere/PCI ED motherboard that only supports upto 2gb hard
drives and I was trying to get my Mixture 11.5 gb hard to work with it. I
was wondering if linux has built in software overlay support or if there are
any programs that support overlay with linux. Many of the programs for
overlay, including the one by maxtor only work with ms products.
Linux implements it's own LBA outside of the BIOS. The trick is, though,
that on your 11.5GB disk, you either have to boot from a floppy or a
pa
Linux-Hardware Digest #906
Linux-Hardware Digest #906, Volume #9 Fri, 2 Apr 99 09:13:28 EST
Contents:
Re: Closing Dell Latitude Cover Crashes Linux (taniwha)
compaq prosignia laptop: does it have a winmodem? (jessie rechler)
Re: Wanna Hear A Success Story - Dual Pen2 (James Lothian)
Soundcard problems (billysara)
Re: Closing Dell Latitude Cover Crashes Linux (Sitaram Chamarty)
Re: Promise FastTrak IDE Raid Card supported? (Thomas Dorris)
Re: my bloody modem ("Andy Bird")
Sun Adapter (Odinaldo Rodrigues)
Re: Trident 9750 3D AGP under Red Hat 5.2 (Raul Marcelo Young Sieberath Junior)
Re: Linux on SBC? (Robert Lacoste)
Re: Cheapest possible working video card? ("mad")
Re: DLT tape drive documentation or HOWTO? (Johannes Niess)
Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info (Alexander Dymerets)
Re: why AMD386 = GenuineIntel? (Alexander Dymerets)
Re: dual K6-III boards anywhere ? (Alexander Dymerets)
TTYS0 to terminal and keyboard to TTYS0 ?? ("Steve Day")
Problem with installing on a SCSI machine (Mike Arnautov)
Linux 2.2.5 instable on HP LH NetServer Pro ??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Western Digital HD Problems in Linux and NT (Rubber Glove Seduction)
Re: Compaq presario (win?)modem (Iain A F Fleming)
Re: Slow ethernet LAN driving me crazy!! ("Antony Platt")
Re: Lost eth0 device after boot?!?! (Tomasz Sienicki | tsca)
Limit ??? (Vincent)
From: taniwha [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Closing Dell Latitude Cover Crashes Linux
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 17:32:53 +
Allen O'Neill wrote:
James,
this is most likely due to the little "nipple" just under the screen
being initiated when you close the lid - this is a small switch that trys
to put the machine into standard SLEEP mode.
My solution on a similar machine? ... Get a big snippers and cut out the
nipple !! (Ouch!)
eeew .. grimace but seriously I have a Dell Inspirion 7000 (I know
it's really a different beast made by a different no-name manufacturer)
it puts the machine into standby mode when you close the lid, which is
arguably the 'right thing' to do (it also does the 'right thing' when you
close it in the dock - doesn't power down, shuts down the screen, switches to
the external monitor).
I'm continually amazed that all this stuff (mostly) works considering
that it's the CPU popping into SMM mode at random times and doing stuff
in the BIOS completely unaware of Linux (in my case the ATI driver
doesn't save enough state to reliably return from a save-to-disk [you
can crtl-alt-delete out of X and have it reinitialise - but you lose any
active work] and the sound driver (SB emulation) mutes it and doesn't save
enough state to turn the sound back on)
Paul
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jessie rechler)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: compaq prosignia laptop: does it have a winmodem?
Date: 01 Apr 1999 12:37:44 -0600
does anyone know if the compaq prosignia laptops (specifically the 100 models,
160,161,162,etc. and NOT the presario models), have a real modem or a winmodem?
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From: James Lothian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Wanna Hear A Success Story - Dual Pen2
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 16:22:26 +0100
I'm currently running a Supermicro P6DBS, with dual 333MHz P2s
and 128megs of memory. IBM wide scsi hard disk, toshiba scsi
CD rom drive, scsi zip drive. Red Hat 5.2. I haven't had as much time to
tinker around with it as I'd have liked, but it's all going like
a charm so far. The real test will be upgrading the CPUs to something
with a 100MHz bus -- that should wring out any motherboard problems.
Hope this is useful,
James
masanobu ono wrote:
Greetings, all.
I'm considering a dual Pen2 board for replacing my 440TX one.
People talk a lot about Asus P2B-D and sometimes Tyan boards,
so I guess they are considered highly reliable.
Has anybody had major success w/ 2.2.* + other manufacturer's
board? As far as I know, EPoX, SuperMicro, Tekram, and Giga-Byte
are out there. Any inputs about then would be much appreciated.
--
Masanobu Ono ( mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] )
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From: billysara [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Soundcard problems
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 10:57:25 GMT
I recently upgraded from RH5.1 to RH5.2 and have started
to get an odd clicking noise when sound plays, sometimes
the sound cuts out altogether.
I've re-configured the soundcard with the RH sound config
program, and also by hand with isapnp to no avail.
I also tried upgrading to kernel 2.2.4 to see if that fixed
the problem, but it is much the same, except more fatal
with the machine actually freezing after
