debian talks to mac :-)
This list is so cool, I'm really glad it exists :) So anyway. After the X question I have a debian/tcp-ip/mac question. Maybe not so specific to debian laptops, but well, the fact is I use one so I have no clue about the rest. So, my debian Thinkpad is on my desk and only a few meters away I have a nice 7200/75 running 8.1 (and waiting to have another hd with linuxppc, but that's another matter...) They desperately want to talk to each other, from simple things (file transfer) to more fun stuff (testing cgi scripts on the apache from a browser on the mac). It looks like I need some kind of tcp/ip networking going on here, so is there a way to implement this in a debianese way and/or without spending too much money? I just read about dedicated ppp. Can anybody give me advice on how to set up a dedicated ppp conection ? Is it possible to have my debian laptop keep the dedicated connection _while_ running a dial-up ppp connection ? Any pointer will be apperciated (I just got 'tcp-ip network administration' for my birthday but it is still slightly more than what I can easily compute... ;-) Sincerly yours, Jean Christophe Helary
Re: debian talks to mac :-)
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 03:23:14PM +0900, JC Helary wrote: > So, my debian Thinkpad is on my desk and only a few meters away I have a > nice 7200/75 running 8.1 (and waiting to have another hd with linuxppc, > but that's another matter...) They desperately want to talk to each > other, from simple things (file transfer) to more fun stuff (testing cgi > scripts on the apache from a browser on the mac). I wish it's Debian PowerPC instead. Chanop -- ,-. | Chanop Silpa-Anan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Australian National University | | visit my web site | | http://hilbert.anu.edu.au/~chanop/ | | Debian GNU Hurd PGP available upon request | `-'
Re: Bleh! win modem on my presario 1920
On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 09:51:31AM -0600, Charles Lewis wrote: > I just spent christmas vacation configuring a laptop to dual boot (it's a > shared office laptop). ran fips, installed base system from floppies and > then used the cd that came with "Learn Debian GNU/Linux". Everything went > pretty good (considering my ignorance) until some packages decided they > didn't want to install. "No problem," I said. "I'll just configure my modem > and connect to the internet to update the packages." About 4 hours later, I > discover that my laptop has a win modem in it. :( Got an open PCMCIA slot? I know there are some good deals on 33.6 PCMCIA modems that aren't WinModems out there... Not as nice as having a 56K, but out here in US West territory, it's rare to get a connection above 33.6 anyway. (He said, from the DSL line...) -- Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint = DCAF 2B9D CC9B 96FA 7A6D AAF4 2D61 77C5 7ECE C1D2 Public Key available upon request, or at wwwkeys.pgp.net and others. pgpfoUiPOotuc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: debian talks to mac :-)
On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, JC Helary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [... mac and Linux machine talking ...] > It looks like I need some kind of tcp/ip networking going on here, so > is there a way to implement this in a debianese way and/or without > spending too much money? Sure. A NULL-Modem cable, also known as a serial crossover cable, is the only cost you will have. You need one that will connect to a serial port on your Mac at one end and to a free serial port on the Linux machine at the other. I believe, but do not know, that this is possible. I can't tell you what cable or anything though; I have never done any serial stuff on a Mac. Anyway, that will let you use a standard dial-up PPP _client_ on the Mac to talk to a PPP server on the Linux machine. The PPP HOWTO should help with the configuration issues at the server side. It's at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO.html> Section 27 is about just this sort of thing. It assumes Linux at both ends; in your case make the Linux machine the server. > I just read about dedicated ppp. Can anybody give me advice on how to > set up a dedicated ppp conection ? Is it possible to have my debian > laptop keep the dedicated connection _while_ running a dial-up ppp > connection ? Yes. If you don't have a block of routed addresses (which you don't, I am willing to bet) you will need to use private IP addresses for talking between the Mac and the Linux box. When you dial up the Internet from the Linux machine, the Mac will be able to talk to the Linux box still but it will not be able to see the outside world. I would recommend installing Squid as a proxy server if you want to allow the Mac to use the same Internet link and all. That's another question though :) > Any pointer will be apperciated (I just got 'tcp-ip network > administration' for my birthday but it is still slightly more than > what I can easily compute... ;-) That should detail the privately assignable IP ranges somewhere in it. To save you the hunt though, you can use 192.168.100.* where '*' is any number from 1 to 200. You will need one address for the Mac and one for the Linux box (and not the same one ;) That should get you started (and confused ;) Daniel -- The sexual revolution is over and the microbes won. -- P. J. O'Rourke, _Give war a chance_ (1992)
Re: online with Sony 505
D> After trying everything still I can't go inline with my D> Sony Vaio 505TX. So, I guess the question now is if D> somebody have the same computer, installed Debian D> successfully, and made the modem work. I have a 505 FX with Xircom (XEM56 10/100), running slink, on linux-2.2.12, with ppp-2.3.5-2, wvdial-1.20, xisp-2.5p4-1 All of the scripts "pon", "wvdial, and "xisp" work! It wasn't obvious, though, for various reasons. * I had to explicitly limit the speed to 57600 Baud ... * wvdial needs PPPD=True * another one (about some line not being 8-bitf clean) had to do with the moment when pppd was invoked. At least, there was no need for potato, here. ;-) == Uwe ==
unexpected interrupt at standby
When i put my old Compaq Contura 410 into standby with
>apm -S
then i get following message:
>ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80, count=1
Then i left the copmuter unattended and got the following:
>ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80, count=2
apm: an event queue overflowed
hda: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
hda: drive not ready for command
ide0: reset: success
dmesg gives me following:
Linux version 2.2.13 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #6 Mon Dec 27
21:43:35 CST 1999 ...
apm: BIOS version 1.1 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.9)
...
hda: HITACHI_DK226A-21, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: HITACHI_DK226A-21, 2061MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=523/128/63
...
Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.7
kernel build: 2.2.13 #3 Wed Dec 22 09:34:37 CST 1999
options: [apm]
...
ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80, count=1
...
ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80, count=2
apm: an event queue overflowed
hda: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
hda: drive not ready for command
ide0: reset: success
Kernel 2.2.13 with builtin apm, no problems under OS/2.
Any ideas?
Thanks Matth
Re: Xircom RealPort Ethernet/Modem on Debian
On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 07:20:30PM -0600, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > Hi everybody, > Has anyone got these new Xircom RealPort Ethernet 10/100+Modem 56 > PCMCIA cards to run on Debian? If anybody has any ideas, I would be most > appreciative. It doesnt work with the Slink PCMCIA utils as i noticed - I backported the potato source package 3.1.0 at that time and since then i am a happy real-port user ... Thinkpad 390E + Xircom RealPort Now the only thing i havent tried is USB, SVHS and the Lucent Winmodem. Everything else works flawlessly (Irda, Sound, XWindows, PCMCIA)... Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-5241-470566 ... The failure can be random; however, when it does occur, it is catastrophic and is repeatable ... Cisco Field Notice
Sound on Toshiba
Here's one for you guys (and girls): I am running kernel 2.2.12 on a Toshiba Satellite 2545XCDT with a Yamaha OPL card. I have been able to edit the /etc/modules and /etc/modules.conf with the correct information (I have had it working before in a different installation), and the kernel boots fine, it also says that module sound and midi are loading fine. I do a cat /dev/sndstat, and all looks good. I use a mixer to turn up the volume on the card, but when I run mpg123 to play an mp3, I get nothing. No sound, but no error messages. I am puzzled, any ideas? Matt Swasey World Data Network [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NEC Versa LX Maestro 2E Soundcard support
Hi all. I've found the driver from redhat for the integrated sound system on the Versa LX, but it doesn't seem to have mixer functionallity, I couldn't find anything about this in the readme files included with the driver module source and I was wondering if anyone knew if this was intentional or if mixer support is supposed to work? Thankyou Eric
Re: NEC Versa LX Maestro 2E Soundcard support
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 10:03:27PM +, Eric Bennett wrote: > Hi all. > > I've found the driver from redhat for the integrated sound system on the > Versa LX, but it doesn't seem to have mixer functionallity, I couldn't > find anything about this in the readme files included with the driver > module source and I was wondering if anyone knew if this was intentional > or if mixer support is supposed to work? > Check with these sites, the driver works for me (OSS lite) http://people.redhat.com/zab/maestro/ http://home.t-online.de/home/Braun_Homburg/essm2ee.html cheers, Chanop -- ,-. | Chanop Silpa-Anan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Australian National University | | Tel. +61 2 6279 8826, +61 2 6279 8837 (office hour) | | +61 2 6249 5240 (home +voice mail) | | FreeBSD PGP available upon request | `-'
debian talks to mac :-)
This list is so cool, I'm really glad it exists :) So anyway. After the X question I have a debian/tcp-ip/mac question. Maybe not so specific to debian laptops, but well, the fact is I use one so I have no clue about the rest. So, my debian Thinkpad is on my desk and only a few meters away I have a nice 7200/75 running 8.1 (and waiting to have another hd with linuxppc, but that's another matter...) They desperately want to talk to each other, from simple things (file transfer) to more fun stuff (testing cgi scripts on the apache from a browser on the mac). It looks like I need some kind of tcp/ip networking going on here, so is there a way to implement this in a debianese way and/or without spending too much money? I just read about dedicated ppp. Can anybody give me advice on how to set up a dedicated ppp conection ? Is it possible to have my debian laptop keep the dedicated connection _while_ running a dial-up ppp connection ? Any pointer will be apperciated (I just got 'tcp-ip network administration' for my birthday but it is still slightly more than what I can easily compute... ;-) Sincerly yours, Jean Christophe Helary
Re: debian talks to mac :-)
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 03:23:14PM +0900, JC Helary wrote: > So, my debian Thinkpad is on my desk and only a few meters away I have a > nice 7200/75 running 8.1 (and waiting to have another hd with linuxppc, > but that's another matter...) They desperately want to talk to each > other, from simple things (file transfer) to more fun stuff (testing cgi > scripts on the apache from a browser on the mac). I wish it's Debian PowerPC instead. Chanop -- ,-. | Chanop Silpa-Anan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Australian National University | | visit my web site | | http://hilbert.anu.edu.au/~chanop/ | | Debian GNU Hurd PGP available upon request | `-'
Re: Bleh! win modem on my presario 1920
On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 09:51:31AM -0600, Charles Lewis wrote: > I just spent christmas vacation configuring a laptop to dual boot (it's a > shared office laptop). ran fips, installed base system from floppies and > then used the cd that came with "Learn Debian GNU/Linux". Everything went > pretty good (considering my ignorance) until some packages decided they > didn't want to install. "No problem," I said. "I'll just configure my modem > and connect to the internet to update the packages." About 4 hours later, I > discover that my laptop has a win modem in it. :( Got an open PCMCIA slot? I know there are some good deals on 33.6 PCMCIA modems that aren't WinModems out there... Not as nice as having a 56K, but out here in US West territory, it's rare to get a connection above 33.6 anyway. (He said, from the DSL line...) -- Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint = DCAF 2B9D CC9B 96FA 7A6D AAF4 2D61 77C5 7ECE C1D2 Public Key available upon request, or at wwwkeys.pgp.net and others. pgp0UMJcY15gb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: debian talks to mac :-)
On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, JC Helary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [... mac and Linux machine talking ...] > It looks like I need some kind of tcp/ip networking going on here, so > is there a way to implement this in a debianese way and/or without > spending too much money? Sure. A NULL-Modem cable, also known as a serial crossover cable, is the only cost you will have. You need one that will connect to a serial port on your Mac at one end and to a free serial port on the Linux machine at the other. I believe, but do not know, that this is possible. I can't tell you what cable or anything though; I have never done any serial stuff on a Mac. Anyway, that will let you use a standard dial-up PPP _client_ on the Mac to talk to a PPP server on the Linux machine. The PPP HOWTO should help with the configuration issues at the server side. It's at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO.html> Section 27 is about just this sort of thing. It assumes Linux at both ends; in your case make the Linux machine the server. > I just read about dedicated ppp. Can anybody give me advice on how to > set up a dedicated ppp conection ? Is it possible to have my debian > laptop keep the dedicated connection _while_ running a dial-up ppp > connection ? Yes. If you don't have a block of routed addresses (which you don't, I am willing to bet) you will need to use private IP addresses for talking between the Mac and the Linux box. When you dial up the Internet from the Linux machine, the Mac will be able to talk to the Linux box still but it will not be able to see the outside world. I would recommend installing Squid as a proxy server if you want to allow the Mac to use the same Internet link and all. That's another question though :) > Any pointer will be apperciated (I just got 'tcp-ip network > administration' for my birthday but it is still slightly more than > what I can easily compute... ;-) That should detail the privately assignable IP ranges somewhere in it. To save you the hunt though, you can use 192.168.100.* where '*' is any number from 1 to 200. You will need one address for the Mac and one for the Linux box (and not the same one ;) That should get you started (and confused ;) Daniel -- The sexual revolution is over and the microbes won. -- P. J. O'Rourke, _Give war a chance_ (1992)
Re: online with Sony 505
D> After trying everything still I can't go inline with my D> Sony Vaio 505TX. So, I guess the question now is if D> somebody have the same computer, installed Debian D> successfully, and made the modem work. I have a 505 FX with Xircom (XEM56 10/100), running slink, on linux-2.2.12, with ppp-2.3.5-2, wvdial-1.20, xisp-2.5p4-1 All of the scripts "pon", "wvdial, and "xisp" work! It wasn't obvious, though, for various reasons. * I had to explicitly limit the speed to 57600 Baud ... * wvdial needs PPPD=True * another one (about some line not being 8-bitf clean) had to do with the moment when pppd was invoked. At least, there was no need for potato, here. ;-) == Uwe ==
unexpected interrupt at standby
When i put my old Compaq Contura 410 into standby with
>apm -S
then i get following message:
>ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80, count=1
Then i left the copmuter unattended and got the following:
>ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80, count=2
apm: an event queue overflowed
hda: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
hda: drive not ready for command
ide0: reset: success
dmesg gives me following:
Linux version 2.2.13 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #6 Mon Dec 27
21:43:35 CST 1999 ...
apm: BIOS version 1.1 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.9)
...
hda: HITACHI_DK226A-21, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: HITACHI_DK226A-21, 2061MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=523/128/63
...
Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.7
kernel build: 2.2.13 #3 Wed Dec 22 09:34:37 CST 1999
options: [apm]
...
ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80, count=1
...
ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80, count=2
apm: an event queue overflowed
hda: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
hda: drive not ready for command
ide0: reset: success
Kernel 2.2.13 with builtin apm, no problems under OS/2.
Any ideas?
Thanks Matth
Re: Xircom RealPort Ethernet/Modem on Debian
On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 07:20:30PM -0600, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > Hi everybody, > Has anyone got these new Xircom RealPort Ethernet 10/100+Modem 56 > PCMCIA cards to run on Debian? If anybody has any ideas, I would be most > appreciative. It doesnt work with the Slink PCMCIA utils as i noticed - I backported the potato source package 3.1.0 at that time and since then i am a happy real-port user ... Thinkpad 390E + Xircom RealPort Now the only thing i havent tried is USB, SVHS and the Lucent Winmodem. Everything else works flawlessly (Irda, Sound, XWindows, PCMCIA)... Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-5241-470566 ... The failure can be random; however, when it does occur, it is catastrophic and is repeatable ... Cisco Field Notice
Sound on Toshiba
Here's one for you guys (and girls): I am running kernel 2.2.12 on a Toshiba Satellite 2545XCDT with a Yamaha OPL card. I have been able to edit the /etc/modules and /etc/modules.conf with the correct information (I have had it working before in a different installation), and the kernel boots fine, it also says that module sound and midi are loading fine. I do a cat /dev/sndstat, and all looks good. I use a mixer to turn up the volume on the card, but when I run mpg123 to play an mp3, I get nothing. No sound, but no error messages. I am puzzled, any ideas? Matt Swasey World Data Network [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NEC Versa LX Maestro 2E Soundcard support
Hi all. I've found the driver from redhat for the integrated sound system on the Versa LX, but it doesn't seem to have mixer functionallity, I couldn't find anything about this in the readme files included with the driver module source and I was wondering if anyone knew if this was intentional or if mixer support is supposed to work? Thankyou Eric
Re: NEC Versa LX Maestro 2E Soundcard support
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 10:03:27PM +, Eric Bennett wrote: > Hi all. > > I've found the driver from redhat for the integrated sound system on the > Versa LX, but it doesn't seem to have mixer functionallity, I couldn't > find anything about this in the readme files included with the driver > module source and I was wondering if anyone knew if this was intentional > or if mixer support is supposed to work? > Check with these sites, the driver works for me (OSS lite) http://people.redhat.com/zab/maestro/ http://home.t-online.de/home/Braun_Homburg/essm2ee.html cheers, Chanop -- ,-. | Chanop Silpa-Anan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Australian National University | | Tel. +61 2 6279 8826, +61 2 6279 8837 (office hour) | | +61 2 6249 5240 (home +voice mail) | | FreeBSD PGP available upon request | `-'
