[techtalk] Okay so I recompiled my kernel under RedHat 6.1

Tue Oct 26 20:47:46 EST 1999

I thought I did that. I'll have to recompile again to make sure. There's so
many settings that I guess I missed it.

             Norma
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----- Original Message -----
From: Stephan Zaniolo <eaglefeather at mindspring.com>
To: <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: [techtalk] Okay so I recompiled my kernel under RedHat 6.1

> I once heard that you need to activate SCSI emulation in the kernel (I
> didn't see that in dmesg printout) to use the parallel port Zip drive.  (I
> have a SCSI Zip drive, so I didn't have to deal with this).  Caitlyn, is
> this is accurate or not?
>
> Good luck, :^)
> Stephan
>
> At 03:41 PM 10/26/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >> OK, you need to add the following line to your /etc/conf.modules file:
> >>
> >> alias block-major-8 ppa
> >
> >Okay for some reason this did not work. I have below listed the contents
of
> >my /etc/conf.modules file and also the bootup messages.
> >
> >alias sound es1370
> >alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> >alias block-major-8 ppa
> >
> >
> >(after typing dmesg)
> >
> >Linux version 2.2.12-20 (root at porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version
> >egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Mon Sep 27 10:25:54
EDT
> >1999
> >Detected 233229442 Hz processor.
> >Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> >Calibrating delay loop... 465.31 BogoMIPS
> >Memory: 62780k/65536k available (1008k kernel code, 412k reserved, 992k
> >data, 64k init)
> >DENTRY hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
> >Buffer-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
> >Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
> >VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
> >CPU: Intel Pentium MMX stepping 03
> >Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
> >Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> >Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
> >POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> >PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfafb0
> >PCI: Using configuration type 1
> >PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> >PCI: 00:38 [1106/0586]: Work around ISA DMA hangs (00)
> >Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds.
> >Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
> >Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
> >NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
> >NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> >IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
> >TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 65536 bhash 65536)
> >Initializing RT netlink socket
> >Starting kswapd v 1.5
> >Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
> >Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
> >ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> >ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> >ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> >pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
> >apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.9)
> >Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
> >RAM disk driver initialized:  16 RAM disks of 4096K size
> >VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> >VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> >    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x6000-0x6007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
> >    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x6008-0x600f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> >hda: SAMSUNG SV0844A, ATA DISK drive
> >hdb: ICD-3600AT, ATAPI CDROM drive
> >hdc: CR-4802TE, 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: SAMSUNG SV0844A, 8063MB w/220kB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63
> >hdb: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache
> >Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
> >hdc: ATAPI 8X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
> >Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> >FDC 0 is an 8272A
> >md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
> >raid5: measuring checksumming speed
> >raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
> >   pII_mmx   :   329.946 MB/sec
> >   p5_mmx    :   394.716 MB/sec
> >   8regs     :   243.840 MB/sec
> >   32regs    :   181.356 MB/sec
> >using fastest function: p5_mmx (394.716 MB/sec)
> >scsi : 0 hosts.
> >scsi : detected total.
> >md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
> >Partition check:
> > hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 >
> >RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> >autodetecting RAID arrays
> >autorun ...
> >... autorun DONE.
> >VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> >autodetecting RAID arrays
> >autorun ...
> >... autorun DONE.
> >VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> >change_root: old root has d_count=1
> >Trying to unmount old root ... okay
> >Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed
> >Adding Swap: 64220k swap-space (priority -1)
> >es1370: version v0.24 time 10:27:11 Sep 27 1999
> >es1370: found adapter at io 0x6200 irq 11
> >es1370: features: joystick off, line in, mic impedance 0
> >VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,64)
> >VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
> >parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2]
> >parport1: PC-style at 0x278 [SPP,ECP,ECPPS2]
> >parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 870C
> >parport1: no IEEE-1284 device present.
> >lp0: using parport0 (polling).
> >lp1: using parport1 (polling).
> >
> >
> >
> >note: what's on my second parallel port ad a Microtek Scanmaker E3 Plus
> >(which doesn't seem to work also). Thanks for the help :)
> >
> >             Norma
> >*Insert witty message here!*
> >
> >
> >
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