Hardware Titbits IV

Summary:

• Linksys LNE100TX
• Lucent ~WinModem
• Adaptec 1542 On Mandrake Linux 8.1

'Hardware Titbits' collects instructions on how to set up hardware devices which haven't been detected or configured by Mandrake Linux.
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Linksys LNE100TX

(Contributed by Robert Brooks, edited)

"So, the first oddity was that the Netgear card was recognized on install but the Linksys wasn't. A little digging on the net (linuxnewbie.org in this case) revealed the need to update to the latest tulip driver from scyld.com. Since I had selected "server" on the install and had to scrimp on disk space, loading up the gcc, make, and kernel-headers RPMs was required, as well as the scyld.com package. This all went smoothly. The scyld.com netdrivers-2.0 package is a module source package that needs to be compiled for one's specific kernel. The only compile error involved errno.h missing from include/; it was only in lower directories. A quick hardlink and problem solved.

"Upon installing the modules, though, I got

Unresolved Symbols

__SMP__

-D __SECURE__

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Lucent Winmodem

(Contributed by pete, edited)

I just got my Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop's Lucent ~WinModem working under Linux Mandrake 7.2 w/ kernel 2.2.17-21mdk. (The kernel-sources package needs to be installed.)

Steps to reproduce for a working modem:

• Get 'linux568.zip' from Linmodems
• Make modification to '/usr/src/linux/include/tty.h' as described at this ltmodem page.
• Link (

  ln -sf {source} {target}

  ) 'version.h' to 'version-up.h' (for uniprocessor kernel)
• In '/usr/src/linux', type

  make menuconfig

  (defaults should be fine, exit and save)
• Type

  make depend && make clean && make bzImage && make modules && make modules_install && cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bvmlinux-new

• Arrange for GRUB to load the new kernel. (See the GRUB page)
• Unzip 'linux568.zip', and type

  cp ltmodem.o /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc

• The important part for this particular laptop:

insmod -f ltmodem

When it's put in '/etc/rc.d/rc.local' therefore loaded after the network drivers, the machine hangs for a bit and whenever dialing, yields "NO DIALTONE". Apparently this is due to IRQ conflicts relating to the modem getting IRQ 11, instead of IRQ3. When

insmod -f ltmodem

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Adaptec 1542 On Mandrake Linux 8.1

Mandrake Linux user Paul Tammes writes:

"Having fooled around for over 2 hours before finally getting it right, this little tip may save you some time:

• Get the I/O adress (found that value by pressing CTRL-A shortly after boot.
• Insert Mandrake CD 1 in a bootable ATAPI CD drive (lend one from my 2nd computer temporarily for installation purposes on the antique machine myself).
• Boot up from CD Drive and use the correct bootparameters.
  Example: if your card uses i/o port = 230h, you have to enter:
  

  expert aha1542=0x230,11,4,5

  
  at the linux boot prompt.
  TIP: Do not forget the 'x'1.1 (If you only type '230' or '0230', the whole adapter will NOT be detected … )
• Then in order to install to a SCSI HD you have to answer 'yes' on the 'Do you have a scsi adapter?' question that the Mandrake Linux installer comes up with, and select the 'aha1542.o' scsi module from the popup listing. All downhill from here ;-)."

Related Resources:

Linmodems
Linux on Laptops

Modified: Oct. 29, 2001
Author: Tom Berger

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