Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 25 Dec 2000 11:08:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 25 Dec 2000 11:08:49 -0500 Received: from smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.4.60]:54492 "EHLO smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 25 Dec 2000 11:08:39 -0500 Message-ID: <3A4769AC.F38B372C@rcn.com> Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 10:37:16 -0500 From: Marvin Stodolsky X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-test12 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mj@suse.cz CC: Jacques.Goldberg@cern.ch, Mark Spieth , Sean Walbran Subject: BIOS problem, pro Microsoft, anti other OS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To Maintainer: PCI SUBSYSTEM P: Martin Mares M: mj@suse.cz L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org S: Supported This alert should probably be forwarded to Others, but appropriate subTask persons in the kernel-source Maintainers list were not obvious. Briefly, documented below is the fact/complications that some PC BIOS chips are now coming with a default Microsoft setting, which makes them hostile to some functionalities of other OS. If particular under Linux, a PCI Winmodem did NOT function with the Win98 BIOS setting, but did fine with BIOS choice "Other OS". Possible, other PCI devices under Linux OS might be simmilarly afflicated. This indicates a need for Linux install software to be equipped with a utility to probe the BIOS and report back "Linux hostile" BIOS settings. Today most Newbies are getting new PC boxes equipped with WinModems. Hostile BIOS settings will block their capability to get on-line. Unfortunately, I do not have the technical capablity to directly contribute. Thus please forward this alert to however may be capable and concerned with dealing with the problem. MarvS, co-maintainer: http://walbran.org/sean/linux/linmodem-howto.html =========================================== Subject: Device or resource busy : SUCCESS ! Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 14:46:04 +0200 (IST) From: Jacques Goldberg Reply-To: Jacques Goldberg To: discuss@linmodems.org Well, my very sincere thanks to all of you. It works. DETAILS: I purchased a Gateway Solo 2550 in September, comes with ActionTec PCI 56k modem (Lucent chip vendor 11c1, device 448). I tried the 568 ltmodem: device or resource busy,could not guess why. cat /pro/pci would show no interrupt Then ltmodem 578 was made available: same problem. But then the PnP issue at boot came again last week. I had tried several times to discover the option in my BIOS setup. This morning I found: in the "advanced" page there is an "Operating System" option, to be set to "the most frequently used OS". I had left it as Win98/2000 (as I received the machine). I just selected OTHER. Lo and behold, ltmodem.o loads without a flaw, I then had a short dumb terminal session with minicom, and am now connected at my first attempt with ppp, having already used X11, ssh, and Netscape. So, again my deepest thanks to all of you on this list, and the bottom line for newcomers: IF (Device.or.resource busy) CHECK YOUR BIOS. By the way I am running RH-6.1, kernel 2.2.12-20 (CERN "official" Linux distribution). They are on vacations now, I cannot check at this time if their version of ppp is "generic" or reworked. Jacques J. Goldberg Jacques.Goldberg@cern.ch >>>> Currently at TECHNION <<<< PHONE: Technion=+(972)(0)(4)829.36.63 CERN=+(41)(22)767.84.72 -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Crippling BIOSes Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 14:55:36 -0500 From: Marvin Stodolsky To: LinModems Folks, Given Jacques report, it would be good to set up a diagnostic for BIOS which have such Microsoft/Other choices. Mine does not. For those of you who have such BIOSes, please 1) Do boots under both choices 2) Under microsoft do: dmesg > ms.txt 3) Under other dmesg > other.txt 4) diff ms.txt other.txt and report the differences to the List with the name of the BIOS. If would clearly be desirable to equip future Linux kernels/software to give a warning about the crippling microsoft option, which may hamper other PCI harware under Linux as well. MarvS -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: dmesg detection?? Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 09:29:20 +0200 (IST) From: Jacques Goldberg Reply-To: Jacques Goldberg To: Marvin Stodolsky CC: discuss@linmodem.org Gateway Solo 2150 Phoenix BIOS version 17.50 BIOS Page "Advanced" BIOS Field "Installed O/S" may be "Other" "Win98/Win2000" or "Win95" Did not try "Win95" Default was Win98/Win2000, dmesg file attached is ms.txt Changed to "Other" , dmesg file atached is other.txt Linux kernel 2.2.12-20 SOUND: CONFIG_SOUND set to "m" Using OSS driver (ES-1371 not supported by RH-6.1 2.2.12-20 distribution) Using PPP version 2.3.10-3 Everything works fine (ppp sessions with sound) once BIOS O/S choice set to OTHER. I repeat what my problem was: -could not load ltmodem : "Device or resource busy" -cat /pro/pci did not show IRQ, not even the word IRQ, for Lucent modem -setting BIOS to OTHER instantly made everything work. Jacques J. Goldberg Jacques.Goldberg@cern.ch -------- dmesg > ms.txt (Win98 BIOS setting)------------ Linux version 2.2.12-20 (root@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Mon Sep 27 10:40:35 EDT 1999 Detected 601381815 Hz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 599.65 BogoMIPS Memory: 62720k/65472k available (1008k kernel code, 412k reserved, 988k 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 Pentium-III serial number disabled. CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 03 Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9be PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware 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 pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.9) Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1050-0x1057, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1058-0x105f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hda: TOSHIBA MK1214GAP, ATA DISK drive hdc: CRN-8241B, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: TOSHIBA MK1214GAP, 11513MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=1559/240/63 hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 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 : 1338.072 MB/sec p5_mmx : 1405.509 MB/sec 8regs : 1032.891 MB/sec 32regs : 579.120 MB/sec using fastest function: p5_mmx (1405.509 MB/sec) scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 Partition check: hda: [PTBL] [1467/255/63] hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 > 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: 200772k swap-space (priority -1) Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.0.14 kernel build: 2.2.12-20 #1 Mon Sep 27 10:40:35 EDT 1999 options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm] Intel PCIC probe: TI 1225 PCI-to-CardBus at bus 0 slot 8, mem 0x68000000, 2 sockets host opts [0]: [ring] [pwr save] [serial pci & irq] [no pci irq] [lat 168/176] [bus 32/34] host opts [1]: [ring] [pwr save] [serial pci & irq] [no pci irq] [lat 168/176] [bus 35/37] ISA irqs (scanned) = 4,7,10,11 polling interval = 1000 ms cs: IO port probe 0x1000-0x17ff: excluding 0x1000-0x10e7 0x1400-0x14ff cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7 cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean. 3c574_cs.c v1.08 9/24/98 Donald Becker/David Hinds, becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov. eth0: Megahertz 574B at io 0x300, irq 10, hw_addr 00:50:DA:E4:5F:B9. ASIC rev 1, 64K FIFO split 1:1 Rx:Tx, autoselect MII interface. eth0: found link beat eth0: link partner did not autonegotiate ------------dmesg > other.txt (Other BIOS setting) ----------------- Linux version 2.2.12-20 (root@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Mon Sep 27 10:40:35 EDT 1999 Detected 601374658 Hz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 599.65 BogoMIPS Memory: 62720k/65472k available (1008k kernel code, 412k reserved, 988k 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 Pentium-III serial number disabled. CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 03 Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9be PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Enabling I/O for device 00:3a PCI: Enabling I/O for device 00:50 PCI: Enabling memory for device 00:50 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 pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.9) Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1050-0x1057, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1058-0x105f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hda: TOSHIBA MK1214GAP, ATA DISK drive hdc: CRN-8241B, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: TOSHIBA MK1214GAP, 11513MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=1559/240/63 hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 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 : 1338.072 MB/sec p5_mmx : 1405.509 MB/sec 8regs : 1032.891 MB/sec 32regs : 578.739 MB/sec using fastest function: p5_mmx (1405.509 MB/sec) scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 Partition check: hda: [PTBL] [1467/255/63] hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 > 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: 200772k swap-space (priority -1) Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.0.14 kernel build: 2.2.12-20 #1 Mon Sep 27 10:40:35 EDT 1999 options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm] Intel PCIC probe: TI 1225 PCI-to-CardBus at bus 0 slot 8, mem 0x68000000, 2 sockets host opts [0]: [ring] [pwr save] [serial pci & irq] [no pci irq] [lat 168/176] [bus 32/34] host opts [1]: [ring] [pwr save] [serial pci & irq] [no pci irq] [lat 168/176] [bus 35/37] ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,7,10,11 polling interval = 1000 ms cs: IO port probe 0x1000-0x17ff: excluding 0x1000-0x10a7 0x10c0-0x10ff 0x1400-0x14ff cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7 cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean. 3c574_cs.c v1.08 9/24/98 Donald Becker/David Hinds, becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov. eth0: Megahertz 574B at io 0x300, irq 10, hw_addr 00:50:DA:E4:5F:B9. ASIC rev 1, 64K FIFO split 1:1 Rx:Tx, autoselect MII interface. eth0: found link beat eth0: link partner did not autonegotiate ----------diff ms.txt other.txt------------------------------- 2c2 < Detected 601381815 Hz processor. --- > Detected 601374658 Hz processor. 18a19,21 > PCI: Enabling I/O for device 00:3a > PCI: Enabling I/O for device 00:50 > PCI: Enabling memory for device 00:50 53c56 < 32regs : 579.120 MB/sec --- > 32regs : 578.739 MB/sec 80,81c83,84 < ISA irqs (scanned) = 4,7,10,11 polling interval = 1000 ms < cs: IO port probe 0x1000-0x17ff: excluding 0x1000-0x10e7 0x1400-0x14ff --- > ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,7,10,11 polling interval = 1000 ms > cs: IO port probe 0x1000-0x17ff: excluding 0x1000-0x10a7 0x10c0-0x10ff 0x1400-0x14ff =================================================== Unfortunately, there is nothing obvious (at least to me) in the above diagnostics, that would serve to signal the Linux Hostile, Win98 BIOS setting. 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