G'Day ! About a year ago, I bought a Dell Latitude LX (yes an old 486 monster), so I could edit source files while away from my desktop. With RCS, Emacs and a basic command line, eveything worked great. BUT, the project grew and I needed more capability. Namely X-window and an ethernet connection.
BTW, I'm running a 2.0.38 kernel with a combination of 2.1 and 2.2 packages I bought a D-Link DFE-650 PCMCIA ethernet card and set-it up via the HOW-TOs. The card manager finds the card and reports it as a NE2000 compatable, but it does not communicate with the outside world. Dmesg keeps reporting Tx errors. Any suggestions ? I thought it might be a cable, so I've already tested that. The second is when I bought it, it had windows 95 on it with no documention. My development efforts involve OpenGL (really MESA) and I need some rudimentry X support. Does anyone know which chipset this laptop uses and more importantly which X-server to use ? Does anyone have the hardware specs ? I bought it from my company's surplus sales, so it should be pretty stock. BTW Just ordered the latest and greatest CD's, so ... cheers, Jim Parker Sailboat racing is not a matter of life and death .... It is far more important than that !!!
