Re: Xircom RealPort modem(/eth) not working
> I've recently installed Debian on a Toshiba Tecra 8000. I'm trying to > get a Xircom RealPort Ethernet + Modem card working. they are great :) > I've compiled my own kernel (2.0.36) along with my own pcmcia modules > package. I notice that "hot swap" doesn't seem to work. That is, > when I push the card in or take the card out, the kernel doesn't seem > to recognise that anything has changed. i haven't used mine under the 2.0 kernels (only 2.2) but i believe that they are still supported just fine. a couple things to be aware of though: * if you're pcmcia slots are cardbus you need a fairly recent (more recent then is in slink/stabe i believe) pcmcia-cs package in order to be able to use it. either upgrade to potato/unstable or compile you own (but make sure it's a current version). * some of the realports are cardbus cards and some are just pcmcia cards. my pcmcia one works great, but my friends cardbus one doesn't. he "used the source" to get his working but i don't know if they are officially supported yet or not. if yours is a cardbus make sure you have the most recent version and check the supported cards list. > But fortunately running "/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart" seems to cause the > card to be recognised. I then have tried to use the modem. When I use > pon, plog waits for expect (OK) but never gets it! I thought it was > because maybe /dev/ttyS0 was the wrong serial port, but no, even when I > change it to /dev/ttyS1 it doesn't work. you can find out which tty your modem is on by: heyzeus(larry)$ cat /var/run/stab Socket 0: empty Socket 1: Xircom CEM56 Ethernet/Modem 1 network xirc2ps_cs 0 eth0 1 serial serial_cs 0 ttyS3 4 67 > Curious. Perhaps I should be using /dev/ttyS3 i would think so. remember that you can exclude certain irq's from being assinged by the pcmcia drivers by putting lines into /etc/pcmcia/config.opts like this: exclude irq 4 hope that helps, adam.
Re: laptop "metapackage"
this is getting a little off topic but ... > UUCP isnt complicated. It is completely straigforward and the correct > solution to multiple-user offline email, which ETRN is NOT an solution. i disagree, i think it is. :-) i have yet to meet someone who isn't already quite technical that has sucessfully setup a uucp connection without significant help. especially since uucp over tcp accounts are even harder to find then normal uucp accounts, this means that you have to setup chat scripts to dial up, there are several different config files which need to match and work together etc etc. > > complicated because it's designed to be so much more then just an offline > > mail protocol. > > *Aehm* UUCP is not a MAIL protocol. It is a file copy protocol which is > extended with some kind of "Take this file x with protocol y and after > receiving to z" ... err, my point exactly. pretty much all uucp is used for *now* is as an offline mail protocol, but it was designed to be used for much more then that. > But offline mail is laptop specific. You have 2 choices. Fetchmail > compatible pop-3 fetching and uucp. even though etrn is kinda an abomination it does work well so long as the provider has tweaked timeout values. i resisted providing etrn service for a long time because i thought it was ugly but it actually works pretty well if you're careful, has wide client support (really doesn't even need client support), has wide demand, and is very simple to implement and debug. > This is NOT a solution. The splitting of the one POP-3 account into > multiple unix accounts is NOT standardized and mostly not working as the > normal mail envelope gets lost (There are workarounds available). i agree that it's a hack, but it works, and every isp i've ever dealt with supports it. > But the "normal" laptop user wont to "disconnected file system" things, > the mail case is much more common. agreed. adam.
[carlton.davis@bell.ca: Linux keep on crashing my labtop]
could you please help this guy? Ciao, Hanno -- | Hanno Wagner | Member of the HTML Writers Guild | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Eine gewerbliche Nutzung meiner Email-Adressen ist nicht gestattet! | | 74 a3 53 cc 0b 19 - we did it! |Generation @ | #"Wir haben noch nix Blondes" # -- Nisi versucht Judith de.alt.arnooo schmackhaft zu machen. --- Begin Message --- I installed Debian 2.1 linux on my IBM Think Pad 770 with a 233MHz Pentium MMX with 128MB of RAM on a 2GB disk partition. I am running linux 3.0.36 kernel. The machine is dual bootable: M$ NT (not by choice) and linux. The problem that I am encountering is that my linux installation crashes my labtop just about every day since I installed it. When it crashes everything "freezes"--even the power button. When this happens the last entry in the syslog contains sometimes, multiple entries of the following line: "Date_and_time my_machine_name -- MARK --" Has anyone else encounter this phenomon? On my previous job my workstation was debian 2.1 linux and I administered a number of linux machines and these machines were very stable: they were up 24hrs/day pretty much all year round. I suspect that the problem is most likely related to my labtop hardware. Could someone tell me what I need to do to resolve this annoying problem? Thanks in advance. Please send a copy of any reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". -- Carlton --- End Message ---
Re: Xircom RealPort modem(/eth) not working
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 11:49:43PM +, Mark Phillips wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently installed Debian on a Toshiba Tecra 8000. I'm trying to > get a Xircom RealPort Ethernet + Modem card working. > > I've compiled my own kernel (2.0.36) along with my own pcmcia modules > package. I notice that "hot swap" doesn't seem to work. That is, > when I push the card in or take the card out, the kernel doesn't seem > to recognise that anything has changed. > > But fortunately running "/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart" seems to cause > the card to be recognised. I then have tried to use the modem. When > I use pon, plog waits for expect (OK) but never gets it! I thought it > was because maybe /dev/ttyS0 was the wrong serial port, but no, even > when I change it to /dev/ttyS1 it doesn't work. > > Does anyone know what's wrong? The pcmcia utils - I had no luck with the 3.0.14 - Instead i debianized the 3.1 pcmcia utils and those worked flawlessly ... Currently running Toshiba Tecra 8000 and an IBM Thinkpad 390 with the Cardbus Realport 10/100 + Modem without any problems ... I worked around the 3.0.14 pcmcia utils bugs by using the cardctl utility and suspending and resuming the cards. Afterwards they were detected ok ... 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
Re: laptop "metapackage"
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 12:34:48AM -0800, Adam Shand wrote: > this is getting a little off topic but ... > > > UUCP isnt complicated. It is completely straigforward and the correct > > solution to multiple-user offline email, which ETRN is NOT an solution. > > i disagree, i think it is. :-) i have yet to meet someone who isn't already > quite technical that has sucessfully setup a uucp connection without > significant help. especially since uucp over tcp accounts are even harder to > find then normal uucp accounts, this means that you have to setup chat > scripts to dial up, there are several different config files which need to > match and work together etc etc. I did the first time - There is documentation available which is ok. Basic configuration for modem dialing is <20 lines of config which is clear text and can easily be documented which is not the case right now (Example config is quiet bad in the uucp package) > > *Aehm* UUCP is not a MAIL protocol. It is a file copy protocol which is > > extended with some kind of "Take this file x with protocol y and after > > receiving to z" ... > > err, my point exactly. pretty much all uucp is used for *now* is as an > offline mail protocol, but it was designed to be used for much more then > that. That might be right - But this still doesnt make a Mail protocol from it :) 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
Re: [carlton.davis@bell.ca: Linux keep on crashing my labtop]
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 02:47:10PM +0200, Hanno Wagner wrote: > I installed Debian 2.1 linux on my IBM Think Pad 770 with a 233MHz > Pentium MMX with 128MB of RAM on a 2GB disk partition. I am running > linux 3.0.36 kernel. The machine is dual bootable: M$ NT (not by choice) > and linux. The problem that I am encountering is that my linux > installation crashes my labtop just about every day since I installed > it. When it crashes everything "freezes"--even the power button. When > this happens the last entry in the syslog contains sometimes, multiple > entries of the following line: > "Date_and_time my_machine_name -- MARK --" These are just keep-alives of the syslog daemon nothing unusual ... > Has anyone else encounter this phenomon? On my previous job my Nope .. Althought i havent got a 770 ... > workstation was debian 2.1 linux and I administered a number of linux > machines and these machines were very stable: they were up 24hrs/day > pretty much all year round. I am running Debian slink with a Kernel 2.2.12 + pcmcia + irda + alsa on my Thinkpad 390 without any problem ... > I suspect that the problem is most likely related to my labtop hardware. What modules do you have loaded - Any pcmcia utils ? Anything special you are doing while the machine crashes ? Do you have X Running ? You are running quiet an old Kernel though this might not mean its unstable there might be some fixes to known problems in the 2 1/2 Years of development between 2.0.36 and 2.2.12 ... Try a new kernel ... 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
[carlton.davis@bell.ca: Linux keep on crashing my labtop] (fwd)
Hey Carlton,
Is the machine crashing while you are using it, or does it become "frozen"
after leaving it unattended for some time?
I have a problem with my laptop's power saving "suspend" feature. After
being suspended, I sometimes can't wake up the laptop! I think someone
here mentioned a kernel config parameter ("allow interrupts during APM
BIOS calls" ?) that cures this. I haven't gotten around to trying it yet,
though.
-S
--- Begin Message ---
I installed Debian 2.1 linux on my IBM Think Pad 770 with a 233MHz
Pentium MMX with 128MB of RAM on a 2GB disk partition. I am running
linux 3.0.36 kernel. The machine is dual bootable: M$ NT (not by choice)
and linux. The problem that I am encountering is that my linux
installation crashes my labtop just about every day since I installed
it. When it crashes everything "freezes"--even the power button. When
this happens the last entry in the syslog contains sometimes, multiple
entries of the following line:
"Date_and_time my_machine_name -- MARK --"
Has anyone else encounter this phenomon? On my previous job my
workstation was debian 2.1 linux and I administered a number of linux
machines and these machines were very stable: they were up 24hrs/day
pretty much all year round.
I suspect that the problem is most likely related to my labtop hardware.
Could someone tell
me what I need to do to resolve this annoying problem? Thanks in
advance.
Please send a copy of any reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
--
Carlton
--- End Message ---
Re: [carlton.davis@bell.ca: Linux keep on crashing my labtop]
The latest stable kernel in Debian is 2.2.1. I'm downloading it now. Robert On 26-Sep-99 Florian Lohoff wrote: > On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 02:47:10PM +0200, Hanno Wagner wrote: >> I installed Debian 2.1 linux on my IBM Think Pad 770 with a 233MHz >> Pentium MMX with 128MB of RAM on a 2GB disk partition. I am running >> linux 3.0.36 kernel. The machine is dual bootable: M$ NT (not by choice) >> and linux. The problem that I am encountering is that my linux >> installation crashes my labtop just about every day since I installed >> it. When it crashes everything "freezes"--even the power button. When >> this happens the last entry in the syslog contains sometimes, multiple >> entries of the following line: >> "Date_and_time my_machine_name -- MARK --" > > These are just keep-alives of the syslog daemon nothing unusual ... > >> Has anyone else encounter this phenomon? On my previous job my > > Nope .. Althought i havent got a 770 ... > >> workstation was debian 2.1 linux and I administered a number of linux >> machines and these machines were very stable: they were up 24hrs/day >> pretty much all year round. > > I am running Debian slink with a Kernel 2.2.12 + pcmcia + irda + alsa on my > Thinkpad 390 without any problem ... > >> I suspect that the problem is most likely related to my labtop hardware. > > What modules do you have loaded - Any pcmcia utils ? Anything special > you are doing while the machine crashes ? Do you have X Running ? > > You are running quiet an old Kernel though this might not mean its > unstable there might be some fixes to known problems in the 2 1/2 Years > of development between 2.0.36 and 2.2.12 ... > > Try a new kernel ... > > 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 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sample kernel configs for my laptop?
Graham Williams decía: > I know the variety is limitless, but it would sure be nice if there > were a repository of "standard" config files for various "standard" > machines. As far as I know there's no such a repository, but you should check http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ I found very useful information about my Dell Inspiron there, and I recall having seen links about Latitude which were very inspiring for me too, altough the advice given is usually Red Hat especific. Kind regards... P.S: Sorry about my English, not my mother tongue. -- When you're root, the kernel will not protect you from yourself. Barbwired (The Translatrix) - U. Complutense de Madrid - Filología Inglesa Web personal http://www.bigfoot.com/~barbwired/ Proudly running Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 (Kernel 2.2.12) on a Dell Laptop
Re: Sample kernel configs for my laptop?
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 10:22:05AM +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > > Does such a thing, or similar exist? Where's a good place to get > kernel advice? What would be a good starting point for my config file > (rather than the one that comes with the kernel-source package? The one that comes with kernel-image (in /boot/config-). Ciao, William
Re: Xircom RealPort modem(/eth) not working
> I've recently installed Debian on a Toshiba Tecra 8000. I'm trying to > get a Xircom RealPort Ethernet + Modem card working. they are great :) > I've compiled my own kernel (2.0.36) along with my own pcmcia modules > package. I notice that "hot swap" doesn't seem to work. That is, > when I push the card in or take the card out, the kernel doesn't seem > to recognise that anything has changed. i haven't used mine under the 2.0 kernels (only 2.2) but i believe that they are still supported just fine. a couple things to be aware of though: * if you're pcmcia slots are cardbus you need a fairly recent (more recent then is in slink/stabe i believe) pcmcia-cs package in order to be able to use it. either upgrade to potato/unstable or compile you own (but make sure it's a current version). * some of the realports are cardbus cards and some are just pcmcia cards. my pcmcia one works great, but my friends cardbus one doesn't. he "used the source" to get his working but i don't know if they are officially supported yet or not. if yours is a cardbus make sure you have the most recent version and check the supported cards list. > But fortunately running "/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart" seems to cause the > card to be recognised. I then have tried to use the modem. When I use > pon, plog waits for expect (OK) but never gets it! I thought it was > because maybe /dev/ttyS0 was the wrong serial port, but no, even when I > change it to /dev/ttyS1 it doesn't work. you can find out which tty your modem is on by: heyzeus(larry)$ cat /var/run/stab Socket 0: empty Socket 1: Xircom CEM56 Ethernet/Modem 1 network xirc2ps_cs 0 eth0 1 serial serial_cs 0 ttyS3 4 67 > Curious. Perhaps I should be using /dev/ttyS3 i would think so. remember that you can exclude certain irq's from being assinged by the pcmcia drivers by putting lines into /etc/pcmcia/config.opts like this: exclude irq 4 hope that helps, adam.
Re: laptop "metapackage"
this is getting a little off topic but ... > UUCP isnt complicated. It is completely straigforward and the correct > solution to multiple-user offline email, which ETRN is NOT an solution. i disagree, i think it is. :-) i have yet to meet someone who isn't already quite technical that has sucessfully setup a uucp connection without significant help. especially since uucp over tcp accounts are even harder to find then normal uucp accounts, this means that you have to setup chat scripts to dial up, there are several different config files which need to match and work together etc etc. > > complicated because it's designed to be so much more then just an offline > > mail protocol. > > *Aehm* UUCP is not a MAIL protocol. It is a file copy protocol which is > extended with some kind of "Take this file x with protocol y and after > receiving to z" ... err, my point exactly. pretty much all uucp is used for *now* is as an offline mail protocol, but it was designed to be used for much more then that. > But offline mail is laptop specific. You have 2 choices. Fetchmail > compatible pop-3 fetching and uucp. even though etrn is kinda an abomination it does work well so long as the provider has tweaked timeout values. i resisted providing etrn service for a long time because i thought it was ugly but it actually works pretty well if you're careful, has wide client support (really doesn't even need client support), has wide demand, and is very simple to implement and debug. > This is NOT a solution. The splitting of the one POP-3 account into > multiple unix accounts is NOT standardized and mostly not working as the > normal mail envelope gets lost (There are workarounds available). i agree that it's a hack, but it works, and every isp i've ever dealt with supports it. > But the "normal" laptop user wont to "disconnected file system" things, > the mail case is much more common. agreed. adam.
[carlton.davis@bell.ca: Linux keep on crashing my labtop]
could you please help this guy? Ciao, Hanno -- | Hanno Wagner | Member of the HTML Writers Guild | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Eine gewerbliche Nutzung meiner Email-Adressen ist nicht gestattet! | | 74 a3 53 cc 0b 19 - we did it! |Generation @ | #"Wir haben noch nix Blondes" # -- Nisi versucht Judith de.alt.arnooo schmackhaft zu machen. --- Begin Message --- I installed Debian 2.1 linux on my IBM Think Pad 770 with a 233MHz Pentium MMX with 128MB of RAM on a 2GB disk partition. I am running linux 3.0.36 kernel. The machine is dual bootable: M$ NT (not by choice) and linux. The problem that I am encountering is that my linux installation crashes my labtop just about every day since I installed it. When it crashes everything "freezes"--even the power button. When this happens the last entry in the syslog contains sometimes, multiple entries of the following line: "Date_and_time my_machine_name -- MARK --" Has anyone else encounter this phenomon? On my previous job my workstation was debian 2.1 linux and I administered a number of linux machines and these machines were very stable: they were up 24hrs/day pretty much all year round. I suspect that the problem is most likely related to my labtop hardware. Could someone tell me what I need to do to resolve this annoying problem? Thanks in advance. Please send a copy of any reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". -- Carlton --- End Message ---
Re: Xircom RealPort modem(/eth) not working
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 11:49:43PM +, Mark Phillips wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently installed Debian on a Toshiba Tecra 8000. I'm trying to > get a Xircom RealPort Ethernet + Modem card working. > > I've compiled my own kernel (2.0.36) along with my own pcmcia modules > package. I notice that "hot swap" doesn't seem to work. That is, > when I push the card in or take the card out, the kernel doesn't seem > to recognise that anything has changed. > > But fortunately running "/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart" seems to cause > the card to be recognised. I then have tried to use the modem. When > I use pon, plog waits for expect (OK) but never gets it! I thought it > was because maybe /dev/ttyS0 was the wrong serial port, but no, even > when I change it to /dev/ttyS1 it doesn't work. > > Does anyone know what's wrong? The pcmcia utils - I had no luck with the 3.0.14 - Instead i debianized the 3.1 pcmcia utils and those worked flawlessly ... Currently running Toshiba Tecra 8000 and an IBM Thinkpad 390 with the Cardbus Realport 10/100 + Modem without any problems ... I worked around the 3.0.14 pcmcia utils bugs by using the cardctl utility and suspending and resuming the cards. Afterwards they were detected ok ... 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
Re: laptop "metapackage"
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 12:34:48AM -0800, Adam Shand wrote: > this is getting a little off topic but ... > > > UUCP isnt complicated. It is completely straigforward and the correct > > solution to multiple-user offline email, which ETRN is NOT an solution. > > i disagree, i think it is. :-) i have yet to meet someone who isn't already > quite technical that has sucessfully setup a uucp connection without > significant help. especially since uucp over tcp accounts are even harder to > find then normal uucp accounts, this means that you have to setup chat > scripts to dial up, there are several different config files which need to > match and work together etc etc. I did the first time - There is documentation available which is ok. Basic configuration for modem dialing is <20 lines of config which is clear text and can easily be documented which is not the case right now (Example config is quiet bad in the uucp package) > > *Aehm* UUCP is not a MAIL protocol. It is a file copy protocol which is > > extended with some kind of "Take this file x with protocol y and after > > receiving to z" ... > > err, my point exactly. pretty much all uucp is used for *now* is as an > offline mail protocol, but it was designed to be used for much more then > that. That might be right - But this still doesnt make a Mail protocol from it :) 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
Re: [carlton.davis@bell.ca: Linux keep on crashing my labtop]
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 02:47:10PM +0200, Hanno Wagner wrote: > I installed Debian 2.1 linux on my IBM Think Pad 770 with a 233MHz > Pentium MMX with 128MB of RAM on a 2GB disk partition. I am running > linux 3.0.36 kernel. The machine is dual bootable: M$ NT (not by choice) > and linux. The problem that I am encountering is that my linux > installation crashes my labtop just about every day since I installed > it. When it crashes everything "freezes"--even the power button. When > this happens the last entry in the syslog contains sometimes, multiple > entries of the following line: > "Date_and_time my_machine_name -- MARK --" These are just keep-alives of the syslog daemon nothing unusual ... > Has anyone else encounter this phenomon? On my previous job my Nope .. Althought i havent got a 770 ... > workstation was debian 2.1 linux and I administered a number of linux > machines and these machines were very stable: they were up 24hrs/day > pretty much all year round. I am running Debian slink with a Kernel 2.2.12 + pcmcia + irda + alsa on my Thinkpad 390 without any problem ... > I suspect that the problem is most likely related to my labtop hardware. What modules do you have loaded - Any pcmcia utils ? Anything special you are doing while the machine crashes ? Do you have X Running ? You are running quiet an old Kernel though this might not mean its unstable there might be some fixes to known problems in the 2 1/2 Years of development between 2.0.36 and 2.2.12 ... Try a new kernel ... 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
[carlton.davis@bell.ca: Linux keep on crashing my labtop] (fwd)
Hey Carlton,
Is the machine crashing while you are using it, or does it become "frozen"
after leaving it unattended for some time?
I have a problem with my laptop's power saving "suspend" feature. After
being suspended, I sometimes can't wake up the laptop! I think someone
here mentioned a kernel config parameter ("allow interrupts during APM
BIOS calls" ?) that cures this. I haven't gotten around to trying it yet,
though.
-S
--- Begin Message ---
I installed Debian 2.1 linux on my IBM Think Pad 770 with a 233MHz
Pentium MMX with 128MB of RAM on a 2GB disk partition. I am running
linux 3.0.36 kernel. The machine is dual bootable: M$ NT (not by choice)
and linux. The problem that I am encountering is that my linux
installation crashes my labtop just about every day since I installed
it. When it crashes everything "freezes"--even the power button. When
this happens the last entry in the syslog contains sometimes, multiple
entries of the following line:
"Date_and_time my_machine_name -- MARK --"
Has anyone else encounter this phenomon? On my previous job my
workstation was debian 2.1 linux and I administered a number of linux
machines and these machines were very stable: they were up 24hrs/day
pretty much all year round.
I suspect that the problem is most likely related to my labtop hardware.
Could someone tell
me what I need to do to resolve this annoying problem? Thanks in
advance.
Please send a copy of any reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
--
Carlton
--- End Message ---
Re: [carlton.davis@bell.ca: Linux keep on crashing my labtop]
The latest stable kernel in Debian is 2.2.1. I'm downloading it now. Robert On 26-Sep-99 Florian Lohoff wrote: > On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 02:47:10PM +0200, Hanno Wagner wrote: >> I installed Debian 2.1 linux on my IBM Think Pad 770 with a 233MHz >> Pentium MMX with 128MB of RAM on a 2GB disk partition. I am running >> linux 3.0.36 kernel. The machine is dual bootable: M$ NT (not by choice) >> and linux. The problem that I am encountering is that my linux >> installation crashes my labtop just about every day since I installed >> it. When it crashes everything "freezes"--even the power button. When >> this happens the last entry in the syslog contains sometimes, multiple >> entries of the following line: >> "Date_and_time my_machine_name -- MARK --" > > These are just keep-alives of the syslog daemon nothing unusual ... > >> Has anyone else encounter this phenomon? On my previous job my > > Nope .. Althought i havent got a 770 ... > >> workstation was debian 2.1 linux and I administered a number of linux >> machines and these machines were very stable: they were up 24hrs/day >> pretty much all year round. > > I am running Debian slink with a Kernel 2.2.12 + pcmcia + irda + alsa on my > Thinkpad 390 without any problem ... > >> I suspect that the problem is most likely related to my labtop hardware. > > What modules do you have loaded - Any pcmcia utils ? Anything special > you are doing while the machine crashes ? Do you have X Running ? > > You are running quiet an old Kernel though this might not mean its > unstable there might be some fixes to known problems in the 2 1/2 Years > of development between 2.0.36 and 2.2.12 ... > > Try a new kernel ... > > 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 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sample kernel configs for my laptop?
Graham Williams decía: > I know the variety is limitless, but it would sure be nice if there > were a repository of "standard" config files for various "standard" > machines. As far as I know there's no such a repository, but you should check http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ I found very useful information about my Dell Inspiron there, and I recall having seen links about Latitude which were very inspiring for me too, altough the advice given is usually Red Hat especific. Kind regards... P.S: Sorry about my English, not my mother tongue. -- When you're root, the kernel will not protect you from yourself. Barbwired (The Translatrix) - U. Complutense de Madrid - Filología Inglesa Web personal http://www.bigfoot.com/~barbwired/ Proudly running Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 (Kernel 2.2.12) on a Dell Laptop
Re: Sample kernel configs for my laptop?
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 10:22:05AM +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > > Does such a thing, or similar exist? Where's a good place to get > kernel advice? What would be a good starting point for my config file > (rather than the one that comes with the kernel-source package? The one that comes with kernel-image (in /boot/config-). Ciao, William
