Re: EtherExpress Pro fails on 100baseTx
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, John Lapeyre wrote: > ( Sorry about the poor quoting. I am reading web > archives of the lists and cutting and pasting) > (please CC me) Well, I have to survive on a daily basis emails sent to me by management types using Outlook, so this mail looks fine to me :) > I still can't get the laptop to communicate with the > DFE 530 Tx (uses via-rhine), except when they are set > to 10baseT. Perhaps it is a problem with the via-rhine driver. > (I tried several versions of the driver). >tcpdump shows that, for instance, the laptop will send > and receive packets at 100baseT, but the via-rhine card will > only send and not recieve. The debugging option shows that > the netdev_rx routine in via-rhine.c is never entered, so > presumably the interrupt status register is not being set or > read correctly. (but the light on the via-rhine card flashes). Does that via-rhine card communicate correctly with other NIC's, and is it tested with different network cables (CAT5 or better) and decent HUBs/switches ?? > >Well, rememeber that a 16 bit PCMCIA bus can be compared with ISA > >speeds... and that's just enough to handle 10base networks. > I didn't know it was that bad. Well, I don't have any exact data, but it's about the same level. > > You do know that using Full Duplex with a HUB isn't going to work ?? > No, I didn't. But it has been failing with a crossover cable, > as well. But I wonder if there is more than one way to build a cable > or if this one is defective. I only paid attention to anything to do > with network hardware very recently. A crossover cable should work at FD, but I haven't tested that much with crossover cables myself. -- Tot ziens, Bart-Jan
Which version of Debian should I use?
Hi everybody. I've been reading this mailing list for a short time now, but from what I've read so far, Debian 2.2 is not yet elaborate enough for installing it on a laptop with a PCMCIA card. I have a cheapo 10mb/Ethernet card that is ne2000-compatible in my old IBM Thinkpad 750P (486/33). At the moment I'm running Debian 2.1r4 without any problems, but my desktop PC is a SuSE 6.3. I want both systems to run the same distribution, but unfortunately XFree 3.3.2 that comes with Debian 2.1r4 doesn't support my PC's graphic card. Can I get Debian 2.2 to run without any problems or should I wait for the final release? Another question: I've been using Debian 2.1r4 for about 2 weeks now and I still haven't found out how to 'configure' packages that are already installed. I know, that several packages include a *conf programme (pppconf, etc.) but not all of them. I had to --purge and -i apsfilter several times before I could get my printer to work, since I couldn't find any setup utility that I could invoke after installation. Thanks. -- -- Brothaus-Homepage: http://brothaus.home.pages.de -- --- Infos, MP3s und Pics über von und mit der Band --- -- PGP-Key > Mail mit Subject 'keyrequest' an [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which version of Debian should I use?
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 01:11:47PM +0100, Bernhard Heger wrote: > Hi everybody. > > I've been reading this mailing list for a short time now, but from what > I've read so far, Debian 2.2 is not yet elaborate enough for installing > it on a laptop with a PCMCIA card. > > I have a cheapo 10mb/Ethernet card that is ne2000-compatible in my old > IBM Thinkpad 750P (486/33). At the moment I'm running Debian 2.1r4 > without any problems, but my desktop PC is a SuSE 6.3. I want both > systems to run the same distribution, but unfortunately XFree 3.3.2 that > comes with Debian 2.1r4 doesn't support my PC's graphic card. Hi Bernhard. Would XFree 3.3.3.1 support your 750P's graphic hardware? If so, put the following line in /etc/apt/sources/list deb httlp://netgod.net x/ >From that site I wound up with 3.3.3.1 on this machine after a 2.1r4 install a couple of weeks ago. - Nate >> -- Packet | N0NB @ WF0A.#SCKS.KS.USA.NOAM | "None can love freedom Internet | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | heartily, but good Location | Wichita, Kansas USA EM17hs | men; the rest love not Wichita area exams; ham radio; Linux info @ | freedom, but license." http://www.qsl.net/n0nb/ | -- John Milton
Re: Which version of Debian should I use?
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Bernhard Heger wrote: > I've been reading this mailing list for a short time now, but from what > I've read so far, Debian 2.2 is not yet elaborate enough for installing > it on a laptop with a PCMCIA card. I'm running Potato on my laptop from the moment I had my laptop (or more accurate, when I've found a working HD for it..), 6 months ago. Installed from Slink and then kept regulary updating it with the latest Potato. I don't think it's less stable than Slink, but it is much more up-to-date and has lots of new packages to chooce from. > I have a cheapo 10mb/Ethernet card that is ne2000-compatible in my old > IBM Thinkpad 750P (486/33). At the moment I'm running Debian 2.1r4 > without any problems, but my desktop PC is a SuSE 6.3. I want both > systems to run the same distribution, but unfortunately XFree 3.3.2 that > comes with Debian 2.1r4 doesn't support my PC's graphic card. > > Can I get Debian 2.2 to run without any problems or should I wait for > the final release? It's almost final :) > I've been using Debian 2.1r4 for about 2 weeks now and I still haven't > found out how to 'configure' packages that are already installed. I > know, that several packages include a *conf programme (pppconf, etc.) > but not all of them. I had to --purge and -i apsfilter several times > before I could get my printer to work, since I couldn't find any setup > utility that I could invoke after installation. Well, currently most packages are including debconf support in Potato, and that will solve your problem :) If you want to reconfigure a package that has no reconfigure script, look at the /var/lib/dpkg/info/packagename.postinst script, maybe that will give you a clue how it's configured at install time. -- Tot ziens, Bart-Jan
Re: Which version of Debian should I use?
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 07:02:34AM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 01:11:47PM +0100, Bernhard Heger wrote: > Would XFree 3.3.3.1 support your 750P's graphic hardware? If so, > put the following line in /etc/apt/sources/list > > deb httlp://netgod.net x/ Or if your card needs 3.3.6 go to http://www.debian.org/~vincent for the very latest drivers compiled for slink. A lot of other stuff compiled for slink there, too Wouter -- Linux daria 2.2.14 #5 Wed Feb 2 01:06:59 CET 2000 i586 unknown 2:34pm up 1:21, 7 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
LiveWire Ethernet card, anyone?
I cannot convince my Ethernet LiveWire card to work. 'cardctl ident' reports it as a : product info: "New Media Corporation", "LiveWire 10/100", "Fast Ethernet" manfid: 0x0149, 0x0230 function: 6 (network) To get rid of the "unsupported card in socket 0" of cardmgr, I modified config.opts to add: card "New Media Live Wire Ethernet" version "New Media Corporation", "LiveWire 10/100", "Fast Ethernet" bind "nmclan_cs" (The card is in the SUPPORTED.CARDS file.) Now, cardmgr tries to start the proper driver, records the card in /var/run/stab, but it still reports (in daemon.log): Feb 2 16:58:45 helvetia cardmgr[97]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: Resource temporarily unavailable This is on a pure 'slink', with kernel 2.0.36 and PCMCIA-CS 3.0.5. But I get the same problem on a different laptop which has kernel 2.2.7 and PCMCIA-CS 3.0.9. The box is a Acer Extensa 500DX.
noflushd & hdparm
I finally have my laptop repaired. Yay! So I'm finally sorting out how to make it use less power. * I tracked down mobile-update and installed it. * I set my noatime on all my filesystems. * I installed noflushd, but now I'm wondering why. My BIOS settings let me set spindown & sleep timeouts for the hard drive, but they both only go up to 15 minutes. 15 mins of idle time is fine for a spindown, but I want the sleep timeout longer, because it takes a few seconds to wake up from that. `hdparm -Y /dev/hda` will put the drive into a deep sleep, but I don't see a way to have it happen automatically with a timeout. `hdparm -S num /dev/hda` seems to set a timeout for spindown. noflushd also seems to do a spindown, though the man page uses the word "sleep". What's the purpose of noflushd then? Is it just for drives that don't have idle timers built in? Is it redundant when `hdparm -S` works? Is there a way to set a sleep timeout?
