from:"Mike"

LinuxKnight wrote:

> The networking works fine, but I can't get the modem to work.  I know it 
> does work, because a while ago, I had both network and modem working in 
> RedHat 6.1.  Then I upgraded to 6.2 shortly after it came out, and the 
> modem stopped working- network still worked.

> If anyone can give pointers for getting the modem part working (while not 
> sacrificing the networking obviously ;-) ) I would appreciate it.

I too got bitten by this one.  Fortunately, it is a *very* easy fix.  All
that needs done is open the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts in an editor, find the
lines that say:

# Extra port range for IBM Token Ring
include port 0xa00-0xaff

and comment out that second line.  Restart the PCMCIA services, and the
modem should now work.

What's happening is that "include port" line is reserving that range of
ports for an IBM token ring adaptor.  Unfortunately, that's the port range
that the modem portion of the Linksys card needs to use.  So unless you have
a token ring card, you can safely comment out that line.
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  | everything is of great understanding,
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Re: Linksys 56k + 10/100 PCMCIA card

Laszlo Ladanyi wrote:
> I don't think this is exactly correct. The
> include port 0xa00-0xaff
> line only means that the pcmcia driver can use that address for IO port
> purposes. The comment above that line means that no other card but the IBM
> tokenring card is known to request anything in that memory range. 
> 
> On the other hand, it is possible that the driver picks a memory range in that
> segment to pass to the linksys card for use and the card is not happy with
> it. If that's the case, then commenting out the line (effectively forbidding
> the driver to use that range) does help.

Hhmmm.  I think that IO port range is the one the card was using when I
checked under Windoze.  And commenting out that line did let the modem work.
The rest of that explanation I cribbed from the web site that I got the info
from.  And of course now I can't find that site again.  ::grumble:: Should
have bookmarked it.  Ah well.  For all I know I've got a couple of different
things combined in my head or some such thing.

I could well have gotten the reason why completely fouled up, but the most
important part here is that commenting out that line is what made the modem
start working again.  Though if anyone here kows for sure and for certain
*why* commenting out that line lets the modem work, I would certainly be
interested to know.  Even if for no other reason than mere curiosity.

> On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Mike Werner wrote:
> 
> > 
> > LinuxKnight wrote:
> > 
> > > The networking works fine, but I can't get the modem to work.  I know it
> > > does work, because a while ago, I had both network and modem working in
> > > RedHat 6.1.  Then I upgraded to 6.2 shortly after it came out, and the
> > > modem stopped working- network still worked.
> > 
> > > If anyone can give pointers for getting the modem part working (while not
> > > sacrificing the networking obviously ;-) ) I would appreciate it.
> > 
> > I too got bitten by this one.  Fortunately, it is a *very* easy fix.  All
> > that needs done is open the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts in an editor, find the
> > lines that say:
> > 
> > # Extra port range for IBM Token Ring
> > include port 0xa00-0xaff
> > 
> > and comment out that second line.  Restart the PCMCIA services, and the
> > modem should now work.

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  | everything is of great understanding,
'91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the
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Re: help with DSL/DHCP install

2000-10-03 Thread Mike Phillips

Daniel Pittman wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, ari gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > anyway, now im stuck. i dont know how to install the rest of the
> > system. more specifically, i dont know how to get apt to understand
> > that there's a PCMCIA card there just dying to connect to some ftp
> > site with the files on it.
> >
> > any suggestions?  is it possible?  (im assuming so... ;)
> 
> Right. You don't mention a few details about what exactly you have
> installed so, if you have done bits already, ignore them. ;)
> 
> The first thing to do is get the PCMCIA network card working. This
> requires the PCMCIA packages installed.
> 
> You need to have 'pcmcia-cs' and 'pcmcia-modules-'
> installed.
> 
> If you built your own kernel from sources, grab the 'pcmcia-sources'
> package and build the modules from that. I expect you didn't, but rather
> used the pre-built kernel. So, grab the 'pcmcia-modules-2.2.17' (or
> whatever) package.
> 
> Once you have those installed, your 3COM card should be recognized by
> DHCP, incidentally, will require a client package installed. I would
> recommend the package 'dhclient', but others I know prefer 'dhcpcd' or
> 'pump'.
> 
> You should probably grab the package at the same time as you grab the
> PCMCIA ones. Install them and edit the config and it should just
> work(tm).
> 

Remember also that the isp may need you to provide a hostname with the
dhcp request to authenticate your request. (Win98 does this
automatically)

With pump this is pump -h hostname.

Mike

Re: sony vaio laptops

2000-11-26 Thread Mike Phillips

I had a PCG-Z505S and the only thing that I didn't get working was the
WinModem, but then I had high speed connection everywhere anyway so I
never bothered trying. The 12" screen is a delight to work with, X
configures up no trouble at all. Sound is well supported now. USB may
well take some effort, but I did get it working. 

The only complaint was the battery life, on the standard battery you
could may get 1.5 hours out of it is you're lucky. I don't know about
the 3x battery and I didn't have one. 

Only had CD not DVD so can't comment. 

Trick to installing from cd-rom, when the kernel boots  append:
ide2=0x180 to the lilo boot line and the cd is available as a regular
ide device, doesn't even need pcmcia support to access it.

This machine was great when I had both the laptop and a desktop machine,
but now I'm done to one machine only I found the Sony not quite upto the
task of day to day heavy development machine and went for a full size
laptop instead (Dell Latitude CPx) which is a great machine you just
have to live with the weight.

Mike

Xircom Realport 10/100+56k RBEM56G-100

2001-02-26 Thread Mike Basinger

I have a Dell Latitude C600 laptop that I'm trying to install Debian on. I
have a Xircom Realport pcmcia ethernet adapter in the laptop. I can not
find the proper driver during install. The xircom web page said it would
use the xirc2ps_cs module, but I can not locate it.

Is this something I will have to re-compile the kernel for?

Thanks,
Mike

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Re: hdd defrag

On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 08:28:03PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 04:54:57PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 11:14:35AM -0700, Jeff Coppock wrote:
> > > I was wondering if it's necessary to defragment ext2fs or reiserfs?  I do 
> > > this on a regular basis with my Windoze machines.
> > > 
> > > What utilities could be used for this, if it's recommended?
> > 
> >  ext2 is smart, and does a good job of not fragmenting files.  search the
> > web, lots of good info is out there.  Reiserfs is also smart like that.
> > (BTW, it's the allocation algorithms in particular that are smart.  They put
> > new files where they will have room to grow without fragmenting.)
> > 
> >  If you have an almost-full filesystem, there won't be room to avoid
> > fragmentation, so you should avoid that.  ext2 is most efficient when less
> > than 90% full, or so.  (I don't know what a good cutoff value should be, but
> > 90% is probably reasonable.)
> > 
> >  There is an ext2defrag or something around, so you can use that if you want
> > to.  Most people never defrag their FSes, and have no problems with them.
> 
> My own experiences with defragging ext2 have generally been: Don't. On
> the other hand, if you happen to shrink an ext2 partition with some
> utility like Partition Magic (and I haven't tried ext2 resize yet) it'll
> actually help to run a defrag on it afterward. On the other hand, you
> can't quit in the middle of defragging, and you can't defrag the current
> root partition.

And you can't defrag a partition when it is in use/mounted.  Linux people
have generally designed the system so it doesn't need defrag, and haven't
put in the support for degrag except in extreme cases.  That's why you have
to unmount before defrag...

I have a partition that is root, and has gotten to 99% and back down to
about 80% usage.  Why wouldn't I want to defrag that partition?

> 
> -- Ferret
> who learned the hard way, when the power failed during a defrag once.
>

Maybe it would be safer to just copy everything to another drive and use that?

hmm, I need to repartition anyway, my 17GB root partition is too big...

Mike

Re: P-P-Please Help

On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 10:52:20PM -0700, Discipal_20 wrote:
> Hi what do you know about Yahoo Boot Scripts your information would be quite 
> helpful thanks.

You will not get any help with a question like that.  Post your problem, and
a description of your setup and then make sure you post it to the right list.

Mike

Re: hdd defrag

On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 12:12:40PM -0500, Hank Barta wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 08:28:03PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 
> > Maybe it would be safer to just copy everything to another drive and use 
> > that?
> 
> The stock answer for any Unix like partition (and probably any OS)
> is to backup using something that understands files, recreate the file
> system and reload. When the files are reloaded from tape or whatever,
> they will remain as unfragmented as the OS and FS drivers allow.
> 
> > 
> > hmm, I need to repartition anyway, my 17GB root partition is too big...
> 
> And you will automatically defrag if you backup/restore or copy.
> 
> Does anyone know any reasons why this may no longer be a good idea?
> I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned.
> 
Well, I pretty much did in my previous message.  In this case the media would be
a hard drive, and depending on the cercumstatces, the target drive could be
use from then on...

The main reason that this doesn't come up very often is because it doesn't
look as easy as just running a defrag.

In this case, windows is more advanced in defragmenting because it has been
needed a _lot_ more than on unix.  On windows, it is common to defrag daily
or weekly.  On unix, it is common to never do it, or to have it happen to be
done yearly or so from replaced/upgraded drives.

Mike

Re: hardware profiles?

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:30:11PM -0400, Matt Pepper wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> I have a Dell laptop I am endeavoring to put Debian on however I have a
> query I'd like to get answered first. Does anyone know if there is a way of
> handling multiple hardware profiles in Debian similar to the concept within
> Windows? I ask because when I am at home I have the laptop docked which
> means not only the PCMCIA ethernet port is present but also an ethernet card
> within the port replicator is present. When I am at work only the PCMCIA
> ethernet port is available. Does anyone see any problem with this? Any way
> to handle the two configurations gracefully?
> 
I can think of one if you like kernel modules:

Note: I don't know pcmcia-cs

Write a script that switches the /etc/modules files based on detecting the
docking port from whatever /proc file shows it.  It really won't hurt
anything to have both loaded...  Do you want to change other things based on
being un/docked?  Do you use dhcp in both instances, what exactly do you
want to change based on the hardware available.  In your example, you'll
have ethernet on both...

Mike

Re: hardware profiles?

On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:40:58AM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote:
> 
> I thought netenv was used for different profiles (eg. home, office, other).
> Brendan Simon.
> 
Oh, there I go trying to start from scratch again.  Thanks for the pointer,
when I get a laptop, I'll look into it. :)  Matt, take a look at it...

Mike

Re: hardware profiles?

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:08:28PM -0400, Matt Pepper wrote:
> My biggest concern is that I wonder if the PC card ethernet port will hang
> at home with no network cable attached and no DHCP server responding to it.
> Any idea if this will be a problem?
> 
Why not just eject it?

The only problem may come from eth0 pointing to the pcmcia card when the
laptop is docked, your net scripts will get confused...

If you load pcmcia last, you probably won't have trouble.

Mike

Re: possible to restore damaged Lilo in MBR

2001-08-14 Thread Mike Alborn

> After reinstalled win2k, I can no longer access
> my existing Linux installation. Sadly, I didn't create a boot disk.

I don't know if this will work out of w2k, but it's worth a shot. Note this
will only work if you can boot the machine from a floppy, and if you know
the location of your root partition (/dev/hda1 etc)

- First, go to a debian mirror site, say

http://mirror.direct.ca/pub/linux/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.23-2001-04-15/images-1.44/

and get the file called rescue.bin

- Head to mirror.direct.ca/pub/liunx/debian/tools and get rawrite1.zip or
rawrite2.zip (these are programs to let you do a dd from dos.)

- unpack rawrite and use it to dump the rescue.bin image onto a blank floppy.
- Reboot the machine from the floppy at the boot: prompt, type
rescue root= hit F1/F3 for help.

-Once the machine boots, mount the boot partition (if you have a seperate one),
set up your /etc/lilo.conf (if needed),invoke /sbin/lilo, and restart the
machine from the hard disk.

I use a similar method whenever my MBR gets trashed, except I have a Mandrake
CD lying around, which works along the same lines.

BTW, if you don't know the location of your root partition, and you can find
a Mandrake CD or something that works similarly, the CD has a self-contained
installation on it, allowing you to mount filesystems and determine which one's
the root.

> thanks a lot for any tip.

No prob. Hope this does the trick.

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APM suspend/resume problem on Toshiba Satellite 2800DVD-C302

2001-08-29 Thread Mike Alborn

Hi,
This might have been posted before, but I couldn't find it in the
archives...
I'm having trouble getting apm to work on my laptop. apm -s (suspend)
works (although slightly differently than Windows), and when I resume, the
following occurs:

* the display remains blank
* the network is down
* the system responds to the keyboard

By restarting the interface, I can get the network to respond, so I am
able to ssh in from another machine and take a look. I can manually activate the
backlight, but the screen is displaying patches of multicoloured vertical bars.
It seems that I can make a particular device work by resetting it (pcmcia,
sound, etc.,) but I have not found a way to reset the display.
BTW, I am suspending from the console.
I've played with the different kernel options for the apm module, but
they seem to be geared toward working around a machine that totally hangs; in
any case, I have had no luck changing these settings.


# uname -r
2.4.5-586 (this is the debian kernel-image-2.4.5-586 package)


apm options:
CONFIG_APM=m
CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set
CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE is not set
CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE is not set
CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK is not set
CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT=y
CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS is not set
CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF is not set

Does anyone know of a way to fix this problem? I can provide more
information on the system, if needed.

-Mike Alborn
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TP 590x kernel 2.4.10 i82365 module won't insert

[I also sent a very similar message to the linux-thinkpad list yesterday,
apologies to anyone that sees it twice.]

I've installed Debian Potato (stable) on my Thinkpad 390X and a Xircom
PCMCIA ethernet card worked fine. I upgraded it to Woody (testing) and it
continued working until I tried to upgrade to the stock Debian 2.4.9
kernel. At that point I get:

Intel PCIC probe: not found
i82365.o: init_module: No such device

I made my own 2.4.10 kernel and get the same message when I tried to
modprobe i82365 manually.

/proc/pci contains (among other things):

Bus 0, device 3, function 0:
  CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1251B (rev 0).
  IRQ 10.
  Master Capable. No Bursts. Min Gnt=192.Max Lat=7.
  Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x1400 [0x14000fff].
Bus 0, device 3, function 1:
  CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1251B (#2) (rev 0).
  IRQ 10.
  Master Capable. No Bursts. Min Gnt=192.Max Lat=7.
  Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x2000 [0x2fff].

The machine has 320Mb of RAM.

I've done lots of google searches, looked at the archives for this list and
meddled in the BIOS to ensure that all the PCI INT[ABCD] lines were getting
unique IRQs but none of this has helped.

Has anyone got any ideas on my next best move?

TIA

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Re: TP 590x kernel 2.4.10 i82365 module won't insert

On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 10:59:52AM +0100, I wrote:
> I've installed Debian Potato (stable) on my Thinkpad 390X and a Xircom
> PCMCIA ethernet card worked fine. I upgraded it to Woody (testing) and it
> continued working until I tried to upgrade to the stock Debian 2.4.9
> kernel. At that point I get:
> 
> Intel PCIC probe: not found
> i82365.o: init_module: No such device

The solution was to use yenta_socket rather than i82365. It appears that
there is a third type of PCMCIA chip driver that none of the documentation
mentions :-(

Everything works now. Thanks to the people who replied privately.

-- 
Mike Crowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Card recommendations (was Re: pcmcia custom installation)

2000-08-29 Thread Mike Werner

Daniel E. Baumann wrote:
> How about Linksys Etherfast 10/100 56K V.90 combo card (manufacturers part
> number PCMLM56). Setup instructions can be found at
> http://www.linksys.com/support/support.asp?spid=26. This is the card that I
> have had my eye on for a while and when I get the cash I am gonna spring for
> it.

I have that card.  With one slight exception it has worked very well for me. 
The single exception is more the fault of the default config of the
pcmcia-cs package and not the card.  Note: with slink this problem did not
yet exist - it came about with the potato pcmcia package, and I believe
still exists in the woody version.

The default config for the pcmcia package reserves certain resources for
various card types.  One of those is the token ring cards.  Unfortunately
the resource reserved for the token ring cards is the same as needed for the
modem portion of the Linksys card.

It is easily fixed, however.  Go into the file /etc/pcmcia/config.opts  Find
the section where a range of IO ports is reserved for the IBM Token Ring
cards, and comment out that line.  The modem portion of the Linksys card
will then work just fine.

So, bearing in mind that you will need to do a slight modification to the
pcmcia configuration (if you are running either potato or woody) I would
certainly reccomend the PCMLM56 card as being well worth the money.
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Re: alsa sound on vaio (neomagic 256qv) chipset / ymfpci

2000-09-15 Thread Mike Phillips


Bruno Waes wrote:
> 
> I have put debian 2.2 on my sony vaio F180, this laptop uses a Neomagic
> 256AV chipset, this is an integrated sound and graphic adapter.
> 
> I had no problem configuring the graphics adapter as now x and helixgnome is
> running smoothly.
> 
> but i have some problems with the sound, i installed from source the alsa
> 0.58b drivers, because i read on several sites that the Yamaha ymfpci driver
> works with this card.

There is a nm256 driver that comes with the kernel sources, just select
the option for the oss sound modules and select the nm256 and you should
be good to go.

I've got a Z505SX with this chip and it work fine.

Mike


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Re: alsa sound on vaio (neomagic 256qv) chipset / ymfpci

2000-09-16 Thread Mike Phillips


> i removes the alsa drivers and compiled my kernel with this driver but in
> dmesg i just get
> 
> Sound initialization started
> Sound initialization complete
> 
> so nothing found ???
> 
> any ideas?

What does the output of lsmod look like, does it list the correct
modules.

I've also just noticed that my 505 has got the nm256AV, not the qv, if
that makes any difference.

Mike


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Re: alsa sound on vaio (neomagic 256qv) chipset / ymfpci

2000-09-17 Thread Mike Phillips


> lspci gives
> ...
> 00.08.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation [MagicGraph 256AV]
> (rev 20)
> 00.08.1 VGA Multimedia audio controller: Neomagic Corporation [MagicMedia
> 256AV] (rev 20)
> ...
> 

Yep, exactly the same as my machine.

> 
> lsmod only gives
> 
> pcnet_cs
> 8390
> ds
> i82365
> pcmcia_core
> 

My lsmod with sound working:

nm256
sound
soundcore
df
i82365
pcmcia_core
eepro100

I do compile the sound as a module and just issue the modprobe nm256 to
load up the sound and soundcore modules.

Mike


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Re: Linksys 56k + 10/100 PCMCIA card


LinuxKnight wrote:

> The networking works fine, but I can't get the modem to work.  I know it 
> does work, because a while ago, I had both network and modem working in 
> RedHat 6.1.  Then I upgraded to 6.2 shortly after it came out, and the 
> modem stopped working- network still worked.

> If anyone can give pointers for getting the modem part working (while not 
> sacrificing the networking obviously ;-) ) I would appreciate it.

I too got bitten by this one.  Fortunately, it is a *very* easy fix.  All
that needs done is open the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts in an editor, find the
lines that say:

# Extra port range for IBM Token Ring
include port 0xa00-0xaff

and comment out that second line.  Restart the PCMCIA services, and the
modem should now work.

What's happening is that "include port" line is reserving that range of
ports for an IBM token ring adaptor.  Unfortunately, that's the port range
that the modem portion of the Linksys card needs to use.  So unless you have
a token ring card, you can safely comment out that line.
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Re: Linksys 56k + 10/100 PCMCIA card

Laszlo Ladanyi wrote:
> I don't think this is exactly correct. The
> include port 0xa00-0xaff
> line only means that the pcmcia driver can use that address for IO port
> purposes. The comment above that line means that no other card but the IBM
> tokenring card is known to request anything in that memory range. 
> 
> On the other hand, it is possible that the driver picks a memory range in that
> segment to pass to the linksys card for use and the card is not happy with
> it. If that's the case, then commenting out the line (effectively forbidding
> the driver to use that range) does help.

Hhmmm.  I think that IO port range is the one the card was using when I
checked under Windoze.  And commenting out that line did let the modem work.
The rest of that explanation I cribbed from the web site that I got the info
from.  And of course now I can't find that site again.  ::grumble:: Should
have bookmarked it.  Ah well.  For all I know I've got a couple of different
things combined in my head or some such thing.

I could well have gotten the reason why completely fouled up, but the most
important part here is that commenting out that line is what made the modem
start working again.  Though if anyone here kows for sure and for certain
*why* commenting out that line lets the modem work, I would certainly be
interested to know.  Even if for no other reason than mere curiosity.

> On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Mike Werner wrote:
> 
> > 
> > LinuxKnight wrote:
> > 
> > > The networking works fine, but I can't get the modem to work.  I know it
> > > does work, because a while ago, I had both network and modem working in
> > > RedHat 6.1.  Then I upgraded to 6.2 shortly after it came out, and the
> > > modem stopped working- network still worked.
> > 
> > > If anyone can give pointers for getting the modem part working (while not
> > > sacrificing the networking obviously ;-) ) I would appreciate it.
> > 
> > I too got bitten by this one.  Fortunately, it is a *very* easy fix.  All
> > that needs done is open the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts in an editor, find the
> > lines that say:
> > 
> > # Extra port range for IBM Token Ring
> > include port 0xa00-0xaff
> > 
> > and comment out that second line.  Restart the PCMCIA services, and the
> > modem should now work.

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Re: help with DSL/DHCP install

2000-10-03 Thread Mike Phillips


Daniel Pittman wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, ari gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > anyway, now im stuck. i dont know how to install the rest of the
> > system. more specifically, i dont know how to get apt to understand
> > that there's a PCMCIA card there just dying to connect to some ftp
> > site with the files on it.
> >
> > any suggestions?  is it possible?  (im assuming so... ;)
> 
> Right. You don't mention a few details about what exactly you have
> installed so, if you have done bits already, ignore them. ;)
> 
> The first thing to do is get the PCMCIA network card working. This
> requires the PCMCIA packages installed.
> 
> You need to have 'pcmcia-cs' and 'pcmcia-modules-'
> installed.
> 
> If you built your own kernel from sources, grab the 'pcmcia-sources'
> package and build the modules from that. I expect you didn't, but rather
> used the pre-built kernel. So, grab the 'pcmcia-modules-2.2.17' (or
> whatever) package.
> 
> Once you have those installed, your 3COM card should be recognized by
> DHCP, incidentally, will require a client package installed. I would
> recommend the package 'dhclient', but others I know prefer 'dhcpcd' or
> 'pump'.
> 
> You should probably grab the package at the same time as you grab the
> PCMCIA ones. Install them and edit the config and it should just
> work(tm).
> 

Remember also that the isp may need you to provide a hostname with the
dhcp request to authenticate your request. (Win98 does this
automatically)

With pump this is pump -h hostname.

Mike


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Re: sony vaio laptops

2000-11-26 Thread Mike Phillips


I had a PCG-Z505S and the only thing that I didn't get working was the
WinModem, but then I had high speed connection everywhere anyway so I
never bothered trying. The 12" screen is a delight to work with, X
configures up no trouble at all. Sound is well supported now. USB may
well take some effort, but I did get it working. 

The only complaint was the battery life, on the standard battery you
could may get 1.5 hours out of it is you're lucky. I don't know about
the 3x battery and I didn't have one. 

Only had CD not DVD so can't comment. 

Trick to installing from cd-rom, when the kernel boots  append:
ide2=0x180 to the lilo boot line and the cd is available as a regular
ide device, doesn't even need pcmcia support to access it.

This machine was great when I had both the laptop and a desktop machine,
but now I'm done to one machine only I found the Sony not quite upto the
task of day to day heavy development machine and went for a full size
laptop instead (Dell Latitude CPx) which is a great machine you just
have to live with the weight.

Mike


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Xircom Realport 10/100+56k RBEM56G-100

2001-02-26 Thread Mike Basinger


I have a Dell Latitude C600 laptop that I'm trying to install Debian on. I
have a Xircom Realport pcmcia ethernet adapter in the laptop. I can not
find the proper driver during install. The xircom web page said it would
use the xirc2ps_cs module, but I can not locate it.

Is this something I will have to re-compile the kernel for?

Thanks,
Mike

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Re: hdd defrag


On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 08:28:03PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 04:54:57PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 11:14:35AM -0700, Jeff Coppock wrote:
> > > I was wondering if it's necessary to defragment ext2fs or reiserfs?  I do this 
>on a regular basis with my Windoze machines.
> > > 
> > > What utilities could be used for this, if it's recommended?
> > 
> >  ext2 is smart, and does a good job of not fragmenting files.  search the
> > web, lots of good info is out there.  Reiserfs is also smart like that.
> > (BTW, it's the allocation algorithms in particular that are smart.  They put
> > new files where they will have room to grow without fragmenting.)
> > 
> >  If you have an almost-full filesystem, there won't be room to avoid
> > fragmentation, so you should avoid that.  ext2 is most efficient when less
> > than 90% full, or so.  (I don't know what a good cutoff value should be, but
> > 90% is probably reasonable.)
> > 
> >  There is an ext2defrag or something around, so you can use that if you want
> > to.  Most people never defrag their FSes, and have no problems with them.
> 
> My own experiences with defragging ext2 have generally been: Don't. On
> the other hand, if you happen to shrink an ext2 partition with some
> utility like Partition Magic (and I haven't tried ext2 resize yet) it'll
> actually help to run a defrag on it afterward. On the other hand, you
> can't quit in the middle of defragging, and you can't defrag the current
> root partition.

And you can't defrag a partition when it is in use/mounted.  Linux people
have generally designed the system so it doesn't need defrag, and haven't
put in the support for degrag except in extreme cases.  That's why you have
to unmount before defrag...

I have a partition that is root, and has gotten to 99% and back down to
about 80% usage.  Why wouldn't I want to defrag that partition?

> 
> -- Ferret
> who learned the hard way, when the power failed during a defrag once.
>

Maybe it would be safer to just copy everything to another drive and use that?

hmm, I need to repartition anyway, my 17GB root partition is too big...

Mike


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Re: P-P-Please Help

On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 10:52:20PM -0700, Discipal_20 wrote:
> Hi what do you know about Yahoo Boot Scripts your information would be quite helpful 
>thanks.

You will not get any help with a question like that.  Post your problem, and
a description of your setup and then make sure you post it to the right list.

Mike

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Re: hdd defrag


On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 12:12:40PM -0500, Hank Barta wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 08:28:03PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 
> > Maybe it would be safer to just copy everything to another drive and use that?
> 
> The stock answer for any Unix like partition (and probably any OS)
> is to backup using something that understands files, recreate the file
> system and reload. When the files are reloaded from tape or whatever,
> they will remain as unfragmented as the OS and FS drivers allow.
> 
> > 
> > hmm, I need to repartition anyway, my 17GB root partition is too big...
> 
> And you will automatically defrag if you backup/restore or copy.
> 
> Does anyone know any reasons why this may no longer be a good idea?
> I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned.
> 
Well, I pretty much did in my previous message.  In this case the media would be
a hard drive, and depending on the cercumstatces, the target drive could be
use from then on...

The main reason that this doesn't come up very often is because it doesn't
look as easy as just running a defrag.

In this case, windows is more advanced in defragmenting because it has been
needed a _lot_ more than on unix.  On windows, it is common to defrag daily
or weekly.  On unix, it is common to never do it, or to have it happen to be
done yearly or so from replaced/upgraded drives.

Mike


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Re: hardware profiles?

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:30:11PM -0400, Matt Pepper wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> I have a Dell laptop I am endeavoring to put Debian on however I have a
> query I'd like to get answered first. Does anyone know if there is a way of
> handling multiple hardware profiles in Debian similar to the concept within
> Windows? I ask because when I am at home I have the laptop docked which
> means not only the PCMCIA ethernet port is present but also an ethernet card
> within the port replicator is present. When I am at work only the PCMCIA
> ethernet port is available. Does anyone see any problem with this? Any way
> to handle the two configurations gracefully?
> 
I can think of one if you like kernel modules:

Note: I don't know pcmcia-cs

Write a script that switches the /etc/modules files based on detecting the
docking port from whatever /proc file shows it.  It really won't hurt
anything to have both loaded...  Do you want to change other things based on
being un/docked?  Do you use dhcp in both instances, what exactly do you
want to change based on the hardware available.  In your example, you'll
have ethernet on both...

Mike

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Re: hardware profiles?


On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:40:58AM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote:
> 
> I thought netenv was used for different profiles (eg. home, office, other).
> Brendan Simon.
> 
Oh, there I go trying to start from scratch again.  Thanks for the pointer,
when I get a laptop, I'll look into it. :)  Matt, take a look at it...

Mike


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Re: hardware profiles?

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:08:28PM -0400, Matt Pepper wrote:
> My biggest concern is that I wonder if the PC card ethernet port will hang
> at home with no network cable attached and no DHCP server responding to it.
> Any idea if this will be a problem?
> 
Why not just eject it?

The only problem may come from eth0 pointing to the pcmcia card when the
laptop is docked, your net scripts will get confused...

If you load pcmcia last, you probably won't have trouble.

Mike

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Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 4200

2001-07-31 Thread Mike Alborn

Hello,

Don't know if this helps any, but I've just finished getting most of this
stuff working on a Satellite 2800, and Debian will probably have everything
you need already packaged.

On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 05:05:21PM +0100, Alex Page wrote:
.
.
.
> 1) I've got a "3Com 10/100 LAN PC Card" PCMCIA NIC in my laptop. I can't
> find any information about Linux drivers on 3Com's (very poor) website.
> Where can I found out whether Linux drivers are available for this product?

If your card's any older than brand new, I'd be willing to be that it will
work fine, provided the PCMCIA support is there. Of course, I can't say for
sure without a model number (FCC lookup perhaps?) I do know that there are
drivers kernel 2.4.4 for 3Com's 574 and 589 NICs.

AFAIK, There are only two kinds of PCMCIA, and both are supported.

> 
> 2) Ditto for the inbuilt Toshiba 56k modem

http://www.linmodems.org is the home of the Linux-for-winmodems project. A lot
of manufacturers have released drivers for their winmodems, and people have
hacked out others. The site had everything I needed to get my Satellite 2800's
modem up and running.

> 
> 3) Sound drivers - the internal soundcard works well under Win98, and I'd
> rather like it to continue working under Debian...

My 2800, and every other Toshiba laptop I've seen, new and old, is running a
Yamaha sound chipset (the ymfpci kernel driver). I found some specific
information for my sound card from Toshiba's website.

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Re: possible to restore damaged Lilo in MBR

2001-08-14 Thread Mike Alborn

> After reinstalled win2k, I can no longer access
> my existing Linux installation. Sadly, I didn't create a boot disk.

- First, go to a debian mirror site, say

http://mirror.direct.ca/pub/linux/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.23-2001-04-15/images-1.44/

and get the file called rescue.bin

- Head to mirror.direct.ca/pub/liunx/debian/tools and get rawrite1.zip or
rawrite2.zip (these are programs to let you do a dd from dos.)

- unpack rawrite and use it to dump the rescue.bin image onto a blank floppy.
- Reboot the machine from the floppy at the boot: prompt, type
rescue root= hit F1/F3 for help.

-Once the machine boots, mount the boot partition (if you have a seperate one),
set up your /etc/lilo.conf (if needed),invoke /sbin/lilo, and restart the
machine from the hard disk.

I use a similar method whenever my MBR gets trashed, except I have a Mandrake
CD lying around, which works along the same lines.

> thanks a lot for any tip.

No prob. Hope this does the trick.

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APM suspend/resume problem on Toshiba Satellite 2800DVD-C302

2001-08-29 Thread Mike Alborn


Hi,
This might have been posted before, but I couldn't find it in the
archives...
I'm having trouble getting apm to work on my laptop. apm -s (suspend)
works (although slightly differently than Windows), and when I resume, the
following occurs:

* the display remains blank
* the network is down
* the system responds to the keyboard

By restarting the interface, I can get the network to respond, so I am
able to ssh in from another machine and take a look. I can manually activate the
backlight, but the screen is displaying patches of multicoloured vertical bars.
It seems that I can make a particular device work by resetting it (pcmcia,
sound, etc.,) but I have not found a way to reset the display.
BTW, I am suspending from the console.
I've played with the different kernel options for the apm module, but
they seem to be geared toward working around a machine that totally hangs; in
any case, I have had no luck changing these settings.


# uname -r
2.4.5-586 (this is the debian kernel-image-2.4.5-586 package)


apm options:
CONFIG_APM=m
CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set
CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE is not set
CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE is not set
CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK is not set
CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT=y
CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS is not set
CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF is not set

Does anyone know of a way to fix this problem? I can provide more
information on the system, if needed.

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Re: kde & power savings

2001-11-19 Thread Mike G




> The problem is that the hard drive will park (spin down) and then in 
<1> second, spin back up again.  This repeats ad infinitum 
regardless of my> activities on the desktop.I've noticed the same 
thing on my Thinkpad 600, except I use blackboxstandalone for my window 
manager, and just run KDE apps. Whenever I launch aKDE app, I get the same 
behavior.> I switch to fvwm2 for a while to see if the problem would 
continue.  I> did this because I know that gnome would also park 
nicely but had since> Now, it parks just fine.  It's 
wonderful.  It's exactly as advertized.When I run blackbox with NO 
kde apps, it works wonderfully. KDE starts abunch of communications daemons, 
specificly  dcopserver and kded. I knowthat the dcopserver provides 
some sort of interprocess communication betweenkde apps, which shouldn't 
have any disk overhead. The kded program, however,is described as "KDE 
Daemon - triggers Sycoca database updates as needed."Sounds 
fishy...    I am going to try and take a look at this over 
vacation, and see if itis indeed what is causing the disk 
writes.---Michael Gayeski[EMAIL PROTECTED]

TP 590x kernel 2.4.10 i82365 module won't insert


[I also sent a very similar message to the linux-thinkpad list yesterday,
apologies to anyone that sees it twice.]

I've installed Debian Potato (stable) on my Thinkpad 390X and a Xircom
PCMCIA ethernet card worked fine. I upgraded it to Woody (testing) and it
continued working until I tried to upgrade to the stock Debian 2.4.9
kernel. At that point I get:

Intel PCIC probe: not found
i82365.o: init_module: No such device

I made my own 2.4.10 kernel and get the same message when I tried to
modprobe i82365 manually.

/proc/pci contains (among other things):

Bus 0, device 3, function 0:
  CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1251B (rev 0).
  IRQ 10.
  Master Capable. No Bursts. Min Gnt=192.Max Lat=7.
  Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x1400 [0x14000fff].
Bus 0, device 3, function 1:
  CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1251B (#2) (rev 0).
  IRQ 10.
  Master Capable. No Bursts. Min Gnt=192.Max Lat=7.
  Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x2000 [0x2fff].

The machine has 320Mb of RAM.

I've done lots of google searches, looked at the archives for this list and
meddled in the BIOS to ensure that all the PCI INT[ABCD] lines were getting
unique IRQs but none of this has helped.

Has anyone got any ideas on my next best move?

TIA

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