Re: where is the configuration utility?
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 13-Jun-2000 Benjamin F. Zhou wrote: > > Hi, > > > > when installing the base disks, we went throught the configuration > > utility. > > How can I run it again after configuration? I missed setting up my > > pcmcis network card. > > want to redo it. > > > > last I checked, there is no utility after install. Edit > /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. It is clearly labeled. There is. It's pcnetconfig, part of the pcmcia-cs package. I used it to setup my Linksys card. As I remember - it's been a while - it's pretty much just a shell script that walks you through the settings. > > BTW, I can ping localhost, but can not even ping the machine name > > itself. How can I find out what's wrong, the card or setting. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" | "As far from Redmond as possible!" '91 GS500E| Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linksys PCMLM56 not working?
Some time back there was someone on this list that had a Linksys PCMLM56 card (combo 10/100 Ethernet and 56k modem) that they were having troubles with. I have that same card, and am wondering if anyone has figured out how to get it working under woody. When I was still running slink it worked just fine, but after upgrading to woody the modem part stopped. Near as I can tell the serial port portion of the card is just not being recognized. I'm currently using kernel 2.2.16, pcmcia-cs 3.1.14-1 (freshly compiled just a few hours ago). Fortunately at this point in time use of the modem is not too terribly important, but I'd like to get it working for whenever I do need it. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" | "As far from Redmond as possible!" '91 GS500E| Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: list Known working notebooks ?
Benjamin F. Zhou wrote: > Hi, > > where can I find a list of knowingly working notebooks for linux with x86 3.3.6 ? > > I am planning to buy a new notebook, but want to make sure linux and X works on > it. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where is the configuration utility?
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 13-Jun-2000 Benjamin F. Zhou wrote: > > Hi, > > > > when installing the base disks, we went throught the configuration > > utility. > > How can I run it again after configuration? I missed setting up my > > pcmcis network card. > > want to redo it. > > > > last I checked, there is no utility after install. Edit > /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. It is clearly labeled. There is. It's pcnetconfig, part of the pcmcia-cs package. I used it to setup my Linksys card. As I remember - it's been a while - it's pretty much just a shell script that walks you through the settings. > > BTW, I can ping localhost, but can not even ping the machine name > > itself. How can I find out what's wrong, the card or setting. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" | "As far from Redmond as possible!" '91 GS500E| Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow.
Linksys PCMLM56 not working?
Some time back there was someone on this list that had a Linksys PCMLM56 card (combo 10/100 Ethernet and 56k modem) that they were having troubles with. I have that same card, and am wondering if anyone has figured out how to get it working under woody. When I was still running slink it worked just fine, but after upgrading to woody the modem part stopped. Near as I can tell the serial port portion of the card is just not being recognized. I'm currently using kernel 2.2.16, pcmcia-cs 3.1.14-1 (freshly compiled just a few hours ago). Fortunately at this point in time use of the modem is not too terribly important, but I'd like to get it working for whenever I do need it. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" | "As far from Redmond as possible!" '91 GS500E| Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow.
Re: list Known working notebooks ?
Benjamin F. Zhou wrote: > Hi, > > where can I find a list of knowingly working notebooks for linux with x86 > 3.3.6 ? > > I am planning to buy a new notebook, but want to make sure linux and X works > on > it. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom.
Re: Card recommendations (was Re: pcmcia custom installation)
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. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom.
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. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom. pgpqr24Mj3sM0.pgp Description: PGP signature
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. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom. pgpGgGO59FhQH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Card recommendations (was Re: pcmcia custom installation)
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. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom. PGP signature
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. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom. PGP signature
