Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook
There is a list of every supported card at http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS BTW, I just set up a Aironet PC4800 wireless today using 3.1.17 and it works great "Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > My employer is about to buy me a Sony VAIO notebook. I would like to know > how well these are supported in Debian and if there are any specific > models that I should look for/avoid for best results. The only > requirement the employer has is that it must be a VAIO and must run Lose98 > at least part time for testing/debugging purposes. Otherwise I'm free to > choose the model and run Debian on it. > > Pointers to online docs are welcome. > Thanks in advance for info. > noah > > ___ > | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ > | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use > Charset: noconv > > iQCVAwUBOaGCYodCcpBjGWoFAQFrrQP/bfyGpTX5bhdRjEWJfwX2D9Fu7onJrYY4 > f7erI9i9bkcpPhOP0jGoceRkTYM1e8wloK5zG9q2GBGR0gIyvkmvwFt9A1xQVdhW > vF8z2azew+/1/9owRONQq4VpquCrDWh/gur/Fp8k8hLwqIXFlCXmQAAV6y+fv6L7 > 2A4EwgWG7RM= > =31EN > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook
There is a list of every supported card at http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS BTW, I just set up a Aironet PC4800 wireless today using 3.1.17 and it works great "Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > My employer is about to buy me a Sony VAIO notebook. I would like to know > how well these are supported in Debian and if there are any specific > models that I should look for/avoid for best results. The only > requirement the employer has is that it must be a VAIO and must run Lose98 > at least part time for testing/debugging purposes. Otherwise I'm free to > choose the model and run Debian on it. > > Pointers to online docs are welcome. > Thanks in advance for info. > noah > > ___ > | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ > | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use > Charset: noconv > > iQCVAwUBOaGCYodCcpBjGWoFAQFrrQP/bfyGpTX5bhdRjEWJfwX2D9Fu7onJrYY4 > f7erI9i9bkcpPhOP0jGoceRkTYM1e8wloK5zG9q2GBGR0gIyvkmvwFt9A1xQVdhW > vF8z2azew+/1/9owRONQq4VpquCrDWh/gur/Fp8k8hLwqIXFlCXmQAAV6y+fv6L7 > 2A4EwgWG7RM= > =31EN > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Power queries
Which APM options did you select? Bruce Richardson wrote: > Just installed Potato onto my laptop and compiled a new kernel with APM > support. Mostly it's working great but two little niggles. One is that > "apm -i" causes apm to give me a "usage" message instead of doing > anything (even though i is listed as an option in the usage message). > The other is that when shutting down the laptop doesn't actually power > off, just waits with the final "power off" message for me to turn it off > manually. > > Were there specific kernel options I should have enabled for the > behaviour I want? > > -- > Bruce > > Bitterly it mathinketh me, that I spent mine wholle lyf in the lists > against the ignorant. > -- Roger Bacon, "Doctor Mirabilis" > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Power queries
OK, you need to select those other options (I'm pretty sure that automatic power down is one of them). Unless your specific laptop is mentioned in the caveats, you should probably pick the option. Even if they don't work, you won't be any worse off than you are now. Bruce Richardson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 11:21:21AM -0400, Tim Quinlan wrote: > > Which APM options did you select? > > Just the basic APM-enabling one. The extra options all have caveats: > since I'm new to both Debian and this particular machine I didn't want > any extra variables added in case anything went wrong. > > -- > Bruce > > Unix and C are the ultimate computer viruses. > -- Richard P. Gabriel > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Power queries
Which APM options did you select? Bruce Richardson wrote: > Just installed Potato onto my laptop and compiled a new kernel with APM > support. Mostly it's working great but two little niggles. One is that > "apm -i" causes apm to give me a "usage" message instead of doing > anything (even though i is listed as an option in the usage message). > The other is that when shutting down the laptop doesn't actually power > off, just waits with the final "power off" message for me to turn it off > manually. > > Were there specific kernel options I should have enabled for the > behaviour I want? > > -- > Bruce > > Bitterly it mathinketh me, that I spent mine wholle lyf in the lists > against the ignorant. > -- Roger Bacon, "Doctor Mirabilis" > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Power queries
OK, you need to select those other options (I'm pretty sure that automatic power down is one of them). Unless your specific laptop is mentioned in the caveats, you should probably pick the option. Even if they don't work, you won't be any worse off than you are now. Bruce Richardson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 11:21:21AM -0400, Tim Quinlan wrote: > > Which APM options did you select? > > Just the basic APM-enabling one. The extra options all have caveats: > since I'm new to both Debian and this particular machine I didn't want > any extra variables added in case anything went wrong. > > -- > Bruce > > Unix and C are the ultimate computer viruses. > -- Richard P. Gabriel > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
