Re: pcmcia network cards
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Othmar Pasteka wrote: > maybe that's already a faq, if so please point me to a faq :). > but what's actually the experiences which network cards work > smoothly and without problems with notebooks? > what cheap cards are out there which can be recommended? it > doesn't necessarily be a 10/100 mbit card, 10 is perfectly fine > ... > i am thankful for any comments. > Although I would of prefered the 3COM 10/100 cardbus BNC/RJ45 network card I received the cheap and cheerful Xircom 10/100 card which works flawlessly. I have had not one problem with my card and it seems to perform well (considering I paid 30 pounds for it). I use it everyday at either 100 or 10 speed and can't say anything bad about the card, for its price. I would still would take the 3COM card though :) Alex -- ** ((__)) Alexander "Jim diGriz" Clouter \\ ((oo)) \\--\\// e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || || |||||| ~~~~~~ equip : 300Mhz Celeron Laptop running Cow during an Debian Potato Linux Earthquake
RE: Dhcpcd configuration
On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Ries van Twisk rvt wrote: > I run a 2.2.14 kernel and dhcpcd break under this kernel > so I downloaded and installed the origional dhcpcd kernel. > why did you do this. There is a whole section somewhere on the debian website that tells you about things that do break when you upgrade from slink to potato. the dhcpcd package is one of them. The page also gives some information on how to the upgrade painlessly (sorry I can't remember the site address but its somewhere on www.debian.org or one of its mirrors). Once you have the new kernel installed, you uninstall the old dhcpcd package and then install the one found in the potato dist. Start up the client and everything works fine. Alex -- ** ((__)) Alexander "Jim diGriz" Clouter \\ ((oo)) \\--\\// e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || || |||||| ~~~~~~ equip : 300Mhz Celeron Laptop running Cow during an Debian Potato Linux Earthquake
Re: How to re-install from PCMCIA-SCSI-CDROM?
On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, John Miskinis wrote: > > I wish to re-install slink on a partition, and my Thinkpad 560 > has no builtin CDROM drive. I am very close to getting a small > floppy linux system working that can talk to my SCSI CDROM. > > What is the best way to go about a (re)install? My initial > install(s) required me to copy the whole CD to a vfat partition > under Win95, and fix up symlinks, etc., and I do not wish to do > this all over again. > A slightly different approach to copying the whole CD to a *fat* partition is to copy it to a *ext2* partition. This can easily be done under linux (if your old slink installation is still running) otherwise you have to spend a little more time copying the stuff to a linux partition under windows. If you have no linux partitions left then make one with a utility such as partition magic and format it, making sure it will be able to contain the entire CD (if I remember about 450-500Mb is plenty). Obtain the very useful utility explore2fs off the internet (I have lost the link but it is given in a previous posting I made to this mailing list some months ago) which will allow you to read and write to your linux partition as if it was a fat partition. This permits the filenames to be retained. Use the various boot disks to get to the linux installation screen. Do *not* mount your partition as you will find the partition is not used to install from but proceed with an install using a unmounted partition. Some of the instructions may be a little wrong as I have not done this procedure for some time, however the important details are there. Now you should be able to continue with no problems on your own. Alex -- ** ((__)) Alexander "Jim diGriz" Clouter \\ ((oo)) \\--\\// e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || || |||||| ~~~~~~ equip : 300Mhz Celeron Laptop running Cow during an Debian Potato Linux Earthquake
