pcmcia card manager
I aheva Compaw presario 1700. Redhat7 works great with it, but i realy want to use debian i try installing potato, but the laptop hangs when i try to set up the card manager, even when i dont and try to boot up with a card manager it hangs any help? thanks
Re: Problem with startup of Debian Linux
let me know when you have a souliton since this is happening to me too. On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Stefan Kain wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I am trying to install Debian on my noname laptop. > > Everything works fine until I reach the "reboot section" of > the installation process. > > I reboot the system from disk and from lilo to uncompresssing the kernel > everything works fine. the filesystems are mounted, a few demons > are started... and so on... > > After run level 2 is reached, the boot process gets > trapped at the moment where the inetd should be started. > nothing works from then on. even ctrl-alt-del gets no response. > > I have an internal modem, but I haven't configured a driver module for it. > The network is not configured. All I did was specifying a hostname. > I assume, that thus the internal modem should not pose any problem to the > kernel. The kernel just simply doesn't "know" it, right? > > Is anybody of you familiar with this problem? > > One workaround could be to open a second shell from the rescue system > and to remove the starting of the inetd-demon from the rc scripts, > but I consider this to be the last resort. I want the demon to be running, > because I want to reach localhost:80, for example. > > > Any kind of help or advice is deeply appreciated! :-) > > > Bye, > > > Stefan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: PCMCIA install
please let me know if you have receive a solution as the same thing is happening to me. thanks On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Craig Laird wrote: > I tried installing potato (2.2_rev0 - binary-i386-1.iso) from CD on my > Sharp 9340T laptop. When I rebooted into Linux after the install, things > seem to go well until 'Loading PCMCIA Services: modules' when the system > hangs. I don't have any PCMCIA cards in. Lil' help? > -Craig > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: PCMCIA install
hmm that seems like a good idea, again thanks On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Jo Geraerts wrote: > Hello, > > A third option might be that you get some resque floppy's and boot > them. Then mount your harddisk and make the changes... > > > On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Jo Geraerts wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, dude wrote: > > well, you've got 2 options. > > 1st option is you change it during the installation. You press alt-F2, > > then you get a console, there you can edit that file in > > /targetdir/etc/pcmcia (i'm not sure 'bout the name targetdir, but it's > > someting in that direction). > > > > 2nd option is when your installation is complete you type after the lilo > > prompt: > > linux init=/bin/bash > > > > Then the kernel starts up withoud starting init. Then you need to mount > > your root filesystem read-writable by typing > > > > mount -o remount,rw / > > > > then you can edit /etc/pcmcia/config.opts > > > > save your changes, mount the root filesystem readonly again: > > mount -o remount,ro / > > and reboot > > > > It's possible that you get an error from e2fsck that your root wasnt > > umounted correctly. I don't know how to avoid that message. > > > > Greetz, > > Jo > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > >
BUilidng potato on a Presario 1700
Heere the scoop. I have a compaw presario 1700. Red Hat linux runs beutifuly on it. HOwever, since i like noodling with debian on my main rig, i would to have a debian on my laptop. after trying to get some help from the irc debian. it seens that my problem is with the cardmangr. When i boot up normal with kernel 2.2.17 it just hangs on starting pmcia services, but using 'boot: linux 1' i can skip this stage and reinsall the pcmcia services but when i reboot it seems that debian POTATO then hangs when trying to start 'cardmgr' i have a linksys NP10T ehternet card please thank you for all the help. g
Re: Regarding using a docking-station.
Do a google search for 'linux on laptops' there is a website that has a huge collection of laptops (brands and makes) that run linux in one form or another. go find it and find your lap top if it is there. it is a great resource On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Kamath wrote: > Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 16:18:25 -0500 (EST) > From: Kamath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > Subject: Regarding using a docking-station. > Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > > Hi all-- > > I have a compaq 4/75CX laptop with debian 2.0.2(I belive installed) on it. > I also have a docking -station (compaq smart-staion) which I would like to > use. And have no clue as to how to proceed. > > Can anyone with lap-tops, linux, docking-station help me out??? > > Thanks. > praveen > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Cardmngr
Hello all. i have a compaq Presario 1700. I have installed potato but have to access it using boot: linux 1 because at first the thing would just horribly hang when it said Starting PCMCIA services: ok, well i downloaded the latested (from sourceforge) pcmcia package onto my wins paritions then rstarted the system and mounted my windows parititon and then copied and 'make'-ed the pcmcia packages i make sure to choose install all so all modules would be made. anyway now the debian package hangs on the "cardmgr" when i run test_setup it says no socket drivers loaded but says i have pcmcia modules installed so now, i need help in figuring out why CARDMNGR hangs at boot up (horrible- i have to unplug the laptop) i read the pCMCIA HOWTO and it says something about if cardmngr hangs you need to changea CORE_OPTS but i jhave no idea what file they are talking about any appreciate all your help as usuall
Cardmngr (fwd)
Hello all. i have a compaq Presario 1700. I have installed potato but have to access it using boot: linux 1 because at first the thing would just horribly hang when it said Starting PCMCIA services: ok, well i downloaded the latested (from sourceforge) pcmcia package onto my wins paritions then rstarted the system and mounted my windows parititon and then copied and 'make'-ed the pcmcia packages i make sure to choose install all so all modules would be made. anyway now the debian package hangs on the "cardmgr" when i run test_setup it says no socket drivers loaded but says i have pcmcia modules installed so now, i need help in figuring out why CARDMNGR hangs at boot up (horrible- i have to unplug the laptop) i read the pCMCIA HOWTO and it says something about if cardmngr hangs you need to changea CORE_OPTS but i jhave no idea what file they are talking about any appreciate all your help as usuall i also looked at /pcmcia/debug and used ./test_setup and it tells me that i dont have socket drivers loaded ok so i loaed the i8235 drivers but then here is where it hangs, when i do a ./cardmgr or a ./probe under /pcmcia/cardmgr it hangs horrible
Re: PCMCIA Help
yes. It hangs with the card both inserted and not. These are the things that i know (specifically) will hang the system 1. running 'probe' in the pcmcia package 2. running 'cardmgr' under /cardmgr i believe you adressed the problem about how when port scans are done it will hang the system ( it was in PCMCIA HOWTO that was included in the package) So i think it is something about port scans that are done when a 'probe' is done or when i run 'cardmgr' which i belivee does 'probe' also? again, thank you for your time. On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Brian Mays wrote: > Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 18:32:07 -0500 > From: Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: dude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: PCMCIA Help > > Hmm ... I'm not quite sure how to diagnose your problem. > > Is your card inserted when the system hangs? That is, does your laptop > experience problems when no card is in the PCMCIA slots. > > - Brian > > >
Re: PCMCIA Help
Anyway after along night (i am now sick and coghing) i decided to re-install rehhat right and see what it was doing. so any way after re-installing i copied /etc to my windows partition so i would have access to it when i was running debian anyway the proble was that when cardmgr would proble it would have when it PROBE 0x1000-0x17ff so i copied the redhad config.opts to debiand and started it and it stared beutifully. I've included the config.opts file beloew I think the imporant part is the #High port numbers do not always work anyway so i can telnet ineto my wall now, but i cant go outside sine i havent fingured out how to get the laptop to resove names like mods.com but that is a proble i will read up on. and again thanks for all your help # # Local PCMCIA Configuration File # #-- # System resources available for PCMCIA devices include port 0x100-0x4ff, port 0x800-0x8ff, port 0xc00-0xcff include memory 0xc-0xf include memory 0xa000-0xa0ff, memory 0x6000-0x60ff # High port numbers do not always work... # include port 0x1000-0x17ff # Extra port range for IBM Token Ring include port 0xa00-0xaff # Resources we should not use, even if they appear to be available # First built-in serial port exclude irq 4 # Second built-in serial port #exclude irq 3 # First built-in parallel port exclude irq 7 # PS/2 Mouse controller port, comment this out if you don't have a PS/2 # based mouse exclude irq 12 #-- # Examples of options for loadable modules # To fix sluggish network with IBM ethernet adapter... #module "pcnet_cs" opts "mem_speed=600" # Options for IBM Token Ring adapters #module "ibmtr_cs" opts "mmiobase=0xd srambase=0xd4000" # Options for Raylink/WebGear driver: uncomment only one line... # Generic ad-hoc network module "ray_cs" opts "essid=ADHOC_ESSID hop_dwell=128 beacon_period=256 translate=1" # Infrastructure network for older cards #module "ray_cs" opts "net_type=1 essid=ESSID1" # Infrastructure network for WebGear #module "ray_cs" opts "net_type=1 essid=ESSID1 translate=1 hop_dwell=128 beacon_period=256" # Options for WaveLAN/IEEE driver (AccessPoint mode)... #module "wvlan_cs" opts "station_name=MY_PC" # Options for WaveLAN/IEEE driver (ad-hoc mode)... #module "wvlan_cs" opts "port_type=3 channel=1 station_name=MY_PC" # Options for Xircom Netwave driver... #module "netwave_cs" opts "domain=0x100 scramble_key=0x0" On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Brian Mays wrote: > Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 22:11:32 -0500 > From: Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: dude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: PCMCIA Help > > > i've decided to re-load RH7 on it, > > and look at its configuration files for PCMCIA > > > > you would happen to know where to look would you? > > Look in /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia and the /etc/pcmcia directory. > > - Brian >
Re: Sony PCG-C1VN PictureBook, ATI Rage Mobility
i believe its supported on xf4.01 What you can try whch is painful but gets results is installd redhat have it confiure your monitor well (which it will do) then keep the /etc and look it as a guide to how to to set up your screen i like debian a lot but RH has a smoother install but it hides what it does to much. On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Tres Hofmeister wrote: > Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 16:44:28 -0700 > From: Tres Hofmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > Subject: Sony PCG-C1VN PictureBook, ATI Rage Mobility > Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > > I've just installed Debian 2.2 on a new Sony PictureBook, > the PCG-C1VN. It has an 8MB ATI Rage Mobility graphics controller, > which doesn't seem to be supported under Debian 2.2/XFree86 3.3.6. > I tried a quick build of XFree86 4.0.1 from source, installed in /opt, > but had little success. Perhaps I'm just missing something... > > Should this card be supported in woody? Any suggestions? > Thanks... > > -- > Tres Hofmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.rap.ucar.edu/~tres/ > Research Applications Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: laptop installation
Is there any real reason to use partitions on a laptop since they are small hard drives? thankx On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Jordan Evatt wrote: > Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 14:19:10 -0500 > From: Jordan Evatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > Subject: laptop installation > Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > > Hi there. Long time debian user here, since slink... but I've run into some > problems recently. My laptop (Dell Inspiron 3200) has been kinda out of > action for the last 6 or 8 weeks with some video hardware problems, but now > those seem to be resolved after several trips to the Dell factory. Since I > got it back this past Tuesday, I've been attempting to get debian back on > it and up to a usable state of woody (heh). I was doing this from school, > where they have a 100mbps microwave connection to the school's local isp, > so I was averaging about 85-90k/s from eecs.umich.edu ;). > > Anyway, these are my problems. The only debian cd I have in posession is an > old-as-mud slink cd (which btw uses kernel 2.0.36), and since I'm devoting > my laptop's entire hard drive to linux, this is the only way I decided I > could install debian. So I proceeded to install the base system off the > slink cd and configure it for network use so I could dist-upgrade from > there. Next, I thought it would be wise to dist-upgrade from slink to > potato, instead of right from slink to woody, so I did so. No problems > there. Things started getting really sketchy when I did the dist-upgrade > from potato to woody. Everything downloaded fine (using apt-get -f > dist-upgrade), but then it said it had to temporarily remove perl-base > before it could proceed, but it couldn't. Apt suggested I pass the > APT::Force-LoopBreak to apt-get (by using apt-get dist-upgrade -o > APT::Force-LoopBreak=yes) to force it to proceed. So I did, and it worked, > until it had to use some perl scripts that wanted IO.pm, and puked. > Everything stopped working then, because there were about 13 packages that > couldn't be configured (from base). What I didn't realize at the time, > however, was that IO.pm was a part of the actual perl package (perl5.6 in > woody's case, and perl-5.005 in potato's case), and not perl-base. Stupid > me, because I realized this right when I had to leave, so I would have to > start over the next day. > > So I started over (today). I had slink already installed before I got to > school, so all I had to do was dist-upgrade to potato and then woody. I > remembered this time, however, to install the perl package before upgrading > in case anything needed it. The reason for not including this in the first > place was because I was just upgrading the base, without installing > anything extra at all, which I probably shouldn't have done. That's besides > the point though. Anyway, it seemed to work, because upgrading to woody now > found IO.pm and all the other stuff it needed to have. So that worked OK. > However, I then ran into another problem when dpkg was configuring > modutils. It couldn't finish configuring modutils, because there was this > little error: > > error: QM_MODULES: function not implemented > > I have a strong urge to think this has something to do with the existing > kernel on my system, which had been installed from slink's 2.0.36 base > installation. Am I correct in assuming this, and do I need to start over > again after upgrading the system to a 2.2 kernel before dist-upgrading to > woody so it'll be able to configure modutils? Has anyone else run into this > problem yet? I'm almost considering switching back to slackware on my > laptop and using debian on my pc's, because it's there's just SO much > downloading involved with unstable (as always, and yes I'm used to it > because I used potato in unstable state for a long long time), and my > laptop isn't all that fast (p2-266 on 64mb of ram). Suggestions are welcome. > > One final note... How would you guys recommend partitioning a 4gb hard > drive? :) I don't really want to use one big partition, which I've been > doing for a long time, so I decided to split it up this installation. I > tried an 800mb /, 1200mb /home, 1800mb /usr, and 250mb /var (which actually > isn't big enough since downloading deb packages can take well over 300mb, > so that'll HAVE to be bigger). The rest (about 60mb) was devoted to swap. I > feel like I need to learn about partitioning schemes :). > > Thanks for the help, and good luck to all you developers. I'll be joining > you soon ;) > > - Jordan > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email > http://e.themes.org - php developer (yes, i really am) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: Woody on Toshiba Tecra 8100
anyone have souhnd workiung on a compaw presario 1700 i think it uses allegro drivers which i cant find thankx On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Tom Breza [siaraX] wrote: > Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 23:52:23 + (GMT) > From: "Tom Breza [siaraX]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Miguel A. Figueroa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Woody on Toshiba Tecra 8100 > Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > > On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Miguel A. Figueroa wrote: > Hi > I have simmilar problems on my Toshiba Satelite PRO 4300 > finaly I make work my sound card with kernel 2.4.0-test12 where Yamafa YMF* > is included > in sound cards, my sound card is working with driver in Native mode, I try > use it > in lagency mode but mashine is hanging during the startup, but two things > one like I see lots of ppl have the same problem sound hang when Laptop is > going to suspend mode :((( > second that the quality of the sound is bit low, I left on small partiniton > W2K to play DVD and sound is much better > > any way I wish u luck :) > > all best > > Tom > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: screen goes black
does the screen seem to fade away or blink out? On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Russell Coker wrote: > Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 08:59:49 +0100 > From: Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > Subject: screen goes black > Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > > I've recently started having a problem with my Thinkpad T20 where the screen > goes black. It will happen while I'm working at seemingly random periods. > Any new text or graphics that is displayed (in text mode or X) will appear as > normal, and changing VT's will result in all text being correct. > > I have just recompiled my kernel (same version and options). > > It's kernel 2.4.0-test10. > > This problem occurs when X isn't running or when X is running. > > -- > http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark > http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark > http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on > http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: Need advice: Compaq Presarios and Debian
I have a compaq Presario 1700. Have a dual boot system of win98/Debian woody, but have to admit that while red hat installed and ran beutifuully on it, it was much harder to install potato on it. (because i had to figure out how to configure everything which was hard but did help me learn) but now that i have debian woody on it, i have no problems you have two hard disks on your laptop? On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, D-Man wrote: > Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 23:45:23 -0500 > From: D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Need advice: Compaq Presarios and Debian > > Inform Compaq that M$ isn't the only OS vendor. :-) > > I have a Compaq Presario (don't get one, it's better to build your own comp > from > parts) that came with Windows 98 preinstalled. I added RedHat to it (first > 5.2 > - didn't like my video card, then 6.1 , now 7.0 ). I am planning on > installing > Debian Potato early next week. > > I wonder why your BIOS got flashed. You probably should have installed a > better > BIOS ;-). My BIOS can't boot from the second IDE bus, thus I can't use LILO > and > must first boot DOS and run loadlin. > > -D > > On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 13:51:09 Tom Schuetz wrote: > | I had Red Hat installed on my Presario as a dual boot system. It had its > own > | hard drive, and worked somewhat, but eventually it flashed the BIOS and the > | whole motherboard had to be replaced. > | > | I was told (tersely) by Compaq Support that Presarios are NOT GOOD with > | Linux. > | > | But, I WANT LINUX. Namely, I want Debian. Anybody know about Presarios and > | Debian? > | >
Re: Dell Latitude CPx J
> I also could not get the X system to install correctly. Apparently the card > is an ATI Mobility M1 which I should use a Mach64 driver for. However, I am > used to running Xconfigurator, which I believe is a RedHat util. But, I > think that I am going to try and get X 4.02 running instead of the version > that comes with D2.2r2. the only i could do it right now on my laptop was to install redhat 7.0 copy the /etc to my windows partition,then install deBIAN AND THEN copy /etc/X11 to my debian. that should get your Xwindow to work > > Any help out there?? > > Thanks!! > > Jeremy > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: A Challenge...
DO you want windows to be kept on the machine? On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Samuel Halperin wrote: > Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 01:58:33 -0500 > From: Samuel Halperin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > Subject: A Challenge... > Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > > Hello all, this is my first post to the list. > > It is now almost 2AM Friday night here in Philadelphia. > I am leaving for Israel Sunday morning, and I am > hoping to take my brand new used Toshiaba Libretto 100CT with > me to keep a journal on. > > I don't need anything fancy, but something that boots from the > hard disk and lets me write text in something small like VI.. well > that would be just perfect. I can worry about network support > and X and everything else later. > > Available to me: A machine running Windows, a burned copy of > the Potato disk 1 ISO image, and a modem connection. > > The toshiba has a PCMCIA floppy drive which I will be installing > from. Again, I only really need a small text editor at this point, > and a way to install a small kernel to the hard disk, since I don't > want to take the floppy with me. > > Thanks for any help > > Sam > > _ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: A Challenge...
the only thing you mmight hace a problem is if the cardmgr hangs when it probes your computer. doyou have this problem? On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, A. Demarteau (linux rules!) wrote: > Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 12:42:03 +0100 (CET) > From: "A. Demarteau (linux rules!)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: A Challenge... > Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > > I agree, > the debian-basesystem holds enough for you to play with. > I don't know if it holds vi or vim or vni, it probably has elvis-tiny on > it. > So that's something you might want to upload from the net. > That will do fine, if you include the pcmcia-cs packages as well, network > support is easily done as well. > > Have fun on your journey and merry Christmas. > > On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Rob wrote: > > > > > Hello Samuel, > > > > > > I would install all the base floppies at the following FTP address: > > > > ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.20.0.1-2000-12-03/images-1.44/ > > > > I don't happen to have my potato CD handy, so I can't verify > > if these files exist on the official CD set.. > > > > On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 01:58:33AM -0500, Samuel Halperin wrote: > > > > > > I don't need anything fancy, but something that boots from the > > > hard disk and lets me write text in something small like VI.. well > > > that would be just perfect. I can worry about network support > > > and X and everything else later. > > > > > > > > > The toshiba has a PCMCIA floppy drive which I will be installing > > > from. Again, I only really need a small text editor at this point, > > > and a way to install a small kernel to the hard disk, since I don't > > > want to take the floppy with me. > > > > > > Thanks for any help > > > > HTH, > > > > Rob Helmer > > Namodn > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --- > Andor Demarteau > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: Laptop eth0 problems
part of the problem with hanging is that when cardmgr starts up it may be trying to probe that causes the hang is this is so, check /etc/pcmcia/config.opts On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Michelle Murrain wrote: > Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 23:10:11 -0500 > From: Michelle Murrain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org, debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Laptop eth0 problems > Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > > Hi folks, > > I've got an HP Pavillion 5195 laptop, pretty new. I did some research, and > found out that supposedly the internal ethernet card on this thing used tulip > drivers. In fact the support folks from Accton, the folks who made the card, > sent me a tulip driver for the card. The card is the EN2242 Mini PCI Series. > > The generic tulip failed during the install. Then, in trying their tulip - I > put thier tulip.o into /lib/modules/2.2.17/net, and added the line: > > alias eth0 tulip > > to the /etc/modutils/aliases file, then running 'modprobe eth0' I get a mess > of errors: > > unresolved symbol eth_type_trans_Rf207cad1 > etc. (8 of those - different symbols) > > What am I missing here? Is this hopeless and I'll have to go to a PC card, > and they don't know what they are talking about - or is there hope? > > (BTW, the unhappy thing is that after install, it froze on trying to start up > PCMCIA services (the slot is empty) so I may have a host of problems to deal > with there.) > > Michelle > > -- > - > MIchelle Murrain > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: Gateway setting for a PCMCIA network card
HAve you tried using PUMP? Its a simply of having it automaticaly detect and setup your network setting at boot up On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Federico Lucifredi wrote: > Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 19:21:46 -0400 > From: Federico Lucifredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > Subject: Gateway setting for a PCMCIA network card > Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > > Hello everyone > I have a little problem b/c my network card does not get set up > correctly by Debian. It appears that cardservices takes care of everything > *but* it does this without reading my /etc/network/interfaces file. Nothing > strage here, I assume CS is not using ifup/down (which refers to the file > above) but is instead fetching suff from /etc/hosts and so on. > Be as it may, I end up without a default route, and I have to type in > manually route add gw default to get things working, at which > point everything seems ok. Now, of course I have no problem patching the > system manually at bootup, given it is my laptop - but it would be nicer if > I could fix the thing outright geek pride calls =) > > If I insert stuff in /etc/network/interfaces ifup gives errors (b/c the > card was alrady set up), and nothing is accomplished. as things are now, > interfaces configures only the loopback device. > > It is probably a simple pointer after all, but I am new to Debian (and I > love it!) so I am looking into receiving some insight from the experts. > > Federico > > _ > -- "'Problem' is a bleak word for challenge" - Richard Fish > > Muad'Dib of Caladan (Federico L. Lucifredi)- [EMAIL PROTECTED], > http://www.lucifredi.com > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: Testing: PS/2 Mouse OK - Touchpad No GO
Have you tried using tpconfig? It resets the touch mouse pad G On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Tim Wood wrote: > Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 11:47:28 +0800 > From: Tim Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "debian-laptop@lists.debian.org" > Subject: Testing: PS/2 Mouse OK - Touchpad No GO > Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > > Hi, > I recently dist-upgraded from Potato. Took a while to remove Ximian only > to discover that I still had XServer-SVGA as X. All fixed now. > > Despite many attempts I cannot get the Synaptics Touchpad to work. No > matter what I do it behaves as if GPM was running - flies all over the > screen, clicks completely unpredictable. In desperation I plugged in an > external (2 key) mouse and it works just fine. Ironically I plugged it > in as NT4 was shutting down and it worked straight away. > > I'm not unhappy about using the external mouse as I have some RSI from > the edge of the laptop case but I would like the choice. > > If anyone has any suggestions I'd welcome them. > > The laptop is a Gateway 5150 - PII-233 64MB RAM, 4.2GB HDD, Neomagic > 256AV (NM2200) 2.5MB video RAM. > > TIA, >Tim Wood > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Hi all
My girlfriend recenelt purchase an HP pavilion N5470 Laptop. I saw on the linux laptop site that someone did get it working but I still need stome help as there are some vague areas. This is the setup 15.0" screen AMD 1 gig CPU 256 meg of RAM Trident graphics chipset (UNKOWN) OHCI USB (2 ports) DVD/CD-RW drive 20 gig hard drive 3-com mini-PCI modem and 10/100 ethernet and Here is what the laptop linux site info had on it. Video fbdev driver. Does anyone know what video card this is or what drivers? Network Right Now i put in a lynsys network card and it workds fine, but trying to get built in ethernet wouldbe be great. Is the tulip driver a network work card driver for PCMCIA or a regular network card driver. The site says they got it to work with the the tulip driver. IS there on ly one Modem. Im not too concerned aobut getting this one to work Apparently it's an Winmodem made by ESS. There was once a binary 2.2 driver that might of worked, but it doesn't appear to be available anymore. There doesn't appear to be a 2.4 driver. Sound : This shoudl present no problem The card is a ESS Allegro ES1988 and uses the maestro3 driver. Probably only works with 2.4, since I don't know if there is even a 2.2 version of this driver. CDROM : Does the follow blurb mean this mean i have to have scsi support ? "I've gotten the CD burning functionality working. I burned a Video CD image with the following command: cdrdao write --driver generic-mmc --device 0,0,0 vcd.toc. To make this work you have to get the ide-scsi module working. I haven't tried playing a DVD under Linux yet, but with the lack of hardware acceleration when using vesafb, it probably wouldn't be very useful even if it does work. " Power Management Again. ive complied ACPI support into the kernel but when i type shutdown the computer powers down but doesnt turn off. What am i forgetting to do. SO, Ive gotten linux to install, but the the shell window is rather funky in that is only takes a middle portion of the lcd screen while leaving extremely wide areas of blacnk space around the whole text. DO i have have framebuffers. Any, thats a lot and i do appreciate the help. Thanks OH and the site that had the info i was talking about is http://www.douglasstewart.com/n5470.html Thanks G
Keyboard entry
I am working on installin glinux on an HP 5470 I am using debian distr. kernel 2.7 What we noticed is that when i rebooted into the new kernel and get into the login: we can not login. What We (my girlfriend and I) think is going on is thatwhen a key is pressed it is sending th ewrong data thus the login and password is wrong. It might be the enter key because when i just type that i get a "^]" But when i load up kernel 2.2 i can login in just fine. What is going on with the keyboard in the newer kernel. Thanks for all your time. G
Re: Keyboard entry
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Tom Breza wrote: > > What appears in ya login when u type? is it your username? i see my user name login. It appears normal and then i'll type in the password and then it will see wrong login, and when i type again I start seeing strange characters in the login in which i type > did u change mapping of the keyboard?? NO, I left it at stardard, i believe > Do u use some funny symbols like #~'@.,/"$%^*()|\` etc in ya password? No. dont see anything under password > > If u choose diferent keyboard layout then some of keys are move on, > did u check what happen in systemlog? /var/log/syslog when u back to > console? good idea > and most basic (don't be angry) is the keyboard pluged proper?! nope. its a good idea, but the keyboard works fine under kernel 2.2 > I maen is it push in to slot ? or is it not change with mouse? > ps/2 keyboard, mouse have sam plugs. > Many ppl makes such basic errors :> very ture. thanks > > Tom > > > I am working on installin glinux on an HP 5470 > > > > I am using debian distr. kernel 2.7 > > > > What we noticed is that when i rebooted into the new kernel > > > > and get into the login: > > > > we can not login. > > > > > > What We (my girlfriend and I) think is going on is thatwhen > > > > a key is pressed it is sending th ewrong data thus the login and password > > is wrong. > > > > It might be the enter key because when i just type that i get a "^]" > > > > > > But when i load up kernel 2.2 i can login in just fine. > > > > > > What is going on with the keyboard in the newer kernel. > > > > Thanks for all your time. > > > > G > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
Re: Dell Inspiron 8000
>> >> Back when I had one of these a few months ago, the PCMCIA drivers >> that come with the standard potato install disks didn't work, so I >> couldn't do a net install. Instead I got a CD and installed the base >> system + compilers, then recompiled the kernel and the latest >> pcmcia-cs package and it worked fine after that. >> >> me > >I have done the same thing but when i upgrade to kernel 2.4.7, i try to >compile the pcmcia (card bus) support into the kernel ... and it fails >when i start the daemon the machine freeze. > >It was working right with 2.2.18pre1 kernel and pcmcia-cs as you say... >has someone encounter this trouble ? Make sure that config.ops in /etc/networks is not scanning all the pcmcia ports. IT will hand when it does this. G > >A+ >tito > >
Re: possible to restore damaged Lilo in MBR
What about a plain bootdisk. It should have a simple text editor on it G On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Benjamin Zhou wrote: >Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 18:14:05 -0400 >From: Benjamin Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-laptop@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: possible to restore damaged Lilo in MBR >Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > > >Hi, > >I tried all the possible combinations mentioned in the response, none of >them works. I also tried with a grub bootdisk, but it lists a few >choices, none of them works. It seems that I have to have a working linux >box to do edit to a config file on the grub disk, which can not be >accessed from within Win2k. > >any more suggestions, thanks a lt for your time. > >Ben > >>From: Rolf Heckemann >>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org >>Subject: Re: possible to restore damaged Lilo in MBR >>Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:37:56 +0100 >> >>On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 12:37:30PM -0700, Mike Alborn wrote: >> > > 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-i386/2.2.23-20 >1-04-15/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. >> >>It probably will - I have been through this exact procedure a few >>times. However, I recommend having a look at grub. If you create a >>grub boot disk, you have a fast and flexible way of booting different >>Linux kernels and other OS's, no matter where they reside on your hard >>disk(s). Grub will even let you have reiserfs on your root and boot >>partitions (don't know if LILO is ready for that yet). >> >>To Benjamin Zhou: I can make a grub bootdisk image and email it to you >>if you like (it's 48 kB gzipped). >> >>All the best >> >>Rolf >> >> >>-- >>Rolf Heckemann >> >> >>-- >>To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com >-- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a >subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Re: ATI Mobility M4
look at linux-laptop.net some have XFconfig-4 files you can use. G On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 18:57:52 -0400 >From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "debian-laptop@lists.debian.org" >Subject: ATI Mobility M4 >Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > >I just bought an Inspiron 8000. I cannot get X going. None of the drivers >work for it. Everyone says the Rage128 is the one, but apparently is not, >unless I'm doing something wrong. I have tried to upgrade to XFree86 4.1.0. >This didn't solve it. I reinstalled Debian with Woody, this did not solve it, >neither did 4.1.0 with Woody. > >I'm seeing a lot of posts about the Dell I8000, apparently others have got it >going, also it is apparent that in RedHat this video card comes right up. I'm >at my wits end trying to get X. > >Thank you in advance for any help you can give, > >Jeremy Vaught > > >Mail2Web - Check your email from the web at >http://www.mail2web.com/ . > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: Debian setup freezes when trying to remove pcmcia
look on linux-laptop.net for you laptop model. They will list the modules it uses G On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Bart Szyszka wrote: >Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:31:15 -0400 >From: Bart Szyszka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: noah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-laptop@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Debian setup freezes when trying to remove pcmcia >Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > >>When installing, ignore the "Configure PCMCIA" but choose "Edit Kernel Boot >>Options" (or something like that), and add "PCMCIA=no" (without the >>quotes). The system should boot fine without PCMCIA. As the installation >>continues, Debian will ask you if you want to remove the PCMCIA package - >>say no. Once you finish setup and you boot to the command line (there are >>further hassles ahead for getting X working, but I'll leave that for >>another day), edit /etc/pcmcia/config.opts to remove the port "0x800-0x8ff" >>- it's the middle of three ports listed near the beginning of the file. >>Once you've done this, edit /etc/lilo.conf (I think that's what it's >>called) and remove (or comment out) the "PCMCIA=no" line. Then run lilo, >>and reboot - PCMCIA should load no problem. > >Thanks, that did the trick. Now the problem is that I'm having trouble finding >the right module for the network card. It's the Xircom CardBus Ethernet II >10/100 . >Again, this is on a Dell Inspiron 8000 and I'm pretty sure that this card is >pcmcia. >I've tried the ess...100 and that didn't work. I also tried the 'tulip' option >and that >didn't work either. Any suggestions? > >
Re: Debian setup freezes when trying to remove pcmcia
@cd /etc @cat resolv.conf nameserver 24.88.1.67 nameserver 24.88.1.66 Try putting that into resolv.conf On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Bart Szyszka wrote: >Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 18:08:46 -0400 >From: Bart Szyszka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org, Lee Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Debian setup freezes when trying to remove pcmcia >Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > >> Check /etc/pcmcia/network and /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. The logic seems >> a bit involved. For example, pump can be started if $PUMP is true; or >> $BOOTP is true, but there are no other bootp clients; or either $DHCP or >> $DHCLIENT is true and there are no other dhcp clients. > >This is getting really frustrating. I've tried pump, dhcp-client, dhcpcd >(which >has worked on other computers for this connection) without any luck. I've >also attempted to add that line to /etc/pcmcia/network to make the card run >in promisc mode. No luck. Is there anything I can do about /etc/resolv.conf >? >I noticed that the other config files point to that yet there is nothing in >/etc/resolv.conf . That file is empty. Maybe that's the problem? I've tried >running all these clients manually and that hasn't helped anything either. >Is >there anyone here on a RoadRunner connection who has gotten their >Inspiron 8000 working with the Xircom CardBus Ethernet II 10/100? Could >this have something to do with RoadRunner itself? This Sunday I'll be moving >to one of my unversity's residence halls and will have an ethernet >connection >there. Maybe it'll work then, but I was hoping I would be able to setup >everything >on this new laptop for Linux before I left. > >- Bart > > >
Re: newbie respectfully requesting help
I will me more than glad to help. G On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Dr. Joseph Lewis wrote: >Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 11:02:08 -0700 (PDT) >From: Dr. Joseph Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org >Subject: newbie respectfully requesting help >Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > > >Hello. > >I am a new faculty member in the computer science department of San >Diego State University beginning my research program in machine >learning. > >Every day for six years of my doctoral work I used Suse, RedHat, and >Debian linux installations on desktops, laptops, and even inside a >robot. I was fortunate enough to have this managed by a very capable >support staff. This same staff helped me identify precise equipment >needs with Debian in mind for the OS before I left New Mexico. > >Now I have purchased a machine that is entirely mine to administer-- >unfortunately with several deviations from the specs I submitted--and >I find that, between my unfamiliarity with the installation process >and the many gotchas that seem to lurk out there for laptop installs, >I'm not quite sure how to even begin. Sadly the support staff here is >not only swamped by its duties to the entire school of science, but >they seem hesitant to do a Debian install (SDSU being a very Windows >intensive place :( > >If anyone has the time to give me a few pointers or to be willing to >dialog by email over the next several days, I would greatly >appreciate it. I'll provide details on all the hardware and other >specs as soon as I hear from you. As a heads up though, my machine is >a Dell Latitude C810 used with a docking station. > >If you can help get me going and be there to point to the right >resources, I suspect I can take it from there. After all, I am a >professor of computer science! :) > > >Sincerely, > > >Joseph Lewis >Computer Science Department >San Diego State University >5500 Campanile Dr. BAM 210 >San Diego, CA 92182 >(619) 594-6425 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >
Re: Getting Grub to Recognize Kernel Update to 2.4.12
I good way to see if grub is acutally seeing what you think it sees is to hit [TAB] so see what come after / Just like looking at a directory and looking G On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, eDoc wrote: >Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 23:09:33 -0400 >From: eDoc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], progeny-debian@lists.progeny.com, > debian-laptop@lists.debian.org, debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Getting Grub to Recognize Kernel Update to 2.4.12 >Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > >> To boot the kernel from /dev/hda2 with ide bus speed set to 66MHz, enter >on >> the GRUB command line: >> root (hd0,1) > >OK. > >> kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 idebus=66 > >When I enter this I get an "Error 15: File not found" > >What is it that it cannot find and how do I go about repairing that, please? > >Thanks! Doc > > >
pcmcia card manager
I aheva Compaw presario 1700. Redhat7 works great with it, but i realy want to use debian i try installing potato, but the laptop hangs when i try to set up the card manager, even when i dont and try to boot up with a card manager it hangs any help? thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with startup of Debian Linux
let me know when you have a souliton since this is happening to me too. On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Stefan Kain wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I am trying to install Debian on my noname laptop. > > Everything works fine until I reach the "reboot section" of > the installation process. > > I reboot the system from disk and from lilo to uncompresssing the kernel > everything works fine. the filesystems are mounted, a few demons > are started... and so on... > > After run level 2 is reached, the boot process gets > trapped at the moment where the inetd should be started. > nothing works from then on. even ctrl-alt-del gets no response. > > I have an internal modem, but I haven't configured a driver module for it. > The network is not configured. All I did was specifying a hostname. > I assume, that thus the internal modem should not pose any problem to the > kernel. The kernel just simply doesn't "know" it, right? > > Is anybody of you familiar with this problem? > > One workaround could be to open a second shell from the rescue system > and to remove the starting of the inetd-demon from the rc scripts, > but I consider this to be the last resort. I want the demon to be running, > because I want to reach localhost:80, for example. > > > Any kind of help or advice is deeply appreciated! :-) > > > Bye, > > > Stefan > > > -- > 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: PCMCIA install
please let me know if you have receive a solution as the same thing is happening to me. thanks On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Craig Laird wrote: > I tried installing potato (2.2_rev0 - binary-i386-1.iso) from CD on my Sharp 9340T >laptop. When I rebooted into Linux after the install, things seem to go well until >'Loading PCMCIA Services: modules' when the system hangs. I don't have any PCMCIA >cards in. Lil' help? > -Craig > > > -- > 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: PCMCIA install
hmm that seems like a good idea, again thanks On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Jo Geraerts wrote: > Hello, > > A third option might be that you get some resque floppy's and boot > them. Then mount your harddisk and make the changes... > > > On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Jo Geraerts wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, dude wrote: > > well, you've got 2 options. > > 1st option is you change it during the installation. You press alt-F2, > > then you get a console, there you can edit that file in > > /targetdir/etc/pcmcia (i'm not sure 'bout the name targetdir, but it's > > someting in that direction). > > > > 2nd option is when your installation is complete you type after the lilo > > prompt: > > linux init=/bin/bash > > > > Then the kernel starts up withoud starting init. Then you need to mount > > your root filesystem read-writable by typing > > > > mount -o remount,rw / > > > > then you can edit /etc/pcmcia/config.opts > > > > save your changes, mount the root filesystem readonly again: > > mount -o remount,ro / > > and reboot > > > > It's possible that you get an error from e2fsck that your root wasnt > > umounted correctly. I don't know how to avoid that message. > > > > Greetz, > > Jo > > > > > > -- > > 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]
BUilidng potato on a Presario 1700
Heere the scoop. I have a compaw presario 1700. Red Hat linux runs beutifuly on it. HOwever, since i like noodling with debian on my main rig, i would to have a debian on my laptop. after trying to get some help from the irc debian. it seens that my problem is with the cardmangr. When i boot up normal with kernel 2.2.17 it just hangs on starting pmcia services, but using 'boot: linux 1' i can skip this stage and reinsall the pcmcia services but when i reboot it seems that debian POTATO then hangs when trying to start 'cardmgr' i have a linksys NP10T ehternet card please thank you for all the help. g -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Regarding using a docking-station.
Do a google search for 'linux on laptops' there is a website that has a huge collection of laptops (brands and makes) that run linux in one form or another. go find it and find your lap top if it is there. it is a great resource On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Kamath wrote: > Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 16:18:25 -0500 (EST) > From: Kamath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Regarding using a docking-station. > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi all-- > > I have a compaq 4/75CX laptop with debian 2.0.2(I belive installed) on it. > I also have a docking -station (compaq smart-staion) which I would like to > use. And have no clue as to how to proceed. > > Can anyone with lap-tops, linux, docking-station help me out??? > > Thanks. > praveen > > > > -- > 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]
Cardmngr
Hello all. i have a compaq Presario 1700. I have installed potato but have to access it using boot: linux 1 because at first the thing would just horribly hang when it said Starting PCMCIA services: ok, well i downloaded the latested (from sourceforge) pcmcia package onto my wins paritions then rstarted the system and mounted my windows parititon and then copied and 'make'-ed the pcmcia packages i make sure to choose install all so all modules would be made. anyway now the debian package hangs on the "cardmgr" when i run test_setup it says no socket drivers loaded but says i have pcmcia modules installed so now, i need help in figuring out why CARDMNGR hangs at boot up (horrible- i have to unplug the laptop) i read the pCMCIA HOWTO and it says something about if cardmngr hangs you need to changea CORE_OPTS but i jhave no idea what file they are talking about any appreciate all your help as usuall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cardmngr (fwd)
Hello all. i have a compaq Presario 1700. I have installed potato but have to access it using boot: linux 1 because at first the thing would just horribly hang when it said Starting PCMCIA services: ok, well i downloaded the latested (from sourceforge) pcmcia package onto my wins paritions then rstarted the system and mounted my windows parititon and then copied and 'make'-ed the pcmcia packages i make sure to choose install all so all modules would be made. anyway now the debian package hangs on the "cardmgr" when i run test_setup it says no socket drivers loaded but says i have pcmcia modules installed so now, i need help in figuring out why CARDMNGR hangs at boot up (horrible- i have to unplug the laptop) i read the pCMCIA HOWTO and it says something about if cardmngr hangs you need to changea CORE_OPTS but i jhave no idea what file they are talking about any appreciate all your help as usuall i also looked at /pcmcia/debug and used ./test_setup and it tells me that i dont have socket drivers loaded ok so i loaed the i8235 drivers but then here is where it hangs, when i do a ./cardmgr or a ./probe under /pcmcia/cardmgr it hangs horrible -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCMCIA Help
yes. It hangs with the card both inserted and not. These are the things that i know (specifically) will hang the system 1. running 'probe' in the pcmcia package 2. running 'cardmgr' under /cardmgr i believe you adressed the problem about how when port scans are done it will hang the system ( it was in PCMCIA HOWTO that was included in the package) So i think it is something about port scans that are done when a 'probe' is done or when i run 'cardmgr' which i belivee does 'probe' also? again, thank you for your time. On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Brian Mays wrote: > Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 18:32:07 -0500 > From: Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: dude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: PCMCIA Help > > Hmm ... I'm not quite sure how to diagnose your problem. > > Is your card inserted when the system hangs? That is, does your laptop > experience problems when no card is in the PCMCIA slots. > > - Brian > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCMCIA Help
Anyway after along night (i am now sick and coghing) i decided to re-install rehhat right and see what it was doing. so any way after re-installing i copied /etc to my windows partition so i would have access to it when i was running debian anyway the proble was that when cardmgr would proble it would have when it PROBE 0x1000-0x17ff so i copied the redhad config.opts to debiand and started it and it stared beutifully. I've included the config.opts file beloew I think the imporant part is the #High port numbers do not always work anyway so i can telnet ineto my wall now, but i cant go outside sine i havent fingured out how to get the laptop to resove names like mods.com but that is a proble i will read up on. and again thanks for all your help # # Local PCMCIA Configuration File # #-- # System resources available for PCMCIA devices include port 0x100-0x4ff, port 0x800-0x8ff, port 0xc00-0xcff include memory 0xc-0xf include memory 0xa000-0xa0ff, memory 0x6000-0x60ff # High port numbers do not always work... # include port 0x1000-0x17ff # Extra port range for IBM Token Ring include port 0xa00-0xaff # Resources we should not use, even if they appear to be available # First built-in serial port exclude irq 4 # Second built-in serial port #exclude irq 3 # First built-in parallel port exclude irq 7 # PS/2 Mouse controller port, comment this out if you don't have a PS/2 # based mouse exclude irq 12 #-- # Examples of options for loadable modules # To fix sluggish network with IBM ethernet adapter... #module "pcnet_cs" opts "mem_speed=600" # Options for IBM Token Ring adapters #module "ibmtr_cs" opts "mmiobase=0xd srambase=0xd4000" # Options for Raylink/WebGear driver: uncomment only one line... # Generic ad-hoc network module "ray_cs" opts "essid=ADHOC_ESSID hop_dwell=128 beacon_period=256 translate=1" # Infrastructure network for older cards #module "ray_cs" opts "net_type=1 essid=ESSID1" # Infrastructure network for WebGear #module "ray_cs" opts "net_type=1 essid=ESSID1 translate=1 hop_dwell=128 beacon_period=256" # Options for WaveLAN/IEEE driver (AccessPoint mode)... #module "wvlan_cs" opts "station_name=MY_PC" # Options for WaveLAN/IEEE driver (ad-hoc mode)... #module "wvlan_cs" opts "port_type=3 channel=1 station_name=MY_PC" # Options for Xircom Netwave driver... #module "netwave_cs" opts "domain=0x100 scramble_key=0x0" On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Brian Mays wrote: > Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 22:11:32 -0500 > From: Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: dude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: PCMCIA Help > > > i've decided to re-load RH7 on it, > > and look at its configuration files for PCMCIA > > > > you would happen to know where to look would you? > > Look in /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia and the /etc/pcmcia directory. > > - Brian > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sony PCG-C1VN PictureBook, ATI Rage Mobility
i believe its supported on xf4.01 What you can try whch is painful but gets results is installd redhat have it confiure your monitor well (which it will do) then keep the /etc and look it as a guide to how to to set up your screen i like debian a lot but RH has a smoother install but it hides what it does to much. On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Tres Hofmeister wrote: > Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 16:44:28 -0700 > From: Tres Hofmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Sony PCG-C1VN PictureBook, ATI Rage Mobility > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I've just installed Debian 2.2 on a new Sony PictureBook, > the PCG-C1VN. It has an 8MB ATI Rage Mobility graphics controller, > which doesn't seem to be supported under Debian 2.2/XFree86 3.3.6. > I tried a quick build of XFree86 4.0.1 from source, installed in /opt, > but had little success. Perhaps I'm just missing something... > > Should this card be supported in woody? Any suggestions? > Thanks... > > -- > Tres Hofmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.rap.ucar.edu/~tres/ > Research Applications Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research > > > -- > 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: laptop installation
Is there any real reason to use partitions on a laptop since they are small hard drives? thankx On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Jordan Evatt wrote: > Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 14:19:10 -0500 > From: Jordan Evatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: laptop installation > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi there. Long time debian user here, since slink... but I've run into some > problems recently. My laptop (Dell Inspiron 3200) has been kinda out of > action for the last 6 or 8 weeks with some video hardware problems, but now > those seem to be resolved after several trips to the Dell factory. Since I > got it back this past Tuesday, I've been attempting to get debian back on > it and up to a usable state of woody (heh). I was doing this from school, > where they have a 100mbps microwave connection to the school's local isp, > so I was averaging about 85-90k/s from eecs.umich.edu ;). > > Anyway, these are my problems. The only debian cd I have in posession is an > old-as-mud slink cd (which btw uses kernel 2.0.36), and since I'm devoting > my laptop's entire hard drive to linux, this is the only way I decided I > could install debian. So I proceeded to install the base system off the > slink cd and configure it for network use so I could dist-upgrade from > there. Next, I thought it would be wise to dist-upgrade from slink to > potato, instead of right from slink to woody, so I did so. No problems > there. Things started getting really sketchy when I did the dist-upgrade > from potato to woody. Everything downloaded fine (using apt-get -f > dist-upgrade), but then it said it had to temporarily remove perl-base > before it could proceed, but it couldn't. Apt suggested I pass the > APT::Force-LoopBreak to apt-get (by using apt-get dist-upgrade -o > APT::Force-LoopBreak=yes) to force it to proceed. So I did, and it worked, > until it had to use some perl scripts that wanted IO.pm, and puked. > Everything stopped working then, because there were about 13 packages that > couldn't be configured (from base). What I didn't realize at the time, > however, was that IO.pm was a part of the actual perl package (perl5.6 in > woody's case, and perl-5.005 in potato's case), and not perl-base. Stupid > me, because I realized this right when I had to leave, so I would have to > start over the next day. > > So I started over (today). I had slink already installed before I got to > school, so all I had to do was dist-upgrade to potato and then woody. I > remembered this time, however, to install the perl package before upgrading > in case anything needed it. The reason for not including this in the first > place was because I was just upgrading the base, without installing > anything extra at all, which I probably shouldn't have done. That's besides > the point though. Anyway, it seemed to work, because upgrading to woody now > found IO.pm and all the other stuff it needed to have. So that worked OK. > However, I then ran into another problem when dpkg was configuring > modutils. It couldn't finish configuring modutils, because there was this > little error: > > error: QM_MODULES: function not implemented > > I have a strong urge to think this has something to do with the existing > kernel on my system, which had been installed from slink's 2.0.36 base > installation. Am I correct in assuming this, and do I need to start over > again after upgrading the system to a 2.2 kernel before dist-upgrading to > woody so it'll be able to configure modutils? Has anyone else run into this > problem yet? I'm almost considering switching back to slackware on my > laptop and using debian on my pc's, because it's there's just SO much > downloading involved with unstable (as always, and yes I'm used to it > because I used potato in unstable state for a long long time), and my > laptop isn't all that fast (p2-266 on 64mb of ram). Suggestions are welcome. > > One final note... How would you guys recommend partitioning a 4gb hard > drive? :) I don't really want to use one big partition, which I've been > doing for a long time, so I decided to split it up this installation. I > tried an 800mb /, 1200mb /home, 1800mb /usr, and 250mb /var (which actually > isn't big enough since downloading deb packages can take well over 300mb, > so that'll HAVE to be bigger). The rest (about 60mb) was devoted to swap. I > feel like I need to learn about partitioning schemes :). > > Thanks for the help, and good luck to all you developers. I'll be joining > you soon ;) > > - Jordan > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email > http://e.themes.org - php developer (yes, i really am) > > > -- > 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: Woody on Toshiba Tecra 8100
anyone have souhnd workiung on a compaw presario 1700 i think it uses allegro drivers which i cant find thankx On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Tom Breza [siaraX] wrote: > Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 23:52:23 + (GMT) > From: "Tom Breza [siaraX]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Miguel A. Figueroa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Woody on Toshiba Tecra 8100 > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Miguel A. Figueroa wrote: > Hi > I have simmilar problems on my Toshiba Satelite PRO 4300 > finaly I make work my sound card with kernel 2.4.0-test12 where Yamafa YMF* is >included > in sound cards, my sound card is working with driver in Native mode, I try use it > in lagency mode but mashine is hanging during the startup, but two things > one like I see lots of ppl have the same problem sound hang when Laptop is going to >suspend mode :((( > second that the quality of the sound is bit low, I left on small partiniton W2K to >play DVD and sound is much better > > any way I wish u luck :) > > all best > > Tom > > > > -- > 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: screen goes black
does the screen seem to fade away or blink out? On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Russell Coker wrote: > Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 08:59:49 +0100 > From: Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: screen goes black > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I've recently started having a problem with my Thinkpad T20 where the screen > goes black. It will happen while I'm working at seemingly random periods. > Any new text or graphics that is displayed (in text mode or X) will appear as > normal, and changing VT's will result in all text being correct. > > I have just recompiled my kernel (same version and options). > > It's kernel 2.4.0-test10. > > This problem occurs when X isn't running or when X is running. > > -- > http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark > http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark > http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on > http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page > > > -- > 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: Need advice: Compaq Presarios and Debian
I have a compaq Presario 1700. Have a dual boot system of win98/Debian woody, but have to admit that while red hat installed and ran beutifuully on it, it was much harder to install potato on it. (because i had to figure out how to configure everything which was hard but did help me learn) but now that i have debian woody on it, i have no problems you have two hard disks on your laptop? On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, D-Man wrote: > Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 23:45:23 -0500 > From: D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Need advice: Compaq Presarios and Debian > > Inform Compaq that M$ isn't the only OS vendor. :-) > > I have a Compaq Presario (don't get one, it's better to build your own comp from > parts) that came with Windows 98 preinstalled. I added RedHat to it (first 5.2 > - didn't like my video card, then 6.1 , now 7.0 ). I am planning on installing > Debian Potato early next week. > > I wonder why your BIOS got flashed. You probably should have installed a better > BIOS ;-). My BIOS can't boot from the second IDE bus, thus I can't use LILO and > must first boot DOS and run loadlin. > > -D > > On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 13:51:09 Tom Schuetz wrote: > | I had Red Hat installed on my Presario as a dual boot system. It had its own > | hard drive, and worked somewhat, but eventually it flashed the BIOS and the > | whole motherboard had to be replaced. > | > | I was told (tersely) by Compaq Support that Presarios are NOT GOOD with > | Linux. > | > | But, I WANT LINUX. Namely, I want Debian. Anybody know about Presarios and > | Debian? > | > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell Latitude CPx J
> I also could not get the X system to install correctly. Apparently the card > is an ATI Mobility M1 which I should use a Mach64 driver for. However, I am > used to running Xconfigurator, which I believe is a RedHat util. But, I > think that I am going to try and get X 4.02 running instead of the version > that comes with D2.2r2. the only i could do it right now on my laptop was to install redhat 7.0 copy the /etc to my windows partition,then install deBIAN AND THEN copy /etc/X11 to my debian. that should get your Xwindow to work > > Any help out there?? > > Thanks!! > > Jeremy > > > -- > 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: A Challenge...
DO you want windows to be kept on the machine? On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Samuel Halperin wrote: > Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 01:58:33 -0500 > From: Samuel Halperin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: A Challenge... > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hello all, this is my first post to the list. > > It is now almost 2AM Friday night here in Philadelphia. > I am leaving for Israel Sunday morning, and I am > hoping to take my brand new used Toshiaba Libretto 100CT with > me to keep a journal on. > > I don't need anything fancy, but something that boots from the > hard disk and lets me write text in something small like VI.. well > that would be just perfect. I can worry about network support > and X and everything else later. > > Available to me: A machine running Windows, a burned copy of > the Potato disk 1 ISO image, and a modem connection. > > The toshiba has a PCMCIA floppy drive which I will be installing > from. Again, I only really need a small text editor at this point, > and a way to install a small kernel to the hard disk, since I don't > want to take the floppy with me. > > Thanks for any help > > Sam > > _ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > > -- > 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: A Challenge...
the only thing you mmight hace a problem is if the cardmgr hangs when it probes your computer. doyou have this problem? On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, A. Demarteau (linux rules!) wrote: > Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 12:42:03 +0100 (CET) > From: "A. Demarteau (linux rules!)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: A Challenge... > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I agree, > the debian-basesystem holds enough for you to play with. > I don't know if it holds vi or vim or vni, it probably has elvis-tiny on > it. > So that's something you might want to upload from the net. > That will do fine, if you include the pcmcia-cs packages as well, network > support is easily done as well. > > Have fun on your journey and merry Christmas. > > On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Rob wrote: > > > > > Hello Samuel, > > > > > > I would install all the base floppies at the following FTP address: > > > > >ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.20.0.1-2000-12-03/images-1.44/ > > > > I don't happen to have my potato CD handy, so I can't verify > > if these files exist on the official CD set.. > > > > On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 01:58:33AM -0500, Samuel Halperin wrote: > > > > > > I don't need anything fancy, but something that boots from the > > > hard disk and lets me write text in something small like VI.. well > > > that would be just perfect. I can worry about network support > > > and X and everything else later. > > > > > > > > > The toshiba has a PCMCIA floppy drive which I will be installing > > > from. Again, I only really need a small text editor at this point, > > > and a way to install a small kernel to the hard disk, since I don't > > > want to take the floppy with me. > > > > > > Thanks for any help > > > > HTH, > > > > Rob Helmer > > Namodn > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --- > Andor Demarteau > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- > > > -- > 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: Laptop eth0 problems
part of the problem with hanging is that when cardmgr starts up it may be trying to probe that causes the hang is this is so, check /etc/pcmcia/config.opts On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Michelle Murrain wrote: > Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 23:10:11 -0500 > From: Michelle Murrain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Laptop eth0 problems > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi folks, > > I've got an HP Pavillion 5195 laptop, pretty new. I did some research, and > found out that supposedly the internal ethernet card on this thing used tulip > drivers. In fact the support folks from Accton, the folks who made the card, > sent me a tulip driver for the card. The card is the EN2242 Mini PCI Series. > > The generic tulip failed during the install. Then, in trying their tulip - I > put thier tulip.o into /lib/modules/2.2.17/net, and added the line: > > alias eth0 tulip > > to the /etc/modutils/aliases file, then running 'modprobe eth0' I get a mess > of errors: > > unresolved symbol eth_type_trans_Rf207cad1 > etc. (8 of those - different symbols) > > What am I missing here? Is this hopeless and I'll have to go to a PC card, > and they don't know what they are talking about - or is there hope? > > (BTW, the unhappy thing is that after install, it froze on trying to start up > PCMCIA services (the slot is empty) so I may have a host of problems to deal > with there.) > > Michelle > > -- > - > MIchelle Murrain > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > 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: Gateway setting for a PCMCIA network card
HAve you tried using PUMP? Its a simply of having it automaticaly detect and setup your network setting at boot up On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Federico Lucifredi wrote: > Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 19:21:46 -0400 > From: Federico Lucifredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Gateway setting for a PCMCIA network card > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hello everyone > I have a little problem b/c my network card does not get set up > correctly by Debian. It appears that cardservices takes care of everything > *but* it does this without reading my /etc/network/interfaces file. Nothing > strage here, I assume CS is not using ifup/down (which refers to the file > above) but is instead fetching suff from /etc/hosts and so on. > Be as it may, I end up without a default route, and I have to type in > manually route add gw default to get things working, at which > point everything seems ok. Now, of course I have no problem patching the > system manually at bootup, given it is my laptop - but it would be nicer if > I could fix the thing outright geek pride calls =) > > If I insert stuff in /etc/network/interfaces ifup gives errors (b/c the > card was alrady set up), and nothing is accomplished. as things are now, > interfaces configures only the loopback device. > > It is probably a simple pointer after all, but I am new to Debian (and I > love it!) so I am looking into receiving some insight from the experts. > > Federico > > _ > -- "'Problem' is a bleak word for challenge" - Richard Fish > > Muad'Dib of Caladan (Federico L. Lucifredi)- [EMAIL PROTECTED], > http://www.lucifredi.com > > > > -- > 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: Testing: PS/2 Mouse OK - Touchpad No GO
Have you tried using tpconfig? It resets the touch mouse pad G On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Tim Wood wrote: > Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 11:47:28 +0800 > From: Tim Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Testing: PS/2 Mouse OK - Touchpad No GO > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi, > I recently dist-upgraded from Potato. Took a while to remove Ximian only > to discover that I still had XServer-SVGA as X. All fixed now. > > Despite many attempts I cannot get the Synaptics Touchpad to work. No > matter what I do it behaves as if GPM was running - flies all over the > screen, clicks completely unpredictable. In desperation I plugged in an > external (2 key) mouse and it works just fine. Ironically I plugged it > in as NT4 was shutting down and it worked straight away. > > I'm not unhappy about using the external mouse as I have some RSI from > the edge of the laptop case but I would like the choice. > > If anyone has any suggestions I'd welcome them. > > The laptop is a Gateway 5150 - PII-233 64MB RAM, 4.2GB HDD, Neomagic > 256AV (NM2200) 2.5MB video RAM. > > TIA, >Tim Wood > > > -- > 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]
Hi all
My girlfriend recenelt purchase an HP pavilion N5470 Laptop. I saw on the linux laptop site that someone did get it working but I still need stome help as there are some vague areas. This is the setup 15.0" screen AMD 1 gig CPU 256 meg of RAM Trident graphics chipset (UNKOWN) OHCI USB (2 ports) DVD/CD-RW drive 20 gig hard drive 3-com mini-PCI modem and 10/100 ethernet and Here is what the laptop linux site info had on it. Video fbdev driver. Does anyone know what video card this is or what drivers? Network Right Now i put in a lynsys network card and it workds fine, but trying to get built in ethernet wouldbe be great. Is the tulip driver a network work card driver for PCMCIA or a regular network card driver. The site says they got it to work with the the tulip driver. IS there on ly one Modem. Im not too concerned aobut getting this one to work Apparently it's an Winmodem made by ESS. There was once a binary 2.2 driver that might of worked, but it doesn't appear to be available anymore. There doesn't appear to be a 2.4 driver. Sound : This shoudl present no problem The card is a ESS Allegro ES1988 and uses the maestro3 driver. Probably only works with 2.4, since I don't know if there is even a 2.2 version of this driver. CDROM : Does the follow blurb mean this mean i have to have scsi support ? "I've gotten the CD burning functionality working. I burned a Video CD image with the following command: cdrdao write --driver generic-mmc --device 0,0,0 vcd.toc. To make this work you have to get the ide-scsi module working. I haven't tried playing a DVD under Linux yet, but with the lack of hardware acceleration when using vesafb, it probably wouldn't be very useful even if it does work. " Power Management Again. ive complied ACPI support into the kernel but when i type shutdown the computer powers down but doesnt turn off. What am i forgetting to do. SO, Ive gotten linux to install, but the the shell window is rather funky in that is only takes a middle portion of the lcd screen while leaving extremely wide areas of blacnk space around the whole text. DO i have have framebuffers. Any, thats a lot and i do appreciate the help. Thanks OH and the site that had the info i was talking about is http://www.douglasstewart.com/n5470.html Thanks G -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Keyboard entry
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Tom Breza wrote: > > What appears in ya login when u type? is it your username? i see my user name login. It appears normal and then i'll type in the password and then it will see wrong login, and when i type again I start seeing strange characters in the login in which i type > did u change mapping of the keyboard?? NO, I left it at stardard, i believe > Do u use some funny symbols like #~'@.,/"$%^*()|\` etc in ya password? No. dont see anything under password > > If u choose diferent keyboard layout then some of keys are move on, > did u check what happen in systemlog? /var/log/syslog when u back to > console? good idea > and most basic (don't be angry) is the keyboard pluged proper?! nope. its a good idea, but the keyboard works fine under kernel 2.2 > I maen is it push in to slot ? or is it not change with mouse? > ps/2 keyboard, mouse have sam plugs. > Many ppl makes such basic errors :> very ture. thanks > > Tom > > > I am working on installin glinux on an HP 5470 > > > > I am using debian distr. kernel 2.7 > > > > What we noticed is that when i rebooted into the new kernel > > > > and get into the login: > > > > we can not login. > > > > > > What We (my girlfriend and I) think is going on is thatwhen > > > > a key is pressed it is sending th ewrong data thus the login and password > > is wrong. > > > > It might be the enter key because when i just type that i get a "^]" > > > > > > But when i load up kernel 2.2 i can login in just fine. > > > > > > What is going on with the keyboard in the newer kernel. > > > > Thanks for all your time. > > > > G > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > 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: Dell Inspiron 8000
>> >> Back when I had one of these a few months ago, the PCMCIA drivers >> that come with the standard potato install disks didn't work, so I >> couldn't do a net install. Instead I got a CD and installed the base >> system + compilers, then recompiled the kernel and the latest >> pcmcia-cs package and it worked fine after that. >> >> me > >I have done the same thing but when i upgrade to kernel 2.4.7, i try to >compile the pcmcia (card bus) support into the kernel ... and it fails >when i start the daemon the machine freeze. > >It was working right with 2.2.18pre1 kernel and pcmcia-cs as you say... >has someone encounter this trouble ? Make sure that config.ops in /etc/networks is not scanning all the pcmcia ports. IT will hand when it does this. G > >A+ >tito > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: possible to restore damaged Lilo in MBR
What about a plain bootdisk. It should have a simple text editor on it G On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Benjamin Zhou wrote: >Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 18:14:05 -0400 >From: Benjamin Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: possible to restore damaged Lilo in MBR >Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Hi, > >I tried all the possible combinations mentioned in the response, none of >them works. I also tried with a grub bootdisk, but it lists a few >choices, none of them works. It seems that I have to have a working linux >box to do edit to a config file on the grub disk, which can not be >accessed from within Win2k. > >any more suggestions, thanks a lt for your time. > >Ben > >>From: Rolf Heckemann >>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: possible to restore damaged Lilo in MBR >>Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:37:56 +0100 >> >>On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 12:37:30PM -0700, Mike Alborn wrote: >> > > 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-i386/2.2.23-20 >1-04-15/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. >> >>It probably will - I have been through this exact procedure a few >>times. However, I recommend having a look at grub. If you create a >>grub boot disk, you have a fast and flexible way of booting different >>Linux kernels and other OS's, no matter where they reside on your hard >>disk(s). Grub will even let you have reiserfs on your root and boot >>partitions (don't know if LILO is ready for that yet). >> >>To Benjamin Zhou: I can make a grub bootdisk image and email it to you >>if you like (it's 48 kB gzipped). >> >>All the best >> >>Rolf >> >> >>-- >>Rolf Heckemann >> >> >>-- >>To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com >-- 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: ATI Mobility M4
look at linux-laptop.net some have XFconfig-4 files you can use. G On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 18:57:52 -0400 >From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: ATI Mobility M4 >Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >I just bought an Inspiron 8000. I cannot get X going. None of the drivers work for >it. Everyone says the Rage128 is the one, but apparently is not, unless I'm doing >something wrong. I have tried to upgrade to XFree86 4.1.0. This didn't solve it. I >reinstalled Debian with Woody, this did not solve it, neither did 4.1.0 with Woody. > >I'm seeing a lot of posts about the Dell I8000, apparently others have got it going, >also it is apparent that in RedHat this video card comes right up. I'm at my wits >end trying to get X. > >Thank you in advance for any help you can give, > >Jeremy Vaught > > >Mail2Web - Check your email from the web at >http://www.mail2web.com/ . > > >-- >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: Debian setup freezes when trying to remove pcmcia
look on linux-laptop.net for you laptop model. They will list the modules it uses G On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Bart Szyszka wrote: >Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:31:15 -0400 >From: Bart Szyszka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: noah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Debian setup freezes when trying to remove pcmcia >Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>When installing, ignore the "Configure PCMCIA" but choose "Edit Kernel Boot >>Options" (or something like that), and add "PCMCIA=no" (without the >>quotes). The system should boot fine without PCMCIA. As the installation >>continues, Debian will ask you if you want to remove the PCMCIA package - >>say no. Once you finish setup and you boot to the command line (there are >>further hassles ahead for getting X working, but I'll leave that for >>another day), edit /etc/pcmcia/config.opts to remove the port "0x800-0x8ff" >>- it's the middle of three ports listed near the beginning of the file. >>Once you've done this, edit /etc/lilo.conf (I think that's what it's >>called) and remove (or comment out) the "PCMCIA=no" line. Then run lilo, >>and reboot - PCMCIA should load no problem. > >Thanks, that did the trick. Now the problem is that I'm having trouble finding >the right module for the network card. It's the Xircom CardBus Ethernet II 10/100 . >Again, this is on a Dell Inspiron 8000 and I'm pretty sure that this card is pcmcia. >I've tried the ess...100 and that didn't work. I also tried the 'tulip' option and >that >didn't work either. Any suggestions? > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian setup freezes when trying to remove pcmcia
@cd /etc @cat resolv.conf nameserver 24.88.1.67 nameserver 24.88.1.66 Try putting that into resolv.conf On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Bart Szyszka wrote: >Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 18:08:46 -0400 >From: Bart Szyszka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lee Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Debian setup freezes when trying to remove pcmcia >Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Check /etc/pcmcia/network and /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. The logic seems >> a bit involved. For example, pump can be started if $PUMP is true; or >> $BOOTP is true, but there are no other bootp clients; or either $DHCP or >> $DHCLIENT is true and there are no other dhcp clients. > >This is getting really frustrating. I've tried pump, dhcp-client, dhcpcd >(which >has worked on other computers for this connection) without any luck. I've >also attempted to add that line to /etc/pcmcia/network to make the card run >in promisc mode. No luck. Is there anything I can do about /etc/resolv.conf >? >I noticed that the other config files point to that yet there is nothing in >/etc/resolv.conf . That file is empty. Maybe that's the problem? I've tried >running all these clients manually and that hasn't helped anything either. >Is >there anyone here on a RoadRunner connection who has gotten their >Inspiron 8000 working with the Xircom CardBus Ethernet II 10/100? Could >this have something to do with RoadRunner itself? This Sunday I'll be moving >to one of my unversity's residence halls and will have an ethernet >connection >there. Maybe it'll work then, but I was hoping I would be able to setup >everything >on this new laptop for Linux before I left. > >- Bart > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie respectfully requesting help
I will me more than glad to help. G On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Dr. Joseph Lewis wrote: >Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 11:02:08 -0700 (PDT) >From: Dr. Joseph Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: newbie respectfully requesting help >Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Hello. > >I am a new faculty member in the computer science department of San >Diego State University beginning my research program in machine >learning. > >Every day for six years of my doctoral work I used Suse, RedHat, and >Debian linux installations on desktops, laptops, and even inside a >robot. I was fortunate enough to have this managed by a very capable >support staff. This same staff helped me identify precise equipment >needs with Debian in mind for the OS before I left New Mexico. > >Now I have purchased a machine that is entirely mine to administer-- >unfortunately with several deviations from the specs I submitted--and >I find that, between my unfamiliarity with the installation process >and the many gotchas that seem to lurk out there for laptop installs, >I'm not quite sure how to even begin. Sadly the support staff here is >not only swamped by its duties to the entire school of science, but >they seem hesitant to do a Debian install (SDSU being a very Windows >intensive place :( > >If anyone has the time to give me a few pointers or to be willing to >dialog by email over the next several days, I would greatly >appreciate it. I'll provide details on all the hardware and other >specs as soon as I hear from you. As a heads up though, my machine is >a Dell Latitude C810 used with a docking station. > >If you can help get me going and be there to point to the right >resources, I suspect I can take it from there. After all, I am a >professor of computer science! :) > > >Sincerely, > > >Joseph Lewis >Computer Science Department >San Diego State University >5500 Campanile Dr. BAM 210 >San Diego, CA 92182 >(619) 594-6425 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: testing installation - problems with PCMCIA network Card
On Tuesday 30 October 2001 10:42, Dominik Schwald wrote: I know this has been reported as a bug but it appears tht if you look in syslog it is loading the wrong module, i fixed by changing the 'axnet_cs" to "pcnet_cs" which does the substitution when loading modles. I believe the file i did ths in was in config.opt anywa, it is a bug and has been for several months > Am Montag, 29. Oktober 2001 22:01 schrieb Renchi Raju: > > on virtual console 2, try lsmod to see what modules are loaded. then > > rmmod axnet_cs if already loaded. try modprobe tulip_cb or modprobe > > pcnet_cs and see which one works for you (see mesgs on console 3/4) . > > okay. well i didn't find lsmod anywhere - i think its not part of the > system at that point of the installation. > > i was able to unload axnet_cs and to modprobe both: tulip_cb and > pcnet_cs. > I also did a modprobe -d to see the debug information, but never got > anything looking like a problem. > > Well, the problem is, that debian still tells me that i don't have a > network card installed... > > Bye, dominik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mobile network configuration
You could have your home setup dhcp server always assign you a certain IP address thus never having to change you default network card configuration ie you let the dhcp server do the work G as me how! On 31 Oct 2001, Andy Bastien wrote: >Date: 31 Oct 2001 11:57:28 -0500 >From: Andy Bastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Mobile network configuration >Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 08:02, David Z Maze wrote: >> I have a fairly new laptop running Debian unstable. It has on-board >> MiniPCI 802.11 wireless (yay!). I'm using kernel 2.4.12, with the >> driver modules from the pcmcia-source package (specifically, the >> wvlan_cs module). >> >> What I'd like to do is have the laptop automatically detect the local >> network and configure itself appropriately at boot time. In >> particular: >> >> -- If I'm at home, use a known static IP address. >> -- If I'm at work, use one set of access points preferentially over >>another, and get an address via DHCP. >> -- Otherwise, use any access point that's available and get an address >>via DHCP. >> >> I'm assuming there's some way I can test based on access-point name to >> determine "at work" vs. "at home" vs. "none of the above". (iwconfig >> does give different ESSID names.) >> >> So, questions: >> >> (1) How do I set this up? It looks like there's no easy way to do >> this using the pcmcia infrastructure. The ifupdown stuff in >> unstable looks like it can pick a network configuration based on >> some script, but the only documentation is examples in >> /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples, which are somewhat useful but >> not completely informative. Is the best way to do it really to >> say "force the first ESSID, and if there's signal, use it, else >> repeat?" >> >> (2) Where do I start services (zhm, ntp, possibly others) that should >> only be started when the network is up? pcmcia stuff suggests >> adding it to start_fn in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts, but this won't >> scale well, particularly if I need to add the same things to >> start_fn in three different places. I thought I saw a hint >> somewhere that symlinking init scripts into /etc/network/if-up.d >> would DWIW. >> >> (3) Is all of this documented somewhere, and I just missed it? (The >> Wireless-HOWTO is really hard to read and talks a lot about >> network setups from the AP end, which I really don't care about.) >> >> Right now I'm doing this using 'cardctl scheme ...', which works but >> isn't as automated as I'd like. It'd be nice if the PCMCIA scripts >> gave me more support, but the things you can configure on (scheme, >> slot, driver, MAC address) are mostly fixed, so this really isn't a >> useful set of configuration options. >> >> Thanks, >> > > >If you don't have enough options already, you can try the ifup/ifdown >stuff that comes with debian. Do a "man interfaces" to find out about >how to set up the mappings for multiple configurations of a single >interface > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Constructing CD-ROM images
have you looked at xcdroast? G On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, David Roundy wrote: >Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:44:33 -0800 >From: David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Constructing CD-ROM images >Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 12:08:53PM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: >> Apologies for this only marginally laptop-related post. (In my humble >> defense, I'm trying to backup my laptop now that it's working very >> nicely, so it is laptop related...for me :-) >> >> Does anyone know of a tool that will let me say, roughly, "here's a >> list of files that I want on my CD-R, and I want them in exactly this >> directory layout"? > >Check out bootcdwrite. It has some extra (booting) features that you may >or may not find useful. It allows you to specify a root directory, and >then specify directories to leave out as well as directories to include, >which may serve your purpose, although I don't think it's exactly what >you're looking for, and may not even help at all... > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Question
go to linux-laptop.net and see if your laptop is listed On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Adam Seymour wrote: >Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 10:03:00 -0800 >From: Adam Seymour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Newbie Question >Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >I have an HP Omnibook xke2 - how difficult would it be to install the latest >stable version of debian on it? Is there a website with docs on this >subject? > > > >-adam > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: multiple eth interfaces
you will first need to know what the dmesg lists each netowrk as, then you can use /etc/interfaces to configure as needed On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, MPfeifer wrote: >Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 21:15:23 +0100 >From: MPfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: multiple eth interfaces >Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >hi guys, > >can someone point me out, on how to automatise my laptop to use both >networkcards? > >when i boot my laptop then it sets both cards as 10.0.0.111 instead of >the second one on a 192.168.1.x network. > >were can i configure that, because it is functioning as router/firewall. > >thanks > >markus > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: multiple eth interfaces
> >#interface to outside >auto lo eth0 ># this because it defaults to 10.0.0.111 anyway ># >#interface to inside >auto lo eth1 This 'auto' only tells the kernel to set it automatically, but you dont specify exactly what you what eth0 to be ie iface eth0 inet dhcp? or iface eth0 inet static blag blah blah G ># >#and now configuring eth1: >iface eth1 inet static >adres 192.168.1.1 >netmask 255.255.255.0 > >but it doesn't work:( > >any hints? > >markus > > >-- >(c) All Rights Recycled > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting Grub to Recognize Kernel Update to 2.4.12
I good way to see if grub is acutally seeing what you think it sees is to hit [TAB] so see what come after / Just like looking at a directory and looking G On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, eDoc wrote: >Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 23:09:33 -0400 >From: eDoc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Getting Grub to Recognize Kernel Update to 2.4.12 >Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> To boot the kernel from /dev/hda2 with ide bus speed set to 66MHz, enter >on >> the GRUB command line: >> root (hd0,1) > >OK. > >> kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 idebus=66 > >When I enter this I get an "Error 15: File not found" > >What is it that it cannot find and how do I go about repairing that, please? > >Thanks! Doc > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installation procedure for pcmcia network install
Tell me again how old is the boot floppy? I think your problem is that the pcmcia locks when it does it scan of pcmcia ports In the later updates, it has a certain port range that is off limits G On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, martin f krafft wrote: >Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 16:06:37 +0100 >From: martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: debian laptop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: installation procedure for pcmcia network install >Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >hi folks, >no, this by far isn't my first debian install, not even on a laptop, >and no, i am not stupid. but somehow i am perplexed by how debian >wants the installation on a laptop to work. > >i have this new latitude C800 sitting here, with a beautiful xircom >ethernet card. i used the 3.0.28-compact boot floppy set from woody, >and partitioned, installed driver modules and all that. now i want to >get the network up to be able to install from ftp. > >the pcmcia card is not plugged in, and i configure pcmcia support for >the controller only, not for serial or cdrom devices. it does not >complain. then i insert the card, it beeps, and the system freezes. if >i have the card in the slot while installing pcmcia, it freezes. what >gives? what am i doing wrong? > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro Problem
Compile the sound surpport into the kernel. stop wasting your time with the module On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, red wrote: >Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:59:10 +0100 >From: red <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro Problem >Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Hi >I have an "network" laptop with an ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro sound card. >I use the 2.4.17 kernel. I install the new kernel and i must did something wrong >because modconf shows me only "pcmcia cards" ;) >Now I try to install the soundcard driver with alsaconf but there is no card >with *ES1978 ;( >lspci -v shows me that: >00:10.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro >Audiodrive (rev 10) >Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer: Unknown device 3102 >Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 128, IRQ 5 >I/O ports at 3100 [size=256] >Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 > >Have somebody an idea what to do ? > >sorry for my bad english ;) > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with installing debian on a mac powerbook!
Please see if your laptopo is on linux-laptop.net to see if other people have installed it on you type of laptop On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Herr Mathias Tradinik wrote: >Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:12:40 +0100 >From: Herr Mathias Tradinik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: problem with installing debian on a mac powerbook! >Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >please forgive me if these are bad questions, but I'm new in Linux in >general! > >I've got a powerbook 190cs >i've downloaded debian from the FTP Mirror in Austria and I've started the >installation! >mac OS shuts down and linux starts, it checks several things. >And then it hangs! >the last outputs are: >RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K >loop: registered device at major 7 >ide0: Macintosh Poerbook IDE interface > >and thats the point where it still hangs! >I've tried it serveral times every time the same thing >Please help me! >thanks a lot! >Mathias Tradinik > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with installing debian on a mac powerbook!
also are you sure you using the correct archictecure? Are you trying to install i386 linux on a mac? On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Herr Mathias Tradinik wrote: >Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:12:40 +0100 >From: Herr Mathias Tradinik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: problem with installing debian on a mac powerbook! >Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >please forgive me if these are bad questions, but I'm new in Linux in >general! > >I've got a powerbook 190cs >i've downloaded debian from the FTP Mirror in Austria and I've started the >installation! >mac OS shuts down and linux starts, it checks several things. >And then it hangs! >the last outputs are: >RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K >loop: registered device at major 7 >ide0: Macintosh Poerbook IDE interface > >and thats the point where it still hangs! >I've tried it serveral times every time the same thing >Please help me! >thanks a lot! >Mathias Tradinik > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian on HP pavilion ze5385us
Hi all, just letting you know that I am in the process of documenting how I got debian, fully installed and working on a HP ze5385 which I think will apply to all the pavilion 5300 models pleast look at mung.net and follow link if intereted any questions should go to email listed at webiste thnks all
Re: testing installation - problems with PCMCIA network Card
On Tuesday 30 October 2001 10:42, Dominik Schwald wrote: I know this has been reported as a bug but it appears tht if you look in syslog it is loading the wrong module, i fixed by changing the 'axnet_cs" to "pcnet_cs" which does the substitution when loading modles. I believe the file i did ths in was in config.opt anywa, it is a bug and has been for several months > Am Montag, 29. Oktober 2001 22:01 schrieb Renchi Raju: > > on virtual console 2, try lsmod to see what modules are loaded. then > > rmmod axnet_cs if already loaded. try modprobe tulip_cb or modprobe > > pcnet_cs and see which one works for you (see mesgs on console 3/4) . > > okay. well i didn't find lsmod anywhere - i think its not part of the > system at that point of the installation. > > i was able to unload axnet_cs and to modprobe both: tulip_cb and > pcnet_cs. > I also did a modprobe -d to see the debug information, but never got > anything looking like a problem. > > Well, the problem is, that debian still tells me that i don't have a > network card installed... > > Bye, dominik
Re: Mobile network configuration
You could have your home setup dhcp server always assign you a certain IP address thus never having to change you default network card configuration ie you let the dhcp server do the work G as me how! On 31 Oct 2001, Andy Bastien wrote: >Date: 31 Oct 2001 11:57:28 -0500 >From: Andy Bastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Mobile network configuration >Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > >On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 08:02, David Z Maze wrote: >> I have a fairly new laptop running Debian unstable. It has on-board >> MiniPCI 802.11 wireless (yay!). I'm using kernel 2.4.12, with the >> driver modules from the pcmcia-source package (specifically, the >> wvlan_cs module). >> >> What I'd like to do is have the laptop automatically detect the local >> network and configure itself appropriately at boot time. In >> particular: >> >> -- If I'm at home, use a known static IP address. >> -- If I'm at work, use one set of access points preferentially over >>another, and get an address via DHCP. >> -- Otherwise, use any access point that's available and get an address >>via DHCP. >> >> I'm assuming there's some way I can test based on access-point name to >> determine "at work" vs. "at home" vs. "none of the above". (iwconfig >> does give different ESSID names.) >> >> So, questions: >> >> (1) How do I set this up? It looks like there's no easy way to do >> this using the pcmcia infrastructure. The ifupdown stuff in >> unstable looks like it can pick a network configuration based on >> some script, but the only documentation is examples in >> /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples, which are somewhat useful but >> not completely informative. Is the best way to do it really to >> say "force the first ESSID, and if there's signal, use it, else >> repeat?" >> >> (2) Where do I start services (zhm, ntp, possibly others) that should >> only be started when the network is up? pcmcia stuff suggests >> adding it to start_fn in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts, but this won't >> scale well, particularly if I need to add the same things to >> start_fn in three different places. I thought I saw a hint >> somewhere that symlinking init scripts into /etc/network/if-up.d >> would DWIW. >> >> (3) Is all of this documented somewhere, and I just missed it? (The >> Wireless-HOWTO is really hard to read and talks a lot about >> network setups from the AP end, which I really don't care about.) >> >> Right now I'm doing this using 'cardctl scheme ...', which works but >> isn't as automated as I'd like. It'd be nice if the PCMCIA scripts >> gave me more support, but the things you can configure on (scheme, >> slot, driver, MAC address) are mostly fixed, so this really isn't a >> useful set of configuration options. >> >> Thanks, >> > > >If you don't have enough options already, you can try the ifup/ifdown >stuff that comes with debian. Do a "man interfaces" to find out about >how to set up the mappings for multiple configurations of a single >interface > > > >
Re: Constructing CD-ROM images
have you looked at xcdroast? G On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, David Roundy wrote: >Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:44:33 -0800 >From: David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Constructing CD-ROM images >Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > >On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 12:08:53PM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: >> Apologies for this only marginally laptop-related post. (In my humble >> defense, I'm trying to backup my laptop now that it's working very >> nicely, so it is laptop related...for me :-) >> >> Does anyone know of a tool that will let me say, roughly, "here's a >> list of files that I want on my CD-R, and I want them in exactly this >> directory layout"? > >Check out bootcdwrite. It has some extra (booting) features that you may >or may not find useful. It allows you to specify a root directory, and >then specify directories to leave out as well as directories to include, >which may serve your purpose, although I don't think it's exactly what >you're looking for, and may not even help at all... >
Re: Newbie Question
go to linux-laptop.net and see if your laptop is listed On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Adam Seymour wrote: >Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 10:03:00 -0800 >From: Adam Seymour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org >Subject: Newbie Question >Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > >I have an HP Omnibook xke2 - how difficult would it be to install the latest >stable version of debian on it? Is there a website with docs on this >subject? > > > >-adam > > >
Re: multiple eth interfaces
you will first need to know what the dmesg lists each netowrk as, then you can use /etc/interfaces to configure as needed On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, MPfeifer wrote: >Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 21:15:23 +0100 >From: MPfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org >Subject: multiple eth interfaces >Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > >hi guys, > >can someone point me out, on how to automatise my laptop to use both >networkcards? > >when i boot my laptop then it sets both cards as 10.0.0.111 instead of >the second one on a 192.168.1.x network. > >were can i configure that, because it is functioning as router/firewall. > >thanks > >markus >
Re: multiple eth interfaces
> >#interface to outside >auto lo eth0 ># this because it defaults to 10.0.0.111 anyway ># >#interface to inside >auto lo eth1 This 'auto' only tells the kernel to set it automatically, but you dont specify exactly what you what eth0 to be ie iface eth0 inet dhcp? or iface eth0 inet static blag blah blah G ># >#and now configuring eth1: >iface eth1 inet static >adres 192.168.1.1 >netmask 255.255.255.0 > >but it doesn't work:( > >any hints? > >markus > > >-- >(c) All Rights Recycled > >
Re: installation procedure for pcmcia network install
Tell me again how old is the boot floppy? I think your problem is that the pcmcia locks when it does it scan of pcmcia ports In the later updates, it has a certain port range that is off limits G On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, martin f krafft wrote: >Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 16:06:37 +0100 >From: martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: debian laptop >Subject: installation procedure for pcmcia network install >Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > >hi folks, >no, this by far isn't my first debian install, not even on a laptop, >and no, i am not stupid. but somehow i am perplexed by how debian >wants the installation on a laptop to work. > >i have this new latitude C800 sitting here, with a beautiful xircom >ethernet card. i used the 3.0.28-compact boot floppy set from woody, >and partitioned, installed driver modules and all that. now i want to >get the network up to be able to install from ftp. > >the pcmcia card is not plugged in, and i configure pcmcia support for >the controller only, not for serial or cdrom devices. it does not >complain. then i insert the card, it beeps, and the system freezes. if >i have the card in the slot while installing pcmcia, it freezes. what >gives? what am i doing wrong? > >
Re: ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro Problem
Compile the sound surpport into the kernel. stop wasting your time with the module On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, red wrote: >Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:59:10 +0100 >From: red <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org >Subject: ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro Problem >Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > >Hi >I have an "network" laptop with an ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro sound card. >I use the 2.4.17 kernel. I install the new kernel and i must did something >wrong >because modconf shows me only "pcmcia cards" ;) >Now I try to install the soundcard driver with alsaconf but there is no card >with *ES1978 ;( >lspci -v shows me that: >00:10.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro >Audiodrive (rev 10) >Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer: Unknown device 3102 >Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 128, IRQ 5 >I/O ports at 3100 [size=256] >Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 > >Have somebody an idea what to do ? > >sorry for my bad english ;) > >
Re: problem with installing debian on a mac powerbook!
Please see if your laptopo is on linux-laptop.net to see if other people have installed it on you type of laptop On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Herr Mathias Tradinik wrote: >Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:12:40 +0100 >From: Herr Mathias Tradinik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org >Subject: problem with installing debian on a mac powerbook! >Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > >please forgive me if these are bad questions, but I'm new in Linux in >general! > >I've got a powerbook 190cs >i've downloaded debian from the FTP Mirror in Austria and I've started the >installation! >mac OS shuts down and linux starts, it checks several things. >And then it hangs! >the last outputs are: >RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K >loop: registered device at major 7 >ide0: Macintosh Poerbook IDE interface > >and thats the point where it still hangs! >I've tried it serveral times every time the same thing >Please help me! >thanks a lot! >Mathias Tradinik > > >
Re: problem with installing debian on a mac powerbook!
also are you sure you using the correct archictecure? Are you trying to install i386 linux on a mac? On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Herr Mathias Tradinik wrote: >Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:12:40 +0100 >From: Herr Mathias Tradinik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org >Subject: problem with installing debian on a mac powerbook! >Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > >please forgive me if these are bad questions, but I'm new in Linux in >general! > >I've got a powerbook 190cs >i've downloaded debian from the FTP Mirror in Austria and I've started the >installation! >mac OS shuts down and linux starts, it checks several things. >And then it hangs! >the last outputs are: >RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K >loop: registered device at major 7 >ide0: Macintosh Poerbook IDE interface > >and thats the point where it still hangs! >I've tried it serveral times every time the same thing >Please help me! >thanks a lot! >Mathias Tradinik > > >
