Re: putting debian on a dell inspiron 3500

2000-06-28 Thread Charlie Hedlin
Well, I have a 3500 and it was painless. I used FIPS to reduce the size of my FAT32 partition (the latest version supports it with no problem). It can use a partition or a file, but use the phdisk utility to check what it is using, and to delete or recreate the partition/file. The goldcard glo

putting debian on a dell inspiron 3500

2000-06-28 Thread brent harding
How can I install debian on my dell inspiron 3500? First of all, it has one large fat-32 partition for win-98 that covers the whole drive. I don't have anything too usefull to back up with, to format and repartition it. I don't know whether or not it uses other partitions for swap

Re: Driver for _ISA_ Lucent winmodem?

2000-06-28 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
And me I forgot to mention that under Windows the maximum speed connection I get is 48000 (often just around 46000), with the latest "firmware" 5.75 (it was a little more than 45000 with 5.21), compared to 50666 under Linux, which appearently I get for sure with free.fr, one of the ISPs I connec

putting debian on a dell inspiron 3500

2000-06-28 Thread brent harding
How can I install debian on my dell inspiron 3500? First of all, it has one large fat-32 partition for win-98 that covers the whole drive. I don't have anything too usefull to back up with, to format and repartition it. I don't know whether or not it uses other partitions for swap

Re: Driver for _ISA_ Lucent winmodem?

2000-06-28 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
And me I forgot to mention that under Windows the maximum speed connection I get is 48000 (often just around 46000), with the latest "firmware" 5.75 (it was a little more than 45000 with 5.21), compared to 50666 under Linux, which appearently I get for sure with free.fr, one of the ISPs I connect

Re: Driver for _ISA_ Lucent winmodem?

2000-06-28 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 20:14:17 Nicola Bernardelli wrote: > Ciao Francesco, > > Thanks a lot for replying. After you told me that the driver _does_ work for the > ISA pnp version of the modem, I concentrated on looking for what process could be > using the resource and tried hiding the ttyS3 device

Re: Driver for _ISA_ Lucent winmodem?

2000-06-28 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 20:14:17 Nicola Bernardelli wrote: > Ciao Francesco, > > Thanks a lot for replying. After you told me that the driver _does_ work for the > ISA pnp version of the modem, I concentrated on looking for what process could be > using the resource and tried hiding the ttyS3 device