>>
>> apt-get install task-laptop # yes, I maintain it (-:
>
> And we all want to know what kind of beer you like to drink so we can buy
> you one.
>
guiness mostly, otherwise I am a single malt scotch man.
Thanks for asking (-:
P.S. no lagers
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> On 30-Aug-2000 Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> > Hey all. I have gotten my new Sony Vaio all set up nicely with X and
> > sound and PCMCIA networking and stuff like that. It really wasn't too
> > hard. What I'm wondering now is what apps are available to make mobile
> > life easier. I've installe
> Hey all. I have gotten my new Sony Vaio all set up nicely with X and
> sound and PCMCIA networking and stuff like that. It really wasn't too
> hard. What I'm wondering now is what apps are available to make mobile
> life easier. I've installed things like wmbattery to monitor battery
> statu
Hi Noah,
some pointers you may find at the Debian Laptop Proposal at
http://home.snafu.de/wehe/debian_linux.html
Werner
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Noah,
Well I use some utilities of my own brew. You can download "sn" from
http://www.penguingurus.com/projects/ This acts like su, or sg except for
networks. You can "sn home" or, "sn work" and change networks on the fly
without having to eject cards or anything like that. It will support as m
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000, Keith Geffert wrote:
> Well I use some utilities of my own brew. You can download "sn" from
> http://www.penguingurus.com/projects/ This acts like su, or sg except
> for networks. You can "sn home" or, "sn work" and change networks on
> the fly without having to eject cards
I'm trying to install the new version of Debian on my laptop (which has no
CDROM) using NFS. I have two PCMCIA netcards to choose from. Both are
listed on the Linux Hardware Compatibility site:
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO-27.html as supported
netcards, but neither of them
Noah,
Well I use some utilities of my own brew. You can download "sn" from
http://www.penguingurus.com/projects/ This acts like su, or sg except for
networks. You can "sn home" or, "sn work" and change networks on the fly
without having to eject cards or anything like that. It will support as
I'm trying to install the new version of Debian on my laptop (which has no
CDROM) using NFS. I have two PCMCIA netcards to choose from. Both are
listed on the Linux Hardware Compatibility site:
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO-27.html as supported
netcards, but neither of them
On 30-Aug-2000 Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> Hey all. I have gotten my new Sony Vaio all set up nicely with X and
> sound and PCMCIA networking and stuff like that. It really wasn't too
> hard. What I'm wondering now is what apps are available to make mobile
> life easier. I've installed things like
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:44:48PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> status and stuff. Is there more than that? Since the machine is
> mobile it will be moving between networks often (sometimes with dhcp,
> sometimes with static addresses).
I find the schemes feature of pcmcia cardctl a simple met
Hey all. I have gotten my new Sony Vaio all set up nicely with X and
sound and PCMCIA networking and stuff like that. It really wasn't too
hard. What I'm wondering now is what apps are available to make mobile
life easier. I've installed things like wmbattery to monitor battery
status and stuff
Gary Hennigan wrote:
>
> "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >> What card are you trying to support?
> > >
> > > It's a 3COM Megahertz 10/100 LAN + 56K modem card. Unfortunately I
> > > read in SUPPORTED.CARDS that it uses a Winmodem. Oh well, I can use my
> > > old 10M card for
On 30-Aug-2000 Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> Hey all. I have gotten my new Sony Vaio all set up nicely with X and
> sound and PCMCIA networking and stuff like that. It really wasn't too
> hard. What I'm wondering now is what apps are available to make mobile
> life easier. I've installed things lik
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:44:48PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> status and stuff. Is there more than that? Since the machine is
> mobile it will be moving between networks often (sometimes with dhcp,
> sometimes with static addresses).
I find the schemes feature of pcmcia cardctl a simple me
Hello, I previously asked a question aobut the Thinkpad 380D, but the place
where I was going to buy that laptop has sold out of that laptop, so I found
this 380ED and was wondering if there were any problems running Linux on it.
It has a 3Gig hard drive, 80 megs of ram, 2meg video ram, and a 256K
Hey all. I have gotten my new Sony Vaio all set up nicely with X and
sound and PCMCIA networking and stuff like that. It really wasn't too
hard. What I'm wondering now is what apps are available to make mobile
life easier. I've installed things like wmbattery to monitor battery
status and stuf
Gary Hennigan wrote:
>
> "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >> What card are you trying to support?
> > >
> > > It's a 3COM Megahertz 10/100 LAN + 56K modem card. Unfortunately I
> > > read in SUPPORTED.CARDS that it uses a Winmodem. Oh well, I can use my
> > > old 10M card for
Hello, I previously asked a question aobut the Thinkpad 380D, but the place
where I was going to buy that laptop has sold out of that laptop, so I found
this 380ED and was wondering if there were any problems running Linux on it.
It has a 3Gig hard drive, 80 megs of ram, 2meg video ram, and a 256K
I also had a great deal of trouble configuring my Toshiba nubbin mouse. It
is a ps/2, and I had to screw with the settings using XF86Setup until it
worked.
-Original Message-
From: Pat Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 12:42 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: deb
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Pat Mahoney wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 12:28:37PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I just installed all the files for X Free 86 3.3.6 onto my system, and I'm
> > having a little trouble (ironically). While I'm quite sure of how to get
> > my
> > card and mo
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 12:28:37PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
> I just installed all the files for X Free 86 3.3.6 onto my system, and I'm
> having a little trouble (ironically). While I'm quite sure of how to get my
> card and monitor up, I can not get my mouse to work at all. I hav
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Triggs; Ian wrote:
> ok, so I installed sndconfig out of woody and ran it. Firstly the PCI
> probe said: "A PCI sound card was found in your system. The details are:
>Model: Unknown vendor|unknown device 125d:1978"
> After pressing OK: "The Unknown vendor|unknown device 1
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> oops, now i think i see that you want to control the volume directly
> via some of your keys. in that case, i don't think aumix will work
> for you. sorry about that.
>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: volume control keys (gateway 9300)
> D
Hi,
I just installed all the files for X Free 86 3.3.6 onto my system, and I'm
having a little trouble (ironically). While I'm quite sure of how to get my
card and monitor up, I can not get my mouse to work at all. I have a Compaq
Presario 1800XL 190 Laptop, which uses a touch pad for mouse co
I also had a great deal of trouble configuring my Toshiba nubbin mouse. It
is a ps/2, and I had to screw with the settings using XF86Setup until it
worked.
-Original Message-
From: Pat Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 12:42 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Pat Mahoney wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 12:28:37PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I just installed all the files for X Free 86 3.3.6 onto my system, and I'm
> > having a little trouble (ironically). While I'm quite sure of how to get my
> > card and monito
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 12:28:37PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
> I just installed all the files for X Free 86 3.3.6 onto my system, and I'm
> having a little trouble (ironically). While I'm quite sure of how to get my
> card and monitor up, I can not get my mouse to work at all. I ha
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Triggs; Ian wrote:
> ok, so I installed sndconfig out of woody and ran it. Firstly the PCI
> probe said: "A PCI sound card was found in your system. The details are:
>Model: Unknown vendor|unknown device 125d:1978"
> After pressing OK: "The Unknown vendor|unknown device
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> oops, now i think i see that you want to control the volume directly
> via some of your keys. in that case, i don't think aumix will work
> for you. sorry about that.
>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: volume control keys (gateway 9300)
>
Hi,
I just installed all the files for X Free 86 3.3.6 onto my system, and I'm
having a little trouble (ironically). While I'm quite sure of how to get my
card and monitor up, I can not get my mouse to work at all. I have a Compaq
Presario 1800XL 190 Laptop, which uses a touch pad for mouse c
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> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 6:07 PM
> To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: pcmcia custom installation
>
> "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > >
> > > Doesn't work. I get some
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> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 6:07 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: pcmcia custom installation
>
> "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > >
> > > Doesn't work. I get some error from
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >
> > oops, now i think i see that you want to control the volume directly
> > via some of your keys. in that case, i don't think aumix will work
> > for you. sorry about that.
>
> Thank you for your reponse. It is precisely what I want to do.
>
> --Nabil
The
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On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Pat Mahoney wrote:
>the kernel. On boot up it merely says VGA 80x25. I suspected my bios is
>not vesa 2.0 compliant, but when I set kernel to vga=ask, it says VESA
>somewhere in there (not sure exactly where). When I probe for more modes,
>it finds none. Entering standard v
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >
> > oops, now i think i see that you want to control the volume directly
> > via some of your keys. in that case, i don't think aumix will work
> > for you. sorry about that.
>
> Thank you for your reponse. It is precisely what I want to do.
>
> --Nabil
Th
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On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 06:46:01AM +0200, Werner Heuser wrote:
>
>
> Pat Mahoney wrote:
>
> > the kernel. On boot up it merely says VGA 80x25. I suspected my bios is
> > not vesa 2.0 compliant, but when I set kernel to vga=ask, it says VESA
>
>
> At http://www.strusel007.de/linux/fb.html you
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Pat Mahoney wrote:
>the kernel. On boot up it merely says VGA 80x25. I suspected my bios is
>not vesa 2.0 compliant, but when I set kernel to vga=ask, it says VESA
>somewhere in there (not sure exactly where). When I probe for more modes,
>it finds none. Entering standard
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