Re: help with DSL/DHCP install

2000-10-03 Thread ari gold
> Does the dsl hook to an external dsl modem or minirouter? Usually, in most > dsl setups, the ethernet card is to hook up to an external box on the other > end that takes the dsl signal, and allows you to communicate as if > everything ran on direct ethernet. Also, there's cards that function as d

Re: Network problems

2000-10-03 Thread Michael Dickey
"Neil L. Roeth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have that same Xircom adaptor, and the same problem when I suspend > and resume via apm, i.e., the network adaptor stops working. This > also happens with an Aironet wireless ethernet adaptor, making me > believe it is a Sony Vaio/apm problem r

Re: help with DSL/DHCP install

2000-10-03 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, ari gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > if i run dhclient (ive already modified the file and ran it before...) > i get the following output: > > Listening on LPF/lo/ > Sending on LPF/lo/ > Listening on LPF/eth0/00:a0:24:e3:ae:8c > Sending on LPF/eth0/00:a0:24:e3:ae

Re: help with DSL/DHCP install

2000-10-03 Thread ari gold
> Does the dsl hook to an external dsl modem or minirouter? Usually, in most > dsl setups, the ethernet card is to hook up to an external box on the other > end that takes the dsl signal, and allows you to communicate as if > everything ran on direct ethernet. Also, there's cards that function as

Re: Network problems

2000-10-03 Thread Michael Dickey
"Neil L. Roeth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have that same Xircom adaptor, and the same problem when I suspend > and resume via apm, i.e., the network adaptor stops working. This > also happens with an Aironet wireless ethernet adaptor, making me > believe it is a Sony Vaio/apm problem

Re: help with DSL/DHCP install

2000-10-03 Thread ari gold
thanks a bunch for the tip mike.. im not sure what pump does thought, or what it supposed to do. if the isp requires a hostname, will i be given the opportunity to type "pump -h hostname" or should i put that in a script? (btw, im assuming that by hostname you mean the name of my machine; that l

Re: help with DSL/DHCP install

2000-10-03 Thread Mike Phillips
Daniel Pittman wrote: > > On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, ari gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > > anyway, now im stuck. i dont know how to install the rest of the > > system. more specifically, i dont know how to get apt to understand > > that there's a PCMCIA card there just dying to connect t

Re: help with DSL/DHCP install

2000-10-03 Thread ari gold
thanks a bunch for the tip mike.. im not sure what pump does thought, or what it supposed to do. if the isp requires a hostname, will i be given the opportunity to type "pump -h hostname" or should i put that in a script? (btw, im assuming that by hostname you mean the name of my machine; that

Re: help with DSL/DHCP install

2000-10-03 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, ari gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > anyway, now im stuck. i dont know how to install the rest of the > system. more specifically, i dont know how to get apt to understand > that there's a PCMCIA card there just dying to connect to some ftp > site with the files on it.

help with DSL/DHCP install

2000-10-03 Thread ari gold
hello hello, ive been trying to install potato for a few days and hope this email list will be the trick.. as i know we're all busy ill try to be brief. i have a dell inspiron 7000 laptop with a PCMCIA card to connect to DSL via DHCP (thats what the DSL tech support guy told me last night). th

Re: help with DSL/DHCP install

2000-10-03 Thread Mike Phillips
Daniel Pittman wrote: > > On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, ari gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > > anyway, now im stuck. i dont know how to install the rest of the > > system. more specifically, i dont know how to get apt to understand > > that there's a PCMCIA card there just dying to connect

Re: help with DSL/DHCP install

2000-10-03 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, ari gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > anyway, now im stuck. i dont know how to install the rest of the > system. more specifically, i dont know how to get apt to understand > that there's a PCMCIA card there just dying to connect to some ftp > site with the files on it

help with DSL/DHCP install

2000-10-03 Thread ari gold
hello hello, ive been trying to install potato for a few days and hope this email list will be the trick.. as i know we're all busy ill try to be brief. i have a dell inspiron 7000 laptop with a PCMCIA card to connect to DSL via DHCP (thats what the DSL tech support guy told me last night). t

RE: Debian and compaq presario

2000-10-03 Thread Daniel E. Baumann
On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, George Wright wrote: > Are there any card (pcmcia) type modems out there that anyone has had luck > w/using > the 2.2.17 kernel? Are any made that aren't so heavily "win"-driven? > > > -Original Message- > From: Francesco Bochicchio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent:

RE: Debian and compaq presario

2000-10-03 Thread George Wright
Are there any card (pcmcia) type modems out there that anyone has had luck w/using the 2.2.17 kernel? Are any made that aren't so heavily "win"-driven? -Original Message- From: Francesco Bochicchio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 11:37 PM To: debian-laptop@list

Re: Debian and compaq presario

2000-10-03 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 02:07:53PM -0500, Daniel E. Baumann wrote: > On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, Francesco Bochicchio wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 01:29:21PM +0200, Olivier Billet wrote: > > > Hi everybody, > > > > > > I've well installed --well, more or less : I just set the X server, some > > > c

Re: sound volume (nm256)

2000-10-03 Thread Hugo Haas
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000, Bruno Waes wrote: > i have a sony vaio f180 with the neomagic NM256 chipset, i got sound to work > but i can not change the volume ? any ideas ? Use a mixer application such as aumix. -- Hugo Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://larve.net/people/hugo/ Am I to understand there

Network problems

2000-10-03 Thread Neil L. Roeth
I have that same Xircom adaptor, and the same problem when I suspend and resume via apm, i.e., the network adaptor stops working. This also happens with an Aironet wireless ethernet adaptor, making me believe it is a Sony Vaio/apm problem rather than an apm/Xircom problem. The suggestion that I t

sound volume (nm256)

2000-10-03 Thread Bruno Waes
i have a sony vaio f180 with the neomagic NM256 chipset, i got sound to work but i can not change the volume ? any ideas ? bruno

Re: sound volume (nm256)

2000-10-03 Thread Hugo Haas
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000, Bruno Waes wrote: > i have a sony vaio f180 with the neomagic NM256 chipset, i got sound to work > but i can not change the volume ? any ideas ? Use a mixer application such as aumix. -- Hugo Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://larve.net/people/hugo/ Am I to understand there

Network problems

2000-10-03 Thread Neil L. Roeth
I have that same Xircom adaptor, and the same problem when I suspend and resume via apm, i.e., the network adaptor stops working. This also happens with an Aironet wireless ethernet adaptor, making me believe it is a Sony Vaio/apm problem rather than an apm/Xircom problem. The suggestion that I

sound volume (nm256)

2000-10-03 Thread Bruno Waes
i have a sony vaio f180 with the neomagic NM256 chipset, i got sound to work but i can not change the volume ? any ideas ? bruno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Network problem under heavy load.

2000-10-03 Thread Prestel
Can anybody help with network problem, I've got a laptop with a Psion Gold Card Netglobal 56K+10/100Mb cardbus card, 2.2.17 kernel,debian 2.2, PCMCIA 3.1.20. At bootup everything is OK, the network is up and I can ping my server, FTP, telnet... all seems fine. But network fails and hangs with err