Thinkpad 380ED sound

2001-06-20 Thread Jawahar J. Panchal
I've just finished installing linux on my acquired 380ED. I've managed to get just about everything working - except the sound. I've looked around online - but found little. I was wondering if anyone has sucessfully gotten the sound to work under linux on a 380ED? Jay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: configurations, interfaces(5)

2001-06-20 Thread Szymon Polom
Hi... Quoting Dave Morse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > What is the best way to manage "configurations" on a laptop? > > I.e. at home: through eth0/192.168.88.7, run NIS and NFS > At Work: through eth0/192.168.1.1, run samba > On the road: through modem, run nothing > > Does anyone have a more fleshed o

Re: configurations, interfaces(5)

2001-06-20 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Dave Morse wrote: > What is the best way to manage "configurations" on a laptop? Personally, I use `whereami' to do it. It's a package, which is nice, though I don't know if it's anywhere but unstable. > I.e. at home: through eth0/192.168.88.7, run NIS and NFS > At Work: thro

Re: moving to a new laptop

2001-06-20 Thread Heather
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Jeff Coppock wrote: > > >The folks in my IS dept. at work use a program called Ghost (I > >think its from Norton) to copy an entire partition, like an > >image, from one HDD to another. They use it for HDD upgrades > >all the time. I even moves the Partitio

Re: Problem setting (new) default route with pppd after connecting

2001-06-20 Thread Yuchung Cheng
On 06-20-2001, Alex Suzuki wrote: > I tried putting a script into /etc/ppp/ip-up.d and /etc/ppp/ip-down.d > but it didn't get executed. I checked the file attributes and it first enable the "debug" options in /etc/ppp/peers/you_isp_name then check the /var/log/messages to see if /etc/ppp/ip-up is e

configurations, interfaces(5)

2001-06-20 Thread Dave Morse
What is the best way to manage "configurations" on a laptop? I.e. at home: through eth0/192.168.88.7, run NIS and NFS At Work: through eth0/192.168.1.1, run samba On the road: through modem, run nothing Does anyone have a more fleshed out example of interfaces(5) "mapping" concept? The man page

Re: configurations, interfaces(5)

2001-06-20 Thread Szymon Polom
Hi... Quoting Dave Morse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > What is the best way to manage "configurations" on a laptop? > > I.e. at home: through eth0/192.168.88.7, run NIS and NFS > At Work: through eth0/192.168.1.1, run samba > On the road: through modem, run nothing > > Does anyone have a more fleshed

Re: moving to a new laptop

2001-06-20 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Jeff Coppock wrote: >The folks in my IS dept. at work use a program called Ghost (I >think its from Norton) to copy an entire partition, like an >image, from one HDD to another. They use it for HDD upgrades >all the time. I even moves the Partition table. So

Re: laptop, anacron and lan :

2001-06-20 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thank you for your reply. What you propose may work fine if you plug/unplug your pcmcia card. But, as in my case, it is usless if you let permanently you card in its plug: with realport card pluging means pluging the cable to the card. Any more idea ? Thanks in advance, Jerome Chanop Silpa-Ana

Re: Problem setting (new) default route with pppd after connecting

2001-06-20 Thread Jeff Coppock
This is normal behavior from my experience. I've never seen PPP replace a default route that already exists. If you only have a few known hosts or networks at the ISP you could build a script to inject those host and net routes into the table when PPP comes up. I've done this with

Re: configurations, interfaces(5)

2001-06-20 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Dave Morse wrote: > What is the best way to manage "configurations" on a laptop? Personally, I use `whereami' to do it. It's a package, which is nice, though I don't know if it's anywhere but unstable. > I.e. at home: through eth0/192.168.88.7, run NIS and NFS > At Work: thr

Re: unpredictable crashes, lock up, freezes, whatever

2001-06-20 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Heather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Olaf Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Okay, so I compiled a kernel without any APM support, installed > > and tried it. My system froze within half an hour :-( > > You must compile with one of the two flavors of power management, or > else there

Re: laptop, anacron and lan :

2001-06-20 Thread David Morse
Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all ! > > I have a very naive question: > is there a very simple way to run job periodically > BUT only when the LAN connection is enabled ? Here's my very naive answer: You could just perform the action all the time, but guard its guts with a test

Re: moving to a new laptop

2001-06-20 Thread Heather
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Jeff Coppock wrote: > > >The folks in my IS dept. at work use a program called Ghost (I > >think its from Norton) to copy an entire partition, like an > >image, from one HDD to another. They use it for HDD upgrades > >all the time. I even moves the Partiti

Re: Problem setting (new) default route with pppd after connecting

2001-06-20 Thread Yuchung Cheng
On 06-20-2001, Alex Suzuki wrote: > I tried putting a script into /etc/ppp/ip-up.d and /etc/ppp/ip-down.d > but it didn't get executed. I checked the file attributes and it first enable the "debug" options in /etc/ppp/peers/you_isp_name then check the /var/log/messages to see if /etc/ppp/ip-up is

Re: moving to a new laptop

2001-06-20 Thread Jeff Coppock
The folks in my IS dept. at work use a program called Ghost (I think its from Norton) to copy an entire partition, like an image, from one HDD to another. They use it for HDD upgrades all the time. I even moves the Partition table. So uprading from a 6GB HDD to a 12GB HDD, you'd e

Re: laptop, anacron and lan :

2001-06-20 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Jerome BENOIT say > Hi all ! > > I have a very naive question: > is there a very simple way to run job periodically > BUT only when the LAN connection is enabled ? Here is my way. Since I am having only one lan connection, I still use a network start up script in pcmcia

Re: xircom combo card + kernel 2.4.5

2001-06-20 Thread Jeff Coppock
I have a Dell Lattitude CPx and the Xircom CBEM56G-100 card. When I ran pcmcia-cs-3.1.22 I had to run it in promisc mode all the time. I upgraded to pcmcia-cs-3.1.25 and now I don't need to run it in promisc mode all the time, but I have to remind it that it's up now and again. Fo

configurations, interfaces(5)

2001-06-20 Thread Dave Morse
What is the best way to manage "configurations" on a laptop? I.e. at home: through eth0/192.168.88.7, run NIS and NFS At Work: through eth0/192.168.1.1, run samba On the road: through modem, run nothing Does anyone have a more fleshed out example of interfaces(5) "mapping" concept? The man page

laptop, anacron and lan :

2001-06-20 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi all ! I have a very naive question: is there a very simple way to run job periodically BUT only when the LAN connection is enabled ? Thanks, Jerome BENOIT

Re: moving to a new laptop

2001-06-20 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Jeff Coppock wrote: >The folks in my IS dept. at work use a program called Ghost (I >think its from Norton) to copy an entire partition, like an >image, from one HDD to another. They use it for HDD upgrades >all the time. I even moves the Partition table. S

Re: moving to a new laptop

2001-06-20 Thread Peter Cordes
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 07:03:17PM +0200, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > Hi > > I'm going to move to a new laptop pretty soon. My question: > Can I simply "move" all the software to the new one? (Well, except for > the XConfig and other hardware stuff like sound, 3D, etc...) > My biggest concern is tha

Re: laptop, anacron and lan :

2001-06-20 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thank you for your reply. What you propose may work fine if you plug/unplug your pcmcia card. But, as in my case, it is usless if you let permanently you card in its plug: with realport card pluging means pluging the cable to the card. Any more idea ? Thanks in advance, Jerome Chanop Silpa-An

Re: moving to a new laptop

2001-06-20 Thread Philipp Bliedung
Thanks to everyone who replied to my question!! I'll let you know when I run into some more problems :) Thanks, Philipp Andrew McMillan wrote: > > Philipp Bliedung wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > I'm going to move to a new laptop pretty soon. My question: > > Can I simply "move" all the software to t

Re: Problem setting (new) default route with pppd after connecting

2001-06-20 Thread Jeff Coppock
This is normal behavior from my experience. I've never seen PPP replace a default route that already exists. If you only have a few known hosts or networks at the ISP you could build a script to inject those host and net routes into the table when PPP comes up. I've done this wit

Re: unpredictable crashes, lock up, freezes, whatever

2001-06-20 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Heather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Olaf Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Okay, so I compiled a kernel without any APM support, installed > > and tried it. My system froze within half an hour :-( > > You must compile with one of the two flavors of power management, or > else there

Re: laptop, anacron and lan :

2001-06-20 Thread David Morse
Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all ! > > I have a very naive question: > is there a very simple way to run job periodically > BUT only when the LAN connection is enabled ? Here's my very naive answer: You could just perform the action all the time, but guard its guts with a test

Re: moving to a new laptop

2001-06-20 Thread Jeff Coppock
The folks in my IS dept. at work use a program called Ghost (I think its from Norton) to copy an entire partition, like an image, from one HDD to another. They use it for HDD upgrades all the time. I even moves the Partition table. So uprading from a 6GB HDD to a 12GB HDD, you'd

Re: laptop, anacron and lan :

2001-06-20 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Jerome BENOIT say > Hi all ! > > I have a very naive question: > is there a very simple way to run job periodically > BUT only when the LAN connection is enabled ? Here is my way. Since I am having only one lan connection, I still use a network start up script in pcmci

Re: xircom combo card + kernel 2.4.5

2001-06-20 Thread Jeff Coppock
I have a Dell Lattitude CPx and the Xircom CBEM56G-100 card. When I ran pcmcia-cs-3.1.22 I had to run it in promisc mode all the time. I upgraded to pcmcia-cs-3.1.25 and now I don't need to run it in promisc mode all the time, but I have to remind it that it's up now and again. F

laptop, anacron and lan :

2001-06-20 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi all ! I have a very naive question: is there a very simple way to run job periodically BUT only when the LAN connection is enabled ? Thanks, Jerome BENOIT -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: moving to a new laptop

2001-06-20 Thread Peter Cordes
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 07:03:17PM +0200, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > Hi > > I'm going to move to a new laptop pretty soon. My question: > Can I simply "move" all the software to the new one? (Well, except for > the XConfig and other hardware stuff like sound, 3D, etc...) > My biggest concern is th

Re: moving to a new laptop

2001-06-20 Thread Philipp Bliedung
Thanks to everyone who replied to my question!! I'll let you know when I run into some more problems :) Thanks, Philipp Andrew McMillan wrote: > > Philipp Bliedung wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > I'm going to move to a new laptop pretty soon. My question: > > Can I simply "move" all the software to

Problem setting (new) default route with pppd after connecting

2001-06-20 Thread Alex Suzuki
Hi everybody, I asked the same question in the debian-user mailinglist, but I didn't get an answer, maybe you guys can help me :) I recently bought myself a new laptop, with a built-in ethernet card an a lucent winmodem, which I got to work with drivers from http://www.heby.de/ltmodem When at hom

Re: unpredictable crashes, lock up, freezes, whatever

2001-06-20 Thread Heather
> Olaf Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Yup, following up on my own post! Please bear along with the long > quotes. I left them in because I'm now also cross-posting this to > debian-laptop. > [some trimming] > > > Look for power-change events under apmd. > > > > I doubt that has a

Problem setting (new) default route with pppd after connecting

2001-06-20 Thread Alex Suzuki
Hi everybody, I asked the same question in the debian-user mailinglist, but I didn't get an answer, maybe you guys can help me :) I recently bought myself a new laptop, with a built-in ethernet card an a lucent winmodem, which I got to work with drivers from http://www.heby.de/ltmodem When at ho

Re: unpredictable crashes, lock up, freezes, whatever

2001-06-20 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Olaf Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Yup, following up on my own post! Please bear along with the long quotes. I left them in because I'm now also cross-posting this to debian-laptop. > "Karsten M. Self" writes: > > > on Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 04:51:35PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen ([EMAIL >

Re: xircom combo card + kernel 2.4.5

2001-06-20 Thread Robert Waldner
>On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 09:44:37AM -0400, Peter Solodov wrote: >> On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Robert Waldner wrote: >> >> > Try putting the card into promiscous mode `ifconfig eth0 promisc`. >> > Works wonders on almost all Xircom cards here in the office. >> >> Indeed, it works wonders :-) So I'm ha

Re: unpredictable crashes, lock up, freezes, whatever

2001-06-20 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Olaf Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Yup, following up on my own post! Please bear along with the long quotes. I left them in because I'm now also cross-posting this to debian-laptop. > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > on Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 04:51:35PM +0900, Olaf M

Re: xircom combo card + kernel 2.4.5

2001-06-20 Thread Robert Waldner
>On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 09:44:37AM -0400, Peter Solodov wrote: >> On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Robert Waldner wrote: >> >> > Try putting the card into promiscous mode `ifconfig eth0 promisc`. >> > Works wonders on almost all Xircom cards here in the office. >> >> Indeed, it works wonders :-) So I'm h