Re: [OT] windows networking issue

2001-07-04 Thread Neil Grant
hi, 90% of my networking problems have been due to faulty cables. Some had the wrong sets of pairs twisted together, so that work fine at 10Mbs but not at 100Mbs - never let a software engineer make cables up :) So check/swap cables round to test them. Also I would try forcing the windoze pc to

Re: batch browsing

2001-07-04 Thread Walt Mankowski
Since you seem to have gotten a reply to your question, I feel compelled to ask about something else you mentioned in passing in your post... On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 05:58:56PM -0700, Tony Godshall wrote: > What has this to do with laptops? Well, I have more time to > read when I'm on the bus on

Re: installing on laptop

2001-07-04 Thread Tony Godshall
Another idea: If you already have a somewhat working OS of another type you could always go the install-from-harddrive route. I've done that a couple of times. Using a prior monopolistic OS, I downloaded the dos tools (loadlin fips etc), the kernel (linux), the diskette images boot.bin, roo

Re: installing on laptop

2001-07-04 Thread Tony Godshall
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 03:43:33PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I did this myself. You might as well take the opportunity > > to upgrade the hard drive too tho. 20GB notebook drives are > > down to < $120 (per http://www.pricewatch.com/1/101/3329-1.htm). > > Plus add a bill or two for the

Re: batch browsing

2001-07-04 Thread Tony Godshall
[ksieben] > I woud use wget: > wget -r -k -H -l X -nc http://google-search-results > wher X is the level you like to (travers?) the links Yeah, that works for the first go, but how to get the subsequent pages (just the ones that are interesting)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: batch browsing

2001-07-04 Thread Tony Godshall
[christophe] > What you want is called wwwoffle (in sid at least) and it means www off > line. Excellent. [http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/] > While Offline Can be configured to use dial-on-demand for > pages that are not cached. Selection of pages to download > next time online Using

Re: PCMCIA Flash Card Problem

2001-07-04 Thread Glen S Mehn
if it's CompactFlash, then it's got an ide interface. I've always had them mount as the /dev just after your last IDE bus: usually /dev/hde1 and it's always been vfat for me -- long filenames. hope this helps. glen On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:05:19AM +0200, thomas wrote: > > > I have a 64MB

Re: installing on laptop

2001-07-04 Thread Heather
> > I did this myself. You might as well take the opportunity > > to upgrade the hard drive too tho. 20GB notebook drives are > > down to < $120 (per http://www.pricewatch.com/1/101/3329-1.htm). > > Plus add a bill or two for the adapter cable. I got mine from > > west-tech.com, installed it w

Re: How to use pcmcia on a Thoshiba Tecra 550

2001-07-04 Thread Hubert Chan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Andreas" == Andreas Fromm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andreas> Hi, I'm trying to install Debian on my "new" Toshiba Tecra 550 Andreas> CDT, but can't get the PCMCIA controler to run. During the Andreas> installation I'm asked which type of con

Re: How to use pcmcia on a Thoshiba Tecra 550

2001-07-04 Thread Jeff Coppock
I used to have Debian running on a Tecra 750CDM and I used the i82365 chip selection with no other options and it worked fine. I did the 5 diskette install (now this is a 6 diskette install...rescue/root/and 4 driver disks) and pulled the base system and the rest off the inter

Re: PCMCIA Flash Card Problem

2001-07-04 Thread Federico Heinz
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001 11:05:19 +0200, thomas said: > As far as I know those things use ide/ata interface. > It worked this way on my old Laptop with a potato frozen > release. I could mount it with something like > "mount -t msdos /dev/hde1 /flash". > Something changed in the meanwhile with pot

Re: How to make a pcmcia_cs.deb and drivers module

2001-07-04 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:24:32PM +0200, Werner Heuser wrote: > > > How to make a pcmcia_cs.deb package and > > drivers module by original pcmcia_cs source > > - untar the source in /usr/src/modules > - copy an existing debian tree from a pcmcia-cs-source package > into the above dir (so

Re: installing on laptop

2001-07-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I did this myself. You might as well take the opportunity > to upgrade the hard drive too tho. 20GB notebook drives are > down to < $120 (per http://www.pricewatch.com/1/101/3329-1.htm). > Plus add a bill or two for the adapter cable. I got mine from > west-tech.com, installed it with an old

How to use pcmcia on a Thoshiba Tecra 550

2001-07-04 Thread Andreas Fromm
Hi, I'm trying to install Debian on my "new" Toshiba Tecra 550 CDT, but can't get the PCMCIA controler to run. During the installation I'm asked which type of controler I have (PCIC or i82???) but none of them can be installed. Windows reported a toPIC97 controler, and somewhere I read something

Re: PCMCIA Flash Card Problem

2001-07-04 Thread Andrew McMillan
thomas wrote: > > I have a 64MB flash memory card with a pcmcia adapter. > > As far as I know those things use ide/ata interface. > It worked this way on my old Laptop with a potato frozen > release. I could mount it with something like > "mount -t msdos /dev/hde1 /flash". > > Something changed

Re: How to make a pcmcia_cs.deb and drivers module

2001-07-04 Thread Werner Heuser
... > How to make a pcmcia_cs.deb package and > drivers module by original pcmcia_cs source Hi, just a quick survey (please look up the Packaging-Manual.deb, Developers-Reference.deb man make-kpkg etc. for details): - untar the source in /usr/src/modules - copy an existing debian tree from a pc

Re: installing on laptop

2001-07-04 Thread Alberto Bigazzi
You can try with a PLIP installation, if you have another linux box anywhere at hand to mount the CDROM from. See the PLIP-INSTALL mini-HOWTO, very well written. ciao Alberto -/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/ Alberto Bigazzi, PhD. Research Associate, Dept. of Mathematics, P

PCMCIA Flash Card Problem

2001-07-04 Thread thomas
I have a 64MB flash memory card with a pcmcia adapter. As far as I know those things use ide/ata interface. It worked this way on my old Laptop with a potato frozen release. I could mount it with something like "mount -t msdos /dev/hde1 /flash". Something changed in the meanwhile with potato

Resume fails on Tosh-4080XCDT

2001-07-04 Thread Achim Steinmetz
Hi! I got a very stupid problem with the resume on a Tosh Satellite 4080XCDT which I can not resolve on my own and hope to find someone who may be able to help me or at least tell me if he's got that working or not. Ok here the situation: Machine: Tosh Satellite 4080XCDT (BIOS downgraded to last

How to make a pcmcia_cs.deb and drivers module

2001-07-04 Thread Alex Kwan
Hi! How to make a pcmcia_cs.deb package and drivers module by original pcmcia_cs source code ? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: batch browsing

2001-07-04 Thread ingo
Tony Godshall wrote: > > The point is, I would like to have these interesting sites > snarfed onto my laptop to read offline and then have the > URLs for the interesting links queued up in some way. > I suppose what I need is some kind of trigger from the web > browser. Maybe an offline web pro