Desktop Management Interface - DMI on Linux laptops?

2001-09-07 Thread Werner Heuser
Hi, does anybody have experiences or links to further information about DMI on mobile computers, especially with Linux. They only program I have found is `dmidecode' by Alan Cox ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/alan/DMI Werner Desktop Management Interface - DMI A specification from the Desktop

Sony VAIO Z600TEK harddrive to hot under heavy CPU load?

2001-09-07 Thread Werner Heuser
Hi, for the third time, now I have experienced troubles with the hard disk in the SONY VAIO Z600TEK. When starting the machine I had to do a `fsck' and lost some files. As far as I can reconstruct the circumstances, this usually happened after some task causing a heavy CPU load for some amount of

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-07 Thread Barry Pretsell
Thought I'd let you know that blackbox and opera were the most responsive on the thinkpad 365X. My laptop is now browsing the web quickly, and without delay.   you guys have made an old man and computer very happy ;-)   Barry - Original Message - From: Barry Pretsell To: d

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-07 Thread Barry Pretsell
Thought I'd let you know that blackbox and opera were the most responsive on the thinkpad 365X. My laptop is now browsing the web quickly, and without delay.   you guys have made an old man and computer very happy ;-)   Barry - Original Message - From: Barry Pretsell To: [

Re: FTP/HTTP install using tulip_cb

2001-09-07 Thread Petr Hlustik
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:10:39PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, folks; I was wondering if I could get a little assistance with my > machine - > > My laptop is using a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 Integrated CardBus PC Card, > which is supported by module tulip_cb. The trouble is, the install

Re: FTP/HTTP install using tulip_cb

2001-09-07 Thread Petr Hlustik
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 06:38:26PM -0700, Jeremy Avnet wrote: > > My laptop is using a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 Integrated CardBus PC Card, > > which is supported by module tulip_cb. The trouble is, the installer > > A bit of warning: I have had nothing but trouble with those cards. I > have trie

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-07 Thread Heather
> Galeon and SkipStone are lightweight browsers, they both are mozilla > based but they claim to be quick and light :) They are debian packages, but their packages depend on the fatso, because the mozilla maintainer hasn't yet split moz-embed (or whatever it would be called) from the whole ball

irda-common upgrade problems

2001-09-07 Thread Andrew Taylor
hi everyone - I am having some trouble upgrading the irda-common package from potato to woody. I guess that makes me a software tester. Here is what I know about it - I receive these messages when I try to reinstall it now w/ apt-get install : machine:# apt-get install irda-common Reading Pac

Re: Other mouse buttons on the Tecra 8100(I'm in same trouble on Dynabook Satellite 4260)

2001-09-07 Thread Heather
> / Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > | *shrug* In my experience, there's a distinct difference between > | "imps/2" and "IMPS/2" (ie. one works and the other doesn't), but it's > | not mentioned here: > > I can only shrug as well. Neither imps/2 nor IMPS/2 work (and both exhib

Re: FTP/HTTP install using tulip_cb

2001-09-07 Thread Petr Hlustik
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:10:39PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, folks; I was wondering if I could get a little assistance with my > machine - > > My laptop is using a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 Integrated CardBus PC Card, > which is supported by module tulip_cb. The trouble is, the instal

Re: FTP/HTTP install using tulip_cb

2001-09-07 Thread Petr Hlustik
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 06:38:26PM -0700, Jeremy Avnet wrote: > > My laptop is using a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 Integrated CardBus PC Card, > > which is supported by module tulip_cb. The trouble is, the installer > > A bit of warning: I have had nothing but trouble with those cards. I > have tri

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-07 Thread Yannick Asselin
Galeon and SkipStone are lightweight browsers, they both are mozilla based but they claim to be quick and light :) URL: http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/ http://galeon.sourceforge.net I haven't tried either but that's what they claim.. Love & Light! Yannick

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windowsand browser

2001-09-07 Thread Heather
> Galeon and SkipStone are lightweight browsers, they both are mozilla > based but they claim to be quick and light :) They are debian packages, but their packages depend on the fatso, because the mozilla maintainer hasn't yet split moz-embed (or whatever it would be called) from the whole ball

irda-common upgrade problems

2001-09-07 Thread Andrew Taylor
hi everyone - I am having some trouble upgrading the irda-common package from potato to woody. I guess that makes me a software tester. Here is what I know about it - I receive these messages when I try to reinstall it now w/ apt-get install : machine:# apt-get install irda-common Reading Pa

Re: Other mouse buttons on the Tecra 8100(I'm in same trouble on DynabookSatellite 4260)

2001-09-07 Thread Heather
> / Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > | *shrug* In my experience, there's a distinct difference between > | "imps/2" and "IMPS/2" (ie. one works and the other doesn't), but it's > | not mentioned here: > > I can only shrug as well. Neither imps/2 nor IMPS/2 work (and both exhi

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-07 Thread Adam McDaniel
The only pre-req opera requires is libqt, but even that can be downloaded staticly inside of the binary. The good thing about opera is that they produce deb files, so its a neat and easy *2.7 meg* install :) On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 07:42:53PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Sep 06, 20

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-07 Thread Yannick Asselin
Galeon and SkipStone are lightweight browsers, they both are mozilla based but they claim to be quick and light :) URL: http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/ http://galeon.sourceforge.net I haven't tried either but that's what they claim.. Love & Light! Yannick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-07 Thread Adam McDaniel
The only pre-req opera requires is libqt, but even that can be downloaded staticly inside of the binary. The good thing about opera is that they produce deb files, so its a neat and easy *2.7 meg* install :) On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 07:42:53PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Sep 06, 2

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-07 Thread Achim Bohnet
On Friday 07 September 2001 04:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:48:27PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîca wrote: > > I think fvwm2 should be OK for a windows manager. Did you try simply > > netscape > > 4.7x as a browser? Mozilla is slow... If you care about Unicode support > >

Re: Other mouse buttons on the Tecra 8100(I'm in same trouble on Dynabook Satellite 4260)

2001-09-07 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | *shrug* In my experience, there's a distinct difference between | "imps/2" and "IMPS/2" (ie. one works and the other doesn't), but it's | not mentioned here: I can only shrug as well. Neither imps/2 nor IMPS/2 work (and both exhibit the same

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-07 Thread Achim Bohnet
On Friday 07 September 2001 04:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:48:27PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîca wrote: > > I think fvwm2 should be OK for a windows manager. Did you try simply netscape > > 4.7x as a browser? Mozilla is slow... If you care about Unicode support > > I h

Re: Other mouse buttons on the Tecra 8100(I'm in same trouble on Dynabook Satellite 4260)

2001-09-07 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | *shrug* In my experience, there's a distinct difference between | "imps/2" and "IMPS/2" (ie. one works and the other doesn't), but it's | not mentioned here: I can only shrug as well. Neither imps/2 nor IMPS/2 work (and both exhibit the same

Re: eth0 sleeping on the job

2001-09-07 Thread Stefano Canepa<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Whenever my notebook (IBM A21m) goes to sleep/suspend/hibernate, > the eepro100 ethernet card doesn't come back on line. > This is a royal pain to hassle with every 10 minutes if I'm > working on something else. > > Also, my DWL-650 network card won't sleep even if I try to force a > suspend/hi