Re: PCMCIA Problems win IBM A20p

2001-09-22 Thread Glen Mehn
did you try the 2.4.9 in-kernel pcmcia stuff? It's been working like a charm for me (well, I think I had to change all the ide_cs to ide-cs -- or vice versa -- to properly mount my CF card in a pcmcia adapter. just that you need the tools in pcmcia-cs. I also couldn't get the pcmcia-cs package

Re: PCMCIA Problems win IBM A20p

2001-09-22 Thread Tom Allison
Glen Mehn wrote: you know that, even with pcmcia kernel support (from the 2.4 kernels) you need the pcmcia packages installed -- that's where you get cardctl, /etc/pcmcia/*, etc... just a thought. glen I think that I'm having essentially the same king of problem here. I have recently

Re: PCMCIA Problems win IBM A20p

2001-09-22 Thread Glen Mehn
you know that, even with pcmcia kernel support (from the 2.4 kernels) you need the pcmcia packages installed -- that's where you get cardctl, /etc/pcmcia/*, etc... just a thought. glen On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 01:34:45AM +0200, Frank Petzold wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 04:33:06PM +0200,

Re: PCMCIA Problems win IBM A20p

2001-09-22 Thread Glen Mehn
did you try the 2.4.9 in-kernel pcmcia stuff? It's been working like a charm for me (well, I think I had to change all the ide_cs to ide-cs -- or vice versa -- to properly mount my CF card in a pcmcia adapter. just that you need the tools in pcmcia-cs. I also couldn't get the pcmcia-cs package

Re: PCMCIA Problems win IBM A20p

2001-09-22 Thread Tom Allison
Glen Mehn wrote: > you know that, even with pcmcia kernel support (from the 2.4 kernels) you need the >pcmcia packages installed -- that's where you get cardctl, /etc/pcmcia/*, etc... > > just a thought. > > glen > > I think that I'm having essentially the same king of problem here. I ha

Re: PCMCIA Problems win IBM A20p

2001-09-22 Thread Glen Mehn
you know that, even with pcmcia kernel support (from the 2.4 kernels) you need the pcmcia packages installed -- that's where you get cardctl, /etc/pcmcia/*, etc... just a thought. glen On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 01:34:45AM +0200, Frank Petzold wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 04:33:06PM +0200,

Re: mk2sd.exe for Dell's Inspirion

2001-09-22 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Goran Ristic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Hi. > > As I get my new Inspirion 8100 next week, I tried to collect as much > information about it, as possible. ;) > > As I understood the sources, this program is intended for > Suspend-to-[RAM|Disk]. > Unfortunately I can't find it on Dell's pa

Re: PCMCIA Problems win IBM A20p

2001-09-22 Thread Frank Petzold
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 04:33:06PM +0200, H.Heinold wrote: > > The odd thing is that probe finds: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# probe -v > > PCI bridge probe: TI 1450 found, 2 sockets. > > > > > > Cards work under Win98. Any ideas? > > > Is your kernel selfcompiled or the one from debian? In bo

Re: mk2sd.exe for Dell's Inspirion

2001-09-22 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Goran Ristic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Hi. > > As I get my new Inspirion 8100 next week, I tried to collect as much > information about it, as possible. ;) > > As I understood the sources, this program is intended for > Suspend-to-[RAM|Disk]. > Unfortunately I can't find it on Dell's p

Re: PCMCIA Problems win IBM A20p

2001-09-22 Thread Frank Petzold
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 04:33:06PM +0200, H.Heinold wrote: > > The odd thing is that probe finds: > > > > root@sten:~# probe -v > > PCI bridge probe: TI 1450 found, 2 sockets. > > > > > > Cards work under Win98. Any ideas? > > > Is your kernel selfcompiled or the one from debian? In both case

mk2sd.exe for Dell's Inspirion

2001-09-22 Thread Goran Ristic
Hi. As I get my new Inspirion 8100 next week, I tried to collect as much information about it, as possible. ;) As I understood the sources, this program is intended for Suspend-to-[RAM|Disk]. Unfortunately I can't find it on Dell's pages|ftp. Is there any other tool, I can use? Or at least anoth

Re: /usr/src/modules

2001-09-22 Thread Hubert Chan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Tom" == Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> How did you get that? >> Tom> by unpacking the pcmcia-cs-3.1.29 source code from the pcmcia Tom> website (non-debian). Oh. I see. That's not quite the Debian Way of doing things. At least

Re: /usr/src/modules

2001-09-22 Thread Tom Allison
Hubert Chan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Tom" == Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> I made a mistake. I deleted /usr/src/modules Now it seems that I Tom> can't do anything to recreate the file necessary to be able to Tom> compile the pcmcia-source. I'm

mk2sd.exe for Dell's Inspirion

2001-09-22 Thread Goran Ristic
Hi. As I get my new Inspirion 8100 next week, I tried to collect as much information about it, as possible. ;) As I understood the sources, this program is intended for Suspend-to-[RAM|Disk]. Unfortunately I can't find it on Dell's pages|ftp. Is there any other tool, I can use? Or at least anot

Re: /usr/src/modules

2001-09-22 Thread Hubert Chan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Tom" == Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> How did you get that? >> Tom> by unpacking the pcmcia-cs-3.1.29 source code from the pcmcia Tom> website (non-debian). Oh. I see. That's not quite the Debian Way of doing things. At least

Re: PCMCIA Problems win IBM A20p

2001-09-22 Thread H.Heinold
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 03:28:49PM +0200, Frank Petzold wrote: > I cannot start the PCMCIA subsystem on my A20p: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart > Shutting down PCMCIA services:. > Starting PCMCIA services: modulesinsmod: a module named pcmcia_core already > exists > /lib/modu

Re: laptop parts

2001-09-22 Thread Andy Bastien
There's a pretty good chance that the chip is soldered onto the motherboard. Have you opened up the laptop to check if the video controller is removable? In the depths of that dark day Sat Sep 22, the words of Sunny Dubey were the beacon: > hey > > what are the chances of finding a company/stor

RE: laptop parts

2001-09-22 Thread adcarlson
Check B&B Computers in Toronto, ON, Canada. Phone #: (416) 657-2552. They stock all kinds of used notebooks as well as parts. They do repairs too. And they export to other countries. There is also one other place I know of in Toronto, called A-1 Electronics, although they are more of a laptop

Re: /usr/src/modules

2001-09-22 Thread Tom Allison
Hubert Chan wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > >>"Tom" == Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > > Tom> I made a mistake. I deleted /usr/src/modules Now it seems that I > Tom> can't do anything to recreate the file necessary to be able to > Tom> compile

Re: PCMCIA Problems win IBM A20p

2001-09-22 Thread H.Heinold
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 03:28:49PM +0200, Frank Petzold wrote: > I cannot start the PCMCIA subsystem on my A20p: > > root@sten:~# /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart > Shutting down PCMCIA services:. > Starting PCMCIA services: modulesinsmod: a module named pcmcia_core already exists > /lib/modules/2.4.8-

Re: laptop parts

2001-09-22 Thread Andy Bastien
There's a pretty good chance that the chip is soldered onto the motherboard. Have you opened up the laptop to check if the video controller is removable? In the depths of that dark day Sat Sep 22, the words of Sunny Dubey were the beacon: > hey > > what are the chances of finding a company/stor

Re: laptop parts

2001-09-22 Thread C. R. Oldham
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Sunny Dubey wrote: > what are the chances of finding a company/store that sells the internal parts > of a laptop. I need to buy the ATI Mobility M3 video card. (the dell 3800 > version, if it isn't a generic card.) Try http://www.teamexcess.com/ They sometime

RE: laptop parts

2001-09-22 Thread adcarlson
Check B&B Computers in Toronto, ON, Canada. Phone #: (416) 657-2552. They stock all kinds of used notebooks as well as parts. They do repairs too. And they export to other countries. There is also one other place I know of in Toronto, called A-1 Electronics, although they are more of a laptop

Re: /usr/src/modules

2001-09-22 Thread Hubert Chan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Tom" == Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> I made a mistake. I deleted /usr/src/modules Now it seems that I Tom> can't do anything to recreate the file necessary to be able to Tom> compile the pcmcia-source. I'm trying to compile th

Re: gnome-python 1.41. vs. python-gnome 1.4.1

2001-09-22 Thread Hubert Chan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Michael" == Michael Hothorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael>$ locate python-gnome Michael> I got: [cut] Michael> Q: Is there anything installed but examples and docs ? If so, Michael> is there a package for version 1.0.52 or late

Re: laptop parts

2001-09-22 Thread C. R. Oldham
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Sunny Dubey wrote: > what are the chances of finding a company/store that sells the internal parts > of a laptop. I need to buy the ATI Mobility M3 video card. (the dell 3800 > version, if it isn't a generic card.) Try http://www.teamexcess.com/ They sometim

Re: /usr/src/modules

2001-09-22 Thread Hubert Chan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Tom" == Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> I made a mistake. I deleted /usr/src/modules Now it seems that I Tom> can't do anything to recreate the file necessary to be able to Tom> compile the pcmcia-source. I'm trying to compile t

Re: gnome-python 1.41. vs. python-gnome 1.4.1

2001-09-22 Thread Hubert Chan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Michael" == Michael Hothorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael>$ locate python-gnome Michael> I got: [cut] Michael> Q: Is there anything installed but examples and docs ? If so, Michael> is there a package for version 1.0.52 or lat

laptop parts

2001-09-22 Thread Sunny Dubey
hey what are the chances of finding a company/store that sells the internal parts of a laptop. I need to buy the ATI Mobility M3 video card. (the dell 3800 version, if it isn't a generic card.) thanks for any info Sunny Dubey

/usr/src/modules

2001-09-22 Thread Tom Allison
I made a mistake. I deleted /usr/src/modules Now it seems that I can't do anything to recreate the file necessary to be able to compile the pcmcia-source. I'm trying to compile the pcmcia-cs-3.1.29 source with the 2.4.9 kernel. What I'm running into right now when I run 'make-kpkg modules' is /u

gnome-python 1.41. vs. python-gnome 1.4.1

2001-09-22 Thread Michael Hothorn
Hi, 1. Sorry this is not very laptop specific, maybe someone knows it anyway. I want to install pybliographer, a tool to manage bibtex files. Since I need gnome-python 1.4.1. I fetched a package called python-gnome 1.4.1-ximia from ximian and installed it with apt. Then I run configure

laptop parts

2001-09-22 Thread Sunny Dubey
hey what are the chances of finding a company/store that sells the internal parts of a laptop. I need to buy the ATI Mobility M3 video card. (the dell 3800 version, if it isn't a generic card.) thanks for any info Sunny Dubey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

/usr/src/modules

2001-09-22 Thread Tom Allison
I made a mistake. I deleted /usr/src/modules Now it seems that I can't do anything to recreate the file necessary to be able to compile the pcmcia-source. I'm trying to compile the pcmcia-cs-3.1.29 source with the 2.4.9 kernel. What I'm running into right now when I run 'make-kpkg modules' is /

gnome-python 1.41. vs. python-gnome 1.4.1

2001-09-22 Thread Michael Hothorn
Hi, 1. Sorry this is not very laptop specific, maybe someone knows it anyway. I want to install pybliographer, a tool to manage bibtex files. Since I need gnome-python 1.4.1. I fetched a package called python-gnome 1.4.1-ximia from ximian and installed it with apt. Then I run configur