Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 420cdt without floppy

2002-03-15 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
On Friday 15 March 2002 03:17 pm, you wrote: > "Jaye" == Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Greetings: > > Jaye> I just received this laptop for cheep. It has 40mb Ram(max) > Jaye> & 1.2gb hd. The only problem getting linux on it is that it > Jaye> has no flop

Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 420cdt without floppy

2002-03-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Jaye" == Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Greetings: Jaye> I just received this laptop for cheep. It has 40mb Ram(max) Jaye> & 1.2gb hd. The only problem getting linux on it is that it Jaye> has no floppy. I tried to boot using it's cdrom drive, but Jaye

Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 420cdt without floppy

2002-03-15 Thread Charlie Hedlin
There is another way, but I haven't done it recently enough to give detailed instructions. Go ahead and make a netinst CD, but then use loadlin to start the kernel instead of booting the CD. The boot disks are formated msdos. So if you make one on another machine you should be able to extr

Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 420cdt without floppy

2002-03-15 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
On Friday 15 March 2002 03:17 pm, you wrote: > "Jaye" == Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Greetings: > > Jaye> I just received this laptop for cheep. It has 40mb Ram(max) > Jaye> & 1.2gb hd. The only problem getting linux on it is that it > Jaye> has no flo

Re: Problems with pcmcia in a dell inspiron 2500

2002-03-15 Thread Romain FRANCOISE
Carlos García writes: > I have a problem when I try to install a pcmcia network card in my > laptop. The cardbus is o2micro OZ6933 and the pcmcia card is a > RealTek 8139. The version of pcmcia that I have installed is 3.1.33 > and the kernel is 2.4.18. [...] > I think that the problem is in th

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2002-03-15 Thread Michael Merting
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Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 420cdt without floppy

2002-03-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Jaye" == Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Greetings: Jaye> I just received this laptop for cheep. It has 40mb Ram(max) Jaye> & 1.2gb hd. The only problem getting linux on it is that it Jaye> has no floppy. I tried to boot using it's cdrom drive, but Jay

RE: Reconfiguring Network after Upgrade.

2002-03-15 Thread William Reece
I have just tried route -n, and retested the internet connection and fortunately (or unfortunately) it is working again. I am somewhat surprised by this, as I have been trying to fix the problem for about a week. I have finished the upgrade, and restarted several times, trying to recreate the pro

Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 420cdt without floppy

2002-03-15 Thread Charlie Hedlin
There is another way, but I haven't done it recently enough to give detailed instructions. Go ahead and make a netinst CD, but then use loadlin to start the kernel instead of booting the CD. The boot disks are formated msdos. So if you make one on another machine you should be able to extr

Re: Problems with pcmcia in a dell inspiron 2500

2002-03-15 Thread Romain FRANCOISE
Carlos García writes: > I have a problem when I try to install a pcmcia network card in my > laptop. The cardbus is o2micro OZ6933 and the pcmcia card is a > RealTek 8139. The version of pcmcia that I have installed is 3.1.33 > and the kernel is 2.4.18. [...] > I think that the problem is in t

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2002-03-15 Thread Michael Merting
are you bofh? third try now so plz remove me! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 420cdt without floppy

2002-03-15 Thread Heather
> > Greetings: > > I just received this laptop for cheep. It has 40mb Ram(max) & 1.2gb hd. The > only problem getting linux on it is that it has no floppy. I tried to boot > using it's cdrom drive, but the prehistoric bios doesn't look for cdrom, only > fdd>hdd or hdd>fdd. Hmm, PLIP in

RE: Reconfiguring Network after Upgrade.

2002-03-15 Thread William Reece
I have just tried route -n, and retested the internet connection and fortunately (or unfortunately) it is working again. I am somewhat surprised by this, as I have been trying to fix the problem for about a week. I have finished the upgrade, and restarted several times, trying to recreate the pr

Re: Reconfiguring Network after Upgrade.

2002-03-15 Thread Mike Alborn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 12:31:52PM -, William Reece wrote: [...snip...] > ... I could no longer get online. > I am on a windows network connected to a cable modem (dynamic IP > reassigned every 12 hours or so) via a sygate home network server > (

Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 420cdt without floppy

2002-03-15 Thread Heather
> > Greetings: > > I just received this laptop for cheep. It has 40mb Ram(max) & 1.2gb hd. The > only problem getting linux on it is that it has no floppy. I tried to boot > using it's cdrom drive, but the prehistoric bios doesn't look for cdrom, only > fdd>hdd or hdd>fdd. Hmm, PLIP i

Toshiba Satellite Pro 420cdt without floppy

2002-03-15 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Greetings: I just received this laptop for cheep. It has 40mb Ram(max) & 1.2gb hd. The only problem getting linux on it is that it has no floppy. I tried to boot using it's cdrom drive, but the prehistoric bios doesn't look for cdrom, only fdd>hdd or hdd>fdd. Looking around for a flopp

Re: Reconfiguring Network after Upgrade.

2002-03-15 Thread Mike Alborn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 12:31:52PM -, William Reece wrote: [...snip...] > ... I could no longer get online. > I am on a windows network connected to a cable modem (dynamic IP > reassigned every 12 hours or so) via a sygate home network server >

Toshiba Satellite Pro 420cdt without floppy

2002-03-15 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Greetings: I just received this laptop for cheep. It has 40mb Ram(max) & 1.2gb hd. The only problem getting linux on it is that it has no floppy. I tried to boot using it's cdrom drive, but the prehistoric bios doesn't look for cdrom, only fdd>hdd or hdd>fdd. Looking around for a flop

realtek 8139 again device or resource busy...

2002-03-15 Thread dinopuffin
Hello Friends, I discovered that I have a module call rtl8139 that is for my card but if i do modprobe rtl8139 said device or resource busy I think there is a conflict about irq so according pcmcia how to i tried to exclude irq 9 in etc/pcmcia/config to force

Reconfiguring Network after Upgrade.

2002-03-15 Thread William Reece
Hey Everyone, Sorry if this is slightly off topic but.. I recently installed potato r3 on my laptop (Asus A1200, with SIS 630 chipset etc). During the installation, dbootstrap correctly configured internet access through a sis900 LAN card. I was then able to use the card to upgrade to woody. Wh

Reconfiguring Network after Upgrade.

2002-03-15 Thread William Reece
Hey Everyone, Sorry if this is slightly off topic but.. I recently installed potato r3 on my laptop (Asus A1200, with SIS 630 chipset etc). During the installation, dbootstrap correctly configured internet access through a sis900 LAN card. I was then able to use the card to upgrade to woody. W

realtek 8139 again device or resource busy...

2002-03-15 Thread dinopuffin
Hello Friends, I discovered that I have a module call rtl8139 that is for my card but if i do modprobe rtl8139 said device or resource busy I think there is a conflict about irq so according pcmcia how to i tried to exclude irq 9 in etc/pcmcia/config to forc

Re: Activating keys on Compaq extended keyboards

2002-03-15 Thread Oliver Epper
Hi Derek ! > Check http://fake.by-infonet.de/laptop/ This is grrreat ! Thx a lot ! cya Oliver

Re: realtek 8139

2002-03-15 Thread Alessandro Speranza
I think the realtek 8139 is supported already by the kernel 2.2.19 that you get from the distribution. You can set it up with modconf and get the riright module for your eth0

Re: Activating keys on Compaq extended keyboards

2002-03-15 Thread Oliver Epper
Hi Derek ! > Check http://fake.by-infonet.de/laptop/ This is grrreat ! Thx a lot ! cya Oliver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: realtek 8139

2002-03-15 Thread Alessandro Speranza
I think the realtek 8139 is supported already by the kernel 2.2.19 that you get from the distribution. You can set it up with modconf and get the riright module for your eth0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: re satellite pro pcmcia

2002-03-15 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 02:17:19PM +, Craig Laurie wrote: > The problem with my pcmcia ( toshiba satellite pro 440cdx) is that it > thinks the cards are memory cards. has any one came across this before? > I've seen that from time to time on my 490CDT. Usually I just reinsert the card a seco