Thinkpad S30 installation error.

2002-12-21 Thread Yoshi Kanai
Hello,   This is first time to send message to this mailing list.  I am facing an error when installing woody by USB-FDD to IBM ThinkPad S30.  The procedure is below.   1 : boot from USB-FDD with rescue FDD. 2 : type below to boot prompt. linux floppy=ThinkPad   then ENTER 3 : Then I ins

Debian success on IBM X30

2002-12-21 Thread Seth Golub
I just wanted to let people know that I had no trouble putting Debian on my new IBM X30. I had to use the linux-wlan prism2_pci driver (not supplied with Debian), as the Orinoco driver in 2.4.20 didn't work well, but everything else was just great. I put up more details at http://www.aigeek.com/

Debian success on IBM X30

2002-12-21 Thread Seth Golub
I just wanted to let people know that I had no trouble putting Debian on my new IBM X30. I had to use the linux-wlan prism2_pci driver (not supplied with Debian), as the Orinoco driver in 2.4.20 didn't work well, but everything else was just great. I put up more details at http://www.aigeek.com/

SMC2632W V.2

2002-12-21 Thread Maximilian Pascher
Hi, I hava here a SMC2632W version 2 wlan card and it simply doesn't work. I hear a beep (the low frequent one) when I insert it, but I can't find anything in any logfiles... I already tried the atmel-chipset driver that can be found on sourceforge, but it didn't work. I use the 2.4.19 kernel fr

Re: Woody on ThinkPad A31

2002-12-21 Thread Mike Phillips
> > This is a mismatch in the kernel code somewhere. The later kernels know > > about the M7. On my T30 I get: > > So how shall I solve this mismatch? > Get and build a version of the kernel that is correct, I'm using 2.5.5x, but the latest 2.4.20's should work fine too. > well, when I am sett

SMC2632W V.2

2002-12-21 Thread Maximilian Pascher
Hi, I hava here a SMC2632W version 2 wlan card and it simply doesn't work. I hear a beep (the low frequent one) when I insert it, but I can't find anything in any logfiles... I already tried the atmel-chipset driver that can be found on sourceforge, but it didn't work. I use the 2.4.19 kernel fr

woody on T23

2002-12-21 Thread Hugh Saunders
hello all! have v nice T23 which was running linux just fine... [apart from irda] untill I recompiled my kernel from the 2.4.18 source. Now i get major video corruption on resume from suspend which can only be solved by rebooting. This doesnt happen if i boot from the stock 2.4.18-bf24 kernel, any

Re: Woody on ThinkPad A31

2002-12-21 Thread Mike Phillips
> > This is a mismatch in the kernel code somewhere. The later kernels know > > about the M7. On my T30 I get: > > So how shall I solve this mismatch? > Get and build a version of the kernel that is correct, I'm using 2.5.5x, but the latest 2.4.20's should work fine too. > well, when I am sett

woody on T23

2002-12-21 Thread Hugh Saunders
hello all! have v nice T23 which was running linux just fine... [apart from irda] untill I recompiled my kernel from the 2.4.18 source. Now i get major video corruption on resume from suspend which can only be solved by rebooting. This doesnt happen if i boot from the stock 2.4.18-bf24 kernel, any

Debian on Sotec 3120X / 3123X

2002-12-21 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
As I could not find any references with respect to Linux and this laptop before I bought it, I thought I would drop a short note stating that Linux works fine on it. So here it goes, in semi-random order: * What is it? An inexpensive ($950), 4.4 pound heavy, 12" screen with a Celeron 1200, 256mb