Re: Dell Inspiron 5100 + DHCP

2003-09-11 Thread Damien Solley
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 14:56, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: > Can anyone gets the Broadcom's nic in the i5100 works with DHCP ? It > runs fine on static ip but it just timed out when requesting dhcp, it > can't reach the router. And there's nothing wrong with my router running > as a dhcp server because al

I'm losing it!

2003-09-11 Thread ben
this post was: (was usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22) I have renamed it in order to try and clean up the mess again, and hopefully attract some more input. thanks to all that have contributed so far, please continue!! ok. here is where I am at: latest kernel-2.4.22 compile using conf

Dell Inspiron 5100 + DHCP

2003-09-11 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen
Can anyone gets the Broadcom's nic in the i5100 works with DHCP ? It runs fine on static ip but it just timed out when requesting dhcp, it can't reach the router. And there's nothing wrong with my router running as a dhcp server because all my other machines, all run Debian, can dhcp request fine.

Re: usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22 (continued)

2003-09-11 Thread ben
Jason Kraftcheck wrote: ben wrote: note 1 : the mouse works fine in kernel 2.4.18, but not in kernel 2.4.22 - on the same machine. Have you tested without X or gpm running? When I upgraded to 2.4.22 I noticed some issues when X tried to open /dev/input/mice before mousedev was loaded.

Re: usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22 (continued)

2003-09-11 Thread ben
Jason Kraftcheck wrote: ben wrote: note 1 : the mouse works fine in kernel 2.4.18, but not in kernel 2.4.22 - on the same machine. Have you tested without X or gpm running? When I upgraded to 2.4.22 I noticed some issues when X tried to open /dev/input/mice before mousedev was loaded. no

Re: No fsck in battery mode

2003-09-11 Thread Mike Beattie
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:18:28AM -0500, Tony Godshall wrote: > > > Thanks for bringing this up. I wasn't aware of /fastboot. > > > Looks like a good solution. Well, except that / has to be > > > mounted first. > > > > ummm, / is gonna be mounted, otherwise how is the OS reading /etc or > > at

re: mailling list archives [Re: usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22 (continued)]

2003-09-11 Thread Tony Godshall
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 12:22:07AM +1000, ben wrote: > > hmm... managed to delete all of my debian laptop emails while mucking > > about with mozilla..! According to Mattia Dongili, > eh :) look in the web archives if you missed something > http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/ Damn, I wish

Re: usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22 (continued)

2003-09-11 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > I subsequently modprobe:ed usb-ohci, and all this bunch came back: > > mousedev3736 0 (unused) > hid17892 0 (unused) > usbmouse1784 0 (unused) > input 3296

Re: No fsck in battery mode

2003-09-11 Thread Mike Beattie
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:18:28AM -0500, Tony Godshall wrote: > > > Thanks for bringing this up. I wasn't aware of /fastboot. > > > Looks like a good solution. Well, except that / has to be > > > mounted first. > > > > ummm, / is gonna be mounted, otherwise how is the OS reading /etc or > > at

re: mailling list archives [Re: usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22 (continued)]

2003-09-11 Thread Tony Godshall
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 12:22:07AM +1000, ben wrote: > > hmm... managed to delete all of my debian laptop emails while mucking > > about with mozilla..! According to Mattia Dongili, > eh :) look in the web archives if you missed something > http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/ Damn, I wish

Re: usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22 (continued)

2003-09-11 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Jason Kraftcheck wrote: > Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, ben wrote: > > > > > For comparison, this is what I have om my acer: > > > > Module Size Used byNot tainted > > mousedev3736 1 > > usbmouse

Re: usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22 (continued)

2003-09-11 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > I subsequently modprobe:ed usb-ohci, and all this bunch came back: > > mousedev3736 0 (unused) > hid17892 0 (unused) > usbmouse1784 0 (unused) > input 3296

Re: usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22 (continued)

2003-09-11 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Jason Kraftcheck wrote: > Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, ben wrote: > > > > > For comparison, this is what I have om my acer: > > > > Module Size Used byNot tainted > > mousedev3736 1 > > usbmouse

Re: usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22 (continued)

2003-09-11 Thread ben
Jason Kraftcheck wrote: ben wrote: Jason Kraftcheck wrote: [hack] Are you using /dev/input/mice with major 13, minor 63 as the mouse device? what do you mean by this? the major 13 minor 63 bit has got me totally lost...??!! 195$ ls -l /dev/input/mice crw-rw1 root

Re: usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22 (continued)

2003-09-11 Thread Jason Kraftcheck
ben wrote: note 1 : the mouse works fine in kernel 2.4.18, but not in kernel 2.4.22 - on the same machine. Have you tested without X or gpm running? When I upgraded to 2.4.22 I noticed some issues when X tried to open /dev/input/mice before mousedev was loaded. note 2: lsmod while running

Re: usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22 (continued)

2003-09-11 Thread ben
Jason Kraftcheck wrote: ben wrote: things are getting messy here. Thanks to everyone that has replied, I greatly appreciate your replies, however the messages are getting confused. I have reposted this to try and clear things up a little. I do not have usb-ohci installed. I am running an

Re: No fsck in battery mode

2003-09-11 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Sean 'Shaleh' Perry, > On Tuesday 09 September 2003 23:34, Tony Godshall wrote: > > > > > (another option is to have your script touch /fastboot when on battery, > > > as that will completely bypass the running of fsck - just make sure it > > > runs before checkroot.sh!... you'd need a

Re: usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22 (continued)

2003-09-11 Thread Jason Kraftcheck
Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, ben wrote: For comparison, this is what I have om my acer: Module Size Used byNot tainted mousedev3736 1 usbmouse1784 0 (unused) <-- tho it says 'unused',

Re: usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22 (continued)

2003-09-11 Thread Jason Kraftcheck
ben wrote: things are getting messy here. Thanks to everyone that has replied, I greatly appreciate your replies, however the messages are getting confused. I have reposted this to try and clear things up a little. I do not have usb-ohci installed. I am running an Asus laptop with Intel chipse

Re: usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22 (continued)

2003-09-11 Thread ben
Jason Kraftcheck wrote: ben wrote: Jason Kraftcheck wrote: [hack] Are you using /dev/input/mice with major 13, minor 63 as the mouse device? what do you mean by this? the major 13 minor 63 bit has got me totally lost...??!! 195$ ls -l /dev/input/mice crw-rw1 root root

Re: usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22 (continued)

2003-09-11 Thread Jason Kraftcheck
ben wrote: note 1 : the mouse works fine in kernel 2.4.18, but not in kernel 2.4.22 - on the same machine. Have you tested without X or gpm running? When I upgraded to 2.4.22 I noticed some issues when X tried to open /dev/input/mice before mousedev was loaded. note 2: lsmod while running 2.4.

Re: usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22 (continued)

2003-09-11 Thread ben
Jason Kraftcheck wrote: ben wrote: things are getting messy here. Thanks to everyone that has replied, I greatly appreciate your replies, however the messages are getting confused. I have reposted this to try and clear things up a little. I do not have usb-ohci installed. I am running an Asus

Re: usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22 (continued)

2003-09-11 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, ben wrote: > things are getting messy here. To say the least ;-) > I have reposted this to try and clear things up a little. Can you post the output from: # lspci -v too? > I do not have usb-ohci installed. I am running an Asus laptop with Intel > chipset and using usb

Re: No fsck in battery mode

2003-09-11 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Sean 'Shaleh' Perry, > On Tuesday 09 September 2003 23:34, Tony Godshall wrote: > > > > > (another option is to have your script touch /fastboot when on battery, > > > as that will completely bypass the running of fsck - just make sure it > > > runs before checkroot.sh!... you'd need a

Re: usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22 (continued)

2003-09-11 Thread Jason Kraftcheck
Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, ben wrote: For comparison, this is what I have om my acer: Module Size Used byNot tainted mousedev3736 1 usbmouse1784 0 (unused) <-- tho it says 'unused',

Re: usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22 (continued)

2003-09-11 Thread Jason Kraftcheck
ben wrote: things are getting messy here. Thanks to everyone that has replied, I greatly appreciate your replies, however the messages are getting confused. I have reposted this to try and clear things up a little. I do not have usb-ohci installed. I am running an Asus laptop with Intel chipset a

Re: usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22 (continued)

2003-09-11 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, ben wrote: > things are getting messy here. To say the least ;-) > I have reposted this to try and clear things up a little. Can you post the output from: # lspci -v too? > I do not have usb-ohci installed. I am running an Asus laptop with Intel > chipset and using usb

Re: New Dell Inspiron 1100, video problems

2003-09-11 Thread Damien Solley
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 15:06, Magnus von Koeller wrote: > On Thursday 11 September 2003 06:00, you wrote: > > Hi Magnus > > Do you have anywhere that I can find an (English) description of > > this patch? I am not sure what it is patching, or what > > procedure/flags it requires to compile/install.

Re: No fsck in battery mode

2003-09-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 23:34, Tony Godshall wrote: > > > (another option is to have your script touch /fastboot when on battery, > > as that will completely bypass the running of fsck - just make sure it > > runs before checkroot.sh!... you'd need a static copy of on_ac_power > > (well, awk/g

Audio Controller Probs on Dell Inspiron 2500

2003-09-11 Thread Yvonne
Hello, I found threads with your names on them...I was hoping you can help me.   I suddenly can't play any audio files.  The message I receive when I try to play a CD on my Windows Media Player is: "Cannnot play back the audio stream; no audio hardware is available, or the hardware is not respondi

Re: New Dell Inspiron 1100, video problems

2003-09-11 Thread Damien Solley
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 15:06, Magnus von Koeller wrote: > On Thursday 11 September 2003 06:00, you wrote: > > Hi Magnus > > Do you have anywhere that I can find an (English) description of > > this patch? I am not sure what it is patching, or what > > procedure/flags it requires to compile/install.

Re: usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22 (continued)

2003-09-11 Thread ben
things are getting messy here. Thanks to everyone that has replied, I greatly appreciate your replies, however the messages are getting confused. I have reposted this to try and clear things up a little. I do not have usb-ohci installed. I am running an Asus laptop with Intel chipset and using

Re: No fsck in battery mode

2003-09-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 23:34, Tony Godshall wrote: > > > (another option is to have your script touch /fastboot when on battery, > > as that will completely bypass the running of fsck - just make sure it > > runs before checkroot.sh!... you'd need a static copy of on_ac_power > > (well, awk/g

Audio Controller Probs on Dell Inspiron 2500

2003-09-11 Thread Yvonne
Hello, I found threads with your names on them...I was hoping you can help me.   I suddenly can't play any audio files.  The message I receive when I try to play a CD on my Windows Media Player is: "Cannnot play back the audio stream; no audio hardware is available, or the hardware is not respondi

Re: New Dell Inspiron 1100, video problems

2003-09-11 Thread Magnus von Koeller
On Thursday 11 September 2003 06:00, you wrote: > Hi Magnus > Do you have anywhere that I can find an (English) description of > this patch? I am not sure what it is patching, or what > procedure/flags it requires to compile/install. http://www.chzsoft.com.ar/855patch.html -- --- Magnus von Koe

Re: New Dell Inspiron 1100, video problems

2003-09-11 Thread Damien Solley
Hi Magnus Do you have anywhere that I can find an (English) description of this patch? I am not sure what it is patching, or what procedure/flags it requires to compile/install. Damien On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 08:40, Magnus von Koeller wrote: > All right, I've found a solution. At least for the Dell