Re: Re: Re: custom install

2003-10-13 Thread Brett Ryland
Being careful is always good, but it worked in this case... maybe a more sensible version of cp? e.g. cp -rp /lib /mnt/ will preserve the symlinks whereas cp -p /lib/* /mnt/lib/ won't. Anyway, I now have kde3 running, but I'm struggling a bit with my ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 (ticking over slowly w

Re: Re: Re: custom install

2003-10-13 Thread Brett Ryland
Being careful is always good, but it worked in this case... maybe a more sensible version of cp? e.g. cp -rp /lib /mnt/ will preserve the symlinks whereas cp -p /lib/* /mnt/lib/ won't. Anyway, I now have kde3 running, but I'm struggling a bit with my ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 (ticking over slowly w

Self-built kernel problems

2003-10-13 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I recently built my own kernels using make-kpkg and the Debian kernel sources (from testing) for 2.4.20 through 2.4.22. For configuration, I've loaded my current 2.4.18-1-686 config and let it write out defaults for the new stuff. On one batch, I changed the processor to Pentium 4. Other times

Re: Re: custom install

2003-10-13 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
Hi! Brett Ryland wrote (Tue 2003-Oct-14 01:17:02 +1300): > ... just copied everything over with cp -rp (except /proc of course) (careful > of /dev, used mc to copy this). You've got to be careful with this. If you've really only used "cp -rp", you probably lost all your links... Quite a good c

Re: Re: custom install

2003-10-13 Thread Brett Ryland
Gidday,     I had a quick look at the portugese kurumin distro via babelfish.altavista.com but it didn't look particularly useful for a decent debian install. So I successfully followed your suggestion of installing 2.2 on a small partition (overwrote a 2GB FAT partition for transferring stu

Self-built kernel problems

2003-10-13 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I recently built my own kernels using make-kpkg and the Debian kernel sources (from testing) for 2.4.20 through 2.4.22. For configuration, I've loaded my current 2.4.18-1-686 config and let it write out defaults for the new stuff. On one batch, I changed the processor to Pentium 4. Other times,

Re: Re: custom install

2003-10-13 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
Hi! Brett Ryland wrote (Tue 2003-Oct-14 01:17:02 +1300): > ... just copied everything over with cp -rp (except /proc of course) (careful of > /dev, used mc to copy this). You've got to be careful with this. If you've really only used "cp -rp", you probably lost all your links... Quite a good c

Re: Re: custom install

2003-10-13 Thread Brett Ryland
Gidday,     I had a quick look at the portugese kurumin distro via babelfish.altavista.com but it didn't look particularly useful for a decent debian install. So I successfully followed your suggestion of installing 2.2 on a small partition (overwrote a 2GB FAT partition for transferring stu

PCMCIA: Cardbus problem -- lspci fails

2003-10-13 Thread Kasper Fischer
Hello everybody, I hope that someone can help me. I am using Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) with a recent 2.4.22 kernel on an Acer Laptop Travelmate 613TXC and encountered a problem with a PC-Card which I have bought last week (D-Link DWL-G650+). The problem is that the PCI subsystem is getting 'confuse

Re: Configuring iwconfig?

2003-10-13 Thread Yves Rutschle
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 08:20:49AM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > However, do not set the 'auto' flag for a PCMCIA device. > If you do it will fail on bootup because of the fact that > the networking startup script (/etc/init.d/networking) > runs before the PCMCIA script. Wonderful -- this list an

PCMCIA: Cardbus problem -- lspci fails

2003-10-13 Thread Kasper Fischer
Hello everybody, I hope that someone can help me. I am using Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) with a recent 2.4.22 kernel on an Acer Laptop Travelmate 613TXC and encountered a problem with a PC-Card which I have bought last week (D-Link DWL-G650+). The problem is that the PCI subsystem is getting 'confuse

Re: Configuring iwconfig?

2003-10-13 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Alex" == Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alex> On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 21:06, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: >> What's the best way to make iwconfig remember its settings Alex> and check "man interfaces" and "man iwconfig". You can pass Alex> iwconfig options to the ifup

Re: Configuring iwconfig?

2003-10-13 Thread Yves Rutschle
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 08:20:49AM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > However, do not set the 'auto' flag for a PCMCIA device. > If you do it will fail on bootup because of the fact that > the networking startup script (/etc/init.d/networking) > runs before the PCMCIA script. Wonderful -- this list an

Re: Configuring iwconfig?

2003-10-13 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Alex" == Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alex> On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 21:06, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: >> What's the best way to make iwconfig remember its settings Alex> and check "man interfaces" and "man iwconfig". You can pass Alex> iwconfig options to the ifup

Re: Configuring iwconfig?

2003-10-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 21:06, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > What's the best way to make iwconfig remember its settings (essid, key, > et c.) across a reboot? I'd like to have my wireless card connect on > startup, but it won't until I feed it the WEP settings and such. It's a > mini-PCI card, so pc