Re: Install Report --- Dell 8200

2004-04-21 Thread dircha
Blars Blarson wrote: Is there some reason you didn't use the free nv driver rather than the non-free nvidia driver? While not "accelerated" I find it pleanty fast on my Inspiron 8200, even playing DVDs. (This requires at least Xfree86 4.2, so either sarge or a backport to woody.) I do like the

Re: Install Report --- Dell 8200

2004-04-21 Thread dircha
Blars Blarson wrote: Is there some reason you didn't use the free nv driver rather than the non-free nvidia driver? While not "accelerated" I find it pleanty fast on my Inspiron 8200, even playing DVDs. (This requires at least Xfree86 4.2, so either sarge or a backport to woody.) I do like the 1

Re: Install Report --- Dell 8200

2004-04-21 Thread Blars Blarson
Is there some reason you didn't use the free nv driver rather than the non-free nvidia driver? While not "accelerated" I find it pleanty fast on my Inspiron 8200, even playing DVDs. (This requires at least Xfree86 4.2, so either sarge or a backport to woody.) I do like the 1600x1280 screen, one

Re: Zonet Zen1100 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet supported?

2004-04-21 Thread Joel HATSCH
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 19:47:49 -0700 (PDT) "Mr. Jan Hearthstone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Dear people, > I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 420cdt, and since I > cannot boot from CD-ROM drive (although it works, but > the BIOS don't give the option), I have to install > with a whole bunch of fl

Re: Install Report --- Dell 8200

2004-04-21 Thread Blars Blarson
Is there some reason you didn't use the free nv driver rather than the non-free nvidia driver? While not "accelerated" I find it pleanty fast on my Inspiron 8200, even playing DVDs. (This requires at least Xfree86 4.2, so either sarge or a backport to woody.) I do like the 1600x1280 screen, one

Kernel 2.6.x for dell latitude d800

2004-04-21 Thread Nicolas Delestre
Hi, Has somebody successed to compile a kernel 2.6.x for a latitude d800 with acpi suspend/resume support and made a .deb package? Because i try to follow the method proposed by C. Lukas (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-latitude-d800/message/956) but the links are now bad. Thank you in adv

Re: Install Report --- Dell 8200

2004-04-21 Thread dircha
Christopher De Vries wrote: Anyway, if anyone has any detailed questions let me know... there are many sites out there that deal with installing linux on dell 8200s and some of them were usefull... some even deal specifically with installing debian... it seems that as time goes by linux is gettin

Re: Zonet Zen1100 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet supported?

2004-04-21 Thread Joel HATSCH
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 19:47:49 -0700 (PDT) "Mr. Jan Hearthstone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Dear people, > I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 420cdt, and since I > cannot boot from CD-ROM drive (although it works, but > the BIOS don't give the option), I have to install > with a whole bunch of fl

Kernel 2.6.x for dell latitude d800

2004-04-21 Thread Nicolas Delestre
Hi, Has somebody successed to compile a kernel 2.6.x for a latitude d800 with acpi suspend/resume support and made a .deb package? Because i try to follow the method proposed by C. Lukas (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-latitude-d800/message/956) but the links are now bad. Thank you in advan

Re: Install Report --- Dell 8200

2004-04-21 Thread debianlaptop
Hi Chris, amazed you could bear to use cygwin for so long. what are your problems with the acx100 driver? I have had no problem compiling the most recent CVS versions on my debian system. Unfortunately for me the driver simply doesn't work (the acx111 chip is not fully working yet). I found

Re: Install Report --- Dell 8200

2004-04-21 Thread dircha
Christopher De Vries wrote: Anyway, if anyone has any detailed questions let me know... there are many sites out there that deal with installing linux on dell 8200s and some of them were usefull... some even deal specifically with installing debian... it seems that as time goes by linux is getting

Re: Dell & Debian ?

2004-04-21 Thread James
François TOURDE wrote: Hi James, Le 12529ième jour après Epoch, [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait: Hello, I'm looking to get a new portable, and my employer pushes Dell on us. Any particular models that have a good track record with Debian? Know video chipsets that work or do not work well? Weir

Install Report --- Dell 8200

2004-04-21 Thread Christopher De Vries
I didn't know if anyone would be interested in my experiences as many many people have installed debian on Dell 8200s before, but I thought I would share my experience. I would describe myself as fairly knowledgable about linux... I first installed RedHat 4.2 on a gateway desktop I got in 1997, and

Re: Install Report --- Dell 8200

2004-04-21 Thread debianlaptop
Hi Chris, amazed you could bear to use cygwin for so long. what are your problems with the acx100 driver? I have had no problem compiling the most recent CVS versions on my debian system. Unfortunately for me the driver simply doesn't work (the acx111 chip is not fully working yet). I found

Removable floppy - modprobe failure

2004-04-21 Thread Derek Broughton
At start-up, when my floppy drive is not in the media bay, dmesg has: inserting floppy driver for 2.6.3-1-686 floppy0: no floppy controllers found Which is completely correct, but is it possible to avoid this error? Or is this simply a natural consequence of probing for the drive? I don't ge

Re: Dell & Debian ?

2004-04-21 Thread James
François TOURDE wrote: Hi James, Le 12529ième jour après Epoch, [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait: Hello, I'm looking to get a new portable, and my employer pushes Dell on us. Any particular models that have a good track record with Debian? Know video chipsets that work or do not work well? Weird sc

Install Report --- Dell 8200

2004-04-21 Thread Christopher De Vries
I didn't know if anyone would be interested in my experiences as many many people have installed debian on Dell 8200s before, but I thought I would share my experience. I would describe myself as fairly knowledgable about linux... I first installed RedHat 4.2 on a gateway desktop I got in 1997, and

Removable floppy - modprobe failure

2004-04-21 Thread Derek Broughton
At start-up, when my floppy drive is not in the media bay, dmesg has: inserting floppy driver for 2.6.3-1-686 floppy0: no floppy controllers found Which is completely correct, but is it possible to avoid this error? Or is this simply a natural consequence of probing for the drive? I don't ge

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Re: wireless / iwconfig

2004-04-21 Thread Michel Petit
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hello too, Im running Debian 3.0r2 kernel 2.6.5 and i cant find the command iwconfig... i compilled the kernel with all modules u can imagine and i downloaded a lot of pgks but i cant find it... if someonw can tell me... thanks. =) This command is in the package wi

Re: wireless / iwconfig

2004-04-21 Thread Clayton Russell
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 15:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Im running Debian 3.0r2 kernel 2.6.5 and i cant find the command iwconfig... > i compilled the kernel with all modules u can imagine and i downloaded a lot > of pgks > but i cant find it... if someonw can tell me... thanks. =) > > cheers on

Re: wireless / iwconfig

2004-04-21 Thread MB
Try: apt-get install wireless-tools Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im running Debian 3.0r2 kernel 2.6.5 and i cant find the command iwconfig... i compilled the kernel with all modules u can imagine and i downloaded a lot of pgks but i cant find it... if someonw can tell me... thanks. =) chee

wireless / iwconfig

2004-04-21 Thread augustofr
Im running Debian 3.0r2 kernel 2.6.5 and i cant find the command iwconfig... i compilled the kernel with all modules u can imagine and i downloaded a lot of pgks but i cant find it... if someonw can tell me... thanks. =) cheers