Re: Pen Drive Boot

2008-11-08 Thread Jim Smith
Rob Smith wrote: > What's wrong with using the CD/DVD drive on the machine and installing that > way? Also, if you are upgrading, you can do this through Synaptic or apt-get. > I just upgraded my Compaq Evo laptop that way yesterday. I'm running Ubuntu > on it at present, but the same thing shou

Re: Pen Drive Boot

2008-11-08 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 05:50:10PM EST, Jim Smith wrote: > I made a bootable pen drive using the "create USB startup disk" option. > The laptop in question is a Sony VAIO VGN FJ200 series running Ubuntu > 8.10. The pen drive will boot as I verified it on another machine just > now. The problem seem

RE: Pen Drive Boot

2008-11-08 Thread Rob Smith
You might try updating the BIOS to see if Sony added this functionality, but short of that, you are kind of out of luck. Rob Smith Posted via WinMobilePro6.1 -Original Message- From: Jim Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 4:50 PM To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.o

Pen Drive Boot

2008-11-08 Thread Jim Smith
I made a bootable pen drive using the "create USB startup disk" option. The laptop in question is a Sony VAIO VGN FJ200 series running Ubuntu 8.10. The pen drive will boot as I verified it on another machine just now. The problem seems to be that this laptop does not have a "USB" option in the BIOS

Re: problems with deXlan (Intersil) wifi pcmcia card

2008-11-08 Thread Paolo
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 06:28:18PM +0100, Bernard wrote: > >are you sure your AP is set to WPA? ... > Sure it is. At this very moment, I am wirelessly connected with this ... > pre-up iwconfig ra0 essid Livebox-46db > pre-up iwpriv ra0 set AuthMode=WPAPSK > pre-up iwpriv ra0 set EncrypType=TKIP >

Re: problems with deXlan (Intersil) wifi pcmcia card

2008-11-08 Thread Bernard
Paolo wrote: On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 12:58:31PM +0100, Paolo wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 07:15:11PM +0100, Bernard wrote: According to what I have read, the 'orinoco' driver that is supposed to also work for my 'intersil prism2' pcmcia card, does not support WPA. hm, but

Re: problems with deXlan (Intersil) wifi pcmcia card

2008-11-08 Thread Paolo
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 12:58:31PM +0100, Paolo wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 07:15:11PM +0100, Bernard wrote: > > > According to what I have read, the 'orinoco' driver that is supposed to > > also work for my 'intersil prism2' pcmcia card, does not support WPA. hm, but checking your wpa_sup

Re: problems with deXlan (Intersil) wifi pcmcia card

2008-11-08 Thread Paolo
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 07:15:11PM +0100, Bernard wrote: > According to what I have read, the 'orinoco' driver that is supposed to > also work for my 'intersil prism2' pcmcia card, does not support WPA. indeed > Before I learnt that, I did try to remove 'hostap'. I tried several ... > hostap_