Re: Thinkpad 600X - worth to buy it for Debian?

2003-03-19 Thread Chris Olds
The 600X is a fine machine for running Debian. There are a lot of pages with useful information on how to configure Linux for it, and I've found the speed to be just fine. I had no problems getting X running, and hibernate & suspend work as they should. My only current complaint is the cost of r

Re: Thinkpad 600X - worth to buy it for Debian?

2003-03-19 Thread Chris Olds
The 600X is a fine machine for running Debian. There are a lot of pages with useful information on how to configure Linux for it, and I've found the speed to be just fine. I had no problems getting X running, and hibernate & suspend work as they should. My only current complaint is the cost of r

Re: SAMBA resolv configuration

2002-11-20 Thread Chris Olds
Check the Samba docs ('apt-get install samba-doc' if you don't have them). It appears that NSS does work with NetBIOS names; the name to know is winbind. Read /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/winbind.html for the details. /cco

Re: SAMBA resolv configuration

2002-11-20 Thread Chris Olds
Check the Samba docs ('apt-get install samba-doc' if you don't have them). It appears that NSS does work with NetBIOS names; the name to know is winbind. Read /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/winbind.html for the details. /cco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: Woody, Orinico, and Airport Base Station DHCP

2002-10-22 Thread Chris Olds
Having just set up a similar system (Woody, Orinoco, RG-1000), I did things a timy bit differently. On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Eric M. Winslow wrote: > Debian recognizes my card fine (2 high beeps), but that's it. I do have > the wireless tools installed. > > Here's my /etc/network/interfaces: > > aut

Re: Woody, Orinico, and Airport Base Station DHCP

2002-10-22 Thread Chris Olds
Having just set up a similar system (Woody, Orinoco, RG-1000), I did things a timy bit differently. On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Eric M. Winslow wrote: > Debian recognizes my card fine (2 high beeps), but that's it. I do have > the wireless tools installed. > > Here's my /etc/network/interfaces: > > aut

WEP not working...

2002-10-10 Thread Chris Olds
I've just installed Woody on an IBM 600x, and am very pleased with the results. I'm using the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel as installed (i.e., I haven't built a kernel yet, although I plan to for other reasons). The wireless network works just fine, as long as WEP is not used by the AP. I have sucsessfu

WEP not working...

2002-10-10 Thread Chris Olds
I've just installed Woody on an IBM 600x, and am very pleased with the results. I'm using the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel as installed (i.e., I haven't built a kernel yet, although I plan to for other reasons). The wireless network works just fine, as long as WEP is not used by the AP. I have sucsessf

Re: Which Desktop replacement.

2002-05-28 Thread Chris Olds
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Jeff wrote: > > Jeremy Zawodny, 2002-May-27 23:40 -0700: > > > > The Thinkpad 600E I'm using has been with me 2.5 years and is still > > going strong. Over that time I've added memory (up to 512MB now) and > > upgraded the disk (20GB). But it's still plenty fast for what I

Re: Which Desktop replacement.

2002-05-28 Thread Chris Olds
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Jeff wrote: > > Jeremy Zawodny, 2002-May-27 23:40 -0700: > > > > The Thinkpad 600E I'm using has been with me 2.5 years and is still > > going strong. Over that time I've added memory (up to 512MB now) and > > upgraded the disk (20GB). But it's still plenty fast for what I