So they sell old notebooks with Ubuntu? And an interesting post appeared
about notebooks with Windows and Ubuntu:
http://www.devside.net/blog/dell-ubuntu-lies
Thanks for all your input, I'll keep looking for a good laptop, probably
will stay with Thinkpads but hate that MS-tax as much as the IRS
Beware, I think this may invalidate their warranty. There were some
problems with this some years ago with either Toshiba and/or HP.
On my part, I think some beta linux sw MAY have destroyed my screen on
my first thinkpad (earliest thinpad model?) about 10 years ago which had
a triple boot of
My family has had about 10 ThinkPads, but as another is dying we 'need'
another laptop. Lenovo not as good as IBM and Dell avoiding the MS-tax
lead me to try Dell. Any experiances? Meanwhile on my main laptop,
ThinkPad-T42 with Debian I'm very happy. Been using OS/2 when it first
came out fo
Robert Goley wrote:
How do I make an initrd do this? The only initrd I've made so far was as
a result of compiling a new kernel, and I don't see how that will help.
Installing a default Debian kernel creates the needed image for each kernel.
You can follow the Debian way of compiling kernels
On my several PC's: I have a Linux-Fix-Mini-RIP (Recovery is Possible)
partition which also includes .tgz backups of two Debian environments
and shared data. This contains my /boot/GRUB files. I do this also on
a HD that fits in my ThinkPad-cdrom slot and a USB-HD (both bootable).
GRUB.CONF:
Nate Duehr wrote:
Russell L. Harris wrote:
The situation is not simple.
You also missed that most laptops now have an accelerometer in them for
shock protection and the drive is parked every time certain acceleration
forces are happening to the laptop.
Just carrying mine across the room
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
Make sure you take the version 3.0 (git 1.1.1, compare dmesg output) of
the ipw2200 firmware. The archive is named ipw2200-fw-3.0.tgz.
I got it a week ago but was not sure where to put it, so copied it to
/lib/firmware. Is this correct?Also the modnames are differe
HW: ThinkPad-T42
Suse 9.3 and 10.0: suspend>ram & >disk OK
UBUNTU-6.06-dapper: both seem OK, each tested once
Debian-test and sid, both current >ram OK, ->disk NO-GOOD.
I noticed that DSL and UBUNTU have, in GRUB/menu.lst:
"restore=/dev/hdaX"
While doc for Debian kernel has:
"resume=/dev/hda
Thanks for your further input.
Yesterday I installed latest Ubuntu (already have Deb-test 7 sid
ThinkPad-T42) to see how it looks. NO FIREWALL at all, everything open.
Meanwhile I enhanced my iptables script to allow only ssh and nfs within
my network as well as limit damage from www, as follo
Thanks for your discussions, I changed my script, I'm sure it is much
improved - though not anywhere as tight as Uwe's:
#!/bin/sh
# /OPT/sbin/ziptables
# /etc/init.d/local
#
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/accept_source_route
echo 0 > /pr
iptables -A INPUT -j ACCEPT -s 127.0.0.1 # local host
iptables -A OUTPUT -j ACCEPT -d 127.0.0.1
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this would also allow incoming
traffic from 127.0.0.1 to the eth0 interface. So somebody spoofing
his IP address to appear to be 127.0.0.1 could send
fs: VFAT should be OK although I have had some problems with both Linux
and WinJunk accessing same. Alwayw have a backup if data is crucial.
spindown: I used USB-HD many many times, never a problem, never spun it
down, but never, never disconnect without unmounting. I am not a Win
user gener
Your iptables scares me a bit, do we really have to do all that stuff
like "echo to /proc/sys/...". I was a TP professional many years ago
but since the internet I have become a novice, thus running scared.
My script is simple, and perhaps too simple for some 6 PC's.
I even have FTP/20+21
itesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> Hello People,
>
> I have a laptop with / and swap on LVM.
> I have been using custom compiled kernel from Debian sources because
> Debian doesn't have a kernel for laptops.
>
> Here's my problem:
> On kernels greater than 2.6.12, Software Suspend "swsusp" (in-line
> kerne
George Hein wrote:
If you havn't upgraded Deb-Sid (unstable) in the last two weeks, DON'T.
If you do, backup everything before you do.
On a ThinkPad-T42 the following fail:
wireless, ogg123 sound (other sound works), pccard-flash (etc?).
WIRELESS PROBLEM, ipw-2200 internal:
If you havn't upgraded Deb-Sid (unstable) in the last two weeks, DON'T.
If you do, backup everything before you do.
On a ThinkPad-T42 the following fail:
wireless, ogg123 sound (other sound works), pccard-flash (etc?).
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