Re: woody laptop hangs at various startup scripts

2003-07-02 Thread Levi Waldron
On June 28, 2003 03:43 am, you wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 20:32:25 -0400 > > "Levi Waldron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have an elderly Compaq Presario 1020 P120 laptop running Woody with > > ~~~ > > Perhaps its time for an upgrade?

Re: woody laptop hangs at various startup scripts

2003-07-02 Thread Levi Waldron
On June 28, 2003 03:43 am, you wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 20:32:25 -0400 > > "Levi Waldron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have an elderly Compaq Presario 1020 P120 laptop running Woody with > > ~~~ > > Perhaps its time for an upgrade?

woody laptop hangs at various startup scripts

2003-06-26 Thread Levi Waldron
I have an elderly Compaq Presario 1020 P120 laptop running Woody with icewm window manager, tetex, emacs, gnumeric, and not much else. One day, out of the blue as far as I can tell, it hangs during the boot process at: Initializing random number generator so I boot from a rescue CD and put exi

woody laptop hangs at various startup scripts

2003-06-26 Thread Levi Waldron
I have an elderly Compaq Presario 1020 P120 laptop running Woody with icewm window manager, tetex, emacs, gnumeric, and not much else. One day, out of the blue as far as I can tell, it hangs during the boot process at: Initializing random number generator so I boot from a rescue CD and put exi

Re: Woody on ThinkPad A31

2002-12-18 Thread Levi Waldron
On December 18, 2002 06:11 am, Aryan Ameri wrote: > command "startx" it gives me fatal errors like: "no screen found". I > checked the screen section of the XFree86 config file, and it seems to be > ok. As I I've gotten this error message after going through the dbootstrap installation on a coupl

Re: Woody on ThinkPad A31

2002-12-18 Thread Levi Waldron
On December 18, 2002 06:11 am, Aryan Ameri wrote: > command "startx" it gives me fatal errors like: "no screen found". I > checked the screen section of the XFree86 config file, and it seems to be > ok. As I I've gotten this error message after going through the dbootstrap installation on a coupl

network config for a wireless Debian client at home?

2002-12-13 Thread Levi Waldron
The host computer which is connected to the internet is an windows box, which is set up to communicate with other boxes in the house with its built-in internet sharing software. (I don't know exactly how as I didn't set this up, but I can find out more if needed) All I know is the (internal ne

network config for a wireless Debian client at home?

2002-12-13 Thread Levi Waldron
The host computer which is connected to the internet is an windows box, which is set up to communicate with other boxes in the house with its built-in internet sharing software. (I don't know exactly how as I didn't set this up, but I can find out more if needed) All I know is the (internal ne

Re: any point to saving a winmodem driver?

2002-11-26 Thread Levi Waldron
By the way, the modem is accessed through COM2, on an older Windows 95 machine. On November 26, 2002 03:24 pm, you wrote: > Quick question: Is there any potential purpose to keeping the driver > comm.drv that makes my modem works in Windoze before wiping it out? ie to > use the driver through W

any point to saving a winmodem driver?

2002-11-26 Thread Levi Waldron
Quick question: Is there any potential purpose to keeping the driver comm.drv that makes my modem works in Windoze before wiping it out? ie to use the driver through Wine or something? I'm not sure yet if this modem is one of the Lindows-supported ones, because I'm having a hard time figuri

Re: any point to saving a winmodem driver?

2002-11-26 Thread Levi Waldron
By the way, the modem is accessed through COM2, on an older Windows 95 machine. On November 26, 2002 03:24 pm, you wrote: > Quick question: Is there any potential purpose to keeping the driver > comm.drv that makes my modem works in Windoze before wiping it out? ie to > use the driver through W

any point to saving a winmodem driver?

2002-11-26 Thread Levi Waldron
Quick question: Is there any potential purpose to keeping the driver comm.drv that makes my modem works in Windoze before wiping it out? ie to use the driver through Wine or something? I'm not sure yet if this modem is one of the Lindows-supported ones, because I'm having a hard time figuri

Re: problems switching from stand-alone PCMCIA drivers to kernel drivers

2002-11-25 Thread Levi Waldron
On November 25, 2002 02:37 pm, Christian Gennerat wrote: > >Does that mean I should stick with the stand-alone PCMCIA modules? > > No, but try "modprobe i82365" instead. I actually went back to a kernel without pcmcia support and installed the stand-alone modules from source already. With /etc/

Re: problems switching from stand-alone PCMCIA drivers to kernel drivers

2002-11-25 Thread Levi Waldron
On November 25, 2002 02:37 pm, Christian Gennerat wrote: > >Does that mean I should stick with the stand-alone PCMCIA modules? > > No, but try "modprobe i82365" instead. I actually went back to a kernel without pcmcia support and installed the stand-alone modules from source already. With /etc/

Re: problems switching from stand-alone PCMCIA drivers to kernel drivers

2002-11-25 Thread Levi Waldron
On November 25, 2002 03:18 am, Christian Gennerat wrote: > Have you used yenta_socket before ? > Have you really Cardbus on your P120 laptop ? > What model is it ? > Is there some BIOS setting about PCMCIA/CARDBUS ? No, I've never used yenta_socket before. I don't know if I actually have Cardbus

Re: problems switching from stand-alone PCMCIA drivers to kernel drivers

2002-11-25 Thread Levi Waldron
On November 25, 2002 03:18 am, Christian Gennerat wrote: > Have you used yenta_socket before ? > Have you really Cardbus on your P120 laptop ? > What model is it ? > Is there some BIOS setting about PCMCIA/CARDBUS ? No, I've never used yenta_socket before. I don't know if I actually have Cardbus

problems switching from stand-alone PCMCIA drivers to kernel drivers

2002-11-24 Thread Levi Waldron
On a new woody laptop install I used the bf-2.4 stock kernel, the pcmcia-modules-2.4.18-bf2.4 binary package, and the pcmcia-cs package and got the PCMCIA network card working perfectly. Had to manually edit /etc/network/interfaces. Then I compiled a custom 2.4.18 kernel with built-in PCMCIA

problems switching from stand-alone PCMCIA drivers to kernel drivers

2002-11-24 Thread Levi Waldron
On a new woody laptop install I used the bf-2.4 stock kernel, the pcmcia-modules-2.4.18-bf2.4 binary package, and the pcmcia-cs package and got the PCMCIA network card working perfectly. Had to manually edit /etc/network/interfaces. Then I compiled a custom 2.4.18 kernel with built-in PCMCIA