Re: Laptop recommendation

2006-10-20 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
Dne pátek 20 říjen 2006 06:16 Philip Bellenoit napsal(a): > Several SMP kernels I've tried make my laptop freeze so I'm > don't get dual core support. As for SMP kernel freezing, try adding "noapic" to kernel parameters. It is quite common issue, that motherboards for dual-core CPUs don't have A

Re: why the difference between two identical laptops?

2006-10-17 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
Dne úterý 17 říjen 2006 16:39 Preston Boyington napsal(a): > alright folks, give me some ideas as to why there are differences > between these two laptops. > > i loaded Debian on my first laptop, changed my sources to my favorite > ones, installed all the programs and codecs i could think of that i

Re: yaird, kernel 2.6.17 and dm-crypted disks

2006-07-13 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
Dne st 12. července 2006 15:16 Frans Pop napsal(a): > On Wednesday 12 July 2006 14:56, Miroslav Maiksnar wrote: > > Any suggestion will be welcome. > > Use daily debian-installer image and boot that in rescue mode. > All tools (including crypto) should be present. Create c

Re: yaird, kernel 2.6.17 and dm-crypted disks

2006-07-12 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
Dne st 12. července 2006 16:32 Michael Olbrich napsal(a): > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 02:56:54PM +0200, Miroslav Maiksnar wrote: > > I'm trying to upgrade my laptop from stable to testing including new > > kernel. My problem is, all partitions are encrypted except /boot and for

Re: yaird, kernel 2.6.17 and dm-crypted disks

2006-07-12 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
Dne st 12. července 2006 15:16 Frans Pop napsal(a): > On Wednesday 12 July 2006 14:56, Miroslav Maiksnar wrote: > > Any suggestion will be welcome. > > Use daily debian-installer image and boot that in rescue mode. > All tools (including crypto) should be present. Create c

yaird, kernel 2.6.17 and dm-crypted disks

2006-07-12 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
Hello, I'm trying to upgrade my laptop from stable to testing including new kernel. My problem is, all partitions are encrypted except /boot and for security reasons I have encryption keys stored on encrypted USB flash disk. I used kernel 2.6.13 and mkinitrd with my script, which detects plugged

Re: Netowrk interface ids keep changing order

2005-10-11 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
Dne st 12. října 2005 0:23 marc napsal(a): > Each time I boot, the order of eth0, eth1 and eth2 is random. > > Is there a way to fix their order? Try to look at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-gateway.en.html#s-high-rename Mixi

which journaling FS for notebook?

2005-07-09 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
Hello, this is quite old question, but after some googling I still haven't found satisfying answer :o( There are currently 4 major linux journaling filesystems: ext3, XFS, ReiserFS, JFS. All of them should be supported by laptop-mode and all can currently use b-tree directories (not enabled by

Re: help

2005-07-09 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
Dne so 9. července 2005 4:06 Sahil Sahni napsal(a): > hi, > please tell me how to detatch my cdrom drive..i wanna replace it. What about consulting your notebook manual or contact service center? Since you do not provide any useful information about your notebook (and I hope it is notebook)

Re: RAM upgrade?

2005-07-06 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
Dne út 5. července 2005 18:55 Ritesh Raj Sarraf napsal(a): > Marco Calviani wrote: > > Ok, 256 MB inside + 512 MB (or 1 GB) in the "external" slot. About the > > 266 or 333 MHz type it depends on your machine. I'll need the 333 MHz > > type, but i own a Travelmate 8005 so i don't know if it fits wi

Notebook recomendation [was: Re: Sony Vaio S1702]

2005-07-05 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
Dne út 5. července 2005 1:06 Micha Feigin napsal(a): > On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 13:27:02 -0600 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Sims) wrote: > > Avoid Sony. The hardware itself is nice, but support is non-existent. > > I've had a mini-tower and a notebook. The integrated video on the > > mini-tower died, the

Re: RAM upgrade?

2005-07-04 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
Dne po 4. července 2005 16:06 Marco Calviani napsal(a): > Hi Alan, > thank you very much for your help. With dmidecode i realized that i > have two banks of 256 each of DDR RAM. Do you know if it's possible to > leave one bank of 256 MB and install in the other a bank with different > size (let's

Re: USB to RCA and time server

2005-07-03 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
Dne ne 3. července 2005 20:37 gustavo halperin napsal(a): > Second, I have a little problem with the clock or time in my laptop, > maybe the > battery is dead. The problem is that after each suspend to memory the clock > loose the really hour. My question is: there are some program that is in > con

swsusp and dm-crypt

2005-06-29 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
Hello, is there some way to make swsusp working with dm-crypt, e.g. storing memory image on encrypted swap partition and ask for key at resume? Thanks for info. Mixi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sony Vaio S4HP

2005-06-29 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
Dne st 29. června 2005 0:37 Benedek Frank napsal(a): > On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:43:30 +0200 > > Miroslav Maiksnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am considering purchase of Vaio S4HP notebook, but I am not sure > > with its linux support. I googled

Sony Vaio S4HP

2005-06-28 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
Hi, I am considering purchase of Vaio S4HP notebook, but I am not sure with its linux support. I googled out it should be generally usable with linux, but not a word about ACPI (suspend to RAM and/or HDD), battery life and docking station support. Have you any practical expirience with any of S4

Re: kernel-image 2.6.2 T 40 IBM

2004-02-24 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
Dne út 24. února 2004 14:32 Martin Wegmann napsal(a): > [...] > > /sbin/lilo > Fatal: open /vmlinuz: No such file or directory > > but /vmlinuz definitely exists as ls -l under / reveals > > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 24 Feb 23 19:18 vmlinuz -> > boot/vmlinuz-2.6.2-1-686 > lrwxrwxrwx

Re: kernel-image 2.6.2 T 40 IBM

2004-02-24 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
Dne út 24. února 2004 14:32 Martin Wegmann napsal(a): > [...] > > /sbin/lilo > Fatal: open /vmlinuz: No such file or directory > > but /vmlinuz definitely exists as ls -l under / reveals > > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 24 Feb 23 19:18 vmlinuz -> > boot/vmlinuz-2.6.2-1-686 > lrwxrwxrwx

Re: kernel-image 2.6.2 T 40 IBM

2004-02-23 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
Dne po 23. února 2004 15:57 Martin Wegmann napsal(a): > >As a reminder, in order to configure LILO, you need > >to add an 'initrd=/initrd.img' to the image=/vmlinuz > >stanza of your /etc/lilo.conf > > > > I added this line to /etc/lilo.conf (marked with ->) > > > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-

Re: kernel-image 2.6.2 T 40 IBM

2004-02-23 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
Dne po 23. února 2004 15:57 Martin Wegmann napsal(a): > >As a reminder, in order to configure LILO, you need > >to add an 'initrd=/initrd.img' to the image=/vmlinuz > >stanza of your /etc/lilo.conf > > > > I added this line to /etc/lilo.conf (marked with ->) > > > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-

Re: kernel-image 2.6.2 T 40 IBM

2004-02-22 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
Hi, AFAIK, there are no problems when upgrading kernel, even from 2.4 to 2.6. There may be possible problem with 2.6 kernel on your IBM, but there is always possibility to boot old kernel if new does not work. In lilo prompt type linuxold (if you don't have enabled boot menu, it is reacheable by ho

Re: kernel-image 2.6.2 T 40 IBM

2004-02-22 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
Hi, AFAIK, there are no problems when upgrading kernel, even from 2.4 to 2.6. There may be possible problem with 2.6 kernel on your IBM, but there is always possibility to boot old kernel if new does not work. In lilo prompt type linuxold (if you don't have enabled boot menu, it is reacheable by ho

Re: Hotplug USB and 2.6

2004-02-04 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
V St, 04. 02. 2004 v 14:54, Matt Filizzi píše: > Since upgrading to 2.6 I've had some wierd behavior with Hotplug and my > usb mouse. Specificly when I boot hotplug is started however I have no > responce from my mouse (it being an optical mouse, I have no lights on > it). When I login and do

Re: Hotplug USB and 2.6

2004-02-04 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
V St, 04. 02. 2004 v 14:54, Matt Filizzi píše: > Since upgrading to 2.6 I've had some wierd behavior with Hotplug and my > usb mouse. Specificly when I boot hotplug is started however I have no > responce from my mouse (it being an optical mouse, I have no lights on > it). When I login and do

Re: Cannot start X server

2003-12-22 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
Dne po 22. prosince 2003 05:44 s. keeling napsal(a): > That appears to say that there's an "sis" driver out there. It > doesn't show up in Woody when I do "apt-cache search xserver-". You > may have to get a newer version of X (unstable, testing, ...) for it > to work. AFAIK in xfree 4.x.x there

Re: Cannot start X server

2003-12-22 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
Dne po 22. prosince 2003 05:44 s. keeling napsal(a): > That appears to say that there's an "sis" driver out there. It > doesn't show up in Woody when I do "apt-cache search xserver-". You > may have to get a newer version of X (unstable, testing, ...) for it > to work. AFAIK in xfree 4.x.x there

Re: ppp client does not conect

2003-12-03 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
I have ran into same problem with GC75 PCMCIA GPRS modem. Problem was in the kernel config - try to enable whatever you find related to serial ports and do not forget on "Non-standard serial port support". It works for me. And if this won't help, please tell us more about your HW (modem) and typ

Re: ppp client does not conect

2003-12-03 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
I have ran into same problem with GC75 PCMCIA GPRS modem. Problem was in the kernel config - try to enable whatever you find related to serial ports and do not forget on "Non-standard serial port support". It works for me. And if this won't help, please tell us more about your HW (modem) and typ

SonyEricsson GC75 and pppd problem

2003-10-10 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, I have problem with my GC75 PCMCIA GPRS card and pppd. I sucessfully initialize the card and dial *99***1# using chatscript, but pppd ignores all incoming data (when I use record option there are incoming data looking like LCP negotiation

SonyEricsson GC75 and pppd problem

2003-10-10 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, I have problem with my GC75 PCMCIA GPRS card and pppd. I sucessfully initialize the card and dial *99***1# using chatscript, but pppd ignores all incoming data (when I use record option there are incoming data looking like LCP negotiation

Re: Nokia D211

2003-09-16 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
preferably 22Mbps)? Thanks, Mixi Dne ne 31. srpna 2003 11:57 Miroslav Maiksnar napsal(a): > Hello, > I'm trying to get nokia d211 to work with debian. They have half binary > drivers with source part for 2.4 kernels. Binary parts are available > compiled with gcc-3.2 and 2.96 (devel

Re: Nokia D211

2003-09-16 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
preferably 22Mbps)? Thanks, Mixi Dne ne 31. srpna 2003 11:57 Miroslav Maiksnar napsal(a): > Hello, > I'm trying to get nokia d211 to work with debian. They have half binary > drivers with source part for 2.4 kernels. Binary parts are available > compiled with gcc-3.2 and 2.96 (devel

Re: Touchpad mouse trouble

2003-09-01 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
Dne po 1. září 2003 17:29 Charles Blair napsal(a): >My main problem is the touchpad mouse. It jumps around uncontrollably, > and after a minute or so stops working altogether. Look into you XF86Config-4 file and check if you have correct protocol for your mouse (=touchpad). I have there "PS/

Re: Touchpad mouse trouble

2003-09-01 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
Dne po 1. září 2003 17:29 Charles Blair napsal(a): >My main problem is the touchpad mouse. It jumps around uncontrollably, > and after a minute or so stops working altogether. Look into you XF86Config-4 file and check if you have correct protocol for your mouse (=touchpad). I have there "PS/

Nokia D211

2003-08-31 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
Hello, I'm trying to get nokia d211 to work with debian. They have half binary drivers with source part for 2.4 kernels. Binary parts are available compiled with gcc-3.2 and 2.96 (developed on redhat linux). When I tried to compile driver against any 2.4 kernel (tried 3.2 and 2.95 compilers), dr

Nokia D211

2003-08-31 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
Hello, I'm trying to get nokia d211 to work with debian. They have half binary drivers with source part for 2.4 kernels. Binary parts are available compiled with gcc-3.2 and 2.96 (developed on redhat linux). When I tried to compile driver against any 2.4 kernel (tried 3.2 and 2.95 compilers), dr