Installation question.

2003-04-03 Thread Sale, Nigel
Hi All, I'm trying to install Debian (test) on a laptop which has one pcmcia slot, currently occupied by a nic, but no floppy or cdrom. The hard disk currently has a small win98 partition which works fine, and I can download stuff quite happily, and run loadlin to install. The problem is, as fa

Installation question.

2003-04-03 Thread Sale, Nigel
Hi All, I'm trying to install Debian (test) on a laptop which has one pcmcia slot, currently occupied by a nic, but no floppy or cdrom. The hard disk currently has a small win98 partition which works fine, and I can download stuff quite happily, and run loadlin to install. The problem is, as fa

pump question

2000-11-23 Thread Sale, Nigel
Hi, I'm using pump to manage my dynamic ip address assigned by my ISP for my cable modem. I'm using IPChains as part of my firwall. At the moment my IPchains config file is run only at boot up, but if when pump renews the lease on my IP address it changes, my IPchains script needs to be rerun

pump question

2000-11-23 Thread Sale, Nigel
Hi, I'm using pump to manage my dynamic ip address assigned by my ISP for my cable modem. I'm using IPChains as part of my firwall. At the moment my IPchains config file is run only at boot up, but if when pump renews the lease on my IP address it changes, my IPchains script needs to be rerun

RE: A little off topic...laptop date.

2000-11-09 Thread Sale, Nigel
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RE: A little off topic...laptop date.

2000-11-09 Thread Sale, Nigel
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A little off topic...laptop date.

2000-11-08 Thread Sale, Nigel
Sorry if this is off topic, but this is the most relevant list i subscribe to, I have a rather old 486 laptop which had a bit of a funny turn the other day and advanced the date by 20 years !. It was a couple of days before i realised and now i have a load of files with are dated 20 years in th

A little off topic...laptop date.

2000-11-08 Thread Sale, Nigel
Sorry if this is off topic, but this is the most relevant list i subscribe to, I have a rather old 486 laptop which had a bit of a funny turn the other day and advanced the date by 20 years !. It was a couple of days before i realised and now i have a load of files with are dated 20 years in t

TPad-600E and kernel 2.4

2000-10-30 Thread Sale, Nigel
Hi, Just wondering if anybody has had any sucess using the latest debianised 2.4 kernel source (test5 i think) on a Thinkpad 600E ? 2.2.17 works fine, but when i use my 2.4.0 kernel i get hda errors, dma errors and interrupt errors. I have kept the approriate kernel config options the same b

TPad-600E and kernel 2.4

2000-10-30 Thread Sale, Nigel
Hi, Just wondering if anybody has had any sucess using the latest debianised 2.4 kernel source (test5 i think) on a Thinkpad 600E ? 2.2.17 works fine, but when i use my 2.4.0 kernel i get hda errors, dma errors and interrupt errors. I have kept the approriate kernel config options the same b

TPAD 600E CD-ROM

2000-09-29 Thread Sale, Nigel
Anybody had any success playing Audio CDs on there TPad 600E ? On the Tpad the cdrom appears on ide1 as /dev/hdc. I can mount iso data cd's fine, but if i insert an audio CD and use any of several tools i've tried (such as cdtools) to try and play the cd i get all sorts of errors on hdc, such as

TPAD 600E CD-ROM

2000-09-29 Thread Sale, Nigel
Anybody had any success playing Audio CDs on there TPad 600E ? On the Tpad the cdrom appears on ide1 as /dev/hdc. I can mount iso data cd's fine, but if i insert an audio CD and use any of several tools i've tried (such as cdtools) to try and play the cd i get all sorts of errors on hdc, such a