Re: WEP

2007-03-05 Thread dbarker
Thus spake Florian Reitmeir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sam, 03 M??r 2007, Freddy Freeloader wrote: ... > > Out of curiousity, just what wireless routers are you thinking of? The > > only wireless routers I've seen that will accept vpn connections, and > > are not pretty severely limited in their

Re: iTunes & Linux (Debian)

2006-12-27 Thread dbarker
Thus spake Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > http://wiki.ursine.ca/Top_posting > > David Pastern wrote: > > > With the risk of sounding rude, that's what you get for using a > > proprietary system. Do NOT support Apple, and their usage of DRM > > protected, user screwed systems that are iTune

Re: Debian laptop problems

2006-10-02 Thread dbarker
Thus spake Florian Reitmeir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sam, 30 Sep 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Thus spake Florian Reitmeir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > did you try to disable apic and acpi? > > > try booting with the options: > > > > > > noapci acpi=off > > > > > > a

Re: Debian laptop problems

2006-09-30 Thread dbarker
Thus spake Florian Reitmeir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > > did you try to disable apic and acpi? > try booting with the options: > > noapci acpi=off > > and .. if this helps, get an bios upgrade if possible. But there is nothing wrong with the hardware or the BIOS. kubuntu has no problem with

Debian laoptop problems

2006-09-28 Thread dbarker
I have an Averatec 3225 laptop which, until recently, has been problem free. Unfortunately, over the summer, I was tempted and installed kubuntu. This all worked nicely but screwed up my video modes, so I couldn't get a textmode console. Further more, neither 'text mode' nor graphics would appear

Re: better distro for laptops ??

2006-02-21 Thread dbarker
Thus spake brian morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ... > p.s. now thinking about reorganizing my > newer laptop to take linux - unsatisfied with > mac os X. not sure best way tho, probably > i will stick with debian. gentoo would work > tho as well as kubuntu or mandriva. (the > latter two i believe both

Re: laptop and Debian

2005-12-20 Thread dbarker
Gerard Robin said... > Hello, > I intend to buy a laptop. I googled to find some information about laptops > which support linux Debian and the informations that I got concerned fairly > old laptops and no one works fine at 100%. > > Can someone give me some advices or give me a link to find some i

Memorex memory stick problem

2005-10-11 Thread dbarker
I just bought a 1GB Memorex Travelstick and am having difficulty using it. I'm running testing and everything seems OK at first: I get the kernel messages telling me that the stick is recognised, gives me the vendor and suchlike, tells me that SCSI device sda has 2007040 51-12 byte hdwr sectors

Re: dist-upgrad removed packages

2005-08-07 Thread dbarker
Thus spake Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sunday 07 August 2005 17:41, Bill Moseley wrote: > > Did a long-over-due dist-upgrade on a laptop today, and even after > > using Debian for years I'm still wondering how to best deal with > > packages "kept back" and packages that apt-get wants to re

Debian on a Toshiba Satellite A30 (Was Re: Debian on ThinkPad T41p: a report and a question)

2004-09-07 Thread dbarker
Thus spake Martin Weinberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > In short, (nearly, see below) everything worked out of the box. Lucky you. I've installed two machines from the RC1 disc one a desktop (AMD Athlon) one a Toshiba A30 notebook (my wife's machine). What puzzles me is the differenes between the two

Debian on a Toshiba Satellite A30 (Was Re: Debian on ThinkPad T41p: a report and a question)

2004-09-07 Thread dbarker
Thus spake Martin Weinberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > In short, (nearly, see below) everything worked out of the box. Lucky you. I've installed two machines from the RC1 disc one a desktop (AMD Athlon) one a Toshiba A30 notebook (my wife's machine). What puzzles me is the differenes between the two

Using 802.11g card with 802.11b router

2004-08-19 Thread dbarker
Well, having downloaded ndiswrapper 0.9 I've finally managed to get it to talk to my broadcom 94306 builtin to my notebook. Unfortunately iwconfig shows an access point address of 00:00: etc which is, according to the man page usually aconfiguration error. As my wireless router (it came free wit

Using 802.11g card with 802.11b router

2004-08-19 Thread dbarker
Well, having downloaded ndiswrapper 0.9 I've finally managed to get it to talk to my broadcom 94306 builtin to my notebook. Unfortunately iwconfig shows an access point address of 00:00: etc which is, according to the man page usually aconfiguration error. As my wireless router (it came free wit

Re: new laptop recommendations?

2004-08-12 Thread dbarker
Thus spake Robert Aldridge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm running Debian Sid on an HP Pavilion zv5120us that I got at Circuit > City about 3 months ago. I'm running sarge (used the new installer) on an Averatec 3220. Only a 12" screen but an AMD Athlon CPU. DVD-ROM/CD-RW is nice. Everything works

Re: new laptop recommendations?

2004-08-12 Thread dbarker
Thus spake Robert Aldridge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm running Debian Sid on an HP Pavilion zv5120us that I got at Circuit > City about 3 months ago. I'm running sarge (used the new installer) on an Averatec 3220. Only a 12" screen but an AMD Athlon CPU. DVD-ROM/CD-RW is nice. Everything works

Re: Laptop recommendations

2004-06-06 Thread dbarker
Thus spake Rolf Heckemann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ... > In your situation, I would probably consider the Lindows Mobile PC > from sub300.com (http://www.sub300.com/port.htm). Looks interesting. Does anyone on the list have experience with these machines? -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | M

Re: Laptop recommendations

2004-06-06 Thread dbarker
Thus spake Rolf Heckemann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ... > In your situation, I would probably consider the Lindows Mobile PC > from sub300.com (http://www.sub300.com/port.htm). Looks interesting. Does anyone on the list have experience with these machines? -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | M

Laptop recommendations

2004-06-05 Thread dbarker
I'm probably going to be buying a new laptop over the summer to use at school in the new academic year. Apart from the usual things - installs debian (sarge) with no (significant) problems, etc - I have one requirement which is crucial and yet, I suspect, not entirely usual: I *must* be able to d

Laptop recommendations

2004-06-05 Thread dbarker
I'm probably going to be buying a new laptop over the summer to use at school in the new academic year. Apart from the usual things - installs debian (sarge) with no (significant) problems, etc - I have one requirement which is crucial and yet, I suspect, not entirely usual: I *must* be able to d

GATOS ATI drivers

2004-05-24 Thread dbarker
I recently did an upgrade on my notebook (A Dell Latitude CP/x running sarge), which pulled down XFree4.3. I then updated the GATOS ATI drivers from sourceforge and installed them, but unfortunately atitvout still refuses to allow me to connect an external monitor (or projector). Has anyone else

GATOS ATI drivers

2004-05-24 Thread dbarker
I recently did an upgrade on my notebook (A Dell Latitude CP/x running sarge), which pulled down XFree4.3. I then updated the GATOS ATI drivers from sourceforge and installed them, but unfortunately atitvout still refuses to allow me to connect an external monitor (or projector). Has anyone else

Re: Problems with 3Com FE575 PCMCIA NIC

2004-05-07 Thread dbarker
Thus spake Martin Bauer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > try "3c59x" (kernel 2.4.x) > > > I have never had problem's You're lucky. Unfortunately the sarge install puts auto eth0 in the /etc/networking/interfaces file, which means that it tries to bring the network up before the PCMCIA ser

Re: Problems with 3Com FE575 PCMCIA NIC

2004-05-07 Thread dbarker
Thus spake Martin Bauer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > try "3c59x" (kernel 2.4.x) > > > I have never had problem's You're lucky. Unfortunately the sarge install puts auto eth0 in the /etc/networking/interfaces file, which means that it tries to bring the network up before the PCMCIA ser