Re: Re: [OT] help in bios update for a japanese laptop (I can't read/speak japanese)

2006-10-01 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 01:07:55PM -0300, CMSI - Maldonado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Mike , I read your message in the Debian forum , I have a GR7/K too and a > I Have the same problems . Do you solved this problem ?Best RegardsAdriano Well, as I said in http://lists.debian.org/debian-lapt

Re: [OT] help in bios update for a japanese laptop (I can't read/speak japanese)

2003-08-20 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 02:49:04AM +0900, tsuno wrote: > > Hello, I an a native japanese and I read the instruction page and crisdisk.bat. [...] > I'm glad if I can help you. of course it does :) thanks a lot I also discovered, to my pleasure, that Sony Europe customer support doesn't help with

Re: [OT] help in bios update for a japanese laptop (I can't read/speak japanese)

2003-08-20 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 02:49:04AM +0900, tsuno wrote: > > Hello, I an a native japanese and I read the instruction page and > crisdisk.bat. [...] > I'm glad if I can help you. of course it does :) thanks a lot I also discovered, to my pleasure, that Sony Europe customer support doesn't help wi

Re: [OT] help in bios update for a japanese laptop (I can't read/speak japanese)

2003-08-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 16:22, Mike Hommey wrote: > BTW, IIRC (I'm not at home at the moment, but will check then), I have the > same Vaio model, never upgraded it, and had no problem with it... Oops, this is a GR7_F_ I have :-p Mike PS: According to tsuno's mail, I understood quite well the f

Re: [OT] help in bios update for a japanese laptop (I can't read/speak japanese)

2003-08-19 Thread tsuno
Hello, I an a native japanese and I read the instruction page and crisdisk.bat. To update a bios of your laptop, I think you need which you can: 1. USB-FDD. this is the most easy way. 2. Somehow make a dos-bootable CD-ROM containing minidos.sys,phlash.exe, bios.rom and platform.bin on Linux an

Re: [OT] help in bios update for a japanese laptop (I can't read/speak japanese)

2003-08-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 16:22, Mike Hommey wrote: > BTW, IIRC (I'm not at home at the moment, but will check then), I have the > same Vaio model, never upgraded it, and had no problem with it... Oops, this is a GR7_F_ I have :-p Mike PS: According to tsuno's mail, I understood quite well the f

Re: [OT] help in bios update for a japanese laptop (I can't read/speak japanese)

2003-08-19 Thread Jason Straw
I know this might sound odd... but your best bet might be to try an anime fansubbing channel or two on irc. They all have Japanese <-> English Translators, (most are native Japanese) who might be able to help... If you're interested, email me off list and I'll give you some places to try :) Jaso

Re: [OT] help in bios update for a japanese laptop (I can't read/speak japanese)

2003-08-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 16:54, Mattia Dongili wrote: > The problem I'm having from a couple of weeks is that the CD-RW/DVD-ROM > combo isn't recognized at boot by the bios (it says I have no device > on ide2). I need to shutdown, remove and insert the CD-RW/DVD from the > bay and it works again l

Re: [OT] help in bios update for a japanese laptop (I can't read/speak japanese)

2003-08-19 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 04:22:48PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Tuesday 19 August 2003 15:49, Mattia Dongili wrote: > > Hello, sorry for the extremely off-topic, but a bios update for my > > laptop is badly needed... > > [...] > > I'm looking for a (maibe native) japanese speaking guy who can bri

Re: [OT] help in bios update for a japanese laptop (I can't read/speak japanese)

2003-08-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 15:49, Mattia Dongili wrote: > Hello, sorry for the extremely off-topic, but a bios update for my > laptop is badly needed... > > Of course my laptop at least runs Debian :) even if a small win2k > partition still survives for this kind of tasks... > > The story: > I own a

[OT] help in bios update for a japanese laptop (I can't read/speak japanese)

2003-08-19 Thread Mattia Dongili
Hello, sorry for the extremely off-topic, but a bios update for my laptop is badly needed... Of course my laptop at least runs Debian :) even if a small win2k partition still survives for this kind of tasks... The story: I own a vaio gr7/k, a japanese model, I bought during a Tokyo vacation in 20

Re: [OT] help in bios update for a japanese laptop (I can't read/speak japanese)

2003-08-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 16:54, Mattia Dongili wrote: > The problem I'm having from a couple of weeks is that the CD-RW/DVD-ROM > combo isn't recognized at boot by the bios (it says I have no device > on ide2). I need to shutdown, remove and insert the CD-RW/DVD from the > bay and it w

Re: [OT] help in bios update for a japanese laptop (I can't read/speak japanese)

2003-08-19 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 04:22:48PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Tuesday 19 August 2003 15:49, Mattia Dongili wrote: > > Hello, sorry for the extremely off-topic, but a bios update for my > > laptop is badly needed... > > [...] > > I'm looking for a (maibe native) japanese speaki

Re: [OT] help in bios update for a japanese laptop (I can't read/speak japanese)

2003-08-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 15:49, Mattia Dongili wrote: > Hello, sorry for the extremely off-topic, but a bios update for my > laptop is badly needed... > > Of course my laptop at least runs Debian :) even if a small win2k > partition still survives for this kind of tasks... > > The story: > I own a

[OT] help in bios update for a japanese laptop (I can't read/speak japanese)

2003-08-19 Thread Mattia Dongili
Hello, sorry for the extremely off-topic, but a bios update for my laptop is badly needed... Of course my laptop at least runs Debian :) even if a small win2k partition still survives for this kind of tasks... The story: I own a vaio gr7/k, a japanese model, I bought during a Tokyo vacation in 20