Re: Inspiron 3500 networking woes....

2001-05-04 Thread Diarmuid Drew
> another thing you need to mention is whether you are using the kernel > support for pcmcia or whether you are just using the pcmcia package? I > would highly recommend the package version of pcmcia rather than the > kernel version, also use version 3.1.24 (3.1.25 has an interesting feature > whi

Re: Inspiron 3500 networking woes....

2001-05-04 Thread Diarmuid Drew
> another thing you need to mention is whether you are using the kernel > support for pcmcia or whether you are just using the pcmcia package? I > would highly recommend the package version of pcmcia rather than the > kernel version, also use version 3.1.24 (3.1.25 has an interesting feature > wh

Re: Inspiron 3500 networking woes....

2001-05-04 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Alan Shutko wrote: > > Alexander Clouter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > ermif everything is rock solid under 2.4.2 then why don't you > > keep to it? > > Iirc, there are some somewhat serious filesystem corruption bugs in > 2.4.2. > h maybe a good idea to upgrade :)

Re: Inspiron 3500 networking woes....

2001-05-04 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Alan Shutko wrote: > > Alexander Clouter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > ermif everything is rock solid under 2.4.2 then why don't you > > keep to it? > > Iirc, there are some somewhat serious filesystem corruption bugs in > 2.4.2. > h maybe a good idea to upgrade :)

Re: Inspiron 3500 networking woes....

2001-05-03 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Alan Shutko wrote: > Iirc, there are some somewhat serious filesystem corruption bugs in > 2.4.2. Yeah - ext2 could pretty much be guaranteed to need a fsck after a reboot on my SMP box under 2.4.2. 2.4.3-ac5 seems Ok though. -- I am worthless. I struggle with the simple thi

Re: Inspiron 3500 networking woes....

2001-05-03 Thread Alan Shutko
Alexander Clouter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ermif everything is rock solid under 2.4.2 then why don't you keep to > it? Iirc, there are some somewhat serious filesystem corruption bugs in 2.4.2. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! The world is coming to an en

Re: Inspiron 3500 networking woes....

2001-05-03 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Diarmuid Drew wrote: > > [snipped] > > network. I have struggled over the past 2 years to get a stable network > connection on my home network. Under 2.4.2 everything is rock solid but > 2.4.3 and 2.4.4 are broken. The common error I get is "transmit timeout". > > any su

Re: Inspiron 3500 networking woes....

2001-05-03 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Alan Shutko wrote: > Iirc, there are some somewhat serious filesystem corruption bugs in > 2.4.2. Yeah - ext2 could pretty much be guaranteed to need a fsck after a reboot on my SMP box under 2.4.2. 2.4.3-ac5 seems Ok though. -- I am worthless. I struggle with the simple th

Re: Inspiron 3500 networking woes....

2001-05-03 Thread Alan Shutko
Alexander Clouter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ermif everything is rock solid under 2.4.2 then why don't you keep to > it? Iirc, there are some somewhat serious filesystem corruption bugs in 2.4.2. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! The world is coming to an e

Re: Inspiron 3500 networking woes....

2001-05-03 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Diarmuid Drew wrote: > > [snipped] > > network. I have struggled over the past 2 years to get a stable network > connection on my home network. Under 2.4.2 everything is rock solid but > 2.4.3 and 2.4.4 are broken. The common error I get is "transmit timeout". > > any s

Inspiron 3500 networking woes....

2001-05-02 Thread Diarmuid Drew
I wonder if anybody out there can help. I own a Dell Inspiron 3500 running Debian 2.2r3 with a 2.4 kernel. I use a PCMCIA multifunctional card "Psion DACOM Gold Card NetGlobal 56k + 10/100mb Cardbus" for modem and Ethernet network. I have struggled over the past 2 years to get a stable network conn

Inspiron 3500 networking woes....

2001-05-02 Thread Diarmuid Drew
I wonder if anybody out there can help. I own a Dell Inspiron 3500 running Debian 2.2r3 with a 2.4 kernel. I use a PCMCIA multifunctional card "Psion DACOM Gold Card NetGlobal 56k + 10/100mb Cardbus" for modem and Ethernet network. I have struggled over the past 2 years to get a stable network con