Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi. I just wanted to extend my thanks to the people on the list who responded to my questions. Sitting in front of me is a brand new 650 MHz Sony PCG-XG28 getting ready to install potato. The ethernet and wireless ethernet cards they provided for me are suppor

Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi. I just wanted to extend my thanks to the people on the list who responded to my questions. Sitting in front of me is a brand new 650 MHz Sony PCG-XG28 getting ready to install potato. The ethernet and wireless ethernet cards they provided for me are suppo

Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-25 Thread David Benfell
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:17:45AM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > I have a Z505S with Debian, installed from RedHat so I could get the Windows > Refund (but never got it because of an install mistake which will require > Windows to fix :-( ). So it seems you'll have to repartition your drive

Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-25 Thread David Benfell
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:17:45AM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > I have a Z505S with Debian, installed from RedHat so I could get the Windows > Refund (but never got it because of an install mistake which will require > Windows to fix :-( ). So it seems you'll have to repartition your drive

Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-25 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Heather wrote: > > > > Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Until I get a CD-ROM for the machine and fix it, I'm stuck without > > > the ability to hibernate. > > > > Why not just ask someone with the same laptop what their partition > > table looks like and fix yours with fdisk?

Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-25 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Heather wrote: > > > > Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Until I get a CD-ROM for the machine and fix it, I'm stuck without > > > the ability to hibernate. > > > > Why not just ask someone with the same laptop what their partition > > table looks like and fix yours with fdisk

Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-24 Thread Heather
> > Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Until I get a CD-ROM for the machine and fix it, I'm stuck without > > the ability to hibernate. > > Why not just ask someone with the same laptop what their partition > table looks like and fix yours with fdisk? That might work, or might n

Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-24 Thread Seth Golub
Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Until I get a CD-ROM for the machine and fix it, I'm stuck without > the ability to hibernate. Why not just ask someone with the same laptop what their partition table looks like and fix yours with fdisk?

Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-24 Thread Heather
> > Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Until I get a CD-ROM for the machine and fix it, I'm stuck without > > the ability to hibernate. > > Why not just ask someone with the same laptop what their partition > table looks like and fix yours with fdisk? That might work, or might

Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-24 Thread Seth Golub
Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Until I get a CD-ROM for the machine and fix it, I'm stuck without > the ability to hibernate. Why not just ask someone with the same laptop what their partition table looks like and fix yours with fdisk? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-23 Thread Adam C Powell IV
"Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > My employer is about to buy me a Sony VAIO notebook. I would like to know > how well these are supported in Debian and if there are any specific > models that I should look for/avoid for best results. The only > requirement the employer has is that it must be a VAIO

Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-23 Thread Adam C Powell IV
"Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > My employer is about to buy me a Sony VAIO notebook. I would like to know > how well these are supported in Debian and if there are any specific > models that I should look for/avoid for best results. The only > requirement the employer has is that it must be a VAIO

Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-22 Thread Stephan
I have potato running on a PCG-505VE, and it works fine. I installed the kernel from CD (type ide1=0x180,0x386 at boot prompt) and then aptget -> ftp for most of the packages (slink cd). A good page was http://www.911fan.net/vaio (that *might* be a bit off, but it is listed on the linux laptops pag

Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-21 Thread Stephan
I have potato running on a PCG-505VE, and it works fine. I installed the kernel from CD (type ide1=0x180,0x386 at boot prompt) and then aptget -> ftp for most of the packages (slink cd). A good page was http://www.911fan.net/vaio (that *might* be a bit off, but it is listed on the linux laptops pa

Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-21 Thread Tim Quinlan
There is a list of every supported card at http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS BTW, I just set up a Aironet PC4800 wireless today using 3.1.17 and it works great "Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > My employer is about to buy me a Sony VAIO noteb

Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-21 Thread Tim Quinlan
There is a list of every supported card at http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS BTW, I just set up a Aironet PC4800 wireless today using 3.1.17 and it works great "Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > My employer is about to buy me a Sony VAIO note

RE: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Aug-2000 Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > As a followup question, what PCMCIA ethernet cards are well supported in > Linux? How 'bout wireless ethernet? PCMCIA modems (including cellular)? > we were running the lucent 802.11 cards at LWE. I know we use

RE: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- As a followup question, what PCMCIA ethernet cards are well supported in Linux? How 'bout wireless ethernet? PCMCIA modems (including cellular)? I'm a complete newbie WRT all this PCMCIA stuff, so bear with me. THanks, noah On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Sean 'Shaleh'

Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-21 Thread Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 15:26:17 -0400, "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My employer is about to buy me a Sony VAIO notebook. good ;-). > Otherwise I'm free to > choose the model and run Debian on it. i was running my Z505R under potato, und upgraded to woody without any problem

RE: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Aug-2000 Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > My employer is about to buy me a Sony VAIO notebook. I would like to know > how well these are supported in Debian and if there are any specific > models that I should look for/avoid for best results. The only > re

RE: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Aug-2000 Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > As a followup question, what PCMCIA ethernet cards are well supported in > Linux? How 'bout wireless ethernet? PCMCIA modems (including cellular)? > we were running the lucent 802.11 cards at LWE. I know we use

RE: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- As a followup question, what PCMCIA ethernet cards are well supported in Linux? How 'bout wireless ethernet? PCMCIA modems (including cellular)? I'm a complete newbie WRT all this PCMCIA stuff, so bear with me. THanks, noah On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Sean 'Shaleh

Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-21 Thread Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 15:26:17 -0400, "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My employer is about to buy me a Sony VAIO notebook. good ;-). > Otherwise I'm free to > choose the model and run Debian on it. i was running my Z505R under potato, und upgraded to woody without any proble

RE: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Aug-2000 Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > My employer is about to buy me a Sony VAIO notebook. I would like to know > how well these are supported in Debian and if there are any specific > models that I should look for/avoid for best results. The only > r