Michael Thaler wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I want to buy a pcmcia-ethernet-card for my notebook. I have a Sharp
> 9090 and I want to establish a little network with an old Pentium 75.
>
> First, is a 10 MBit/s card enough or should I buy a 100 MBit/s card?
> Are these cards much more expensive?
>
> F
Hi everybody,
In trying to get Slink installed successfully on my laptop (IBM
Thinkpag 390E) I have learned that it is important to upgrade the Bios
first. So, for the short term, I am taking some steps backwards. I
downloaded a bios upgrade program on to a diskkette from IBM's website. T
Florian Lohoff a écrit :
> On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 06:58:54PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
> > If it works with Red Hat then why not just copy the Red Hat
> > /etc/X11/XF86config file?
I've done that, and it worked perfectly.
> I have not tried to use the FBDEV XFree server on the 390E - I am usi
Hi Bryan;
First, you did not need to do anything to your mbr.
Your machine was just responding to the fact that the floppy that
you had in the drive was not a bootable floppy.
It sounds as though you need to create a bootable DOS floppy.
I presume based on what you have said that your machine
Thanks to everyone on this simple issue. Turned out to be two problems,
I didn't have a bootable floppy, and the IBM program needed to be
extracted (something that I never saw mentioned on their download page).
Thanks,
Bryan
***
On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Bryan K. Walton wrote:
> perform the upgrade, I need to boot up the computer with this diskette in
> the floppy drive. When I do that however, the computer gives me an error
> message saying that there is an invalid system disk in the floppy drive.
Your problem sounds like the BIOS program. More than anything else. Try
formatting a disk in a windows machine and making it bootable (format a:
/s) then boot the laptop from it. If this works then download the BIOS
update again and extract to the same disk. Also check to see if the
extracted
Greetings:
I am considering the purchase of an external cd-rom drive to load linux on
laptops. I would welcome any and all suggestions as to which might be
"cheapest and best".
Regards,
Tim
-
Hi,
with help from many contributors, I can now announce
version 2.1 of the Linux-Laptop-HOWTO.
The HOWTO is available in different formats at LiLAC
http://www.snafu.de/~wehe/index_li.html
and at the LINUX DOCUMENTATION PROJECT - LDP soon.
changes:
Added information about email with UUCP,
the
Has anyone had any success with the Port Noteworthy PCMCIA CD-ROM? Yes,
I know it isn't on the SUPPORTED.CARDS list; I thought it was when I
bought it... :-} I figured I should at least try getting it to work,
though, before biting the proverbial bullet and buying another one.
I have actually go
Hi everybody,
In trying to get Slink installed successfully on my laptop (IBM
Thinkpag 390E) I have learned that it is important to upgrade the Bios
first. So, for the short term, I am taking some steps backwards. I
downloaded a bios upgrade program on to a diskkette from IBM's website. T
Florian Lohoff a écrit :
> On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 06:58:54PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
> > If it works with Red Hat then why not just copy the Red Hat
> > /etc/X11/XF86config file?
I've done that, and it worked perfectly.
> I have not tried to use the FBDEV XFree server on the 390E - I am usi
Hi Bryan;
First, you did not need to do anything to your mbr.
Your machine was just responding to the fact that the floppy that
you had in the drive was not a bootable floppy.
It sounds as though you need to create a bootable DOS floppy.
I presume based on what you have said that your machine
Thanks to everyone on this simple issue. Turned out to be two problems,
I didn't have a bootable floppy, and the IBM program needed to be
extracted (something that I never saw mentioned on their download page).
Thanks,
Bryan
***
On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Bryan K. Walton wrote:
> perform the upgrade, I need to boot up the computer with this diskette in
> the floppy drive. When I do that however, the computer gives me an error
> message saying that there is an invalid system disk in the floppy drive.
Your problem sounds like the BIOS program. More than anything else. Try
formatting a disk in a windows machine and making it bootable (format a:
/s) then boot the laptop from it. If this works then download the BIOS
update again and extract to the same disk. Also check to see if the
extracted
Greetings:
I am considering the purchase of an external cd-rom drive to load linux on
laptops. I would welcome any and all suggestions as to which might be
"cheapest and best".
Regards,
Tim
-
Hi,
with help from many contributors, I can now announce
version 2.1 of the Linux-Laptop-HOWTO.
The HOWTO is available in different formats at LiLAC
http://www.snafu.de/~wehe/index_li.html
and at the LINUX DOCUMENTATION PROJECT - LDP soon.
changes:
Added information about email with UUCP,
the
Has anyone had any success with the Port Noteworthy PCMCIA CD-ROM? Yes,
I know it isn't on the SUPPORTED.CARDS list; I thought it was when I
bought it... :-} I figured I should at least try getting it to work,
though, before biting the proverbial bullet and buying another one.
I have actually go
Michael Thaler wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I want to buy a pcmcia-ethernet-card for my notebook. I have a Sharp
> 9090 and I want to establish a little network with an old Pentium 75.
>
> First, is a 10 MBit/s card enough or should I buy a 100 MBit/s card?
> Are these cards much more expensive?
>
> F
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