slink (stable) apm plus pcmcia curiosities (may help others?).

2000-01-12 Thread s. keeling
I'm using slink 2.1r2. When I installed, I thought it curious that the install program finished up with "You don't appear to have pcmcia; shall I delete it?" I told it hell no, and went on from there. Since then, I've been trying to understand why my system is so bad about coming back with the c

TCP/IP problems

2000-01-12 Thread Bryan K. Walton
First, I would like to thank everybody who offered advice to me yesterday regarding why iplogger was crashing my computer. I got that fixed, thank you. Now, (let me preface what I am about to say by adding that I am teaching myself linux by getting Debian running on my Thinkpad. Therefore, many s

Re: TCP/IP problems

2000-01-12 Thread s. keeling
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 06:38:33AM -0600, Bryan K. Walton wrote: [snip] > fine). I have a DHCP client on my computer, and when I start it up, it > gives me back an IP address. However, I cannot generate any further > outgoing or incoming traffic. When I open up my browser, I can't browse > web p

Re: Swiss-German keyboard

2000-01-12 Thread Amaya
Tibor Kovacs decĂ­a: > i have just installed the Debian slink on an Omnibook 4100 with > Swiss-German keyboard. > Although it was no problem to get the right keyboard for the X-Window, i > did not find out, how to configure it for the shells. This is really > disturbing, because the US and Swiss key

SCSI question

2000-01-12 Thread William Heindl
Hello again, With my extra memory problem solved, I've been working on getting through the rest of my setup problems (on an IBM Thinkpad 560Z). I have a SCSI pcmcia card (Adaptec, APA-1460 SCSI Host Adapter). When I did my build (2.0.38 from floppies), I included SCSI support. But, I didn't h

Re: TCP/IP problems

2000-01-12 Thread Bryan K. Walton
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, s. keeling wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 06:38:33AM -0600, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > [snip] > > fine). I have a DHCP client on my computer, and when I start it up, it > > gives me back an IP address. However, I cannot generate any further > > outgoing or incoming traffic.

Re: HP 4150 Sound Problem

2000-01-12 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 04:36:31PM +0100, Erik Wenzel wrote: > Hi, > > is there anyboby who successfully configured NM2200 sound chip ( OSS > has autodetect his )? I installed potato and the rest is working fine. > Except the sh*** sound card. On 'soundon' modules get loaded into the > kernel, but

pcmcia modem

2000-01-12 Thread Philipp Timmalog
Hi list, i use the Hewlett-Packard Omnibook 4150B and running on it debian 2.1. The modem and network-card is one from Xircom type3 (using both PCMCIA-slots). I wanna use that modem also with debian by running pppconfig. Once you get to the poing where you have to enter the adress of your modem (e

Re: TCP/IP problems

2000-01-12 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Nate, THANKS Indeed, IP Masquerading was the guilty party! Thanks, Bryan On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, aphro wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > > walton >When I ping another host, I get the following: > walton >ping: sendto: Operation not permitted > walton >ping: wrote (

laptop budget, need advice

2000-01-12 Thread koyote
Hello again, I've got a budget of =< $2000 (US) for a laptop through a new employer. Due to job requirements, I need to run RedHat and windoze (preferably NT) in addition to Debian. I also need to do some presentation work on the laptop. Any suggestions for the closest to 100% co

Re: pcmcia modem

2000-01-12 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 10:09:23PM -0800, Philipp Timmalog wrote: > Hi list, > > i use the Hewlett-Packard Omnibook 4150B and running on it debian 2.1. > The modem and network-card is one from Xircom type3 (using both > PCMCIA-slots). > I wanna use that modem also with debian by running pppconfig.

Re: pcmcia modem

2000-01-12 Thread Brian Mays
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philipp Timmalog) wrote: > I wanna use that modem also with debian by running pppconfig. Once > you get to the poing where you have to enter the adress of your modem > (e.g. serial Modem on Com2 --> /dev/ttyS1) What adress have i to enter > for that PCMCIA modem? Use /dev/mode

Re: laptop budget, need advice

2000-01-12 Thread Heather
> Hello again, > > I've got a budget of =< $2000 (US) for a laptop through a new employer. > Due to job requirements, I need to run RedHat and windoze (preferably NT) in > addition to Debian. I also need to do some presentation work on the laptop. > > Any suggestions for the closest