Re: EtherExpress Pro fails on 100baseTx

2000-02-02 Thread Bart-Jan Vrielink
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, John Lapeyre wrote: > ( Sorry about the poor quoting. I am reading web > archives of the lists and cutting and pasting) > (please CC me) Well, I have to survive on a daily basis emails sent to me by management types using Outlook, so this mail looks fine to me :) > I sti

Which version of Debian should I use?

2000-02-02 Thread Bernhard Heger
Hi everybody. I've been reading this mailing list for a short time now, but from what I've read so far, Debian 2.2 is not yet elaborate enough for installing it on a laptop with a PCMCIA card. I have a cheapo 10mb/Ethernet card that is ne2000-compatible in my old IBM Thinkpad 750P (486/33). At th

Re: Which version of Debian should I use?

2000-02-02 Thread Nate Bargmann
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 01:11:47PM +0100, Bernhard Heger wrote: > Hi everybody. > > I've been reading this mailing list for a short time now, but from what > I've read so far, Debian 2.2 is not yet elaborate enough for installing > it on a laptop with a PCMCIA card. > > I have a cheapo 10mb/Ether

Re: Which version of Debian should I use?

2000-02-02 Thread Bart-Jan Vrielink
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Bernhard Heger wrote: > I've been reading this mailing list for a short time now, but from what > I've read so far, Debian 2.2 is not yet elaborate enough for installing > it on a laptop with a PCMCIA card. I'm running Potato on my laptop from the moment I had my laptop (or mo

Re: Which version of Debian should I use?

2000-02-02 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 07:02:34AM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 01:11:47PM +0100, Bernhard Heger wrote: > Would XFree 3.3.3.1 support your 750P's graphic hardware? If so, > put the following line in /etc/apt/sources/list > > deb httlp://netgod.net x/ Or if your card nee

LiveWire Ethernet card, anyone?

2000-02-02 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
I cannot convince my Ethernet LiveWire card to work. 'cardctl ident' reports it as a : product info: "New Media Corporation", "LiveWire 10/100", "Fast Ethernet" manfid: 0x0149, 0x0230 function: 6 (network) To get rid of the "unsupported card in socket 0" of

noflushd & hdparm

2000-02-02 Thread Seth Golub
I finally have my laptop repaired. Yay! So I'm finally sorting out how to make it use less power. * I tracked down mobile-update and installed it. * I set my noatime on all my filesystems. * I installed noflushd, but now I'm wondering why. My BIOS settings let me set spindown & sleep time