IBM Thinkpad 560X

2000-02-04 Thread Pedro I . Sanchez
I got a hold on the abovc portable and want to install the current frozen there. I can't find any boot disks (tectra or something like that) for portables though. Can anyone give me a hand on getting started with this portable? I've installed Debian several times before but this is the first time

Re: IBM Thinkpad 560X

2000-02-04 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Pedro I . Sanchez; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > I can't find any boot disks (tectra or something like that) for portables > though. > Can anyone give me a hand on getting started with this portable? Did you encounter any problems with the regular boot disks? I have recently installed P

getting an irq exluded from pcmcia use.

2000-02-04 Thread Adam Shand
hey. the serial port on my xircom realport has started using irq 4 which happens to be the same irq that my main serial port users. since i use my serial port to sync my pilot it's a little frustrating to have to unload my pcmcia drivers in order for my serial port to work. i have this line in

Re: getting an irq exluded from pcmcia use.

2000-02-04 Thread Tobias Bachmor
Hi, On Fri, 04 Feb 2000 14:55:30 Adam Shand wrote: > does any one have any ideas what else to try? why not doing it the other way round. Include PCIC_OPTS=irq_list=10,11 in your /etc/pcmcia.conf - now your PCMCIA-Cards can only use these. Hth, Tobias --

Re: getting an irq exluded from pcmcia use.

2000-02-04 Thread Adam Shand
> PCIC_OPTS=irq_list=10,11 hrm, i'll play with this, thanks. > in your /etc/pcmcia.conf - now your PCMCIA-Cards can only use these. part of the problem was i misunderstood how stab was formatted. i thought that the sixth field was the irq assosiated with the device but it's actually the

Re: IBM Thinkpad 560X

2000-02-04 Thread Nate Bargmann
I tried the "frozen" boot floppy set (2.2.5) last weekend on a TP760ED and had no problems related to the laptop. The install itself had problems as it couldn't configure the network. So I decided to install the Slink base and do apt-get dist-upgrade from there. While on the FTP site I saw a