Re: Tecra 8100?

2000-05-10 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Todd Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | I'd suggest using 2.2 floppies. | That worked for me. Yep. Next problem: :-) I've got a 3C575 Cardbus ethernet adapter. After I've made a boot floppy, the normal boot process loads all the appropriate modules (3c575_cb, cb_enabler, ds, i82365,

Re: how to revoke dselect messed up?

2000-05-10 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Tue, 9 May 2000, Benjamin F. Zhou wrote: > > I installed potato on my notebook. the installation facility looks > really nice and easy to use. > But at first, I could not check the boxes I prefered and exited. I don't > know how to get back. So I entered Dselect and did a lot of +/-, which > me

hmmm tweaked too much

2000-05-10 Thread Alexander Clouter
I'm forwarding this to all people I can think of who could help. I'm begging for help (any) to get rid of these problems, these are *all* the problems I seem to be having. Five problems may not seem much but the consequences are BIG. So I beg, please help. I decided to install XFree86 4.0 on my

as86?

2000-05-10 Thread Norman Walsh
Ok, so I'm slowly building my Tecra 8100. I wanted to build a new kernel (I need to get as much done as possible before I leave the office and loose my high-speed net connection since I don't have any Debian 2.2 CDs :-), but make bzdisk reports 'Commadn not found' in response to the attempt to use

Beamer / external monitor on Inspiron 5000

2000-05-10 Thread Klaus Drews
Hi, does anyone have experience with attaching a baemer to an Inspiron 5000. System is debian potato (mostly). I plan to run vmware with WinNT in it as clientsystem (shouldnt bother). I never tried to attach an external monitor or a beamer to my system, so be kind, if I just have to turn the pow

Re: Tecra 8100?

2000-05-10 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 07:52:16AM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: > I've got a 3C575 Cardbus ethernet adapter. After I've made a boot > floppy, the normal boot process loads all the appropriate modules > (3c575_cb, cb_enabler, ds, i82365, and pcmcia_core) and ifconfig > reveals that I have an eth0 adap

Re: as86?

2000-05-10 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 09:46:48AM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: > Ok, so I'm slowly building my Tecra 8100. I wanted to build a new kernel > (I need to get as much done as possible before I leave the office and loose > my high-speed net connection since I don't have any Debian 2.2 CDs :-), > but make

Re: as86?

2000-05-10 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 09:46:48AM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: > Ok, so I'm slowly building my Tecra 8100. I wanted to build a new kernel > (I need to get as much done as possible before I leave the office and loose > my high-speed net connection since I don't have any Debian 2.2 CDs :-), > but make

Re: hmmm tweaked too much

2000-05-10 Thread Heather
> I'm forwarding this to all people I can think of who could help. I'm > begging for help (any) to get rid of these problems, these are *all* the > problems I seem to be having. Five problems may not seem much but the > consequences are BIG. So I beg, please help. > > I decided to install XFree

Re: as86?

2000-05-10 Thread Jim Lynch
as86 is in the package bin86 -Jim --- Jim Lynch Finger for pgp key as Laney College CIS admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.laney.edu/~jim/ as Debian developer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/~jwl/

Re: hmmm tweaked too much

2000-05-10 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Heather wrote: > > MTRR support is a fairly new kernel option. You might have to recompile > a kernel to get it set. (anyone know if it was selected during the 2.2.15 > compile making kernel-image and pcmcia-modules?) > however it was working fine before the upgrade to X.