>I have an IBM thinkpad i-series 1540 with a Netgear FA410tx pcmcia card, I
>want to install debian from the net, but I didn't have success trying with
>debian 2.1, It didn't recognize the pcmcia card. Any ideas?
I think that card is supported OK. I've installed debian via the net and
PCMCIA
Thanks very much! I made some more progress in the weekend. I can login
as normal user after I deleted the .xsession file in the user's home
dir. I think I made a big mess when I was upgrading X. Hopefully, it
works now and my system hasn't hanged up till now.
About the floppy LED problem, I thi
Hi All!
I'm back to report success! Thanks to all of you!
For those interested in the details of the solution:
I didn't need to download the kernel and pcmcia-cs sources to get it to
work. Alexander's explanation that I had to run 'make config' in the
"/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs" modules (and
Hello Andy,
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 05:50:02PM +1000, Andy Turner wrote:
> I've just been handed an NEC Versa V/75 laptop and asked if I can get it
> going
> ..the challenge here is there are no leads with it.
>
> What kind of power supply am I looking for here ?
The NEC support sit
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> About the floppy LED problem, I think I'll have to contact my laptop's
> manufacturer. Probably it's mad after too many times hard restart.
>
This seems the only thing you can do. The actual problem sounds like a
broken LED or loose wire/contact.
I have CONFIG_PNP set. Are you saying that I shouldn't have that set?
I'll try it and see what happens.
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 05:46:08PM -0400, Hugo Haas wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2000, Seth Daniel wrote:
> > Anyway, on several pages with similar laptops it is mentioned that
> > the ``Plug And
I'm not normally one to reply to myself, but this seems to have worked.
I unset CONFIG_PNP and the network card now works just fine when the
laptop is not set for ``Plug And Play OS.'' Thanks!
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 05:11:18PM -0500, Seth Daniel wrote:
> I have CONFIG_PNP set. Are you saying t
Hello,
I'm doing an installation from the potato floppy boot disk set
dated July 5, 2000. Kernel and modules are installed; plip is
configured and I can ping hosts on the Internet by name from VC2.
Over on VC1, the installation scripts are running, and I'm at the
stage "Install the Base System"
Bolan Meek wrote:
> What's your partitioning look like? What's the output of `df`?
> If you use cfdisk, are there any partitions you don't see in `df`,
> i.e. not have mounted?
I have 104MB as root and 16MB swap there is 1% unuseable, presumably
something to do with the drive geometry. It is a S
Tim Wood wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I managed to do a floppy/ftp install of Potato on an old 4086DX-33
> laptop (8MB RAM 120MB HDD) but ran out of disk space.
What's your partitioning look like? What's the output of `df`?
If you use cfdisk, are there any partitions you don't see in `df`,
i.e. not have m
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Etienne M. Gagnon wrote:
>
> Alexander Clouter wrote:
> > you don't say what type of laptop you have.
>
> I have a Compaq Presario 1060, with a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 (PCMCIA)
> Ethernet card.
>
> > Some laptops don't use 100% Cardbus compatible protocols, so this hangs
> >
>I have an IBM thinkpad i-series 1540 with a Netgear FA410tx pcmcia card, I
>want to install debian from the net, but I didn't have success trying with
>debian 2.1, It didn't recognize the pcmcia card. Any ideas?
I think that card is supported OK. I've installed debian via the net and
PCMCIA m
Thanks very much! I made some more progress in the weekend. I can login
as normal user after I deleted the .xsession file in the user's home
dir. I think I made a big mess when I was upgrading X. Hopefully, it
works now and my system hasn't hanged up till now.
About the floppy LED problem, I thin
Hi All!
I'm back to report success! Thanks to all of you!
For those interested in the details of the solution:
I didn't need to download the kernel and pcmcia-cs sources to get it to
work. Alexander's explanation that I had to run 'make config' in the
"/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs" modules (and
Hello Andy,
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 05:50:02PM +1000, Andy Turner wrote:
> I've just been handed an NEC Versa V/75 laptop and asked if I can get it
> going
> ..the challenge here is there are no leads with it.
>
> What kind of power supply am I looking for here ?
The NEC support site
Tim Wood wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I managed to do a floppy/ftp install of Potato on an old 4086DX-33
> laptop (8MB RAM 120MB HDD) but ran out of disk space.
What's your partitioning look like? What's the output of `df`?
If you use cfdisk, are there any partitions you don't see in `df`,
i.e. not have mo
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> About the floppy LED problem, I think I'll have to contact my laptop's
> manufacturer. Probably it's mad after too many times hard restart.
>
This seems the only thing you can do. The actual problem sounds like a
broken LED or loose wire/contact.
I have CONFIG_PNP set. Are you saying that I shouldn't have that set?
I'll try it and see what happens.
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 05:46:08PM -0400, Hugo Haas wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2000, Seth Daniel wrote:
> > Anyway, on several pages with similar laptops it is mentioned that
> > the ``Plug And
I'm not normally one to reply to myself, but this seems to have worked.
I unset CONFIG_PNP and the network card now works just fine when the
laptop is not set for ``Plug And Play OS.'' Thanks!
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 05:11:18PM -0500, Seth Daniel wrote:
> I have CONFIG_PNP set. Are you saying th
Bolan Meek wrote:
> What's your partitioning look like? What's the output of `df`?
> If you use cfdisk, are there any partitions you don't see in `df`,
> i.e. not have mounted?
I have 104MB as root and 16MB swap there is 1% unuseable, presumably
something to do with the drive geometry. It is a Se
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