IBM Thinkpad

2000-08-21 Thread Abdus-Sabur, Qadir
Should I expect any complications installing debian on a IBM Thinkpad ( 80M RAM, 1G HD, & CD-Rom. I intend to run Word Perfect on this box. Qadir Abdus-Sabur, Ph.D. Senior Systems Programmer Virginia Farm Bureau Richmond, VA 23261 (804) 290-1640 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Sound problem. sb: dsp reset failed

2000-08-21 Thread Xiaolan Ling
Hi, I have been trying to listen music with Debian 2.2. I recompiled the kernel 2.2.17, and got some sound related modules, such as soundcore, soundlow, sb, uart401, opl3. Win98 shows: Creative SB AudioPCI 64V, SoundBlaster: io=220 dma=3 irq=7 Soundscape: Base/MIDI port=330 Wave

Re: sound on toshiba sat pro 4300

2000-08-21 Thread Scott Eisert
Aaron, I have a 4200 with Debian Potato and the sound works great. As far as I know we have the same sound hardware. I installed sound support using ALSA modules which I complied myself without incident. The modules I have installed are: snd-card-ymfpci-The sound card driver snd-pcm-o

Re: IBM Thinkpad

2000-08-21 Thread Gary Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Abdus-Sabur, Qadir) writes: > Should I expect any complications installing debian on a IBM Thinkpad > ( 80M RAM, 1G HD, & CD-Rom. I intend to run Word Perfect on this box. I've installed Debian on 2 thinkpads. An old 486 model (can't remember the precise model #) and a 600E. Yo

Off-topic

2000-08-21 Thread Carlos Menezes
I have a Compaq Armada Laptop. Does someone know how is the correct procedure to clean a LCD screen? Compaq's User Manual doesn't explain this. Can I use detergent? Must I use ONLY a dry cotton ball? Thanks to your comments! Carlos Menezes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Off-topic

2000-08-21 Thread Heather
> I have a Compaq Armada Laptop. Does someone know how is the correct procedure to > clean a LCD screen? Compaq's User Manual doesn't explain this. Can I use > detergent? Must I use ONLY a dry cotton ball? > > Thanks to your comments! > > Carlos Menezes. My local computer store sells stuff that

Re: Device manager lies? Do I have a winmodem?

2000-08-21 Thread Heather
[trimmed a bit] > Dear colleagues, > winmodems. On the other hand I even read that there are winmodems in the > Satellite series that don't tell in the W98 Device Manager that they are > winmodems, but other things. In my case, it would be something like > "Toshiba v.90 internal modem". >

slink to potato apt-get ftp upg. PCMCIA problem

2000-08-21 Thread EXT-Springer, Aaron C
Hello, I just did an apt get upgrade from 2.1r4 to 2.2. It worked quite well.. except that my xircom Ethernet does not work. The card initializes and I have routes but I get an operation not authorized when I ping anything except loopback. I read and followed the upgrade directions.. any su

Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- My employer is about to buy me a Sony VAIO notebook. I would like to know how well these are supported in Debian and if there are any specific models that I should look for/avoid for best results. The only requirement the employer has is that it must be a VAIO

RE: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Aug-2000 Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > My employer is about to buy me a Sony VAIO notebook. I would like to know > how well these are supported in Debian and if there are any specific > models that I should look for/avoid for best results. The only > r

Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-21 Thread Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 15:26:17 -0400, "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My employer is about to buy me a Sony VAIO notebook. good ;-). > Otherwise I'm free to > choose the model and run Debian on it. i was running my Z505R under potato, und upgraded to woody without any proble

RE: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- As a followup question, what PCMCIA ethernet cards are well supported in Linux? How 'bout wireless ethernet? PCMCIA modems (including cellular)? I'm a complete newbie WRT all this PCMCIA stuff, so bear with me. THanks, noah On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Sean 'Shaleh

RE: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Aug-2000 Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > As a followup question, what PCMCIA ethernet cards are well supported in > Linux? How 'bout wireless ethernet? PCMCIA modems (including cellular)? > we were running the lucent 802.11 cards at LWE. I know we use

Re: sound on toshiba sat pro 4300

2000-08-21 Thread Aaron Dewell
Success! Well, mostly, I get beeps now, but no mp3's, but I'm assuming that has more to do with the player than otherwise. I needed to mess with gpm to get the third mouse button to work. I think if you have mouse symlinked to gpmdata, both will work simultaneously. Just you need to have bot

Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-21 Thread Tim Quinlan
There is a list of every supported card at http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS BTW, I just set up a Aironet PC4800 wireless today using 3.1.17 and it works great "Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > My employer is about to buy me a Sony VAIO note

Re: Device manager lies? Do I have a winmodem?

2000-08-21 Thread Matthew W Miller
Heather, What is "fairly large"? I have a modem which in windows uses an Ltmodem.vxd driver and its size is 587Kb (The version is 5.49 if that means anything). I'm trying to find a way to get it running, and I was hoping there is hope.. ~Matt ::>As a general case, a true modem requires

Re: Device manager lies? Do I have a winmodem?

2000-08-21 Thread Heather
> Heather, > > What is "fairly large"? I have a modem which in windows uses an > Ltmodem.vxd driver You have a lucent modem > and its size is 587Kb (The version is 5.49 if that > means anything). I'm trying to find a way to get it running, and I was > hoping there is hope.. Fo

Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-21 Thread Stephan
I have potato running on a PCG-505VE, and it works fine. I installed the kernel from CD (type ide1=0x180,0x386 at boot prompt) and then aptget -> ftp for most of the packages (slink cd). A good page was http://www.911fan.net/vaio (that *might* be a bit off, but it is listed on the linux laptops pa

Re: laptops, mobile phones, irda, configuration

2000-08-21 Thread Johan Romin
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 12:23:12AM +0200, Alain Schroeder wrote: > On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 01:34:35AM +0200, m.nine.six wrote: > > "A. Demarteau (linux rules!)" wrote: > > > > > > dar laptop/debian users, > > > I'm lookig for a mobiel phone (it has to be gsm900-gsm1800 capable as I'm > > > in Euro

IBM Thinkpad

2000-08-21 Thread Abdus-Sabur, Qadir
Should I expect any complications installing debian on a IBM Thinkpad ( 80M RAM, 1G HD, & CD-Rom. I intend to run Word Perfect on this box. Qadir Abdus-Sabur, Ph.D. Senior Systems Programmer Virginia Farm Bureau Richmond, VA 23261 (804) 290-1640 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sound problem. sb: dsp reset failed

2000-08-21 Thread Xiaolan Ling
Hi, I have been trying to listen music with Debian 2.2. I recompiled the kernel 2.2.17, and got some sound related modules, such as soundcore, soundlow, sb, uart401, opl3. Win98 shows: Creative SB AudioPCI 64V, SoundBlaster: io=220 dma=3 irq=7 Soundscape: Base/MIDI port=330 WaveP

Re: sound on toshiba sat pro 4300

2000-08-21 Thread Scott Eisert
Aaron, I have a 4200 with Debian Potato and the sound works great. As far as I know we have the same sound hardware. I installed sound support using ALSA modules which I complied myself without incident. The modules I have installed are: snd-card-ymfpci-The sound card driver snd-pcm-

Re: IBM Thinkpad

2000-08-21 Thread Gary Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Abdus-Sabur, Qadir) writes: > Should I expect any complications installing debian on a IBM Thinkpad > ( 80M RAM, 1G HD, & CD-Rom. I intend to run Word Perfect on this box. I've installed Debian on 2 thinkpads. An old 486 model (can't remember the precise model #) and a 600E. You

Off-topic

2000-08-21 Thread Carlos Menezes
I have a Compaq Armada Laptop. Does someone know how is the correct procedure to clean a LCD screen? Compaq's User Manual doesn't explain this. Can I use detergent? Must I use ONLY a dry cotton ball? Thanks to your comments! Carlos Menezes.

Re: Off-topic

2000-08-21 Thread Heather
> I have a Compaq Armada Laptop. Does someone know how is the correct procedure > to > clean a LCD screen? Compaq's User Manual doesn't explain this. Can I use > detergent? Must I use ONLY a dry cotton ball? > > Thanks to your comments! > > Carlos Menezes. My local computer store sells stuff th

Re: Device manager lies? Do I have a winmodem?

2000-08-21 Thread Heather
[trimmed a bit] > Dear colleagues, > winmodems. On the other hand I even read that there are winmodems in the > Satellite series that don't tell in the W98 Device Manager that they are > winmodems, but other things. In my case, it would be something like > "Toshiba v.90 internal modem". > >

slink to potato apt-get ftp upg. PCMCIA problem

2000-08-21 Thread EXT-Springer, Aaron C
Hello, I just did an apt get upgrade from 2.1r4 to 2.2. It worked quite well.. except that my xircom Ethernet does not work. The card initializes and I have routes but I get an operation not authorized when I ping anything except loopback. I read and followed the upgrade directions.. any sug

Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- My employer is about to buy me a Sony VAIO notebook. I would like to know how well these are supported in Debian and if there are any specific models that I should look for/avoid for best results. The only requirement the employer has is that it must be a VAIO

RE: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Aug-2000 Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > My employer is about to buy me a Sony VAIO notebook. I would like to know > how well these are supported in Debian and if there are any specific > models that I should look for/avoid for best results. The only > re

Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-21 Thread Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 15:26:17 -0400, "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My employer is about to buy me a Sony VAIO notebook. good ;-). > Otherwise I'm free to > choose the model and run Debian on it. i was running my Z505R under potato, und upgraded to woody without any problem

RE: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- As a followup question, what PCMCIA ethernet cards are well supported in Linux? How 'bout wireless ethernet? PCMCIA modems (including cellular)? I'm a complete newbie WRT all this PCMCIA stuff, so bear with me. THanks, noah On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Sean 'Shaleh'

RE: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Aug-2000 Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > As a followup question, what PCMCIA ethernet cards are well supported in > Linux? How 'bout wireless ethernet? PCMCIA modems (including cellular)? > we were running the lucent 802.11 cards at LWE. I know we use

Re: sound on toshiba sat pro 4300

2000-08-21 Thread Aaron Dewell
Success! Well, mostly, I get beeps now, but no mp3's, but I'm assuming that has more to do with the player than otherwise. I needed to mess with gpm to get the third mouse button to work. I think if you have mouse symlinked to gpmdata, both will work simultaneously. Just you need to have both

Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-21 Thread Tim Quinlan
There is a list of every supported card at http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS BTW, I just set up a Aironet PC4800 wireless today using 3.1.17 and it works great "Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > My employer is about to buy me a Sony VAIO noteb

Re: Device manager lies? Do I have a winmodem?

2000-08-21 Thread Matthew W Miller
Heather, What is "fairly large"? I have a modem which in windows uses an Ltmodem.vxd driver and its size is 587Kb (The version is 5.49 if that means anything). I'm trying to find a way to get it running, and I was hoping there is hope.. ~Matt ::>As a general case, a true modem requires v

Re: Device manager lies? Do I have a winmodem?

2000-08-21 Thread Heather
> Heather, > > What is "fairly large"? I have a modem which in windows uses an > Ltmodem.vxd driver You have a lucent modem > and its size is 587Kb (The version is 5.49 if that > means anything). I'm trying to find a way to get it running, and I was > hoping there is hope.. For