RE: pcmcia-cs and configuring network...

2001-09-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
There are several packages in Debian currently which attempt to figure out which network you are own and configure your ethernet device accordingly. I know intuitively and I think thje other is discover. There is at least two more.

Re: pcmcia-cs and configuring network...

2001-09-10 Thread Werner Heuser
> know intuitively and I think thje other is discover. There is at least two > more. `divine' and maybe some of the ARP packages. Werner -- |=| Werner Heuser = Keplerstr. 11A = D-10589 Berlin = Germany |=| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> T. +49-30-3495386 |=| http://MobiliX.org Linux-Mobile

Re: pcmcia-cs and configuring network...

2001-09-10 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Werner Heuser wrote: >> know intuitively and I think thje other is discover. There is at >> least two more. > `divine' and maybe some of the ARP packages. `whereami', which is a suite to detect and configure the network. Probably requires a little more scripting knowledge than

Re: Woody - PCMCIA Ethernet

2001-09-10 Thread Tony Godshall
I had a similar problem when I did a potato install and upgraded to unstable. I got around it by commenting out any axnet drivers in the /etc/pcmcia/* . On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 09:50:27AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > I Recently installed Debian on a laptop with a flaky cd-rom and no

Problems compiling netdrivers

2001-09-10 Thread Michael Thaler
Hi, I downloaded netdrivers-3.0.1.src.rpm from ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/ I put the driver-sources in /usr/src/modules/netdrivers and tried to compile them just typing 'make'. I get the following compiling errors: /usr/src/linux/include/asm/spinlock.h:26: conflicting types for `spinlock_t'

Re: IrDA....

2001-09-10 Thread Johan Romin
Hi there! First off, I've never tried the irda package that comes whith debian. I always get the source tarball, and it has always worked for me.. Have you tried to load the irda modules by hand? instead of hoping that irattach will do it for you? The error you see in the syslog, is to my knowl

Re: IrDA....

2001-09-10 Thread Chris Halls
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 09:06:41PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > OK, I probably did some "bad things" here. > But this is what I've done... > > 1) dselect -> purge -> irda-common, irda-utils > 2) rm /dev/ir* (removed all these various irda related device references) > 3) dselect -> install -> irda-c

Re: IrDA....

2001-09-10 Thread NOKUBI Takatsugu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> If you are only interested in sir, you might try the following procedure: >> insmod irda >> insmod irtty >> insmod ircomm >> insmod ircomm-tty >> irattach /dev/yourtty -s >> >> and then it should work... at least that one has never faile

Re: Problems compiling netdrivers

2001-09-10 Thread Michael Thaler
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:30:18AM +0200, Michael Thaler wrote: Sorry, I forgot the infos about my system. I am using debian unstable with kernel 2.4.8

Re: pcmcia-cs and configuring network...

2001-09-10 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 11:13:33PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > There are several packages in Debian currently which attempt to figure out > which network you are own and configure your ethernet device accordingly. I > know intuitively and I think thje other is discover. There is at least

Re: IrDA....

2001-09-10 Thread Tom Allison
Johan Romin wrote: Hi there! First off, I've never tried the irda package that comes whith debian. I always get the source tarball, and it has always worked for me.. Have you tried to load the irda modules by hand? instead of hoping that irattach will do it for you? The error you see in the s

Re: IrDA....

2001-09-10 Thread Tom Allison
NOKUBI Takatsugu wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you are only interested in sir, you might try the following procedure: insmod irda insmod irtty insmod ircomm insmod ircomm-tty irattach /dev/yourtty -s and then it should work... at least that one has never f

kernel message

2001-09-10 Thread Michael Hothorn
Any idea what this could actually mean (and what to do to get rid of it)??? probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a CPU: Intel Pentium III Kernel: 2.2.19 Os: Debian/GNU linux stable thanks bye micha Linux is user friendly, it's just a bit picky about

Re: IrDA....

2001-09-10 Thread Tom Allison
Chris Halls wrote: Are you tring to get fast infrared? If so, you will need to uncomment the lines in /etc/modutils/irda: /etc/modultils/irda - # To use the NSC driver on a Thinkpad laptop: uncomment the following: options nsc-ircc dongle_id=0x09 alias irda0 nsc-ircc --

Re: wooky->potato

2001-09-10 Thread Adam Kessel
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 01:52:43PM +1000, CaT wrote: > If you want a 2.4.x kernel then hit ftp.xx.kernel.org (where xx is > your country code (or the one closest to you via the innanet) and roll > your own. > I'm not sure but I don't -think- there is a 2.4.x kernel package for > debian yet (unless

Re: IrDA....

2001-09-10 Thread Chris Halls
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 07:06:49AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Chris Halls wrote: > > > > /etc/modultils/irda - > ># To use the NSC driver on a Thinkpad laptop: uncomment the following: > >options nsc-ircc dongle_id=0x09 > >alias irda0 nsc-ircc > >-- > > > Everyt

Re: pcmcia-cs and configuring network...

2001-09-10 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2001-09-10 at 22:35, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > (discover is a hardware detection system. Don't think it does network > environment detection too... I know there are others, also don't > remember what they are.) divine does network environment detection, as does intuitively. I maintai

Re: Req. advice on upgrades: kernel, X, libc

2001-09-10 Thread H.Heinold
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 10:03:17PM -0400, Scott Bigham wrote: > This is, I humbly submit, at least partially on-topic for this list, ;) > since the machine I'm thinking about upgrading is my notebook, and at > least some of the questions are laptop-specific. > > Anywho, these are the upgrades I'm

Re: Why doesn't 2.2r3 CD boot on Toshiba 4080 XCDT ...

2001-09-10 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 07:33:47PM +0200, Tony Crawford wrote: > although the 2.2r*0* CD does? > > At first I thought I had a coaster, but it boots fine on other > machines. FWIW the Progeny 1.0 CD I got off a magazine cover > won't boot on the Toshiba either. > > Very curious (and holding

Re: pcmcia-cs and configuring network...

2001-09-10 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 04:55:30PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: > On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Werner Heuser wrote: > >> know intuitively and I think thje other is discover. There is at > >> least two more. > > `divine' and maybe some of the ARP packages. > > `whereami', which is a suite to detect and con

Samsung NV5000

2001-09-10 Thread Florian Kugler
hi all, has anyone any experiences with running linux on a samsung nv5000 series notebook? thank you very much, florian.

Re: pcmcia-cs and configuring network...

2001-09-10 Thread Chris Halls
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 12:09:11AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 04:55:30PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > `whereami', which is a suite to detect and configure the network. > > Probably requires a little more scripting knowledge than some of the > > others, though. > > >

Re: wooky->potato

2001-09-10 Thread Vivek
On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Tom Allison wrote: > CaT wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 03:04:28PM +0100, Vivek wrote: > > > >>Er. I just added the woody lines to my sources.list and did an > >> > >>apt-get update > >>apt-get dist-upgrade [cut] > Maybe I have a dumb question. > After you change the source

Wavy Screen using 'Option "Display" "CRT"' on ATI 128 Rage Mobility

2001-09-10 Thread Daniel Farnsworth Teichert
I've sent the following message to a couple of the XFree86 mailing lists, and haven't got much back--maybe someone here can help? Thanks. I've been working on a Dell Latitude C600 with an ATI Rage 128 Mobility LF (or something like that). I want to be able to start X up on an external monitor (as

Kernal Image

2001-09-10 Thread Eric Borton
I recently compiled a kernel from v.2.2.19 to v.2.4.4 After the make bzimage command (for those familiar with the process) I was not able to see the file bzImage in the /usr/src/kernel-2.4.4-source/.../i386/boot/ folder. The how-to states a linux folder in the src folder but for some reason it cr

Re: pcmcia-cs and configuring network...

2001-09-10 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Werner Heuser wrote: > >> know intuitively and I think thje other is discover. There is at > >> least two more. > > `divine' and maybe some of the ARP packages. > > `whereami', which is a suite to detect and configure the network.

Re: Req. advice on upgrades: kernel, X, libc

2001-09-10 Thread Brendan O'Connor
On Sunday 09 September 2001 09:03 pm, Scott Bigham wrote: > This is, I humbly submit, at least partially on-topic for this list, ;) > since the machine I'm thinking about upgrading is my notebook, and at > least some of the questions are laptop-specific. [...] > - XFree86: 3.3.6 -> 4.1.0 > >

Re: Why doesn't 2.2r3 CD boot on Toshiba 4080 XCDT ...

2001-09-10 Thread Tony Crawford
Drew Parsons wrote (on 10 Sep 2001 at 23:36): > The bit I don't understand is why you can boot from 2.2r0. It doesn't > work for me (490CDT). Oops! You're right, 2.2r0 doesn't boot either. Must have been a problem with my memory--the wet one. I could have sworn I have (or had) a system here

Re: Wavy Screen using 'Option "Display" "CRT"' on ATI 128 Rage Mobility

2001-09-10 Thread Daniel Farnsworth Teichert
Thanks, but I've tried it with quite a few different resolutions. Right now I'm testing at 1024x768. --Daniel On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 01:20:03PM -0400, Yannick Asselin wrote: > > Section "Screen" > > Identifier "Screen0" > > Device "Card0" > > Monitor"Monitor0"

IrDA

2001-09-10 Thread Tom Allison
this is what I've got so far... I did the apt-get install irda-common irda-tools I commented out all but the following lines in /etc/modutil/irda alias tty-ldisk-11 irtty alias char-major-60 ircomm-tty (i have 2.2.19 kernel) (I removed all the 'dongles') options nsc-ircc dongle_id=0x09 alias ird

Re: IrDA

2001-09-10 Thread NOKUBI Takatsugu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> and syslog says: >> executing: '/sbin/modprobe irda0' >> nsc-ircc, Found chip at base=0x2e >> nsc-ircc, driver loaded (Dag Brattle) >> nsc-ircc_open(), can't get iobase of 0x2f8 >> + /lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/nsc-ircc.o: init_module: Devic

Problems compiling netdrivers

2001-09-10 Thread Michael Thaler
Hi, I downloaded netdrivers-3.0.1.src.rpm from ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/ I put the driver-sources in /usr/src/modules/netdrivers and tried to compile them just typing 'make'. I get the following compiling errors: /usr/src/linux/include/asm/spinlock.h:26: conflicting types for `spinlock_t

Re: IrDA....

2001-09-10 Thread Johan Romin
Hi there! First off, I've never tried the irda package that comes whith debian. I always get the source tarball, and it has always worked for me.. Have you tried to load the irda modules by hand? instead of hoping that irattach will do it for you? The error you see in the syslog, is to my know

Re: IrDA....

2001-09-10 Thread Chris Halls
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 09:06:41PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > OK, I probably did some "bad things" here. > But this is what I've done... > > 1) dselect -> purge -> irda-common, irda-utils > 2) rm /dev/ir* (removed all these various irda related device references) > 3) dselect -> install -> irda-

Re: IrDA....

2001-09-10 Thread NOKUBI Takatsugu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> If you are only interested in sir, you might try the following procedure: >> insmod irda >> insmod irtty >> insmod ircomm >> insmod ircomm-tty >> irattach /dev/yourtty -s >> >> and then it should work... at least that one has never fail

Re: Problems compiling netdrivers

2001-09-10 Thread Michael Thaler
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:30:18AM +0200, Michael Thaler wrote: Sorry, I forgot the infos about my system. I am using debian unstable with kernel 2.4.8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pcmcia-cs and configuring network...

2001-09-10 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 11:13:33PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > There are several packages in Debian currently which attempt to figure out > which network you are own and configure your ethernet device accordingly. I > know intuitively and I think thje other is discover. There is at least

Re: IrDA....

2001-09-10 Thread Tom Allison
Johan Romin wrote: > Hi there! > > First off, I've never tried the irda package that comes whith debian. I always get >the source tarball, and it has always worked for me.. > > Have you tried to load the irda modules by hand? instead of hoping that irattach >will do it for you? > The error you

Re: IrDA....

2001-09-10 Thread Tom Allison
NOKUBI Takatsugu wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >>>If you are only interested in sir, you might try the following procedure: >>>insmod irda >>>insmod irtty >>>insmod ircomm >>>insmod ircomm-tty >>>irattach /dev/yourtty -s >>> >>>and then it should work...

kernel message

2001-09-10 Thread Michael Hothorn
Any idea what this could actually mean (and what to do to get rid of it)??? probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a CPU: Intel Pentium III Kernel: 2.2.19 Os: Debian/GNU linux stable thanks bye micha Linux is user friendly, it's just a bit picky abou

Re: IrDA....

2001-09-10 Thread Tom Allison
Chris Halls wrote: > Are you tring to get fast infrared? If so, you will need to uncomment the > lines in /etc/modutils/irda: > > /etc/modultils/irda - > # To use the NSC driver on a Thinkpad laptop: uncomment the following: > options nsc-ircc dongle_id=0x09 > alias irda0 nsc-ircc > ---

Re: wooky->potato

2001-09-10 Thread Adam Kessel
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 01:52:43PM +1000, CaT wrote: > If you want a 2.4.x kernel then hit ftp.xx.kernel.org (where xx is > your country code (or the one closest to you via the innanet) and roll > your own. > I'm not sure but I don't -think- there is a 2.4.x kernel package for > debian yet (unless

Re: IrDA....

2001-09-10 Thread Chris Halls
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 07:06:49AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Chris Halls wrote: > > > > /etc/modultils/irda - > ># To use the NSC driver on a Thinkpad laptop: uncomment the following: > >options nsc-ircc dongle_id=0x09 > >alias irda0 nsc-ircc > >-- > > > Every

Re: Req. advice on upgrades: kernel, X, libc

2001-09-10 Thread H.Heinold
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 10:03:17PM -0400, Scott Bigham wrote: > This is, I humbly submit, at least partially on-topic for this list, ;) > since the machine I'm thinking about upgrading is my notebook, and at > least some of the questions are laptop-specific. > > Anywho, these are the upgrades I'm

Re: Why doesn't 2.2r3 CD boot on Toshiba 4080 XCDT ...

2001-09-10 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 07:33:47PM +0200, Tony Crawford wrote: > although the 2.2r*0* CD does? > > At first I thought I had a coaster, but it boots fine on other > machines. FWIW the Progeny 1.0 CD I got off a magazine cover > won't boot on the Toshiba either. > > Very curious (and holdin

Re: pcmcia-cs and configuring network...

2001-09-10 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 04:55:30PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: > On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Werner Heuser wrote: > >> know intuitively and I think thje other is discover. There is at > >> least two more. > > `divine' and maybe some of the ARP packages. > > `whereami', which is a suite to detect and co

Samsung NV5000

2001-09-10 Thread Florian Kugler
hi all, has anyone any experiences with running linux on a samsung nv5000 series notebook? thank you very much, florian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pcmcia-cs and configuring network...

2001-09-10 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2001-09-10 at 22:35, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > (discover is a hardware detection system. Don't think it does network > environment detection too... I know there are others, also don't > remember what they are.) divine does network environment detection, as does intuitively. I mainta

Re: pcmcia-cs and configuring network...

2001-09-10 Thread Chris Halls
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 12:09:11AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 04:55:30PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > `whereami', which is a suite to detect and configure the network. > > Probably requires a little more scripting knowledge than some of the > > others, though. > > >

Re: wooky->potato

2001-09-10 Thread Vivek
On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Tom Allison wrote: > CaT wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 03:04:28PM +0100, Vivek wrote: > > > >>Er. I just added the woody lines to my sources.list and did an > >> > >>apt-get update > >>apt-get dist-upgrade [cut] > Maybe I have a dumb question. > After you change the sourc

Wavy Screen using 'Option "Display" "CRT"' on ATI 128 Rage Mobility

2001-09-10 Thread Daniel Farnsworth Teichert
I've sent the following message to a couple of the XFree86 mailing lists, and haven't got much back--maybe someone here can help? Thanks. I've been working on a Dell Latitude C600 with an ATI Rage 128 Mobility LF (or something like that). I want to be able to start X up on an external monitor (as

Kernal Image

2001-09-10 Thread Eric Borton
I recently compiled a kernel from v.2.2.19 to v.2.4.4 After the make bzimage command (for those familiar with the process) I was not able to see the file bzImage in the /usr/src/kernel-2.4.4-source/.../i386/boot/ folder. The how-to states a linux folder in the src folder but for some reason it c

Re: pcmcia-cs and configuring network...

2001-09-10 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Werner Heuser wrote: > >> know intuitively and I think thje other is discover. There is at > >> least two more. > > `divine' and maybe some of the ARP packages. > > `whereami', which is a suite to detect and configure the network.

Re: Req. advice on upgrades: kernel, X, libc

2001-09-10 Thread Brendan O'Connor
On Sunday 09 September 2001 09:03 pm, Scott Bigham wrote: > This is, I humbly submit, at least partially on-topic for this list, ;) > since the machine I'm thinking about upgrading is my notebook, and at > least some of the questions are laptop-specific. [...] > - XFree86: 3.3.6 -> 4.1.0 > >

Re: Why doesn't 2.2r3 CD boot on Toshiba 4080 XCDT ...

2001-09-10 Thread Tony Crawford
Drew Parsons wrote (on 10 Sep 2001 at 23:36): > The bit I don't understand is why you can boot from 2.2r0. It doesn't > work for me (490CDT). Oops! You're right, 2.2r0 doesn't boot either. Must have been a problem with my memory--the wet one. I could have sworn I have (or had) a system here

Re: Wavy Screen using 'Option "Display" "CRT"' on ATI 128 Rage Mobility

2001-09-10 Thread Daniel Farnsworth Teichert
Thanks, but I've tried it with quite a few different resolutions. Right now I'm testing at 1024x768. --Daniel On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 01:20:03PM -0400, Yannick Asselin wrote: > > Section "Screen" > > Identifier "Screen0" > > Device "Card0" > > Monitor"Monitor0

IrDA

2001-09-10 Thread Tom Allison
this is what I've got so far... I did the apt-get install irda-common irda-tools I commented out all but the following lines in /etc/modutil/irda alias tty-ldisk-11 irtty alias char-major-60 ircomm-tty (i have 2.2.19 kernel) (I removed all the 'dongles') options nsc-ircc dongle_id=0x09 alias ird

Re: IrDA

2001-09-10 Thread NOKUBI Takatsugu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> and syslog says: >> executing: '/sbin/modprobe irda0' >> nsc-ircc, Found chip at base=0x2e >> nsc-ircc, driver loaded (Dag Brattle) >> nsc-ircc_open(), can't get iobase of 0x2f8 >> + /lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/nsc-ircc.o: init_module: Devi

IR success!(was info: fixed irda-common upgrade to woody)

2001-09-10 Thread Andrew Taylor
Well I was able to get the printer (a BJC-80) working with the Linux IRDA stack. I think it had something to do with my kernel configuration. I was using the 2.4.8 kernel with the entire IRDA stack modularized. After the successful installation of the irda-common and irda-tools packages, the o