Tips needed to rescue laptop whose PCMCIA stopped working

2002-07-03 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
The machine worked fine, until I recently did an upgrade from an *old* woody package to one that's now probably 3 weeks old (what I had on oldish beta CD images), this is possibly the newest. Not sure. After the upgrade was aborted (for unrelated reason), the pcmcia didn't work. I continued the upg

Thinkpad 600E memory & Potato

2002-07-03 Thread paul marwick
I recently bought an IBM Thinkpad 600E. While its an oldish machine, it was reasonably priced and works quite well. I installed Win98 (which I still sometimes need, unfortunately) and 2.2r2 (most recent version I had to hand). The install went fine, and it works well (a good deal better than Win98

Re: Thinkpad 600E memory & Potato

2002-07-03 Thread Martin Schwenke
> "Paul" == paul marwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> I recently bought an IBM Thinkpad 600E. While its an oldish machine, it Paul> was reasonably priced and works quite well. Paul> [...] Paul> I tried adding an 'append' to lilo.conf, but so far, any Paul> time that

~ recommendations for wireless cards ~

2002-07-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i am going to buy a pcmcia wireless for my dell i8k laptop running kernel 2.4.18. i don't know anything about which 802.11's work well on a dell running debian, let alone on laptops generally. suggestions are welcomed..an idea of price would also be good. de|ire -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Performance with Orinoco

2002-07-03 Thread Goran Ristic
Hi Brendan! On Wed, 03 Jul 2002, Brendan J Simon wrote: |> Try the debian-powerpc lists. They might be able to help you too since |> an Apple Airport is in use. I've used a PowerBook with debian and had Since in both devices (my i8k and the airport) orinoco cards are used, I thought, I'm on

Re: Tips needed to rescue laptop whose PCMCIA stopped working

2002-07-03 Thread fbothamy
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 08:01:28AM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: [...] > (Since I used /boot/config-2.4.16, and compiled another 2.4.16 kernel, > I'm quite sure the kernel should still be ok? I compiled and installed > new kernel, as I don't know if I can build modules otherwise. What is > alwa

APIC is out...so what is causing these freezes?

2002-07-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
after trying a number of suggestions I still can't get my dell i8k laptop to stop freezing when there's a change in power state [or i shut the lid while it's on]. i've gone from disabling CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC [found after a patch-up to 2.4.18] to APIC related calls altogether. they have been succe

re: APIC is out...so what is causing these freezes?

2002-07-03 Thread negon
Maybe you should use apm, i guess that can see when go from net to battery and it can handle the lid-closing... -negon after trying a number of suggestions I still can't get my dell i8k laptop to stop freezing when there's a change in power state [or i shut the lid while it's on]. i've gone fr

Re: APIC is out...so what is causing these freezes?

2002-07-03 Thread Vivek
On 4 Jul 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > after trying a number of suggestions I still can't get my dell i8k > laptop to stop freezing when there's a change in power state [or i shut > the lid while it's on]. You have both APM and ACPI disabled. Surely you should have one (bit not both) of them e

Re: APIC is out...so what is causing these freezes?

2002-07-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
you are probably right - i turned off ACPI due to a suspend problem with alsa [if i remember correctly] and should have left APM in there. i'm not using alsa now, though i will be for some projects soon. so i'll try APM now! thanks, de|ire On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 18:52, Vivek wrote: > On 4 Jul 20

Re: Minimum HD space

2002-07-03 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 10:02:31AM -0700, Heather Stern wrote: > > Then tweak your /etc/apt/sources.list file so it points at "woody" > instead of the word "potato" or "stable". I say "woody" because we are > close to freeze, and when it really does freeze, some other name will be > assigned to t

Re: Thinkpad 600E memory & Potato

2002-07-03 Thread Eric C. Cooper
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 04:31:49PM +1000, Martin Schwenke wrote: > From memory, you have to lie and tell it that it has a little less > memory than it really has (about 2 or 3 MB less). I also have a vague > recollection that if you use a 2.4 kernel it will figure out how much > memory is there an

RE: dead laptop

2002-07-03 Thread Jay
Neil: Battery could be dead...get a new battery. ...In Accordance With The Prophecy. Happy Hacking, Bright Blessings and Gentle Breezes! -*/ -= )O( Jay )O( =- /*- ~-Original Message- ~From: Neil L. Roeth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 8:32 PM ~To: debian-la

RE: Minimum HD space

2002-07-03 Thread Jay
Thanks Drew, that's all I needed to hear. =) It would have been a shame if I bought something that does not work/I won't use, but then again, I still do MS-DOS 3.3, and Windows 3.1 just for olde time sake *shrugs*; I did give up on OS/2 Warp!, the spanish version was WAAY to buggy. Thanks for

Re: Performance with Orinoco

2002-07-03 Thread Alex Lau
Goran Ristic Hi Brendan! On Wed, 03 Jul 2002, Brendan J Simon wrote: |> Try the debian-powerpc lists. They might be able to help you too since |> an Apple Airport is in use. I've used a PowerBook with debian and had Since in both devices (my i8k and the airport) orinoco cards are used, I

Re: ~ recommendations for wireless cards ~

2002-07-03 Thread David Z Maze
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i am going to buy a pcmcia wireless for my dell i8k laptop running > kernel 2.4.18. i don't know anything about which 802.11's work well on a > dell running debian, let alone on laptops generally. The Dell-brand "TrueMobile 1150" works fine, if you

Re: Minimum HD space

2002-07-03 Thread alberto
On Wednesday 03 July 2002 05:46 am, Drew Parsons wrote: > > So for people considering a new installation, you might as well feel free > to use Woody pre-release CDs (only make sure they are ones made after May > 1, ones before then were still buggy). Any suggestion where to find those? thanks,

Re: Minimum HD space

2002-07-03 Thread Bem Ajani Jones-Bey
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 09:06:31AM -0700, alberto wrote: > On Wednesday 03 July 2002 05:46 am, Drew Parsons wrote: > > > > So for people considering a new installation, you might as well feel free > > to use Woody pre-release CDs (only make sure they are ones made after May > > 1, ones before then

Re: APIC is out...so what is causing these freezes?

2002-07-03 Thread David Gardiner
Delire, Try compiling with accelerated graphics as a module (CONFIG_AGP=m) and then try to get apm working, without AGP loaded (if the module is loaded and you want unload you first have to kill X, /etc/init.d/xdm stop, if you are using xdm). Then try using it by loading it with modconf to see

PCMCIA problem

2002-07-03 Thread Niklas Deutschmann
Hi, I have some problems with my PCMCIA network card (W-LINX LinxPro) in a Toshiba Satellite Pro 480CDT laptop. My distribution is Debian 3.0 (but still Kernel 2.2.17) with pcmcia-cs-3.1.33 (source package from sourceforge, not .deb): - When I stop the card services and start them afterwards, I

Re: Tips needed to rescue laptop whose PCMCIA stopped working

2002-07-03 Thread fbothamy
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 08:01:28AM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: [...] > (Since I used /boot/config-2.4.16, and compiled another 2.4.16 kernel, > I'm quite sure the kernel should still be ok? I compiled and installed > new kernel, as I don't know if I can build modules otherwise. What is > alw

APIC is out...so what is causing these freezes?

2002-07-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
after trying a number of suggestions I still can't get my dell i8k laptop to stop freezing when there's a change in power state [or i shut the lid while it's on]. i've gone from disabling CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC [found after a patch-up to 2.4.18] to APIC related calls altogether. they have been succ

re: APIC is out...so what is causing these freezes?

2002-07-03 Thread negon
Maybe you should use apm, i guess that can see when go from net to battery and it can handle the lid-closing... -negon after trying a number of suggestions I still can't get my dell i8k laptop to stop freezing when there's a change in power state [or i shut the lid while it's on]. i've gone f

Re: APIC is out...so what is causing these freezes?

2002-07-03 Thread Vivek
On 4 Jul 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > after trying a number of suggestions I still can't get my dell i8k > laptop to stop freezing when there's a change in power state [or i shut > the lid while it's on]. You have both APM and ACPI disabled. Surely you should have one (bit not both) of them

Re: APIC is out...so what is causing these freezes?

2002-07-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
you are probably right - i turned off ACPI due to a suspend problem with alsa [if i remember correctly] and should have left APM in there. i'm not using alsa now, though i will be for some projects soon. so i'll try APM now! thanks, de|ire On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 18:52, Vivek wrote: > On 4 Jul 2

Re: Minimum HD space

2002-07-03 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 10:02:31AM -0700, Heather Stern wrote: > > Then tweak your /etc/apt/sources.list file so it points at "woody" > instead of the word "potato" or "stable". I say "woody" because we are > close to freeze, and when it really does freeze, some other name will be > assigned to

Re: Thinkpad 600E memory & Potato

2002-07-03 Thread Eric C. Cooper
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 04:31:49PM +1000, Martin Schwenke wrote: > From memory, you have to lie and tell it that it has a little less > memory than it really has (about 2 or 3 MB less). I also have a vague > recollection that if you use a 2.4 kernel it will figure out how much > memory is there a

RE: dead laptop

2002-07-03 Thread Jay
Neil: Battery could be dead...get a new battery. ...In Accordance With The Prophecy. Happy Hacking, Bright Blessings and Gentle Breezes! -*/ -= )O( Jay )O( =- /*- ~-Original Message- ~From: Neil L. Roeth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ~Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 8:32 PM ~To: [EMAIL

RE: Minimum HD space

2002-07-03 Thread Jay
Thanks Drew, that's all I needed to hear. =) It would have been a shame if I bought something that does not work/I won't use, but then again, I still do MS-DOS 3.3, and Windows 3.1 just for olde time sake *shrugs*; I did give up on OS/2 Warp!, the spanish version was WAAY to buggy. Thanks for

Re: Performance with Orinoco

2002-07-03 Thread Alex Lau
Goran Ristic >Hi Brendan! > >On Wed, 03 Jul 2002, Brendan J Simon wrote: > >|> Try the debian-powerpc lists. They might be able to help you too since >|> an Apple Airport is in use. I've used a PowerBook with debian and had > >Since in both devices (my i8k and the airport) orinoco cards are u

Re: ~ recommendations for wireless cards ~

2002-07-03 Thread David Z Maze
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i am going to buy a pcmcia wireless for my dell i8k laptop running > kernel 2.4.18. i don't know anything about which 802.11's work well on a > dell running debian, let alone on laptops generally. The Dell-brand "TrueMobile 1150" works fine, if yo

Re: Minimum HD space

2002-07-03 Thread alberto
On Wednesday 03 July 2002 05:46 am, Drew Parsons wrote: > > So for people considering a new installation, you might as well feel free > to use Woody pre-release CDs (only make sure they are ones made after May > 1, ones before then were still buggy). Any suggestion where to find those? thanks,

Re: Minimum HD space

2002-07-03 Thread Bem Ajani Jones-Bey
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 09:06:31AM -0700, alberto wrote: > On Wednesday 03 July 2002 05:46 am, Drew Parsons wrote: > > > > So for people considering a new installation, you might as well feel free > > to use Woody pre-release CDs (only make sure they are ones made after May > > 1, ones before then

Re: APIC is out...so what is causing these freezes?

2002-07-03 Thread David Gardiner
Delire, Try compiling with accelerated graphics as a module (CONFIG_AGP=m) and then try to get apm working, without AGP loaded (if the module is loaded and you want unload you first have to kill X, /etc/init.d/xdm stop, if you are using xdm). Then try using it by loading it with modconf to see

PCMCIA problem

2002-07-03 Thread Niklas Deutschmann
Hi, I have some problems with my PCMCIA network card (W-LINX LinxPro) in a Toshiba Satellite Pro 480CDT laptop. My distribution is Debian 3.0 (but still Kernel 2.2.17) with pcmcia-cs-3.1.33 (source package from sourceforge, not .deb): - When I stop the card services and start them afterwards,

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