Re: Debian <---> Gentoo

2003-07-03 Thread Roberto Suarez Soto
On Jul/02, Harald Arnesen wrote: > The speed difference isn't that great, compiling everything takes a long > time, but for some reason I feel more at home with Gentoo. I'm tempted to say that you are at risk of awakening one day and realize that you've just wasted your time with Gentoo }

Re: ACPI Kernel 2.4.20

2003-07-03 Thread Ducrot Bruno
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 02:16:32PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 12:35:57PM +, Stefan Zimmermann wrote: > > i have Debian kernel 2.4.20 installed on my laptop(ASUS M2400N), but > > unfortunately forgotten to turn on ACPI (APM doesn't work). Does anybody > > know wher

Re: ACPI Kernel 2.4.20

2003-07-03 Thread L. A. Linden Levy
Hi all debian and laptop lovers, I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out how to suspend my laptop. I have a compaq presario 2150US and I have a APCI patched 2.4.20 kernel. I thought all I had to do was ==>> echo "S4" > /proc/acpi/sleep. But this seems to have no effect can someone help

wireless problems

2003-07-03 Thread Michael Ott
Hello! Now I am an owner of a SMC2632W V.3 and i want to work with it using Sid. A long time ago I build an own kernel (downloaded from kernel.org 2.4.20) because I want to use acpi with battery-function As I know this card use the "linux-wlan-ng"-packages. I installed the "linux-wlan-ng" and th

RE: Debian <---> Gentoo

2003-07-03 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
I've tried to use Gentoo a couple of times. I run Linux on older "reject" computer equipment so it was tempting to have a distro that compiled the apps with the optimizations I wanted (instead of assuming I was running on in i686). I have been unable to get it to install through the proxy server w

Re: Debian <---> Gentoo

2003-07-03 Thread Harald Arnesen
Roberto Suarez Soto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jul/02, Harald Arnesen wrote: > >> The speed difference isn't that great, compiling everything takes a long >> time, but for some reason I feel more at home with Gentoo. > > I'm tempted to say that you are at risk of awakening one day and

Re: ACPI Kernel 2.4.20

2003-07-03 Thread Ducrot Bruno
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 09:09:01AM -0500, L. A. Linden Levy wrote: > Hi all debian and laptop lovers, > > I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out how to suspend my > laptop. I have a compaq presario 2150US and I have a APCI patched 2.4.20 > kernel. I thought all I had to do was ==>> ech

Re: wireless problems

2003-07-03 Thread Paul Kimoto
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 04:20:03PM +0200, Michael Ott wrote: > Now I am an owner of a SMC2632W V.3 and i want to work with it using > Sid. > Socket 0: > product info: "SMC", "2632W", "", "" > manfid: 0x01bf, 0xb301 > function: 6 (network) I have the (original?) 2632W, which does wor

Raccourci

2003-07-03 Thread Julien MARY
J'aimerai lancer aterm avec un raccourci clavier dans wmaker. Pour cela j'ai la solution d'ecrire une entree dans le repertoire /etc/menu Mais que dois-je mettre exactement ? Julien

Re: Debian <---> Gentoo

2003-07-03 Thread Joao Clemente
For learning purphose I would advice LinuxFromScratch instead of Gentoo... However, for a learneable distribution that could be upgraded with less hassle than LFS, then gentoo may be your choice.. I think it's all about how much time you have to spend with it, and if you care to know things deep en

Re: External monitor with Compaq Presario 1600

2003-07-03 Thread Arjen Verweij
Yes actually, I am using kernel framebuffer. But in X I am not using the kernel framebuffer. I suppose I could try a new kernel without framebuffer support. It still is a mystery why it wouldn't work in the BIOS maybe, or at least to me, and I still need a boot disk to see if it works in DOS 8) Th

to install

2003-07-03 Thread Tom Murdock
First time user: I would like to ask for help, please. Need instructions in installing minicom_ 1.83.1-4.5_i386.deb on Toshiba Satellite 1555CDS with Red Hat 9.0 I would appreciate respond. Thank you, Tom _ Protect your PC - get Mc

Wireless Card will not work

2003-07-03 Thread Kai Timmer
Hello, i have a Dell Inspirion 8200 with a TrueMobile Card. This Card has a Broadcom 4301 Chipset. I can't find a way to get this Card running under Linux. Is there anyone here who has this Card working ? Greets, -- Kai Timmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Debian on dell inspiron 2650

2003-07-03 Thread Andre Berger
* Christophe Mailhebuau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2003-07-03 09:48 -0400: > Hi, > > I've always the same problem with installation of debian woody. when i > start with the net-install method (bf2.4), the kernel freeze, because the > ciss module is loaded. The good news: it's possible to install woody

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2003-07-03 Thread ant

trying to install onto toshiba portege 3500, no floppy but has external cd

2003-07-03 Thread Walter Tautz
the cd drive is a USB external, model plextor PX-208U CD-RW alas the system doesn't boot from the external drive...

Re: wireless problems

2003-07-03 Thread Michael Ott
Hello Paul! > > Sid. > > > Socket 0: > > product info: "SMC", "2632W", "", "" > > manfid: 0x01bf, 0xb301 > > function: 6 (network) > > I have the (original?) 2632W, which does work with hostap and > linux-wlan-ng: > product info: "SMC", "SMC2632W", "Version 01.02", "" > manfid: 0x0

Re: pcmcia -- kernel 2.4.21

2003-07-03 Thread Frank Trenkamp
Hi, On Wednesday 02 July 2003 00:54, Andre Berger wrote: >> my NetGear MA401 stopped working after a switch from >> 2.4.20 to 2.4.21, vanilla kernel sources with preempt patches applied. >> pcmcia-cs is 3.2.4 built from sources. Tried linux-wlan-ng and orinoco 0.13e >> drivers. Could not get it t

Re: trying to install onto toshiba portege 3500, no floppy but has external cd

2003-07-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Walter" == Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Walter> the cd drive is a USB external, model plextor PX-208U Walter> CD-RW alas the system doesn't boot from the external Walter> drive... So, how do you boot it? Did you consider booting from hard disk (DOS)? http://www.deb

Re: Wireless Card will not work

2003-07-03 Thread Raju Kurunkad
* Kai Timmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-03 18:40]: > Hello, > i have a Dell Inspirion 8200 with a TrueMobile Card. This Card has a > Broadcom 4301 Chipset. I can't find a way to get this Card running > under Linux. Is there anyone here who has this Card working ? Card is not supported in linux.

Re: Debian <---> Gentoo

2003-07-03 Thread Roberto Suarez Soto
On Jul/02, Harald Arnesen wrote: > The speed difference isn't that great, compiling everything takes a long > time, but for some reason I feel more at home with Gentoo. I'm tempted to say that you are at risk of awakening one day and realize that you've just wasted your time with Gentoo }

Re: ACPI Kernel 2.4.20

2003-07-03 Thread Ducrot Bruno
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 02:16:32PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 12:35:57PM +, Stefan Zimmermann wrote: > > i have Debian kernel 2.4.20 installed on my laptop(ASUS M2400N), but > > unfortunately forgotten to turn on ACPI (APM doesn't work). Does anybody > > know wher

Re: ACPI Kernel 2.4.20

2003-07-03 Thread L. A. Linden Levy
Hi all debian and laptop lovers, I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out how to suspend my laptop. I have a compaq presario 2150US and I have a APCI patched 2.4.20 kernel. I thought all I had to do was ==>> echo "S4" > /proc/acpi/sleep. But this seems to have no effect can someone help

wireless problems

2003-07-03 Thread Michael Ott
Hello! Now I am an owner of a SMC2632W V.3 and i want to work with it using Sid. A long time ago I build an own kernel (downloaded from kernel.org 2.4.20) because I want to use acpi with battery-function As I know this card use the "linux-wlan-ng"-packages. I installed the "linux-wlan-ng" and th

RE: Debian <---> Gentoo

2003-07-03 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
I've tried to use Gentoo a couple of times. I run Linux on older "reject" computer equipment so it was tempting to have a distro that compiled the apps with the optimizations I wanted (instead of assuming I was running on in i686). I have been unable to get it to install through the proxy server w

Re: Debian <---> Gentoo

2003-07-03 Thread Harald Arnesen
Roberto Suarez Soto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jul/02, Harald Arnesen wrote: > >> The speed difference isn't that great, compiling everything takes a long >> time, but for some reason I feel more at home with Gentoo. > > I'm tempted to say that you are at risk of awakening one day and

Re: ACPI Kernel 2.4.20

2003-07-03 Thread Ducrot Bruno
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 09:09:01AM -0500, L. A. Linden Levy wrote: > Hi all debian and laptop lovers, > > I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out how to suspend my > laptop. I have a compaq presario 2150US and I have a APCI patched 2.4.20 > kernel. I thought all I had to do was ==>> ech

Re: wireless problems

2003-07-03 Thread Paul Kimoto
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 04:20:03PM +0200, Michael Ott wrote: > Now I am an owner of a SMC2632W V.3 and i want to work with it using > Sid. > Socket 0: > product info: "SMC", "2632W", "", "" > manfid: 0x01bf, 0xb301 > function: 6 (network) I have the (original?) 2632W, which does wor

Raccourci

2003-07-03 Thread Julien MARY
J'aimerai lancer aterm avec un raccourci clavier dans wmaker. Pour cela j'ai la solution d'ecrire une entree dans le repertoire /etc/menu Mais que dois-je mettre exactement ? Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Debian <---> Gentoo

2003-07-03 Thread Joao Clemente
For learning purphose I would advice LinuxFromScratch instead of Gentoo... However, for a learneable distribution that could be upgraded with less hassle than LFS, then gentoo may be your choice.. I think it's all about how much time you have to spend with it, and if you care to know things deep en

Re: External monitor with Compaq Presario 1600

2003-07-03 Thread Arjen Verweij
Yes actually, I am using kernel framebuffer. But in X I am not using the kernel framebuffer. I suppose I could try a new kernel without framebuffer support. It still is a mystery why it wouldn't work in the BIOS maybe, or at least to me, and I still need a boot disk to see if it works in DOS 8) Th

to install

2003-07-03 Thread Tom Murdock
First time user: I would like to ask for help, please. Need instructions in installing minicom_ 1.83.1-4.5_i386.deb on Toshiba Satellite 1555CDS with Red Hat 9.0 I would appreciate respond. Thank you, Tom _ Protect your PC - get McAf

Wireless Card will not work

2003-07-03 Thread Kai Timmer
Hello, i have a Dell Inspirion 8200 with a TrueMobile Card. This Card has a Broadcom 4301 Chipset. I can't find a way to get this Card running under Linux. Is there anyone here who has this Card working ? Greets, -- Kai Timmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian on dell inspiron 2650

2003-07-03 Thread Andre Berger
--VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Christophe Mailhebuau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2003-07-03 09:48 -0400: > Hi, >=20 > I've always the same problem with installation of debian woody. when i > start wi

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trying to install onto toshiba portege 3500, no floppy but has external cd

2003-07-03 Thread Walter Tautz
the cd drive is a USB external, model plextor PX-208U CD-RW alas the system doesn't boot from the external drive... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wireless problems

2003-07-03 Thread Michael Ott
Hello Paul! > > Sid. > > > Socket 0: > > product info: "SMC", "2632W", "", "" > > manfid: 0x01bf, 0xb301 > > function: 6 (network) > > I have the (original?) 2632W, which does work with hostap and > linux-wlan-ng: > product info: "SMC", "SMC2632W", "Version 01.02", "" > manfid: 0x0

Re: pcmcia -- kernel 2.4.21

2003-07-03 Thread Frank Trenkamp
Hi, On Wednesday 02 July 2003 00:54, Andre Berger wrote: >> my NetGear MA401 stopped working after a switch from >> 2.4.20 to 2.4.21, vanilla kernel sources with preempt patches applied. >> pcmcia-cs is 3.2.4 built from sources. Tried linux-wlan-ng and orinoco 0.13e >> drivers. Could not get it t

Re: trying to install onto toshiba portege 3500, no floppy but has external cd

2003-07-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Walter" == Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Walter> the cd drive is a USB external, model plextor PX-208U Walter> CD-RW alas the system doesn't boot from the external Walter> drive... So, how do you boot it? Did you consider booting from hard disk (DOS)? http://www.deb

Re: Wireless Card will not work

2003-07-03 Thread Raju Kurunkad
* Kai Timmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-03 18:40]: > Hello, > i have a Dell Inspirion 8200 with a TrueMobile Card. This Card has a > Broadcom 4301 Chipset. I can't find a way to get this Card running > under Linux. Is there anyone here who has this Card working ? Card is not supported in linux.