First timer attempting to start from scratch with installation of all on laptop. HELP!!!

2003-07-06 Thread Tania Bristowe
Hello there,   You may not have time to assist me with my problem and maybe to you NOT A PROB!   My IT friends never have time, but when they want a video done I'm always there.   I give up...friendships are worn out.   Could you please help me, or if you can't , can you advise me on who is

Unidentified subject!

2003-07-06 Thread ahmed faiz
pls send me driver laptap toshiba tecra 8200 for vga ,modem , sound and network         Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month!

Wi-Fi newbie...

2003-07-06 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
Hello all, I want to implement a Wireless connection of my laptop & desktop box at home (both debian sid) however I'm a complete newbie on that subject & will like to learn things. Is there any good site for *linux-only* Wi-Fi stuff, like how-tos, hardware compatibility, wep etc ? A quick googling

apache

2003-07-06 Thread mi
Hello, I tried to set up apache to read dhelp and info2www with my browser, and to learn more about networking also. I've got two questions that aren't strictly laptop-related, but so far i didn't get any reply from other lists, and i know some experienced networkers listening on this port ;-)

ide CD Bruner

2003-07-06 Thread mi
Does anybody know if cdrecord recently supports ide burning ? I look for a *bootable* CD rw that is supported by linux ide burning ... any model hints ? I've exchanged the original cd with a teac W 24E CD rw, and now the lap doesn't boot no more from cd. Is this a well-known effect ? It's an De

Re: apache

2003-07-06 Thread Paul Bryan
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 02:05:23PM +0200, mi wrote: > It seems any server process is terminated immediateley after every single > request from a broser. In other words, a 'ps aux' doesn't show any apache > process when my browser opens localhost:80; only a 'top' does for short. > Every single pa

DMA Problem

2003-07-06 Thread Marcel Gschwandl
Hi folks, I already asked about this issue once but didn't get any answers so I try it again. I have an IBM Thinkpad A31p with Debian sarge + some sid packages on it. Recently I updated to kernel 2.4.21 but with this kernel it seems not to be possible to change into DMA mode. (it was possible wit

Re: DMA Problem

2003-07-06 Thread Klaus Rechert
Hi, try as root Klaus On 06 Jul 2003 16:19:06 +0200 Marcel Gschwandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I already asked about this issue once but didn't get any answers so I > try it again. > > I have an IBM Thinkpad A31p with Debian sarge + some sid packages on it. > Recent

Re: apache

2003-07-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 23:35, Paul Bryan wrote: > That's exactly right. Whenever a request comes in on port 80, inetd starts > up an apache process to handle it. Once the request is completed, inetd > kills the apache process. inetd does not kill the Apache process, it reaps (via wait()) the Apache p

Re: DMA Problem

2003-07-06 Thread Marcel Gschwandl
Hi again, I was root. As non root I would get HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Permission denied and not HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted thanks anyway Marcel On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 16:34, Klaus Rechert wrote: > Hi, > > > try as root > > Klaus > > > On 06 Jul 2003 16:19:06 +0200 > Ma

Re: sound on dell inspiron 5100

2003-07-06 Thread Abhay Pradhan
>On Wed Jun 11, 2003 at 12:34:59PM +0300, Manolis Tzanidakis wrote: > [20030611] Abhay Pradhan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I am trying to get sound to work on a dell inspiron 5100. > > Windows reports the soundcard as a sigmatel c major audio card. > > The distro I am using is debian. > > I l

hotkeys and poweroff

2003-07-06 Thread Julien MARY
Hi, I am using compaq evo n160, but your answer can suppose it is evo family. I want to enable a smart "shutdown -h now" at hitting the power button of my laptop. Anyone has already set this correctly ? I don't think the package hotkeys is the s

Re: hotkeys and poweroff

2003-07-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Sunday 06 July 2003 11:30, Julien MARY wrote: > > I want to enable a smart "shutdown -h now" at hitting the > power button of my laptop. > I believe this is handled via ACPI.

Re: BIOS entry

2003-07-06 Thread Claus Brucher
On my thinkpad 390x just by pressing the f1 button at startup... On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 17:29, Lynn Haas wrote: > Can you tell me how to get to the bios on my ThinkPad 380ED ? -- Claus Brucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: First timer attempting to start from scratch with installation of all on laptop. HELP!!!

2003-07-06 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Tania Bristowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-06 10:55]: >I really don't know where to begin. I bought the Dell Latitude CPxH500GT from >a ligitimate auction. > >It is as follows; Pentium III-500, 128MB, Vid memory(8MB), Level 2 cache >- 256MB >BIOS Version

Re: Wi-Fi newbie...

2003-07-06 Thread Matt Foster
I think that this page: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ is fairly handy. There seems to be quite a lot of info there on just about everything Wavelan related. Matt Quoting Manolis Tzanidakis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello all, > I want to implement a Wireless connection of my

Re: ide CD Bruner

2003-07-06 Thread Matt Foster
Quoting mi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Does anybody know if cdrecord recently supports ide burning ? > The 'normal' method to get cd IDE burners going under linux is to use the ide-scsi kernel module, by passing hdx=ide-scsi on the kernel command line. I think I'm right in saying that pre 2.5 kernel

Re: DMA Problem

2003-07-06 Thread Matt Foster
Quoting Marcel Gschwandl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi again, > > I was root. As non root I would get > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Permission denied > and not > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > have you tried querying the drive with hdparm -I? This should give you some indication of if can h

RE: BIOS entry

2003-07-06 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
Title: Message Try turning it off. And then turn it on while holding down the F1 key.  Keep it held down until you see the BIOS. This is how I get into the BIOS on a 380D, so I am hoping it is the same or similar. -Original Message-From: Lynn Haas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DMA Problem

2003-07-06 Thread Marcel Gschwandl
the HD should be able to handle DMA because I was able to enable it with hdparm and an kernel 2.4.20. output of "hdparm -I /dev/hda": /dev/hda: ATA device, with non-removable media Model Number: IC25T060ATCS05-0 Serial Number: CSL805DEG81H2A Firmware Revision:

Re: DMA Problem

2003-07-06 Thread Marcel Gschwandl
This shouldn't be a problem because my laptop is an IBM A31p which means P4-M 2.0GHz and an Intel i845 chipset. And I know this configuration works because to of my friends have the same notebook and it works just fine there. But we were not able to figure out what's the difference between their m

Re: Wi-Fi newbie...

2003-07-06 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
[20030706] Matt Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I think that this page: > http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ is fairly handy. > There seems to be quite a lot of info there on just about everything > Wavelan related. Thanx a lot Matt, great url ! -- Manoli

Intel PRO/Wireless 2011 LAN PC Card PCMCIA

2003-07-06 Thread debian-laptop
Hi all, I got this card: "Intel PRO/Wireless 2011 LAN PC Card PCMCIA" Does anyone one of you managed to make this card work in rfmon (monitor mode)? It should be an orinoco chipset and works fine in normal condition but, even if the driver are patched, the card seems to not support

Intel PRO/Wireless 2011 LAN PC Card PCMCIA

2003-07-06 Thread debian-laptop
Hi all, I got this card: "Intel PRO/Wireless 2011 LAN PC Card PCMCIA" Does anyone one of you managed to make this card work in rfmon (monitor mode)? It should be an orinoco chipset and works fine in normal condition but, even if the driver are patched, the card seems to not support monito

IRDA on asus L3tp

2003-07-06 Thread debian-laptop
Hi all, I'm curious to know if someone out there has IRDA working on ASUS L3TP I can't even see the tty entry in the output dmesg dmesg | grep -i tty ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A which is the standard serial! no irda reference found! how can i make this thing appear to wor

PCMCIA Networkcard Problem after Kernel 2.4.18

2003-07-06 Thread Cyber-Alvin
I had kernel 2.2.20 and anything was fine. I format the Harddisk and made a compl. new installation. I install debian base with kenel 2.4.18, and I am not getting my PCMCIA Networkcard running, I tryed many moduls, and also the manifactur install readme about linux, but it is not working with the k

2.4.18-686 kernel, but no PCMCIA

2003-07-06 Thread Kenneth Jacker
[Sorry if you already saw this on 'debian-user'. After I sent that copy, I realized I should have *only* sent it here ... sorry!] When I boot my Dell laptop with the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel, my PCMCIA card is recognized properly and I can access our local Ethernet. When using 2.4.18-686, however, I

Re: apache

2003-07-06 Thread Paul Bryan
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 01:17:25AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > inetd does not kill the Apache process, True, my bad... > If Apache decides not to die then most (all?) inetd programs will happily > allow it to do so. >From the apache site: For each http connection received, a new cop

Re: DMA Problem

2003-07-06 Thread ScapeSmerk
I think (but don't quote me) that there is a problem with DMA in 2.4.21 works fine in 2.4.20, maybe try that Ben. Marcel Gschwandl wrote: Hi again, I was root. As non root I would get HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Permission denied and not HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted thanks an

Re: apache

2003-07-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 10:39, Paul Bryan wrote: > > If Apache decides not to die then most (all?) inetd programs will happily > > allow it to do so. [...] > Only serving a single connection makes sense to me, as otherwise it seems > to defeat the purpose of using inetd in the first place. In any event,

Re: DMA Problem

2003-07-06 Thread Marcel Gschwandl
as far as I know the '*' doesn't indicate the current state of the Drive it only indicates the standard setting of the Firmware. But some how this isn't used in my case. And I suppose that if it would be already enabled a "hdparm /dev/hda" wouldn't report this: /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) I

Re: apache

2003-07-06 Thread Paul Bryan
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:04:49PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > Yes. However if Apache does the wrong thing (eg goes into an infinite loop > in > a library - something I've seen many times) then it may run forever if there > is nothing to stop it. inetd will not stop it. > > For Apache run a

First timer attempting to start from scratch with installation of all on laptop. HELP!!!

2003-07-06 Thread Tania Bristowe
Hello there,   You may not have time to assist me with my problem and maybe to you NOT A PROB!   My IT friends never have time, but when they want a video done I'm always there.   I give up...friendships are worn out.   Could you please help me, or if you can't , can you advise me on who is

Unidentified subject!

2003-07-06 Thread ahmed faiz
pls send me driver laptap toshiba tecra 8200 for vga ,modem , sound and network         Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month!

Wi-Fi newbie...

2003-07-06 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
Hello all, I want to implement a Wireless connection of my laptop & desktop box at home (both debian sid) however I'm a complete newbie on that subject & will like to learn things. Is there any good site for *linux-only* Wi-Fi stuff, like how-tos, hardware compatibility, wep etc ? A quick googling

apache

2003-07-06 Thread mi
Hello, I tried to set up apache to read dhelp and info2www with my browser, and to learn more about networking also. I've got two questions that aren't strictly laptop-related, but so far i didn't get any reply from other lists, and i know some experienced networkers listening on this port ;-)

ide CD Bruner

2003-07-06 Thread mi
Does anybody know if cdrecord recently supports ide burning ? I look for a *bootable* CD rw that is supported by linux ide burning ... any model hints ? I've exchanged the original cd with a teac W 24E CD rw, and now the lap doesn't boot no more from cd. Is this a well-known effect ? It's an De

Re: apache

2003-07-06 Thread Paul Bryan
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 02:05:23PM +0200, mi wrote: > It seems any server process is terminated immediateley after every single > request from a broser. In other words, a 'ps aux' doesn't show any apache > process when my browser opens localhost:80; only a 'top' does for short. > Every single pa

DMA Problem

2003-07-06 Thread Marcel Gschwandl
Hi folks, I already asked about this issue once but didn't get any answers so I try it again. I have an IBM Thinkpad A31p with Debian sarge + some sid packages on it. Recently I updated to kernel 2.4.21 but with this kernel it seems not to be possible to change into DMA mode. (it was possible wit

Re: DMA Problem

2003-07-06 Thread Klaus Rechert
Hi, try as root Klaus On 06 Jul 2003 16:19:06 +0200 Marcel Gschwandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I already asked about this issue once but didn't get any answers so I > try it again. > > I have an IBM Thinkpad A31p with Debian sarge + some sid packages on it. > Recent

Re: apache

2003-07-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 23:35, Paul Bryan wrote: > That's exactly right. Whenever a request comes in on port 80, inetd starts > up an apache process to handle it. Once the request is completed, inetd > kills the apache process. inetd does not kill the Apache process, it reaps (via wait()) the Apache p

Re: DMA Problem

2003-07-06 Thread Marcel Gschwandl
Hi again, I was root. As non root I would get HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Permission denied and not HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted thanks anyway Marcel On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 16:34, Klaus Rechert wrote: > Hi, > > > try as root > > Klaus > > > On 06 Jul 2003 16:19:06 +0200 > Ma

Re: sound on dell inspiron 5100

2003-07-06 Thread Abhay Pradhan
>On Wed Jun 11, 2003 at 12:34:59PM +0300, Manolis Tzanidakis wrote: > [20030611] Abhay Pradhan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I am trying to get sound to work on a dell inspiron 5100. > > Windows reports the soundcard as a sigmatel c major audio card. > > The distro I am using is debian. > > I l

hotkeys and poweroff

2003-07-06 Thread Julien MARY
Hi, I am using compaq evo n160, but your answer can suppose it is evo family. I want to enable a smart "shutdown -h now" at hitting the power button of my laptop. Anyone has already set this correctly ? I don't think the package hotkeys is the s

Re: hotkeys and poweroff

2003-07-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Sunday 06 July 2003 11:30, Julien MARY wrote: > > I want to enable a smart "shutdown -h now" at hitting the > power button of my laptop. > I believe this is handled via ACPI. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: BIOS entry

2003-07-06 Thread Claus Brucher
On my thinkpad 390x just by pressing the f1 button at startup... On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 17:29, Lynn Haas wrote: > Can you tell me how to get to the bios on my ThinkPad 380ED ? -- Claus Brucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: First timer attempting to start from scratch with installation of all on laptop. HELP!!!

2003-07-06 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Tania Bristowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-06 10:55]: >I really don't know where to begin. I bought the Dell Latitude CPxH500GT from a >ligitimate auction. > >It is as follows; Pentium III-500, 128MB, Vid memory(8MB), Level 2 cache - 256MB >BIOS Version A0

Re: Wi-Fi newbie...

2003-07-06 Thread Matt Foster
I think that this page: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ is fairly handy. There seems to be quite a lot of info there on just about everything Wavelan related. Matt Quoting Manolis Tzanidakis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello all, > I want to implement a Wireless connection of my

Re: ide CD Bruner

2003-07-06 Thread Matt Foster
Quoting mi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Does anybody know if cdrecord recently supports ide burning ? > The 'normal' method to get cd IDE burners going under linux is to use the ide-scsi kernel module, by passing hdx=ide-scsi on the kernel command line. I think I'm right in saying that pre 2.5 kernel

Re: DMA Problem

2003-07-06 Thread Matt Foster
Quoting Marcel Gschwandl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi again, > > I was root. As non root I would get > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Permission denied > and not > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > have you tried querying the drive with hdparm -I? This should give you some indication of if can h

RE: BIOS entry

2003-07-06 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
Title: Message Try turning it off. And then turn it on while holding down the F1 key.  Keep it held down until you see the BIOS. This is how I get into the BIOS on a 380D, so I am hoping it is the same or similar. -Original Message-From: Lynn Haas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DMA Problem

2003-07-06 Thread Marcel Gschwandl
the HD should be able to handle DMA because I was able to enable it with hdparm and an kernel 2.4.20. output of "hdparm -I /dev/hda": /dev/hda: ATA device, with non-removable media Model Number: IC25T060ATCS05-0 Serial Number: CSL805DEG81H2A Firmware Revision:

Re: DMA Problem

2003-07-06 Thread Marcel Gschwandl
This shouldn't be a problem because my laptop is an IBM A31p which means P4-M 2.0GHz and an Intel i845 chipset. And I know this configuration works because to of my friends have the same notebook and it works just fine there. But we were not able to figure out what's the difference between their m

Re: Wi-Fi newbie...

2003-07-06 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
[20030706] Matt Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I think that this page: > http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ is fairly handy. > There seems to be quite a lot of info there on just about everything > Wavelan related. Thanx a lot Matt, great url ! -- Manoli

Intel PRO/Wireless 2011 LAN PC Card PCMCIA

2003-07-06 Thread debian-laptop
Hi all, I got this card: "Intel PRO/Wireless 2011 LAN PC Card PCMCIA" Does anyone one of you managed to make this card work in rfmon (monitor mode)? It should be an orinoco chipset and works fine in normal condition but, even if the driver are patched, the card seems to not support

Intel PRO/Wireless 2011 LAN PC Card PCMCIA

2003-07-06 Thread debian-laptop
Hi all, I got this card: "Intel PRO/Wireless 2011 LAN PC Card PCMCIA" Does anyone one of you managed to make this card work in rfmon (monitor mode)? It should be an orinoco chipset and works fine in normal condition but, even if the driver are patched, the card seems to not support monito

IRDA on asus L3tp

2003-07-06 Thread debian-laptop
Hi all, I'm curious to know if someone out there has IRDA working on ASUS L3TP I can't even see the tty entry in the output dmesg dmesg | grep -i tty ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A which is the standard serial! no irda reference found! how can i make this thing appear to wor

PCMCIA Networkcard Problem after Kernel 2.4.18

2003-07-06 Thread Cyber-Alvin
I had kernel 2.2.20 and anything was fine. I format the Harddisk and made a compl. new installation. I install debian base with kenel 2.4.18, and I am not getting my PCMCIA Networkcard running, I tryed many moduls, and also the manifactur install readme about linux, but it is not working with the k

2.4.18-686 kernel, but no PCMCIA

2003-07-06 Thread Kenneth Jacker
[Sorry if you already saw this on 'debian-user'. After I sent that copy, I realized I should have *only* sent it here ... sorry!] When I boot my Dell laptop with the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel, my PCMCIA card is recognized properly and I can access our local Ethernet. When using 2.4.18-686, however, I

Re: apache

2003-07-06 Thread Paul Bryan
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 01:17:25AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > inetd does not kill the Apache process, True, my bad... > If Apache decides not to die then most (all?) inetd programs will happily > allow it to do so. >From the apache site: For each http connection received, a new cop

Re: DMA Problem

2003-07-06 Thread ScapeSmerk
I think (but don't quote me) that there is a problem with DMA in 2.4.21 works fine in 2.4.20, maybe try that Ben. Marcel Gschwandl wrote: Hi again, I was root. As non root I would get HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Permission denied and not HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted thanks anyway

Re: apache

2003-07-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 10:39, Paul Bryan wrote: > > If Apache decides not to die then most (all?) inetd programs will happily > > allow it to do so. [...] > Only serving a single connection makes sense to me, as otherwise it seems > to defeat the purpose of using inetd in the first place. In any event,

Re: DMA Problem

2003-07-06 Thread Marcel Gschwandl
as far as I know the '*' doesn't indicate the current state of the Drive it only indicates the standard setting of the Firmware. But some how this isn't used in my case. And I suppose that if it would be already enabled a "hdparm /dev/hda" wouldn't report this: /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) I

Re: apache

2003-07-06 Thread Paul Bryan
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:04:49PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > Yes. However if Apache does the wrong thing (eg goes into an infinite loop in > a library - something I've seen many times) then it may run forever if there > is nothing to stop it. inetd will not stop it. > > For Apache run as a