Re: ide CD Bruner

2003-07-09 Thread tbbletmp
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 07:56:57PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Can you tell me what the advantages of the ATAPI method in > > > comparison to the ide-scsi method are? > > The big one is that ide-scsi is currently broken in Linux 2.5. :-) > So where does it work ? Linux 2.4. And hopeful

Re: CF-root

2003-07-09 Thread Stefan Rotsch
Am Die, 2003-07-08 um 17.51 schrieb Hugh Saunders: Hello Hugh, > Im attempting to run a laptop [vaio PCG-F304] without a hard disk. The > plan is to have the root fs on a CF disk in a pcmcia adapter. Have you ever thought about an IDE-CF adapter? It allows replacing the laptop's internal HD with a

Re: CF-root

2003-07-09 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 09:46:27AM +0200, Stefan Rotsch wrote: > Am Die, 2003-07-08 um 17.51 schrieb Hugh Saunders: > Hello Hugh, > > > Im attempting to run a laptop [vaio PCG-F304] without a hard disk. The > > plan is to have the root fs on a CF disk in a pcmcia adapter. > Have you ever thought a

Re: Sid, pcmcia and NFS mounts? I'm confused

2003-07-09 Thread Christian Lyra
Hi, You can put "up" and "down" commands on each instance of interfaces in /etc/network/interfaces. I use to have a "up ntpdate xxx.xxx.xxx" when I connect to my work's network. > > But, one is not supposed to change anything in /e/p/network.opts anymore > ("This t

Inspiron 5100

2003-07-09 Thread Johanna Friederike May
hi there i'm new to the list and apparently nobody has this problem, so maybe someone could just help me out on it? i have a almost new (bought end of may) dell inspiron 5100 and i can't get linux to work on it. i don't know if it is a hardware problem. when trying to install debian from dvd t

Re: 2.4 Kernel Stability

2003-07-09 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
James wrote: Thanks for the webcam URL! Does anybody have any suggestions as to which kernel sources to use for a workable kernel that supports all sorts of video, mpeg4, etc? I'm trying 2.4.18, but to no avail with Linux4video, xawtv, etc. What's the best version of the kernel to use to

Siemens S55 gsm phone w/ usb connection...

2003-07-09 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
Hello all, I recently got a Siemens S55 mobile phone, that supports GPRS and I'd like to use it with my compaq presario 724ea laptop (sid installed). The phone had a serial cable bundled & it seems to work under linux (I tested it with scmxx on my desktop box, I haven't enabled GPRS yet...), howeve

System hangs on display events.

2003-07-09 Thread James Ferrando
Hi All, Apologies if there's too much detail here, but I want to include any details which may be relevant. I recently converted my Evesham Voyager 5500E (http://www.evesham.co.uk) laptop to Debian 3.0r1 (woody). Previously I had been running SuSE 7.2 which worked fine until I upgra

Re: Siemens S55 gsm phone w/ usb connection...

2003-07-09 Thread nikolaj erichsen
Hi there I have a siemens me45 (similar to the s45) and have used irda with success, on the me45 you can turn irda on and off, I actually have made a voice command to do that, so that it only use the battery when it's needed. I just miss a good syncronization tool that work with evolution, but th

howto specifying a default network interface/card

2003-07-09 Thread Harry Barnes
I have a pcmcia wireless card and built-in ethernet. Most of the time I am plugged in to the ethernet and would like all my network related stuff to use that as opposed to wireless. Is there anyway to tell the system that ? other info Kernel 2.4.20 eth0 = built-in ethernet port eth1 = wireless

Re: Inspiron 5100

2003-07-09 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 14:30, Johanna Friederike May wrote: > hi there > > i'm new to the list and apparently nobody has this problem, so maybe someone > could just help me out on it? No experience with thid tpye but this person has: http://www.linuxvirgins.com/inspiron5100.html I found it at h

wireless / pcmcia start

2003-07-09 Thread Michael Ott
Hello! Now, my wireless card work. After then I configurate netenv to change my network-interfaces. But I have to delete the /etc/rcS.d/S40network to start my wireless-pcmcia-card normally. Before I do this I have to stop my network and pcmcia and start pcmcia (first) and than my network. Is ther

Re: CF-root

2003-07-09 Thread Stefan Rotsch
Am Die, 2003-07-08 um 17.51 schrieb Hugh Saunders: Hello Hugh, > Im attempting to run a laptop [vaio PCG-F304] without a hard disk. The > plan is to have the root fs on a CF disk in a pcmcia adapter. Have you ever thought about an IDE-CF adapter? It allows replacing the laptop's internal HD with a

Re: CF-root

2003-07-09 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 09:46:27AM +0200, Stefan Rotsch wrote: > Am Die, 2003-07-08 um 17.51 schrieb Hugh Saunders: > Hello Hugh, > > > Im attempting to run a laptop [vaio PCG-F304] without a hard disk. The > > plan is to have the root fs on a CF disk in a pcmcia adapter. > Have you ever thought a

Re: Sid, pcmcia and NFS mounts? I'm confused

2003-07-09 Thread Christian Lyra
Hi, You can put "up" and "down" commands on each instance of interfaces in /etc/network/interfaces. I use to have a "up ntpdate xxx.xxx.xxx" when I connect to my work's network. > > But, one is not supposed to change anything in /e/p/network.opts anymore > ("This t

Inspiron 5100

2003-07-09 Thread Johanna Friederike May
hi there i'm new to the list and apparently nobody has this problem, so maybe someone could just help me out on it? i have a almost new (bought end of may) dell inspiron 5100 and i can't get linux to work on it. i don't know if it is a hardware problem. when trying to install debian from dvd th

Re: 2.4 Kernel Stability

2003-07-09 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
James wrote: Thanks for the webcam URL! Does anybody have any suggestions as to which kernel sources to use for a workable kernel that supports all sorts of video, mpeg4, etc? I'm trying 2.4.18, but to no avail with Linux4video, xawtv, etc. What's the best version of the kernel to use to get

Siemens S55 gsm phone w/ usb connection...

2003-07-09 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
Hello all, I recently got a Siemens S55 mobile phone, that supports GPRS and I'd like to use it with my compaq presario 724ea laptop (sid installed). The phone had a serial cable bundled & it seems to work under linux (I tested it with scmxx on my desktop box, I haven't enabled GPRS yet...), howeve

System hangs on display events.

2003-07-09 Thread James Ferrando
Hi All, Apologies if there's too much detail here, but I want to include any details which may be relevant. I recently converted my Evesham Voyager 5500E (http://www.evesham.co.uk) laptop to Debian 3.0r1 (woody). Previously I had been running SuSE 7.2 which worked fine until I upgra

Re: Siemens S55 gsm phone w/ usb connection...

2003-07-09 Thread nikolaj erichsen
Hi there I have a siemens me45 (similar to the s45) and have used irda with success, on the me45 you can turn irda on and off, I actually have made a voice command to do that, so that it only use the battery when it's needed. I just miss a good syncronization tool that work with evolution, but th

howto specifying a default network interface/card

2003-07-09 Thread Harry Barnes
I have a pcmcia wireless card and built-in ethernet. Most of the time I am plugged in to the ethernet and would like all my network related stuff to use that as opposed to wireless. Is there anyway to tell the system that ? other info Kernel 2.4.20 eth0 = built-in ethernet port eth1 = wireless(

Re: Inspiron 5100

2003-07-09 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 14:30, Johanna Friederike May wrote: > hi there > > i'm new to the list and apparently nobody has this problem, so maybe someone > could just help me out on it? No experience with thid tpye but this person has: http://www.linuxvirgins.com/inspiron5100.html I found it at h

wireless / pcmcia start

2003-07-09 Thread Michael Ott
Hello! Now, my wireless card work. After then I configurate netenv to change my network-interfaces. But I have to delete the /etc/rcS.d/S40network to start my wireless-pcmcia-card normally. Before I do this I have to stop my network and pcmcia and start pcmcia (first) and than my network. Is ther