Re: persistent interface

2004-06-12 Thread Thomas Hood
> My problem has to do with the network interfaces. My > /etc/network/interfaces file looks like this: > ># The loopback interface ># automatically added when upgrading >auto lo >iface lo inet loopback > ># For the built-in NIC: >iface eth0 inet dhcp > ># For the wire

Re: WLAN-Card on Sarge

2004-06-12 Thread Thomas Hood
> Ok, now I'm confused. In the pcmcia-cs package there's the cardmgr > program that, if I understand correctly, reads /etc/pcmcia/config* files > on startup. Then when a card is inserted cardmgr matches the card to a > device id (from the config file(s)) and load modules. It then loads the > ass

network installation - wlan/plip

2004-06-12 Thread Karsten Römke
Hello! I'm starting with debian, better starting again :-) I have an old laptop omnibook 5700 with 166MHz/32MB/2.1GB. I want install debian3.0. Laptop has no cdrom. I have a wireless lan card belkin F5D6020g and as alternative a cable for the parallel port. problems: 1.) wlan does not work, belkin

Re: network installation - wlan/plip

2004-06-12 Thread Andika Triwidada
Hi Karsten, On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 13:46:54 +0200, Karsten Römke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello! > I'm starting with debian, better starting again :-) I have an old > laptop omnibook 5700 with 166MHz/32MB/2.1GB. I want install debian3.0. > Laptop has no cdrom. I have a wireless lan card belkin

Re: network installation - wlan/plip

2004-06-12 Thread Karsten Römke
Andika Triwidada wrote: > Hi Karsten, > > On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 13:46:54 +0200, Karsten Römke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hello! >> I'm starting with debian, better starting again :-) I have an old >> laptop omnibook 5700 with 166MHz/32MB/2.1GB. I want install debian3.0. >> Laptop has no cdro

Re: WLAN-Card on Sarge

2004-06-12 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 01:18:34PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > cardmgr manages PCMCIA cards via /etc/pcmcia/network. > > Hotplug can do the same thing but it is disabled by default. If you > enable the hotplug mechanism by adding > > mapping hotplug > script echo Ok, so hotplug then doe

Re: ALT+F1-7: Switching consoles doesn't work

2004-06-12 Thread Jens Nachtigall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [...] > > I hope it works now. > > > Regards, > Ionel > > > P.S. If Alt-Ctrl-Fx still fails to work, try the last console thing, or > the Alt-RightArrow or Alt-LeftArrow to advance between Consoles. Thanks for all your efforts! Just for the

Re: WLAN-Card on Sarge

2004-06-12 Thread Thomas Hood
> So, what's the advantage of using hotplug for bringing up the interface > over cardmgr running /etc/pcmcai/network(.opts)? Hotplug is the buggy work-in-progress standard mechanism of the future whereas cardmgr is the debugged bloated obsolete mechanism of the past. Take your pick. > I tried tha

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hdd not spinning down w/ cpudyn / consequences of spinning down?

2004-06-12 Thread Jerome Werner
Ivan Fernandez Pelaez pointed out that noflushd doesn't work for journaled file systems. I was looking through the apt-cache when I saw cpudyn and it said it works on ext3 for CPU throttling and hdd spinning down. The CPU throttling works well, but I'm still getting no sleeping of the hdd. I pu

problems getting static ip to work

2004-06-12 Thread Suresh Rajgopal
Title: Message Hi:  Let me preface my question by saying I am a novice on Linux   I have a laptop running Debian, whose network interface is a  pcmcia card. I use it as an IMAP mail server. Recently, I tried giving it a static IP address. by changing /etc/pcmcia/network.opts and filling in

Re: problems getting static ip to work

2004-06-12 Thread Thomas Hood
> I have a laptop running Debian, whose network interface is a pcmcia card. > I use it as an IMAP mail server. Recently, I tried giving it a static IP > address. > by changing /etc/pcmcia/network.opts and filling in the appropriate > fields (I actually used pcnetconfig, so it generated the file fo

Re: hdd not spinning down w/ cpudyn / consequences of spinning down?

2004-06-12 Thread dircha
Jerome Werner wrote: Also, what are the consequences of spinning down for the lifetime of my laptop's hdd (hitachi 20gb)? Is this good for it or does it take a toll? I understand that it saves energy, but what's the toll on the overall computer life? I heard some hdds only have a number of spin dow

Re: persistent interface

2004-06-12 Thread Jim McCloskey
This was really clarifying; thank you. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Hood) wrote: |> It looks as if you are under the impression that "mapping" is an |> option for "iface eth1 inet dhcp". Actually it should be a |> separate stanza. You're absolutely right; I was. |> Strictly speaking, this means

Re: persistent interface

2004-06-12 Thread Thomas Hood
> My problem has to do with the network interfaces. My > /etc/network/interfaces file looks like this: > ># The loopback interface ># automatically added when upgrading >auto lo >iface lo inet loopback > ># For the built-in NIC: >iface eth0 inet dhcp > ># For the wire

Re: WLAN-Card on Sarge

2004-06-12 Thread Thomas Hood
> Ok, now I'm confused. In the pcmcia-cs package there's the cardmgr > program that, if I understand correctly, reads /etc/pcmcia/config* files > on startup. Then when a card is inserted cardmgr matches the card to a > device id (from the config file(s)) and load modules. It then loads the > ass

network installation - wlan/plip

2004-06-12 Thread Karsten Römke
Hello! I'm starting with debian, better starting again :-) I have an old laptop omnibook 5700 with 166MHz/32MB/2.1GB. I want install debian3.0. Laptop has no cdrom. I have a wireless lan card belkin F5D6020g and as alternative a cable for the parallel port. problems: 1.) wlan does not work, belkin

Re: network installation - wlan/plip

2004-06-12 Thread Andika Triwidada
Hi Karsten, On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 13:46:54 +0200, Karsten Römke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello! > I'm starting with debian, better starting again :-) I have an old > laptop omnibook 5700 with 166MHz/32MB/2.1GB. I want install debian3.0. > Laptop has no cdrom. I have a wireless lan card belkin

Re: network installation - wlan/plip

2004-06-12 Thread Karsten Römke
Andika Triwidada wrote: > Hi Karsten, > > On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 13:46:54 +0200, Karsten Römke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hello! >> I'm starting with debian, better starting again :-) I have an old >> laptop omnibook 5700 with 166MHz/32MB/2.1GB. I want install debian3.0. >> Laptop has no cdro

Re: WLAN-Card on Sarge

2004-06-12 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 01:18:34PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > cardmgr manages PCMCIA cards via /etc/pcmcia/network. > > Hotplug can do the same thing but it is disabled by default. If you > enable the hotplug mechanism by adding > > mapping hotplug > script echo Ok, so hotplug then doe

Re: ALT+F1-7: Switching consoles doesn't work

2004-06-12 Thread Jens Nachtigall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [...] > > I hope it works now. > > > Regards, > Ionel > > > P.S. If Alt-Ctrl-Fx still fails to work, try the last console thing, or > the Alt-RightArrow or Alt-LeftArrow to advance between Consoles. Thanks for all your efforts! Just for the

Re: WLAN-Card on Sarge

2004-06-12 Thread Thomas Hood
> So, what's the advantage of using hotplug for bringing up the interface > over cardmgr running /etc/pcmcai/network(.opts)? Hotplug is the buggy work-in-progress standard mechanism of the future whereas cardmgr is the debugged bloated obsolete mechanism of the past. Take your pick. > I tried tha

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hdd not spinning down w/ cpudyn / consequences of spinning down?

2004-06-12 Thread Jerome Werner
Ivan Fernandez Pelaez pointed out that noflushd doesn't work for journaled file systems. I was looking through the apt-cache when I saw cpudyn and it said it works on ext3 for CPU throttling and hdd spinning down. The CPU throttling works well, but I'm still getting no sleeping of the hdd. I pu

problems getting static ip to work

2004-06-12 Thread Suresh Rajgopal
Title: Message Hi:  Let me preface my question by saying I am a novice on Linux   I have a laptop running Debian, whose network interface is a  pcmcia card. I use it as an IMAP mail server. Recently, I tried giving it a static IP address. by changing /etc/pcmcia/network.opts and filling in

Re: problems getting static ip to work

2004-06-12 Thread Thomas Hood
> I have a laptop running Debian, whose network interface is a pcmcia card. > I use it as an IMAP mail server. Recently, I tried giving it a static IP > address. > by changing /etc/pcmcia/network.opts and filling in the appropriate > fields (I actually used pcnetconfig, so it generated the file fo

Re: hdd not spinning down w/ cpudyn / consequences of spinning down?

2004-06-12 Thread dircha
Jerome Werner wrote: Also, what are the consequences of spinning down for the lifetime of my laptop's hdd (hitachi 20gb)? Is this good for it or does it take a toll? I understand that it saves energy, but what's the toll on the overall computer life? I heard some hdds only have a number of spin d