Re: bringing up PCMCIA wireless interface

2006-01-04 Thread Florian Kulzer
Dan Christensen wrote: I've got a PCMCIA wireless card in my laptop, and I'd like to figure out the Debian way of arranging that it be brought up when the card is inserted (including on boot). I only use the card on my home network, which uses WEP. [...] Now, I've upgraded to udev 0.079-1, w

Re: bringing up PCMCIA wireless interface

2006-01-04 Thread Florian Kulzer
Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] /usr/share/doc/udev/README.Debian.gz. Then you should see a node created in /dev whenever the card is plugged in, and removed again when you pull out the card. I just realized that I might be wrong on that, network adapters normally don't show up in /dev. -- To U

Re: bringing up PCMCIA wireless interface

2006-01-04 Thread Krzysztof Wilk
Hello Dan, I've got a PCMCIA wireless card in my laptop, and I'd like to figure out the Debian way of arranging that it be brought up when the card is inserted (including on boot). I only use the card on my home network, which uses WEP. In the old days, I used pcmcia-cs, and /etc/pcmcia/networ

Re: bringing up PCMCIA wireless interface

2006-01-04 Thread Dan Christensen
Krzysztof Wilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dan Christensen writes: > >> I've got a PCMCIA wireless card in my laptop, and I'd like to figure >> out the Debian way of arranging that it be brought up when the card is >> inserted (including on boot). I only use the card on my home network, >> whi

Gnome screen shifted up on Dell Inspiron

2006-01-04 Thread Mauricio
I've just installed Debian's "Sarge" distribution on a Dell Inspiron 3800 and the display is shifted up by about a quarter of an inch (6mm) so that I only see about half of Gnome's control bar (I don't know it's proper name) at the top of the screen. The keyboard does not have any controls for hor

Thinkpad middle mouse button scroll and paste

2006-01-04 Thread Chris Dos
I was running the xorg-server from experimental that was version 6.9.99.900 that had the patch for middle button scroll and paste functionality for the Thinkpad. However, my recent apt-get upgrade for Sid installed version 6.9.0. Which doesn't seem to have the scroll/paste patch (or at least i

Re: question on IBM-T30

2006-01-04 Thread Juergen Stuber
Hi Rich, Rich Macur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I checked out your web page on your IBM-T30. > We bought a T30 and are having a problem finding a driver for the Matshita > DVD-ROM SR-8177, which is apparently the same DVD-ROM you have. > Do you have any suggestions on where we could get a driv

Re: Gnome screen shifted up on Dell Inspiron

2006-01-04 Thread Florian Kulzer
Mauricio wrote: I've just installed Debian's "Sarge" distribution on a Dell Inspiron 3800 and the display is shifted up by about a quarter of an inch (6mm) so that I only see about half of Gnome's control bar (I don't know it's proper name) at the top of the screen. The keyboard does not have an

UPDATE - Good cell phone to use as modem with Debian? cable? bluetooth?

2006-01-04 Thread A. F. Cano
Hi all: I'm starting a new thread on this since the old one ended up concentrating on the relative merits of different providers. Faced with the many decisions regarding phones, cables, bluetooth, etc... The last thing I needed was the additional set of decisions that switching providers would a

OT: latest NVidia driver not working

2006-01-04 Thread Tim Wood
Hello, I'm running a Toshiba TE2100 with the GeForce4 420Go GRU, under unstable with a 2.6.14 standard kernel. On the latest upgrade to 2.6.14-2-686 (2.6.14-2-7) I noticed a new Nvidia kernel. I used module assistant to compile it but on loading it would just hang. No response from the keyboard

Grub hangs at stage 1.5 with cd drive in thinkpad

2006-01-04 Thread shorty
Hi Folks, Some time ago I started having problems with my cd drive in my R40 Thinkpad. Sometimes it would be detected at boot, other times not. I also started to get hangs at boot time (the thinkpad bios POST screen and grub loading stage 1.5, hanging for about 30 secs) I thought the drive