Re: Laptop email

2000-07-14 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Andre Berger wrote: > Cory Snavely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This is the *exact* same problem I have. One possible solution I've been > > kicking around is to set up a low-end server at home with imapd and > > Apache with mod_roaming (for the address books, etc.) > > > > That's a lot of w

Re: Laptop email

2000-07-19 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Andre Berger wrote: > The recent fetchmail gets unseen msgs only, unless you specify -a > (all msgs, seen or not). Cool. > Note that I said (or meant) in my original posting I have turned off > automatic retrieval in Netscape. If you combine Netscape and Xbiff or > anything else that tells you

Re: Laptop email

2000-07-19 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Okay, this is drifting way off-topic, but I'll give it one last shot... Andre Berger wrote: > Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Andre Berger wrote: > > > > But that's the problem- it tries to get the new mail anyway sometimes when I swi

Re: Turning off backlight of TFT display

2000-08-07 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Stefan Bellon wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >m.nine.six <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > if it's a thinkpad (ibm) there is a tool called tpctl and is more or > > less equivalent to the ibm's orinigal dos tool ps2.exe and with this > > tool you can change the bios settings while run

Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-23 Thread Adam C Powell IV
"Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > My employer is about to buy me a Sony VAIO notebook. I would like to know > how well these are supported in Debian and if there are any specific > models that I should look for/avoid for best results. The only > requirement the employer has is that it must be a VAIO

Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-25 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Heather wrote: > > > > Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Until I get a CD-ROM for the machine and fix it, I'm stuck without > > > the ability to hibernate. > > > > Why not just ask someone with the same laptop w

Re: Off screen

1999-12-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
"Karl M. Hegbloom" wrote: > I had to grep the net for a version of phdisk.exe that would format a > suspend partition for me... It would be neat to have a phdisk.exe > for Linux. That would be great- among other things, I could get my windows refund. :-) In your grep, did you locate source c

Re: vaio 505 install again

1999-12-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Luis Villa wrote: > Ok- so I'm trying (yet again) to install Debian on my 505 from a 2.1 > (Slink) CD, and yet again, the process is failing. > > I suppose my first question should be: has anyone actually done this? I > hvae read various accounts on the web of Debian installs on the 505, but > the

Re: PowerBook 3400

2000-03-24 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Andre Berger wrote: > [Sorry I posted this to a wrong list before; Newbie error.] For PowerBook issues, I think you might have the best luck on debian-ppc... Zeen, -Adam P.

Re: after moving to xf 3.3.6 - blackbox etc no longer work.

2000-04-07 Thread Adam C Powell IV
"Benjamin F. Zhou" wrote: > Hi, > > I just upgraded my xfree86 3.3.2 from debian with 3.3.6 from XFree86. > But after installing the latter, I can no longer use my existing > window-managers. I had blackbox (my favorite), olvwm, etc. Now, I am > only presented with a few stupid xterms which are mu

Re: after moving to xf 3.3.6 - blackbox etc no longer work.

2000-04-07 Thread Adam C Powell IV
"Benjamin F. Zhou" wrote: > Oh, that could be a problem, I didnt get it from debian, I download it > from xfree86.org . Do you think I will have to reinstall the whole system > to use 3.3.6 ? that would be a nightmare, meaning I have to start from > scratch again? You *probably* will not have to

Re: lucent win modem

2000-04-24 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > My thinkpad comes with a lucent winmodem. I am now using a > binary only driver provided from lucent. Since I am using a > different kernel version, I have to use the force option when > inserting the module. I have two questions regard thi

Re: framebuffer (was As86?)

2000-05-15 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Heather wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Heather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > ob laptop: framebuffer is driving me nuts. What should be so different > > > about framebuffer support under Debian (potato/woody mix) and RH 6.1, that > > > the latter "just works" for framebuffer X, but Debian complai

Re: framebuffer (was As86?)

2000-05-15 Thread Adam C Powell IV
This is rapidly drifting off-topic, but... Graeme Mathieson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > There are other reasons to use the framebuffer, like security: if you > >

Re: How to change the IPs for a given NIC permently ?

2000-06-06 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Lee Bradshaw wrote: > On slink, you need to edit /etc/init.d/network. You can configure > multiple cards is that file. And on potato, edit /etc/network/interfaces, and "/etc/init.d/networking restart" (/etc/init.d/network is deprecated). > On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 09:52:06PM +0800, Nazareth Shu

Re: Sony Vaio N505* vs Toshiba Portege 34*

2000-06-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr wrote: > On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 06:34:22 -0700, > Serge Rey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > If you do go with the Vaio and get Debian up, please let me know. > > i have a Z505R running under potato. some small minor while installing, > but that was with old bootdisk

Re: Laptop email

2000-07-14 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Andre Berger wrote: > Cory Snavely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This is the *exact* same problem I have. One possible solution I've been > > kicking around is to set up a low-end server at home with imapd and > > Apache with mod_roaming (for the address books, etc.) > > > > That's a lot of wo

Re: Laptop email

2000-07-19 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Andre Berger wrote: > The recent fetchmail gets unseen msgs only, unless you specify -a > (all msgs, seen or not). Cool. > Note that I said (or meant) in my original posting I have turned off > automatic retrieval in Netscape. If you combine Netscape and Xbiff or > anything else that tells you n

Re: Laptop email

2000-07-19 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Okay, this is drifting way off-topic, but I'll give it one last shot... Andre Berger wrote: > Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Andre Berger wrote: > > > > But that's the problem- it tries to get the new mail anyway sometimes when

Re: Turning off backlight of TFT display

2000-08-07 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Stefan Bellon wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >m.nine.six <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > if it's a thinkpad (ibm) there is a tool called tpctl and is more or > > less equivalent to the ibm's orinigal dos tool ps2.exe and with this > > tool you can change the bios settings while runn

Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-23 Thread Adam C Powell IV
"Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > My employer is about to buy me a Sony VAIO notebook. I would like to know > how well these are supported in Debian and if there are any specific > models that I should look for/avoid for best results. The only > requirement the employer has is that it must be a VAIO

Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-25 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Heather wrote: > > > > Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Until I get a CD-ROM for the machine and fix it, I'm stuck without > > > the ability to hibernate. > > > > Why not just ask someone with the same laptop what th

Re: turning off the LCD screen.

2000-09-25 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Anand Saxena wrote: > O Wise Ones, > > I was wondering if anybody knows how to turn off the LCD screen, which is > more than blanking it. I would like to be able to add some sort of an > option that will turn off the backlight completely when the laptop has not > been used for a certain period of

Re: Suspend to disk.

2000-10-16 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Walt Mankowski wrote: > Unfortunately it looks like that would require upgrading to one of the > 2.4pre kernels. Don't know if I'm up to that quite yet. Anyone know > how easy/hard that is to do with potato, or would I be better off > upgrading to woody? You need at least the latest modutils, a

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade-except-foo1[-and-foo2] ?

2000-11-16 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Juan Miguel Bocanegra wrote: > Question is: Is there a way of upgrade all but these two (or any other) > packages? Yes, in your favorite apt front-end just tell it to "hold" these two. For example, in dselect, go to the package and hit = and it will not be upgraded. On my home machine, which I'

Re: Best Laptop?

2000-11-16 Thread Adam C Powell IV
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i've never used dell machines, but the sony machines i've used usually > end up frustrating me to no end because of failures and so much of the > hardware not being usuable for non-m$ os-s. Really? My Vaio Z505S has everything working (net, screen, sound, PCMCIA, suspe

Re: Best Laptop?

2000-11-16 Thread Adam C Powell IV
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > yup. jog dial doesn't work, modem doesn't work, gps doesn't work, camera > doesn't work, ir doesn't work, ieee 1394 doesn't work... Oh yeah, haven't tried ieee 1394. I don't think mine has the GPS, and know it doesn't have the camera. What's jog dial? > it's good to

Re: dselect

2000-11-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > G'Day ! > > Yeah I tried to Upgrade my desktop with dselect instead of apt-get and dpkg > > And I trashed my system :-( I finally got it working enough to boot so I can > recover my files, but unless someone can show me a better way, I will need to > reinstall fr

Re: dselect

2000-11-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > G'Day ! > > I forget which package it choked on (maybe libpam0) ... basically a package > needs libpam0 but libpam0 cann't update till I've upgraded the other package, > a > real Catch-22. So now it is stuck in this limbo state of packages installed > but > not config

Re: sound question

2000-11-21 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Daniel Pittman wrote: > Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Hi All, I just recompiled my kernel so that my sound now works. The > > only problem is that I have to enter: > > > > modprobe nm256 > > > > in order to get the module to load into the kernel. Any body know how > > I can

Re: xf86config and Neomagic 256AV

2000-11-22 Thread Adam C Powell IV
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have tried to install XFree on potato but I couldn't find my video card. > I found a Neomagic MagicGraph 128 option, but mine is 256. > Which xserver should I use? I think it should be SVGA. Yup, SVGA. There's no mention of NeoMagic in my XF86Config, so it must be au

Re: /home replication on laptop

2001-01-18 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Torbjorn Pettersson wrote: > Another way to do the home account sync is to put everything in > it in CVS, and have one central CVS repository to syncronize > with. It will also handle the problem where files get updated > from two different ways quite nicely. This works and is very elegant, but i

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Bud Rogers wrote: > Only you can decide which is the right choice for you. Very well-put. But one can make life easier in a couple of ways: * Get a computer with Linux pre-installed. Yes, this is difficult for laptops, and in spite of the Microsoft Tax, economies of scale tend to keep

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-19 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hans Verschoor and Jennie Kohsiek wrote: > Bud, > > I have the same bitter experience as Jan has: a printer that does not work, > a tape streamer that does not work, no way to get an ADSL modem running > a.s.o. Many of the responses to posters of the sort of messages like Jan's > mention issues li

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Christopher Wolf wrote: > Free > software is usually not as easy to use because no one has the time to work > out all the bugs like a dedicated company might (don't even bring up MS; > they don't write software, they market software), or everyone is taking it > in their own direction and giving it

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
This is, of course, way off-topic, and I rather like Shad's reply, but a couple of interesting points are made here which I think merit response... Christopher Wolf wrote: > At 08:21 AM 2/20/2001 -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > >We spend MONTHS in testing cyclles tryi

Re: upgrading to 'testing' failure

2001-03-04 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Brendan Simon wrote: > X will not automatically work for kernels-2.1.18 and 2.4.x. Well it's not > directly the kernels fault, it is the new devfs and/or the new input layer > that > causes the problem. Will *not* work for them? I thought it wouldn't work without them, because the generic poin

Re: Toshiba and Macintosh !

2001-03-13 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Net Shu wrote: > Hi Everyone: Hello, > Question 2: "Are You out of your mind?" an old friend said this to > Me! > > Recently, I got two very old Macintosh computer, one is "Power Book > 520" with only one floppy, gray scale LCD monitor, but luckily have > Ether Talk connector, another on

Suspend to memory trouble on Vaio Z505S

2001-03-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, Since upgrading from potato to unstable a couple of weeks ago, I've had my laptop die thrice while suspending. I try to bring it back up, and it doesn't respond unless I hold the power switch for the several seconds required to cold-restart. Once it didn't even respond to that- I coul

Re: I need phdisk.exe

2001-04-19 Thread Adam C Powell IV
CaT wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 06:39:28PM +0100, Alexander Clouter wrote: > > > > alternatively you could get the linux version lphdisk: > > > > http://www.procyon.com/~pda/lphdisk/ > > Oh, Joy! Or even better, on sid or woody: apt-get install lphdisk Unfortunately (for potato users): D

Re: Install from USB floppy?

2001-05-15 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Here's how I installed Debian on my Vaio (Z505S, August 1999) with USB floppy: 1. Obtained the RedHat single-floppy "network install" disk, in my case from 6.0. 2. Partitioned the disk, leaving the hibernate partition alone, and installed into what would become the swap partition u

Re: Please recommend a machine

2001-08-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Jaime Bemaras wrote: Hello list, Evidently my last posting didn't make it to the list. I appologize if I end up double-posting. I am looking to acquire a laptop. I will need a dual boot system because my university only supports MS software (don't get me started). Have you thought about a t

EtherJet on ThinkPad doesn't work with Potato

2001-09-26 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, We're trying to install Potato (R0, I think) on a ThinkPad T22 with no onboard ethernet, so we got it with a "network card" which turned out to be an IBM EtherJet 10/100. Installation goes fine through configuring the network. For PCMCIA support, we chose the Intel-compatible opt

Re: apm death

2001-09-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Tom Allison wrote: bleah! I upgraded to kernel 2.4 and am running into a problem with apm suspend/sleep. Just one little check: With 2.2, APM is enabled in the kernel by putting "apm=on" in the boot arguments. With 2.4 (at least the pre-built kernel-image packages), you have to load the

Re: IBM EtherJet on ThinkPad 600E

2001-09-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Frank Petzold wrote: Has anyone out there managed to get an IBM EtherJet 10/100 PCMCIA card running on a ThinkPad 600E? Just curious, was this problem ever resolved? (Original message posted 7/14/00 with no followups.) Does anyone have an EtherJet PCMCIA card working at all? Anyone have o

Re: What to choose

2001-10-03 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Teppo Hytönen wrote: Giving a list about what's good in Debian would take a while, I don't think I'll even start on that, hehe : ) I gave it a try a while ago, and came up with the list at http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debian.html . Additions/corrections welcome. It would be cool to have a ge

Re: What to choose

2001-10-09 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ajay Shah wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 09:29:02AM -0400, TEETER,VINCE (HP-USA,ex1) wrote: It would also be cool to have better general, high-level doc about Debian. There is no shortage of details, but I still have no concept of what the various pieces are. Please don't say to read all that

Re: EtherJet on ThinkPad doesn't work with Potato

2001-10-11 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Adam C Powell IV wrote: Greetings, We're trying to install Potato (R0, I think) on a ThinkPad T22 with no onboard ethernet, so we got it with a "network card" which turned out to be an IBM EtherJet 10/100. Okay, I feel silly now. Using boot floppies from Potato R3 (the Ap

Re: turning off the LCD screen.

2000-09-25 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Anand Saxena wrote: > O Wise Ones, > > I was wondering if anybody knows how to turn off the LCD screen, which is > more than blanking it. I would like to be able to add some sort of an > option that will turn off the backlight completely when the laptop has not > been used for a certain period of

Re: Suspend to disk.

2000-10-16 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Walt Mankowski wrote: > Unfortunately it looks like that would require upgrading to one of the > 2.4pre kernels. Don't know if I'm up to that quite yet. Anyone know > how easy/hard that is to do with potato, or would I be better off > upgrading to woody? You need at least the latest modutils,

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade-except-foo1[-and-foo2] ?

2000-11-16 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Juan Miguel Bocanegra wrote: > Question is: Is there a way of upgrade all but these two (or any other) > packages? Yes, in your favorite apt front-end just tell it to "hold" these two. For example, in dselect, go to the package and hit = and it will not be upgraded. On my home machine, which I

Re: Best Laptop?

2000-11-16 Thread Adam C Powell IV
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i've never used dell machines, but the sony machines i've used usually > end up frustrating me to no end because of failures and so much of the > hardware not being usuable for non-m$ os-s. Really? My Vaio Z505S has everything working (net, screen, sound, PCMCIA, susp

Re: Best Laptop?

2000-11-16 Thread Adam C Powell IV
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > yup. jog dial doesn't work, modem doesn't work, gps doesn't work, camera > doesn't work, ir doesn't work, ieee 1394 doesn't work... Oh yeah, haven't tried ieee 1394. I don't think mine has the GPS, and know it doesn't have the camera. What's jog dial? > it's good t

Re: dselect

2000-11-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > G'Day ! > > Yeah I tried to Upgrade my desktop with dselect instead of apt-get and dpkg > And I trashed my system :-( I finally got it working enough to boot so I can > recover my files, but unless someone can show me a better way, I will need to > reinstall from

Re: dselect

2000-11-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > G'Day ! > > I forget which package it choked on (maybe libpam0) ... basically a package > needs libpam0 but libpam0 cann't update till I've upgraded the other package, a > real Catch-22. So now it is stuck in this limbo state of packages installed but > not configured

Re: xf86config and Neomagic 256AV

2000-11-22 Thread Adam C Powell IV
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have tried to install XFree on potato but I couldn't find my video card. > I found a Neomagic MagicGraph 128 option, but mine is 256. > Which xserver should I use? I think it should be SVGA. Yup, SVGA. There's no mention of NeoMagic in my XF86Config, so it must be a

Re: sound question

2000-11-21 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Daniel Pittman wrote: > Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Hi All, I just recompiled my kernel so that my sound now works. The > > only problem is that I have to enter: > > > > modprobe nm256 > > > > in order to get the module to load into the kernel. Any body know how > > I can

Re: /home replication on laptop

2001-01-18 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Torbjorn Pettersson wrote: > Another way to do the home account sync is to put everything in > it in CVS, and have one central CVS repository to syncronize > with. It will also handle the problem where files get updated > from two different ways quite nicely. This works and is very elegant, but

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Bud Rogers wrote: > Only you can decide which is the right choice for you. Very well-put. But one can make life easier in a couple of ways: * Get a computer with Linux pre-installed. Yes, this is difficult for laptops, and in spite of the Microsoft Tax, economies of scale tend to keep

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-19 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hans Verschoor and Jennie Kohsiek wrote: > Bud, > > I have the same bitter experience as Jan has: a printer that does not work, > a tape streamer that does not work, no way to get an ADSL modem running > a.s.o. Many of the responses to posters of the sort of messages like Jan's > mention issues l

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Christopher Wolf wrote: > Free > software is usually not as easy to use because no one has the time to work > out all the bugs like a dedicated company might (don't even bring up MS; > they don't write software, they market software), or everyone is taking it > in their own direction and giving i

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
This is, of course, way off-topic, and I rather like Shad's reply, but a couple of interesting points are made here which I think merit response... Christopher Wolf wrote: > At 08:21 AM 2/20/2001 -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > >We spend MONTHS in testing cyclles tryi

Re: upgrading to 'testing' failure

2001-03-04 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Brendan Simon wrote: > X will not automatically work for kernels-2.1.18 and 2.4.x. Well it's not > directly the kernels fault, it is the new devfs and/or the new input layer that > causes the problem. Will *not* work for them? I thought it wouldn't work without them, because the generic pointe

Re: Toshiba and Macintosh !

2001-03-13 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Net Shu wrote: > Hi Everyone: Hello, > Question 2: "Are You out of your mind?" an old friend said this to > Me! > > Recently, I got two very old Macintosh computer, one is "Power Book > 520" with only one floppy, gray scale LCD monitor, but luckily have > Ether Talk connector, another o

Suspend to memory trouble on Vaio Z505S

2001-03-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, Since upgrading from potato to unstable a couple of weeks ago, I've had my laptop die thrice while suspending. I try to bring it back up, and it doesn't respond unless I hold the power switch for the several seconds required to cold-restart. Once it didn't even respond to that- I cou

Re: I need phdisk.exe

2001-04-19 Thread Adam C Powell IV
CaT wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 06:39:28PM +0100, Alexander Clouter wrote: > > > > alternatively you could get the linux version lphdisk: > > > > http://www.procyon.com/~pda/lphdisk/ > > Oh, Joy! Or even better, on sid or woody: apt-get install lphdisk Unfortunately (for potato users):

Re: Install from USB floppy?

2001-05-15 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Here's how I installed Debian on my Vaio (Z505S, August 1999) with USB floppy: 1. Obtained the RedHat single-floppy "network install" disk, in my case from 6.0. 2. Partitioned the disk, leaving the hibernate partition alone, and installed into what would become the swap partiti

Re: Please recommend a machine

2001-08-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Jaime Bemaras wrote: >Hello list, > >Evidently my last posting didn't make it to the list. I appologize if I end up >double-posting. > >I am looking to acquire a laptop. I will need a dual boot system because my >university only supports MS software (don't get me started). > Have you thought ab

EtherJet on ThinkPad doesn't work with Potato

2001-09-26 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, We're trying to install Potato (R0, I think) on a ThinkPad T22 with no onboard ethernet, so we got it with a "network card" which turned out to be an IBM EtherJet 10/100. Installation goes fine through configuring the network. For PCMCIA support, we chose the Intel-compatible opti

Re: apm death

2001-09-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Tom Allison wrote: > bleah! > I upgraded to kernel 2.4 and am running into a problem with apm > suspend/sleep. Just one little check: With 2.2, APM is enabled in the kernel by putting "apm=on" in the boot arguments. With 2.4 (at least the pre-built kernel-image packages), you have to load

Re: What to choose

2001-10-03 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Teppo Hytönen wrote: >Giving a list about what's good in Debian would take a while, I don't >think I'll even start on that, hehe : ) > I gave it a try a while ago, and came up with the list at http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debian.html . Additions/corrections welcome. It would be cool to have a g

Re: Xfree downgrade

2001-11-12 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Daniel Frencham wrote: > I'm using Woody on my laptop, and have been trying to get X to work. > > > > I just found out that my video card isn't supported under Xfree 4.x > only xfree 3.x. > > > > Is there anyway I can install xfree86 3.3.1 under woody ? > There should be v3 X servers, such a

Re: IBM EtherJet on ThinkPad 600E

2001-09-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Frank Petzold wrote: >Has anyone out there managed to get an IBM EtherJet 10/100 PCMCIA card >running on a ThinkPad 600E? > Just curious, was this problem ever resolved? (Original message posted 7/14/00 with no followups.) Does anyone have an EtherJet PCMCIA card working at all? Anyone have

Re: What to choose

2001-10-09 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ajay Shah wrote: >On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 09:29:02AM -0400, TEETER,VINCE (HP-USA,ex1) wrote: > >>It would also be cool to have better general, high-level doc about Debian. >>There is no shortage of details, but I still have no concept of what the >>various pieces are. Please don't say to read al

Re: EtherJet on ThinkPad doesn't work with Potato

2001-10-11 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Greetings, > > We're trying to install Potato (R0, I think) on a ThinkPad T22 with no > onboard ethernet, so we got it with a "network card" which turned out > to be an IBM EtherJet 10/100. Okay, I feel silly now. Using boot floppies f

Re: Off screen

1999-12-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
"Karl M. Hegbloom" wrote: > I had to grep the net for a version of phdisk.exe that would format a > suspend partition for me... It would be neat to have a phdisk.exe > for Linux. That would be great- among other things, I could get my windows refund. :-) In your grep, did you locate source c

Re: vaio 505 install again

1999-12-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Luis Villa wrote: > Ok- so I'm trying (yet again) to install Debian on my 505 from a 2.1 > (Slink) CD, and yet again, the process is failing. > > I suppose my first question should be: has anyone actually done this? I > hvae read various accounts on the web of Debian installs on the 505, but > the

Re: Xfree downgrade

2001-11-12 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Daniel Frencham wrote: I'm using Woody on my laptop, and have been trying to get X to work. I just found out that my video card isn't supported under Xfree 4.x only xfree 3.x. Is there anyway I can install xfree86 3.3.1 under woody ? There should be v3 X servers, such as xserver-svga

Re: Xircom XE 2000 issues

2002-02-03 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Chris Sutcliffe wrote: I'm trying to get my Xircom XE 2000 PCMCIA network card working. I can get a link light on both the card and the router, ifconfig displays all the configuration information correctly, and the route table is setup correctly. I've read various messages around the 'net sayi

Re: Xircom XE 2000 issues

2002-02-03 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Adam C Powell IV wrote: Chris Sutcliffe wrote: I'm trying to get my Xircom XE 2000 PCMCIA network card working. I can get a link light on both the card and the router, ifconfig displays all the configuration information correctly, and the route table is setup correctly. I've re

Re: sid and Windows DHCP

2002-02-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Derek Broughton wrote: Bradley Alexander wrote: I have a Mac Powerbook G3 (Pismo) that dual boots MacOS9 (to watch DVDs) and sid. I have taken it to work a few times, and find that I cannot get a DHCP address. For some reason (the reason being that Windoze' DHCP implementation is BROKEN), pump

Re: Can I use Debian for...

2002-05-07 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: Hello, I'm thinking of switching to Debian. I have a few questions. I have an IBM T21 Thinkpad, with the UltraCam II camera, Windows 2000, and a cable modem. I use the UltraCam to video conference with my family and friends via Netmeeting now. I also stay in touc

Re: Masquerade Help Requested

2002-06-24 Thread Adam C Powell IV
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, with all you folks' help i have my mini-LAN established. Special thanks to those that told me about the correct cables to use and pointed me to the correct drivers for my network cards. I was fooling around with iptables and got the masquerade thing to work, alb

Re: Xircom XE 2000 issues

2002-02-03 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > I'm trying to get my Xircom XE 2000 PCMCIA network card working. I can > get a link light on both the card and the router, ifconfig displays > all the configuration information correctly, and the route table is > setup correctly. I've read various messages around the '

Re: Xircom XE 2000 issues

2002-02-03 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > >> I'm trying to get my Xircom XE 2000 PCMCIA network card working. I >> can get a link light on both the card and the router, ifconfig >> displays all the configuration information correctly, and the route >

Re: sid and Windows DHCP

2002-02-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Derek Broughton wrote: > Bradley Alexander wrote: > >> I have a Mac Powerbook G3 (Pismo) that dual boots MacOS9 (to watch DVDs) >> and sid. I have taken it to work a few times, and find that I cannot get >> a DHCP address. For some reason (the reason being that Windoze' DHCP >> implementation is

Re: Can I use Debian for...

2002-05-07 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: >Hello, > >I'm thinking of switching to Debian. I have a few questions. > >I have an IBM T21 Thinkpad, with the UltraCam II camera, Windows 2000, >and a cable modem. I use the UltraCam to video conference with my >family and friends via Netmeeting now. I also stay i

Re: Masquerade Help Requested

2002-06-24 Thread Adam C Powell IV
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Ok, with all you folks' help i have my mini-LAN established. Special >thanks to those that told me about the correct cables to use and pointed >me to the correct drivers for my network cards. > >I was fooling around with iptables and got the masquerade thing to work,