Re: madwifi and cvs

2005-10-04 Thread Andrew McMillan
n your machine, but only via some other sort of remote shell, such as ssh. Cheers, Andrew McMillan. - Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington WEB: http://

Re: madwifi and cvs

2005-10-04 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 15:29 +, Bob Alexander wrote: > Mildy OT :) > > Wanted to retrieve the CVS branch of madwifi to get my Thinkpad T40 wifi > up and running. Also, instead of CVS, consider: # # Atheros drivers debianised deb http://debian.marlow.dk/ sid madwifi # deb-src ftp://debian.mar

Re: How to use password-protected wireless networks?

2005-10-08 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 01:57 +1000, John O'Hagan wrote: > Hi all, > > Running testing on a wireless equipped laptop, I can usually get on to any > available networks using some combination of ifupdown, ifplugd, whereami, > resolvconf, kwifimanager etc. > > One situation which has stumped me, ho

Re: Dial-up modem 'No CARRIER'

2005-10-17 Thread Andrew McMillan
t the other end picked up OK and they tried and failed to negotiate. Using the same parameters with a pcmcia modem worked fine. So, you aren't alone, but I can't offer a solution to the problem :-( Regards, Andrew McMillan.

Re: Using WPA without wpa_supplicant?

2005-10-22 Thread Andrew McMillan
t to whereami at that point to try and be useful with wpa_supplicant. I'm happy to help you through the problem, if you haven't sorted it out yourself. If you have sorted it out, it would be useful to understand the approach you have taken. R

Re: Using WPA without wpa_supplicant?

2005-10-22 Thread Andrew McMillan
ucceeds? - Should it stop wpa_supplicant if it fails? - Is 15 seconds long enough? Regards, Andrew McMillan. - Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington WEB:

Re: preferring wired over wireless

2005-11-05 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 13:50 -0700, Luca Pireddu wrote: > When both my wireless and wired networking devices are connected, how can I > get my laptop to use the wired device and ignore the wireless one? I tried > specifying a higher metric for my wired device (via ifconfig metric), but it > does

Re: Unidentified subject!

2005-11-14 Thread Andrew McMillan
t's an AC97 modem and you need to apt-get install sl-modem-daemon. Regards, Andrew McMillan. - Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington WEB: http:/

Re: [Wireless] network disconnections

2005-12-04 Thread Andrew McMillan
have problems with a device at extreme range to one side of the AP and another device at extreme range in the other direction. > Cards work both with NdisWrapper. ndiswrapper is a hack, but it should still work better than this! Regards,

Re: no public key

2006-01-12 Thread Andrew McMillan
ing an (unfortunately) undocumented feature of apt-key. Cheers, Andrew McMillan. - Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington WEB: http://catalyst.net.nz/

Re: Best practice to setup a guest account?

2006-06-15 Thread Andrew McMillan
anent directory for your guests to save things that they wanted a bit of persistence for. Hope this is some help, Andrew McMillan. - Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

2006-07-14 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 13:07 -0700, Sean Perry wrote: > > That said, most laptop batteries degrade performance significantly if > left plugged into the mains 24/7. So only plug in for refills. That is absolutely _not_ the case for LiIon batteries. You should keep LiIon batteries fully charged, a

Re: stt

2006-12-28 Thread Andrew McMillan
a frontend for the KDE Text-to-Speech system kttsd - a Text-to-Speech system for KDE Regards, Andrew McMillan. - Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington WEB: htt

Re: ThinkPads

2007-01-08 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 16:46 -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > > Video acceleration: > All I can find is ATI or Intel video chipsets... but I've heard say > that ATI (3D acceleration) is a pain to get working. I've had some > trouble myself for older cards (mine was Radeon 7200, not supported at > all

Re: How to bind special button to ifup/ifdown

2007-03-06 Thread Andrew McMillan
llevents' "Received ACPI event =>$1<=" === So that I can see every ACPI event in syslog. Cheers, Andrew McMillan. -

Re: How to bind special button to ifup/ifdown

2007-03-07 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 01:32 +0100, Marcus C. Gottwald wrote: > Andrew McMillan wrote (Wed 2007-Mar-07 00:07:52 +): > > > When I re-enable the wifi I need to "modprobe ipw3945" which also > > manages to restart the daemon (there must be some special magic there

Re: Probleme de dsdt

2007-03-20 Thread Andrew McMillan
Family -> Core 2 / newer Xeon I can't help with the rest of your problems though. Regards, Andrew McMillan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gateway MT6451

2007-04-18 Thread Andrew McMillan
st drivers from here: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/tifmxx I'm afraid someone else will need to explain to you how to get the Broadcom 1390 WLAN working under Linux. Good luck! Regards, Andrew McMillan. > > 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies I

Re: hwclock

2007-04-22 Thread Andrew McMillan
t to a standard time then no UTC for you! :-) Regards, Andrew McMillan. - Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington WEB: http://catalyst.net.nz/P

Re: Sony or Toshiba? (corrected)

2007-05-01 Thread Andrew McMillan
read SD (& MMC?) cards where there are some under-development drivers that I have had some success with on a different laptop. - You may need to install Xorg 7.3 to get the graphics running properly, or perhaps use 915resolution (but really, Xorg7.3 is a better solution). Everything else should

Re: cpufreq

2007-08-06 Thread Andrew McMillan
e "conservative" governor is slightly better. Cheers, Andrew McMillan. [1] http://www.linuxpowertop.org/ - Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellin

Re: Suspend to disk?

2007-08-26 Thread Andrew McMillan
r problem in *other* ways now, but I thought that this answer might also be useful and enlightening :-) Cheers, Andrew McMillan. - Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manne

Re: unresolved symbols in pcmcia modules v3.1.6

1999-12-16 Thread Andrew McMillan
on't_ work if I do the pcmcia modules before building the kernel, for example - I'll get error messages similar to the ones you are reporting. Regards, Andrew McMillan _________

Potato on laptops

1999-12-16 Thread Andrew McMillan
Andrew. _____ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catalyst IT Ltd, PO Box 10-225, Level 22, 105 The Terrace, Wellington Me: +64 (21) 635 694, Fax: +64 (4) 499 5596, Office: +64 (4) 499 2267

Re: Xircom cem56 hot swap

2000-01-24 Thread Andrew McMillan
Andrew. -- _____ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catalyst IT Ltd, PO Box 10-225, Level 22, 105 The Terrace, Wellington Me: +64 (21) 635 694, Fax: +64 (4) 499 5596, Office: +64 (4) 499 2267

Re: Xircom cem56 hot swap

2000-01-24 Thread Andrew McMillan
I have a bunch of scripts which I have (Debian) packaged up as 'whereami' which allow my system to auto-configure itself for the locations I plug in at. This works well for fixed IP now, as well as DHCP which it always worked for. --

IBM Thinkpad A21p

2001-02-27 Thread Andrew McMillan
ence welcome. Regards, Andrew. -- _________ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: Andrew at catalyst.net.nz Catalyst IT Ltd, PO Box 10-225, Level 22, 105 The Terrace, Wellington Me: +64 (21) 635 694, Fax: +64 (4) 499 5596, Office: +64 (4) 499 2267

Re: pcmcia problem

2001-03-26 Thread Andrew McMillan
want "binary-modules" and "binary-cs". Hope this helps, Andrew. -- _ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catalyst IT Ltd, PO Box 10-225, Level 22, 105 The Terrace, Wellington Me: +64 (21) 635 694, Fax: +64 (4) 499 5596, Office: +64 (4) 499 2267

Re: hardware profiles?

2001-04-24 Thread Andrew McMillan
nt to try and mount if they are there. Cheers, Andrew. -- _____ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catalyst IT Ltd, PO Box 10-225, Level 22, 105 The Terrace, Wellington Me: +64 (21) 635 694, Fax: +64 (4) 499 5596, Office: +64 (4) 499 2267

Re: Hard drive crash

2001-04-26 Thread Andrew McMillan
rive upgrades on laptops half a dozen times now with no problems. Regards, Andrew. -- _________ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catalyst IT Ltd, PO Box 10-225, Level 22, 105 The Terrace, Wellington Me: +64 (21) 635 694, Fax: +64 (4) 499 5596, Office: +64 (4) 499 2267

Re: Integrated Mini-PCI ethnet/modem combo for Dell

2001-04-01 Thread Andrew McMillan
dem. Regards, Andrew. -- _____ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catalyst IT Ltd, PO Box 10-225, Level 22, 105 The Terrace, Wellington Me: +64 (21) 635 694, Fax: +64 (4) 499 5596, Office: +64 (4) 499 2267

Re: Ati Mobility Performance

2001-05-14 Thread Andrew McMillan
on 2 And that is an r128 (IBM A21p). Cheers, Andrew. -- _____ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catalyst IT Ltd, PO Box 10-225, Level 22, 105 The Terrace, Wellington Me: +64(2

Re: SpeedStep / Geyserville lockups?

2001-05-16 Thread Andrew McMillan
s the BIOS manages to sort this out for me? Suspend / resume have also worked flawlessly, apart from the (apparently) standard sound driver bugs, requiring ALSA to be restarted on resume. Regards, Andrew. -- _

Re: modem on a TP A21m

2001-05-17 Thread Andrew McMillan
3Com to produce a driver. Cheers, Andrew. -- _____ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catalyst IT Ltd, PO Box 10-225, Level 22, 105 The Terrace, Wellington Me: +64(21)635-694, Fa

Re: T22 modem setup / configuration with 2.2r3 installation help needed

2001-06-19 Thread Andrew McMillan
that it is related to the ethernet card driver, so I'm sticking with 2.4.4 for the time being. Cheers, Andrew. -- _ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catalyst IT L

Re: moving to a new laptop

2001-06-19 Thread Andrew McMillan
that I copy personal stuff across and put it into the appropriate locations. I usually take the opportunity to try and reorganise things a bit more sensibly than last time too :-) Cheers, Andrew. -- _____

Re: kernel defaults to reiserfs?

2001-06-22 Thread Andrew McMillan
rd. Hope this helps. I tracked it down doing diffs between the options I had for a (working) 2.4 kernel and my 2.5 kernel. Cheers, Andrew. -- _____ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: [EMAIL P

Re: Thinkpad A21p top-open screen redraw problem (update)

2001-08-23 Thread Andrew McMillan
works (including WLAN at home) and everything 'just works'. I hope I can be some help to you. Regards, Andrew. -- _ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: Andrew @ catalyst . net . nz Catalyst IT Ltd, PO Box 10-225, Level 22, 105 The Terrace, Wellington Me: +64(21)635-694, Fax:+64(4)499-5596, Office: +64(4)499-2267xtn709

Re: pcmcia-modules... for 2.4.x kernel?

2001-08-23 Thread Andrew McMillan
Andrew. -- _________ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: Andrew @ catalyst . net . nz Catalyst IT Ltd, PO Box 10-225, Level 22, 105 The Terrace, Wellington Me: +64(21)635-694, Fax:+64(4)499-5596, Office: +64(4)499-2267xtn709

Re: Modem of notebook hp xe3

2001-09-06 Thread Andrew McMillan
. Anything else and I have no idea :-) Good luck, Andrew. -- _____ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: Andrew @ catalyst . net . nz Catalyst IT Ltd, PO Box 10-225, Level 22, 105 The Terrace, Welli

Re: pcmcia-cs and configuring network...

2001-09-10 Thread Andrew McMillan
ttle better. Regards, Andrew. -- _____ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: Andrew @ catalyst . net . nz Catalyst IT Ltd, PO Box 10-225, Level 22, 105 The Terrace, Wellington Me: +64(21)635-694, Fax:+64(4)499-5596, Office: +64(4)499-2267xtn709

Re: Thinkpad A21m SoundFusion

2001-09-11 Thread Andrew McMillan
onths it isn't a big deal. I'm using kernel 2.4, and the alsa-source package form unstable. Regards, Andrew. -- _ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: Andrew @ catalyst . net . nz Catalyst IT L

Re: Thinkpad A21m SoundFusion

2001-09-13 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2001-09-13 at 19:06, Nicolas SABOURET wrote: > Andrew McMillan wrote: > > > > I wrote : [...] > > > > > get help on having my Crystal SoundFusion card to work on the my > > > ThinkPad A21m. > > > > > > I switched to kernel 2.4.7 but

Re: How to mail (userfriendly)?

2001-09-13 Thread Andrew McMillan
a couple of years). I hope all this helps somewhat - feel free to ask questions if you want to set yourself up this way. Regards, Andrew. -- _ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: Andrew @ catalyst . net . nz Catalyst IT Ltd, PO Box 10-225, Level 22, 105 The Terrace, Wellington Me: +64(21)635-694, Fax:+64(4)499-5596, Office: +64(4)499-2267xtn709

Re: Storm Linux Does anyone know where I can get updates ??

2001-09-23 Thread Andrew McMillan
list . Regards, Andrew. -- _________ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: Andrew @ catalyst . net . nz Catalyst IT Ltd, PO Box 10-225, Level 22, 105 The Terrace, Wellington Me: +64(21)635-694, Fax:+64(4)499-5596, Office: +64(4)499-2267xtn709

Re: KDE

2001-09-28 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Fri, 2001-09-28 at 23:00, Tom Allison wrote: > Tom Allison wrote: > > > I installed KDE and all the fixings. > > > > in my .xsession file I have, currently, > > > > --- > > #!/bin/bash > > gnome-session > > --- > > > > How do I edit this for using KDM? > > > > > > Sorry, I forgot somethin

Re: X-Fonts

2001-10-09 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 08 Oct 2001 02:21:44 -0500, wrote: > > *** Please say _something_ to me !! :) > > I'm running Debian 90% Woody on my laptop. > > The menus and dialog-boxes of most X win > applications (Nedit, The Gimp, playlists) > are all SquArEs !! Unreadable. > > Do you know what x-library might

RE: x-window-manager link

2001-10-10 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2001-10-10 at 10:05, Mark R. Millsap wrote: > > Ohh... bummer. > > Here is what I get when I tried the command you suggested: > > There is only 1 program which provides x-window-manager > (/usr/bin/X11/twm). Nothing to configure. Both Gnome and KDE wrap the window-manager in a Session

Re: Woody Killed PCMCIA & Root in Gnome

2001-10-19 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sat, 2001-10-20 at 15:55, Doc - KD4E wrote: > Just upgraded from Progeny-Debian 2.2.18 to Woody, or > so I thought. > > When I boot 2.2.18 still shows up but Grub has changed appearance > as has Gnome. > > Problems: > > Cannot access my pcmcia nic (3Com 589c which worked perfectly > prior t

Re: The SpedStep crash problem ...

2001-10-24 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 09:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Clayton Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > For what it's worth, I've a Dell Inspiron 7000 running 2.2.19 > > and SpeedStep seems to work fine. Well, in so far as when I plug the > > machine in /proc/whatever says 700MHz and when I u

IBM Thinkpad A21p

2001-02-27 Thread Andrew McMillan
ence welcome. Regards, Andrew. -- _________ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: Andrew at catalyst.net.nz Catalyst IT Ltd, PO Box 10-225, Level 22, 105 The Terrace, Wellington Me: +64 (21) 635 694, Fax: +

Re: pcmcia problem

2001-03-26 Thread Andrew McMillan
want "binary-modules" and "binary-cs". Hope this helps, Andrew. -- _ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catalyst IT Ltd, PO Box 10-225, Level 22, 105 The Terrace, Wellington Me

Re: Integrated Mini-PCI ethnet/modem combo for Dell

2001-04-01 Thread Andrew McMillan
dem. Regards, Andrew. -- _____ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catalyst IT Ltd, PO Box 10-225, Level 22, 105 The Terrace, Wellington Me: +64 (21) 635 694, Fax: +64 (4) 499 5596, Office: +64 (4) 499 2267 -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: hardware profiles?

2001-04-24 Thread Andrew McMillan
ant to try and mount if they are there. Cheers, Andrew. -- _____ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catalyst IT Ltd, PO Box 10-225, Level 22, 105 The Terrace, Wellington Me: +64 (21) 635 694, Fax: +64 (4) 499 5596,

Re: Hard drive crash

2001-04-26 Thread Andrew McMillan
lems. Regards, Andrew. -- _________ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catalyst IT Ltd, PO Box 10-225, Level 22, 105 The Terrace, Wellington Me: +64 (21) 635 694, Fax: +64 (4) 499 5596, O

Re: Ati Mobility Performance

2001-05-14 Thread Andrew McMillan
2 And that is an r128 (IBM A21p). Cheers, Andrew. -- _________ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catalyst IT Ltd, PO Box 10-225, Level 22, 105 The Terrace, Wellington Me: +64(21)635-6

Re: SpeedStep / Geyserville lockups?

2001-05-16 Thread Andrew McMillan
me? Suspend / resume have also worked flawlessly, apart from the (apparently) standard sound driver bugs, requiring ALSA to be restarted on resume. Regards, Andrew. -- _ Andrew McMill

Re: modem on a TP A21m

2001-05-17 Thread Andrew McMillan
produce a driver. Cheers, Andrew. -- _____ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catalyst IT Ltd, PO Box 10-225, Level 22, 105 The Terrace, Wellington Me: +64(21)635-694, Fax: +6

Re: T22 modem setup / configuration with 2.2r3 installation help needed

2001-06-19 Thread Andrew McMillan
that it is related to the ethernet card driver, so I'm sticking with 2.4.4 for the time being. Cheers, Andrew. -- _ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catalyst IT Ltd,

Re: moving to a new laptop

2001-06-19 Thread Andrew McMillan
that I copy personal stuff across and put it into the appropriate locations. I usually take the opportunity to try and reorganise things a bit more sensibly than last time too :-) Cheers, Andrew. -- _____

Re: kernel defaults to reiserfs?

2001-06-22 Thread Andrew McMillan
rd. Hope this helps. I tracked it down doing diffs between the options I had for a (working) 2.4 kernel and my 2.5 kernel. Cheers, Andrew. -- _____ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: [EMAIL P

Re: PCMCIA Flash Card Problem

2001-07-04 Thread Andrew McMillan
lt it as a separate package (a la 2.2.x style). Cheers, Andrew. -- _____ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catalyst IT Ltd, PO Box 10-225, Level 22, 105 The Terrace, Wellington Me: +64(27)246

Re: Wireless Networking

2001-07-22 Thread Andrew McMillan
device from Linux? Regards, Andrew. -- _____ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: Andrew @ catalyst . net . nz Catalyst IT Ltd, PO Box 10-225, Level 22, 105 The Terrace, Wellington Me: +64(27)246-7091, Fax:+64(4)499-5596, Office: +64(4)499-2267xtn709 -- To UNSU

Re: Thinkpad A21p top-open screen redraw problem (update)

2001-08-23 Thread Andrew McMillan
works (including WLAN at home) and everything 'just works'. I hope I can be some help to you. Regards, Andrew. -- _ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: Andrew @ catalyst . net . nz Catalyst IT Ltd, PO Box 10-225, Lev

Re: pcmcia-modules... for 2.4.x kernel?

2001-08-23 Thread Andrew McMillan
Andrew. -- _________ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: Andrew @ catalyst . net . nz Catalyst IT Ltd, PO Box 10-225, Level 22, 105 The Terrace, Wellington Me: +64(21)635-694, Fax:+64(4)499-5596, Office: +64(4)499-2267xtn709 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Modem of notebook hp xe3

2001-09-06 Thread Andrew McMillan
. Anything else and I have no idea :-) Good luck, Andrew. -- _____ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: Andrew @ catalyst . net . nz Catalyst IT Ltd, PO Box 10-225, Level 22, 105 The Terrace, Welli

Re: pcmcia-cs and configuring network...

2001-09-10 Thread Andrew McMillan
ttle better. Regards, Andrew. -- _____ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: Andrew @ catalyst . net . nz Catalyst IT Ltd, PO Box 10-225, Level 22, 105 The Terrace, Wellington Me: +64(21)635-694, Fax:+64(4)499-5596, Office: +64(4)499-

Re: Thinkpad A21m SoundFusion

2001-09-11 Thread Andrew McMillan
onths it isn't a big deal. I'm using kernel 2.4, and the alsa-source package form unstable. Regards, Andrew. -- _ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: Andrew @ catalyst . net . nz Catalyst IT L

Re: How to mail (userfriendly)?

2001-09-13 Thread Andrew McMillan
a couple of years). I hope all this helps somewhat - feel free to ask questions if you want to set yourself up this way. Regards, Andrew. -- _ A

Re: Thinkpad A21m SoundFusion

2001-09-13 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2001-09-13 at 19:06, Nicolas SABOURET wrote: > Andrew McMillan wrote: > > > > I wrote : [...] > > > > > get help on having my Crystal SoundFusion card to work on the my > > > ThinkPad A21m. > > > > > > I switched to kernel 2.

Re: Woody Killed PCMCIA & Root in Gnome

2001-10-19 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sat, 2001-10-20 at 15:55, Doc - KD4E wrote: > Just upgraded from Progeny-Debian 2.2.18 to Woody, or > so I thought. > > When I boot 2.2.18 still shows up but Grub has changed appearance > as has Gnome. > > Problems: > > Cannot access my pcmcia nic (3Com 589c which worked perfectly > prior

Re: The SpedStep crash problem ...

2001-10-24 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 09:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Clayton Carter [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > > > For what it's worth, I've a Dell Inspiron 7000 running 2.2.19 > > and SpeedStep seems to work fine. Well, in so far as when I plug the > > machine in /proc/whatever says 700MHz and when

Re: Mobile network configuration

2001-10-31 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2001-11-01 at 02:02, David Z Maze wrote: > I have a fairly new laptop running Debian unstable. It has on-board > MiniPCI 802.11 wireless (yay!). I'm using kernel 2.4.12, with the > driver modules from the pcmcia-source package (specifically, the > wvlan_cs module). > > What I'd like to

Re: Network connection

2001-11-05 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2001-11-06 at 07:53, Fredrik Jagenheim wrote: > > How do I make eth0 configure itself automatically whenever a network > cable is inserted? Or otherwise configure the network at the request > of a user? > > My laptop is usually connected to a DHCP LAN, either at home or at > work. Howeve

Re: IBM A Series, Mod. 26523VG

2001-11-20 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 23:01, Dave Swegen wrote: > > Unfortunatly this is not the case (at least as far as the A21m is > concerned). It would seem that some of them ship with a 3com card, which > doesn't work, from what I've gathered. So to be on the safe side > doublecheck before buying one. >

RE: Xfree downgrade

2001-11-13 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 11:36, Arlen Carlson wrote: > Hmm! I'd be very surprised if it wasn't the reverse situation...In general > cards that work under 3.x will work under 4.x, but not the other way around. > As an example, I believe there are some newer Nvidia-based cards that require > 4.x, and

Re: Dell Inspiron 8100 text screen

2001-11-16 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 03:23, Goran Ristic wrote: > > I suppose you use framebuffer. > Unfortunately vesa-framebuffer can handle only 1280x1024. Your screen > can handle 1600x1280. That's what you see, when you switch between X > and Con. I use VESA framebuffer at 1600x1200 on my Thinkpad - I add

RE: Network connection

2001-11-05 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2001-11-06 at 14:41, Marc Andreu wrote: > > I've seen tools that at the begining of the startup of the computer asks > u which network configuration to use. I got 2 networks, one at > work and another at home, both have a very diferent network configuration > ( DHCP&Workgroups / Static

Re: Storm Linux Does anyone know where I can get updates ??

2001-09-23 Thread Andrew McMillan
list . Regards, Andrew. -- _________ Andrew McMillan, e-mail: Andrew @ catalyst . net . nz Catalyst IT Ltd, PO Box 10-225, Level 22, 105 The Terrace, Wellington Me: +64(21)635-694, Fax:+64(4)499-5596, Office: +64(4

Re: KDE

2001-09-28 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Fri, 2001-09-28 at 23:00, Tom Allison wrote: > Tom Allison wrote: > > > I installed KDE and all the fixings. > > > > in my .xsession file I have, currently, > > > > --- > > #!/bin/bash > > gnome-session > > --- > > > > How do I edit this for using KDM? > > > > > > Sorry, I forgot somethi

Re: X-Fonts

2001-10-08 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 08 Oct 2001 02:21:44 -0500, wrote: > > *** Please say _something_ to me !! :) > > I'm running Debian 90% Woody on my laptop. > > The menus and dialog-boxes of most X win > applications (Nedit, The Gimp, playlists) > are all SquArEs !! Unreadable. > > Do you know what x-library might

Re: Thoughts on network detection and configuration on Debian

2001-12-06 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 04:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * Thoughts on network detection and configuration on Debian > > There are a lot of packages for automatic network detection and > reconfiguration on debian: whereami, divine, intuitively, > laptop-netconf, laptop-net, netenv and maybe other

Re: problems debian / gnome

2001-10-29 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 23:03, Marko Djukic wrote: > Hi all, > > have a problem, I did a debian install and that went ok... i did a gnome > install and that didn't seem to go too well. > > everytime i boot, debian gets to the login prompt, waits 1sec then blanks > out the screen with a cursor bl

Re: problems debian / gnome

2001-10-29 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 23:16, Marko Djukic wrote: > there is no /home//.xsession-errors file... > > i don't think it gets to the xsession to do any error logging... i see the > terminal prompt for login for a second and then it goes blank... i don't > even get a chance to log in... Right, sorry

Re: xfree video-configuration

2001-11-30 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 06:37, Max Koszela wrote: > I've got the sis630-motherboard with the agp-graphics > chipset with the same name built in. This card seems to be > supported (at least if XF86Setup is to be trusted). The install > script of the svga-something xserver didn't succeed in > configu

RE: x-window-manager link

2001-10-10 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2001-10-10 at 10:05, Mark R. Millsap wrote: > > Ohh... bummer. > > Here is what I get when I tried the command you suggested: > > There is only 1 program which provides x-window-manager > (/usr/bin/X11/twm). Nothing to configure. Both Gnome and KDE wrap the window-manager in a Session

Re: Thoughts on network detection and configuration on Debian

2001-12-08 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 07:35, David Roundy wrote: > > As far as ideas for improvement to whereami, I was just thinking that > perhaps a nice way to do some of its work would be to have it switch > runlevels. Since we already have the runlevel mechanism for creating > different configurations (esp

Re: Why Linux on a Laptop?

2001-11-30 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 21:39, Alec wrote: > > I'm wondering what everyone's motivation is for using Linux on a laptop > instead of Cygwin + Windows. The way I see it, a laptop is basically a giant > PDA. People usually use them for typing down stuff during classes, seminars, > conferences, in t

Re: thinkpad pad, woody and a linksys wpc11 lan card

2001-12-21 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 20:05, nick lidakis wrote: > Just purchased a Linksys WPC11 wireless lan card to use with my > thinkpad. Currently running woody with kernel 2.4.16. I compiled the > kernel with the Prsim drivers as modules. hermes.o, orinoco.o and > orinoco_cs.o appear in /lib/modules.../wi

Re: pcmcia modem ... IS A WINMODEM!!!

2001-12-22 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 09:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Sorry for submitting such a stupid problem to the list: > cardctl output is: > > Socket 0: > no product info available > Socket 1: > product info: "LT WIN MODEM", "PC card", "", "" > function: 2 (serial) > > Happy

Re: Thinkpad 760XL Sound and Compactlfash cards

2001-12-26 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 10:00, bigill wrote: > Hi. > I have an ibm thinkpad 760xl and i dont know how to install the sound card ;( > The name of the soundcard is = ESS1688 Sound Blaster Compatible. > Can sombody help me ? There should be a module in either the standard kernel, or the alsa modules,

Re: External Monitor

2001-12-27 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 14:17, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Bonjour: > > Is there an easy way to `plug' > a Debian laptop to an external/second monitor > (in fact the one of my Debian desktop)? Huh? Every laptop I have ever had I just plugged one in. There is usually a keyboard sequence to roll throug

Re: Xircom CardBus: silence the modem

2001-12-27 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 14:15, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Bonjour: > > I have a very naive question: > How can we avoid the annoying connection noise > of our modem ? Send the appropriate AT command to the modem before dialling, or possibly save it in the modems command set. ATM0 Is probably the one

New 'whereami' in unstable

2002-01-06 Thread Andrew McMillan
Hi All, For those who may be interested, I have released a substantially changed version of 'whereami'. The major changes are that: - Detection is now handled from a single configuration file, rather than from having to write a bunch of small scripts. - The program is now written in perl, ra

Re: Problem w/ T23 and NIC (eepro100)

2002-01-12 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sat, 2002-01-12 at 20:25, Bryan Daniels wrote: > I am running Debian 2.2_Rev4, kernel 2.2.19 on a Think > Pad T23 with an Intel(R) PRO/100 network card. As far > as I can tell from the HOWTO for Ethernet, this > requires the eepro100 network module. I have been > unable to get the NIC recognize

Re: Large HD problem(s) with older Laptop

2002-01-13 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 08:35, Glenn Becker wrote: > Hi, > > Successfully replaced my 2.1G HD on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 470CDT with > a 30G-er I won off eBay. Re-installed Win98 (ecch) and just for the hell > of it, checked the drive size ... it seems to be only 8G. > > I've heard of older machin

Re: radeon mobility

2002-01-13 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 16:27, Jason Majors wrote: > Is there a driver for the ati radeon mobility for x 4.1? > I set my notebook up using the radeon driver, but X dies complaining that > there are no devices available. Switching the Device line to "Standard VGA" > brings it up, but at vga16. I bel

Re: WLAN-Card on Sarge

2004-06-13 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 17:26 +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > > It's a Debian issue. The hotplug and ifupdown maintainers are inactive. > However, I don't know of any other distros that have better support for > automatic dynamic configuration of laptops. Do you? Of course if we could all agree that

Re: Thinkpad R50 - NetInstall -> no shutdown / ACPI

2004-07-08 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 17:34 +0200, Karl wrote: > Hi! > > I just installed Debian on my Thinkpad R50 using the new Debian Installer > and installing over the net. > > Installed Kernel is 2.6.6-1. Quite everything works fine, but not ACPI. > > Worst thing is, that when I shutdown the laptop, it i

Re: using acpi

2004-07-14 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 10:10 +0200, Bernhard Kleine wrote: > Hi, > since I have already asked some days before whether anybody could > provide scripts for acpi support e.g. to shut down the screen when the > cover is closed and since I did not receive any response, > > I will ask again: > > Is t

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