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 recognized

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 machine

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 beli

Re: DWL-650

2002-02-03 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 12:32, Tom Allison wrote: > I have been using this card for a while under Linux with the wvlan_cs > driver for 802.11b Prism II cards. > > I want to move over to the orinoco_cs driver. If I change the kernel > I have to spend hours fiddling with trying to get this driver w

Re: DWL-650

2002-02-05 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 10:35, Dave Thayer wrote: > > > > Does anyone have any help they can throw my way on how to get this > > working? I think the biggest hang-up I've got is that I have no clue > > how to identify this device in the /etc/pcmcia/config file. I know > > it's not listed there,

Re: Synaptics touchpad?

2002-02-09 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 07:09, Dave Thayer wrote: > > /etc/gpm-syn.conf > [use_wmode] Y > [corner_taps_enabled] Y > [upper_left_action] 3 > [lower_left_action] 2 > > The only place that gpm-syn.conf is documented is in README.synaptics. > Note that README.synaptics is missing from the sid

Re: Who's messing up my resolv.conf (woody)

2002-02-18 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 05:55, Petr Hlustik wrote: > > domain lib.uchicago.edu\000 > > which is correct for the subnet but the \000 breaks it. The nameservers > that follow are configured correctly. When I go back to my office eth0, the > resolv.conf never gets changed, that is, it remains broken.

Re: dhcp with two networks

2002-04-03 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 03:06, Hubert Chan wrote: > > It may be worth looking at one of the packages like whereami, divine, > intuitively, etc. These packages attempt to figure out where your > laptop is (with some configuration, of course), and set up your network > accordingly. I personally use

Re: Debian PC Requirements

2002-04-11 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 09:41, Derek Broughton wrote: > Mark Barnes wrote: > > I don't think that much swap in a single partition is being fully > > used. > > Nobody, but nobody, needs 1GB for a swap :-) (somebody will now tell me > how they DO :-) ) OK, sure... :-) In early 2.4 kernels the swa

Re: debian for a train hopper

2002-04-15 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 11:16, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > wandering jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > thank you everyone for the advice. i'll have to do > > more research into the various models mentioned. > > sounds like if i'm buying a used system, a thinkpad > > may be the way to go. > > Ju

Re: uninstall Debian

2002-04-15 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 08:57, Nick wrote: > I need to uninstall Debian so I can reinstall from scratch, how can I > uninstall everything. I've _always_ wanted to say to someone to just: su rm -rf / And finally it is halfway reasonable advice! :-) Seriously, do an 'fdisk -l /dev/hda' and a 'df'

Re: docking stations

2002-06-18 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 08:29, Charles Mauch wrote: > Is there a way of detecting a docking station change? (removal, docked, > etc?) > > I'm currently using some shell scripts to restart the pcmcia services > (for the extra 2 pcmcia ports), restart hotplug (to see the extra usb > devices), swap out

Re: static vs. DHCP - and wireless vs. wired

2002-07-02 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 07:01, Bill Moseley wrote: > Anyone have tips for setting up a laptop for static vs. DHCP? Here's how I do it in my /etc/whereami/detect.conf == default undocked testmii eth0 lan if lan set INTERFACE eth0 testdhcp'

Re: startx and runlevels

2002-07-18 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 23:03, Ivar Alm wrote: > > Does startx change runlevel? > Where do I find information about the runlevels? I never understood > hem... Debian doesn't do a lot with runlevels. 0 (should be obvious :-) 1 (single user) 2 (normal use) and 6 (reboot). Places to look are 'man up

Re: Getting X working on Thinkpad A31p

2002-07-28 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 09:01, Ivan Uemlianin wrote: > > 1. I have the XFree86 4.2 source; I imagine it would be better to > install this as a .deb than from source directly. Is this correct? If > so, how go I go about it (or where would I find such info in > man/info/howto/etc?). # /etc/apt

Re: Getting sound working on Thinkpad

2002-07-28 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 09:32, Ivan Uemlianin wrote: > > 1. I don't actually know if it's working or not, as I don't know how to > play an audio CD on it (I don't have X yet). I realise that sounds > pretty dumb. What console-based audio CD players are available on > Debian Woody? Perhaps look a

Re: Cardbus Woody

2002-10-07 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 15:09, Victor Gvirtsman wrote: > Did you try to use yenta_socket for PCMCIA controller instead of i82365 ? > hint look in /etc/default/pcmcia FWIW on my IBM A21p Thinkpad I see the same problem as Tiago with any version of the kernel since 2.4.17 (latest I have tried is 2.4.2

RE: /etc/network/interfaces or /etc/pcmcia/network.opts?

2002-10-10 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 03:18, Bruce Best (CRO) wrote: > > Another problem (which also existed using the /etc/pcmcia/network.opts) is > that the wireless card will not work if the onboard (wired) card is up; I > _have_ to disable eth0 in order to get wlan0 to work. Generally, this isn't > a big deal

Re: kcore eating my disk space

2002-10-16 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 14:24, David Gardiner wrote: > Thanks Andrew, Olaf and Scott for your quick replys, > > The reason I noticed it was because my used disk space jump up to 100% > and I started looking for what using it. du in the root directory gave > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# du -hs * > 2.6M

Re: disk speeds and tweaks

2002-10-16 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 17:20, de|ire wrote: > so if a 5400 rpm is the fastest laptop drive available, what is the rpm of > the standard drive? > > has anyone played arond with kernel support for fast DMA on their lappie? > keen to know if i can get any better on my dell i8k. Typical speed is 420

Re: dell inspiron and cpx hardware qualities

2002-10-22 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 06:48, mw wrote: > And also, is it true that ibm-HD's are suspicious in this way ? I have had no problems with IBM laptop hard drives, but I have had several Hitachi ones fail on me. Regards, Andrew. -- --

Re: DWL-650

2002-02-03 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 12:32, Tom Allison wrote: > I have been using this card for a while under Linux with the wvlan_cs > driver for 802.11b Prism II cards. > > I want to move over to the orinoco_cs driver. If I change the kernel > I have to spend hours fiddling with trying to get this driver

Re: DWL-650

2002-02-05 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 10:35, Dave Thayer wrote: > > > > Does anyone have any help they can throw my way on how to get this > > working? I think the biggest hang-up I've got is that I have no clue > > how to identify this device in the /etc/pcmcia/config file. I know > > it's not listed there

Re: Synaptics touchpad?

2002-02-09 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 07:09, Dave Thayer wrote: > > /etc/gpm-syn.conf > [use_wmode] Y > [corner_taps_enabled] Y > [upper_left_action] 3 > [lower_left_action] 2 > > The only place that gpm-syn.conf is documented is in README.synaptics. > Note that README.synaptics is missing from the si

Re: Who's messing up my resolv.conf (woody)

2002-02-18 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 05:55, Petr Hlustik wrote: > > domain lib.uchicago.edu\000 > > which is correct for the subnet but the \000 breaks it. The nameservers > that follow are configured correctly. When I go back to my office eth0, the > resolv.conf never gets changed, that is, it remains broken.

Re: dhcp with two networks

2002-04-03 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 03:06, Hubert Chan wrote: > > It may be worth looking at one of the packages like whereami, divine, > intuitively, etc. These packages attempt to figure out where your > laptop is (with some configuration, of course), and set up your network > accordingly. I personally use

Re: Debian PC Requirements

2002-04-11 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 09:41, Derek Broughton wrote: > Mark Barnes wrote: > > I don't think that much swap in a single partition is being fully > > used. > > Nobody, but nobody, needs 1GB for a swap :-) (somebody will now tell me > how they DO :-) ) OK, sure... :-) In early 2.4 kernels the sw

Re: debian for a train hopper

2002-04-15 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 11:16, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > wandering jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > thank you everyone for the advice. i'll have to do > > more research into the various models mentioned. > > sounds like if i'm buying a used system, a thinkpad > > may be the way to go. > > J

Re: uninstall Debian

2002-04-15 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 08:57, Nick wrote: > I need to uninstall Debian so I can reinstall from scratch, how can I > uninstall everything. I've _always_ wanted to say to someone to just: su rm -rf / And finally it is halfway reasonable advice! :-) Seriously, do an 'fdisk -l /dev/hda' and a 'df'

Re: docking stations

2002-06-18 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 08:29, Charles Mauch wrote: > Is there a way of detecting a docking station change? (removal, docked, > etc?) > > I'm currently using some shell scripts to restart the pcmcia services > (for the extra 2 pcmcia ports), restart hotplug (to see the extra usb > devices), swap ou

Re: static vs. DHCP - and wireless vs. wired

2002-07-02 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 07:01, Bill Moseley wrote: > Anyone have tips for setting up a laptop for static vs. DHCP? Here's how I do it in my /etc/whereami/detect.conf == default undocked testmii eth0 lan if lan set INTERFACE eth0 testdhcp

Re: Cardbus Woody

2002-10-07 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 15:09, Victor Gvirtsman wrote: > Did you try to use yenta_socket for PCMCIA controller instead of i82365 ? > hint look in /etc/default/pcmcia FWIW on my IBM A21p Thinkpad I see the same problem as Tiago with any version of the kernel since 2.4.17 (latest I have tried is 2.4.

RE: /etc/network/interfaces or /etc/pcmcia/network.opts?

2002-10-10 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 03:18, Bruce Best (CRO) wrote: > > Another problem (which also existed using the /etc/pcmcia/network.opts) is > that the wireless card will not work if the onboard (wired) card is up; I > _have_ to disable eth0 in order to get wlan0 to work. Generally, this isn't > a big dea

Re: kcore eating my disk space

2002-10-16 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 14:24, David Gardiner wrote: > Thanks Andrew, Olaf and Scott for your quick replys, > > The reason I noticed it was because my used disk space jump up to 100% > and I started looking for what using it. du in the root directory gave > > root@munchkin:/# du -hs * > 2.6Mb

Re: disk speeds and tweaks

2002-10-16 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 17:20, de|ire wrote: > so if a 5400 rpm is the fastest laptop drive available, what is the rpm of the >standard drive? > > has anyone played arond with kernel support for fast DMA on their lappie? > keen to know if i can get any better on my dell i8k. Typical speed is 420

Re: dell inspiron and cpx hardware qualities

2002-10-22 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 06:48, mw wrote: > And also, is it true that ibm-HD's are suspicious in this way ? I have had no problems with IBM laptop hard drives, but I have had several Hitachi ones fail on me. Regards, Andrew. -- --

Re: How to manager different network environments?

2002-10-27 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 12:35, Mariano Kamp wrote: > Hi All, > > I am using woody with a Sony Vaio utilizing a WLAN card. Sometimes I > use my laptop in a LAN which I access via Ethernet and the next day with > WLAN. On a client side I cannot use dhcp, but have to use a fixed IP. On > two other si

Re: How to manager different network environments?

2002-10-28 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 07:29, Auke Jilderda wrote: > Andrew, > > I have exactly the same issue as Mariano and judging from the website, > "whereami" is 'exactly what the doctor ordered' ;-). > > On the site, it says: > My feeling is that there are only a few actual times when a > lap

Re: How to manager different network environments?

2002-10-29 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 07:58, Auke Jilderda wrote: > > I'm playing around with whereami, looks really good! I'll look into the > docking/undocking later and first see if I can get it to work properly > in a simple case (two networks, both DHCP, setting mail relay and > network mounts). Browsing t

Re: How to manager different network environments?

2002-10-29 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 08:48, Derek Broughton wrote: > > > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 07:58, Auke Jilderda wrote: > > > > > > I'm playing around with whereami, looks really good! I'll look into the > > > docking/undocking later and first see if I can get it to work properly > > > in a simple case (two

Re: How to manager different network environments?

2002-11-04 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 05:42, Craig Genner wrote: > I'm going to be in a similar situation soon where I will be swapping network > locations but I will be using an inbuilt network device, not a pcmcia card. > How would I also get to autodetect when the network cable has been plugged > in and then st

Re: How to manager different network environments?

2002-11-05 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 11:39, Auke Jilderda wrote: > Exactly how do you run whereami on the apm resume event? Is that > hardware/BIOS dependent or can I do it with the regular APM support in > the Linux kernel? I've been reading up on this but couldn't quite find > it, it seems like I need APIC to

Re: How to manager different network environments?

2002-11-05 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 00:34, Derek Broughton wrote: > > > Unfortunately the ACPI handling is not fully mature yet, so the script > > doesn't do a run-parts... on some directory to let other packages more > > easily hook into it. (H... maybe I feel a wishlist bug coming on... > > :-) > > > >

Re: IBM X20 NIC problem

2002-11-07 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:28, Łukasz Studziński wrote: > I have a slight problem with one IBM X20. It is equipped with combo > ethernet/modem card and usually everything works fine, except suspend. > When computer is brought from suspend there is no way to make NIC > working. Ifconfig shows in outpu

Re: AST Ascentia M Series

2002-12-07 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 01:21, joe mc cool wrote: > Please, > > anyone out there got sound working on an AST Ascentia M Series and might > be able to throw me a few pointers. All I want is to play midis. > > Everything else seems fine under Debian 2.2.20. > > I am forced to use XFree86 3.* as th

Re: Problem with wireless card

2002-12-07 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 04:31, Martin Hermanowski wrote: > On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 04:26:40PM +0100, Riccardo Gusso wrote: > > I have a strange problem with my wireless pcmcia card ZyAir b -100. > > I am using this confugration for it in /etc/pcmcia/config: > > > > card "Zyxel ZyAir B-100" > > man

Re: fonts in woody X

2002-12-09 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 19:05, Praveen Kallakuri wrote: > > anything else i should have done?please write to me if you need more > info to help. There is a font deuglification mini-HOWTO: http://localhost/doc/HOWTO/en-html/mini/FDU/index.html if you have the HOWTOS installed locally. Also, consid

Re: Problem with wireless card

2002-12-09 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 10:04, Martin Hermanowski wrote: > > > > I have seen a suggestion elsewhere that it is possible to burn new > > firmware into these cards, and that the DWL-650 (and possibly others) > > have crappy firmware. > > I am now using a newer version of the orinoco driver, and I get

Re: autoselecting network config despite WEP

2002-12-24 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 10:38, Seth Golub wrote: > There are a few things that change depending on which network > I'm on. /etc/hosts, my unison config (because it seems to ignore > /etc/hosts and go straight to DNS), and some extra things I use in > /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts, the most crucial of whi

Re: Ask Debian: PCMCIA Modem Tips

2002-12-25 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 10:47, Aryan Ameri wrote: > Hi there: > > I have a IBM ThinkPad A31 notebook, which uses a Lucent/Agere AMR Modem. There > is currently no driver available for this device, and I hear from here and > there, that nobody's working on it. So I am thinking of buying a PCMCIA re

Re: DEBIAN and u.s. robotics 2210 pcmcia wlan card ?!?

2003-01-02 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 20:22, Andreas Beder wrote: > Hi @ll .. > i search someone there have a little bit > experience to configure a u.s. robotics pcmica wlan card (2210) 22 mb/sec > > every help are welcome ... :D A search of the USR site suggests that the US Robotics 2210 will not work un

Re: problem with screensaver under character-type terminal

2003-01-02 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 22:51, Frank Thesen wrote: > Hello List, > > on my woody system, I have trouble with automatic screen blanking just > under the character-type terminal. With X it works fine. > > After some time, the terminal clears and nothing more on the console > reacts. No mouse-moving,

Re: Netgear MA401 (wireless network card) trouble

2003-01-02 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 03:36, Karl Eklund wrote: > Sometimes (maybe once every day) the transfer speed goes down to about > 12 kB/s (the connection is much faster) and it's slow to do several > things at the same time (for example, an SSH terminal session becomes > very slow if files are transferred

Re: Help with Xfree86 on Woody

2003-01-04 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 17:39, Parag Ravindran wrote: > I have installed woody on a Samsung Sens Pro 500. I > have been unable to get startx to work. I have tried modifying the > XF86Config-4 file but with no success. The video card driver is Cirrus > Logic GD7548 .Any pointers would be greatly appr

Re: Network discovering... too many options

2003-01-05 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 04:51, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > Package: whereami > Description: Automatically reconfigure your (laptop) system [...] > whereami is a set of useful scripts and a coordinating system for > automatically re-locating your computer within the current >

Re: Network discovering... too many options

2003-01-05 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 09:13, Ilia Lobsanov wrote: > what if one environment requires using mii-tool. eg. mii-tool -F 10BaseT-hd > > Can whereami or anything else handle this case? whereami allows you to extend the tests fairly easily, so you could write a short script to test this situation and u

Re: Netgear MA401 (wireless network card) trouble

2003-01-06 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 00:36, Weinzierl Stefan wrote: > Karl Eklund schrieb: > > Sometimes (maybe once every day) the transfer speed goes down to about > > 12 kB/s (the connection is much faster) and it's slow to do several > > things at the same time (for example, an SSH terminal session becomes >

Re: Autosetup WLAN

2003-01-11 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 01:36, Johan Svedberg wrote: > * 030111 02:43 Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > In /etc/network/interfaces, add the following to the eth0 section: > > > > wireless_key 725b4498e0f157c9003b7a8080 [1] > > > > then the standard ifup should make it work. > > Ah, thank

Re: X crashes if I'm idle

2003-01-25 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 05:56, Ivan Uemlianin wrote: > James D Strandboge wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 14:17, Frank Trenkamp wrote: > > > >>Hi Ivan, > >> > >> > >>>X is in VESA mode, as the Thinkpad has unsupported Radeon video. > >> > >>Mobility 7500 Radeon? You will most surely need XFree 4.2.

Re: Mapping eth0 two ways

2003-01-28 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 09:32, Soren A wrote: > > So my next question is this: ALL these packages seem oriented towards > PCMCIA bus cards but I am not using PCMCIA, I have a built-in NIC (3Com > Tornado). It seems like the examples given for these two newer packages > that can help me use my laptop

Re: Thinkpad T30?

2003-01-30 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 22:43, arief_mulya wrote: > > Which would be better? Woody or Sarge? > > To people on the debian-laptop, please cc'd also to me as I > was unsubscribing a while ago from the list. I believe that model has a recent Radeon in it and you will consequently be looking for the l

Re: Choosing network settings at boot?

2003-02-08 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 08:44, Brian Kendig wrote: > What's the package that will let me choose my network settings at boot > time? > > I want to be able to sometimes boot without a network, without having > to wait a few minutes for DHCP to time out during startup. Don't forget that you can twea

Re: gnome 2 and gdm2

2003-02-08 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 22:42, Praveen Kallakuri wrote: > anyone been using gdm 2 and gnome 2? > i recently upgraded my gnome packages to 2.2 and everything else using > apt-get. installation was a breeze and i got real neat icons and > desktop. however when i used gdmconfig to change the greeter fr

Re: Making the power button smarter?

2003-02-08 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 04:57, Brian Kendig wrote: > > But, that said, I've still got some confusion about apm/acpi that a web > search hasn't cleared up, so more guidance would be appreciated. :) > Specifically... > > - apm was the 'old' interface for handling power management, and acpi > is

Re: airline travel with hitech gear? (a bit offtopic)

2003-02-10 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 19:15, Joris wrote: > Hi, > > > I know it has little to do with debian on laptops (altough a non-windows > OS booting meight look suspecious to customs), but: > > What advice can experienced travellers give me on flying with a laptop? > > I don't want to take any chances w

Re: setup apm for 'battery low' warning on textconsole

2003-02-10 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 18:36, mi wrote: > Hello, > while i was roaming on a textconsole, and the laptop only on battery, the > machine suddenly powered off. Leaving it badly with filesystem checks. > Now i wonder how to get a 'battery critical' warning yonder there ? Write a cronjob that l

Re: setup apm for 'battery low' warning on textconsole

2003-02-11 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 21:09, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 08:35, Andrew McMillan wrote: > > Write a cronjob that logs the battery level > > apmd already does this. (Be sure to get the apmd from > unstable.) Heh. You're right :-) Just goes to show how

Re: airline travel with hitech gear? (a bit offtopic)

2003-02-11 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 04:49, David Z Maze wrote: > > Airport security *in the United States only* wants you to take your > laptop out of your bag and have it X-rayed separately. And in New Zealand and Australia. I've never been asked to power it on yet though. Cheers,

Re: wlan in several networks?

2003-02-11 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 04:57, Michael Renner wrote: > Moin, > I move with my notebook form home (WEP, ESSID=any) to the university > (no WEP, > ESSID=any) and to my institute (no WEP, but ESSID=secret). > Is there a way to automate the configuration for the different > environments? Whereami shoul

Re: wlan in several networks?

2003-02-12 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 08:45, Johan Svedberg wrote: > * Feb 11 19:43 Andrew McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 04:57, Michael Renner wrote: > > > Moin, > > > I move with my notebook form home (WEP, ESSID=any) to the university > > > (no

Re: wlan in several networks?

2003-02-12 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 11:45, Michael Renner wrote: > On Tuesday 11 February 2003 06:02 pm, Dennis Schreiber wrote: > > Hi. > > Moin, > > [...] > > > | Is there a way to automate the configuration for the > > | different environments? > > > > '--- > > >

Re: Battery life recovery - Everyone suggesting battery fulldrains, *read this*

2003-02-13 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 20:05, mi wrote: > Hello Joe. > > Thanks for your enduring efforts ! > > > - Store it at 40% charge. Not 100%. > > - Don't leave it in the laptop while it's in mains power. > > - Don't store it anywhere particularly hot or cold or wet. > > Does this mean it'd be best to

Re: Whereami with PPP?

2003-02-20 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 15:10, Matej Cepl wrote: > Hi, > > does anybody have an experience with %subj%? I have this as my > /etc/whereami/detect.conf, but I do not know, how to reliably > test for the presence of ppp0 interface (all ppp-related modules > remain loaded even after disconnection): Eve

Re: different paste buffers?

2003-02-21 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 06:07, Adam Lydick wrote: > I seem to remember a KDE "panel" application that gave access to a > stacked clipboard (or multiple clipboards). Anyone know of a similar > tool for gnome 1.4? Gnome 2 has gcm - I only discovered it recently, so I'm not sure if it was around for Gn

Re: Whereami with PPP?

2003-02-23 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 18:40, Matej Cepl wrote: > Matej Cepl wrote: > > > Realistically I think the best way would be to run whereami > > > in the up/down hooks with --hint options used to restrict > > > the detection rulesets. > > > > I have created these two scripts (saved to /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ >

Re: An hopefully simple question about acpi and debian kernel

2003-02-27 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 18:52, Riccardo Gusso wrote: > Hello, > do the acpi patches from sourceforge work with kernel-source packages > from debian, or is it necessary to use kernel sources from kernel.org? The kernel sources from Debian should be vanilla kernel.org sources, so the acpi patches shou

Re: DWL-650+ (plus) Dlink Wireless Card

2003-02-28 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 10:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > sorry, I refer to the subject's card. Not yet supported by Linux. I believe this is based around a TI (AX100?) chipset. It is possible that work is progressing on a closed-source driver - see D-Link's website for details. Cheers,

Re: DWL-650 Dlink Wireless Card

2003-02-28 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 08:15, Diego Armando wrote: > Hello, > someone has experience with this pcmcia card? There is a driver but it only works > with pci card. > If someone has this card working succesfully, please say me what you did ... > If I try load the pci module it shows many symbole erro

Re: Wireless and 2.6 status ?

2003-12-29 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 07:03, Xavier Maillard wrote: > <#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign> > Hi, > > I have a linksys wifi card that worked pretty well with its linksys AP > under kernel series 2.4.x but since my switch to 2.6, even if the card > works, I am always disconnected. > > I have tons of

Re: Wireless and 2.6 status ?

2003-12-31 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 00:16, Xavier Maillard wrote: > > > > to this: > > === > > # Defaults for pcmcia (sourced by /etc/init.d/pcmcia) > > PCMCIA=yes > > PCIC=yenta_socket > > PCIC_OPTS= > > CORE_OPTS= > > CARDMGR_OPTS= > > ===

Re: Wireless and 2.6 status ?

2004-01-01 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 01:36, Xavier Maillard wrote: > > >> Maybe you can send to me either your /etc/pcmcia/config.opts and tell > >> me how you did configure you WIFI card (using /etc/network/interfaces > >> or using the built-in /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts ?). > > > > I use whereami (I wrote it).

Re: Linux 2.6 on a Thinkpad T40p

2004-01-04 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 01:49, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > is there any pre-configured kernel package including headers and > sources for the Thinkpad t40p -- or do I need to build a kernel > myself with the help of the web-pages found out there? > > The main reason I ask this is for the probl

Re: 'whereami'-package in debian, testing/unstable

2004-01-04 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 23:39, Olaf Krische wrote: > I have problems to install 'whereami' in testing/unstable > When it comes to the configuring process of the package, the process > just exits with status 10. > > $ apt-get install whereami > ... > Setting up whereami (0.3.1) ... > dpkg: error pro

Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-06 Thread Andrew McMillan
quieter than whatever it is you have in that Dell. :-) Andrew McMillan. - Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington WEB: http://catalyst.net.nz/ PHYS: Level 2, 150-154 Willis

Re: Linux 2.6 on a Thinkpad T40p

2004-01-10 Thread Andrew McMillan
n changes than otherwise. It ensures that you have the modules in sync with the kernel, it makes it easy to uninstall old versions, and it keeps the config file there for future reference. Highly recommended. Cheers,

Re: Kernel Source - Broadcom BCM4400x

2004-01-10 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 03:47, Yannick Brosseau wrote: > Eric Heldreth wrote: > > I have recently switched from RH to Debian on my > > Inspiron 5100. I need the kernel source so I can build > > my network drivers. I downloaded the kernel source and > > header .deb files for the kernel that came with

Re: Kernel 2.6.0 - PCMCIA

2004-01-12 Thread Andrew McMillan
-level kernel source directory as ".config". I heartily recommend using make-kpkg (from kernel-package) to build the kernel as a Debian package. Regards, Andrew McMillan. -

Re: Wireless problems under 2.6.5

2004-04-24 Thread Andrew McMillan
in the latest 2.6.x kernels. So although I have atheros chipset, because that's what is built-in to my Thinkpad R50p, if I were to buy a new card I would be buying one based on the prism54 chipset. Cheers, Andrew McMillan.

Re: using a beamer: resolution?

2004-05-12 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 16:35 +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > Hi group, > > >From time to time, I use a beamer on my external VGA port of my laptop. > My laptop TFT panel has a resolution of 1400x1050 pixels but the beamer > has a resolution of only 800x600. However, it can support 1024x768 using > so

Re: Any debian 2.6.x kernel ACPI success stories?

2004-05-05 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 22:25 +0200, Steinar Bang wrote: > Has anyone on this list had success with doing suspend/resume using > the ACPI support in the debian packaged 2.6.x kernels? > > If so, I'm interested in what you did to make it work. Both s3 and s4 > resume are of interest (though I guess

Re: Any debian 2.6.x kernel ACPI success stories?

2004-05-05 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 22:54 +0200, Steinar Bang wrote: > >>>>> Andrew McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I have had success with ACPI suspend / resume to (RAM|DISK) with > > 2.6.x on a Thinkpad R50p. > > These are kernels installed using the kern

Re: Any debian 2.6.x kernel ACPI success stories?

2004-05-06 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 14:20 +0200, Steinar Bang wrote: > >>>>> Andrew McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 22:54 +0200, Steinar Bang wrote: > > >> These are kernels installed using the kernel-image-2.6-* packages? > > >

Re: kernel modules not loaded

2004-05-18 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 22:39 +0200, oscar wrote: > Hi, > > I have just installed debian-testing on a R40 Thinkpad and I am having > some problems configuring the laptop. I am using kernel 2.6.5-1-386. It > is my first debian installation, so please be considered. > > First, I had problems with t

Re: Execute script on ACPI resume

2004-05-31 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 00:09 -0500, dircha wrote: > With APM I could execute a script on resume by placing a symlink to it > in /etc/apm/resume.d/, /etc/rc*.d/ style. > > I can find no documentation on what events ACPI specifies. As best as I > can tell, the only available method is to perform th

Re: Wireless and 2.6 status ?

2003-12-29 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 07:03, Xavier Maillard wrote: > <#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign> > Hi, > > I have a linksys wifi card that worked pretty well with its linksys AP > under kernel series 2.4.x but since my switch to 2.6, even if the card > works, I am always disconnected. > > I have tons of

Re: Wireless and 2.6 status ?

2003-12-31 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 00:16, Xavier Maillard wrote: > > > > to this: > > === > > # Defaults for pcmcia (sourced by /etc/init.d/pcmcia) > > PCMCIA=yes > > PCIC=yenta_socket > > PCIC_OPTS= > > CORE_OPTS= > > CARDMGR_OPTS= > > ===

Re: Wireless and 2.6 status ?

2004-01-01 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 01:36, Xavier Maillard wrote: > > >> Maybe you can send to me either your /etc/pcmcia/config.opts and tell > >> me how you did configure you WIFI card (using /etc/network/interfaces > >> or using the built-in /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts ?). > > > > I use whereami (I wrote it).

Re: Linux 2.6 on a Thinkpad T40p

2004-01-04 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 01:49, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > is there any pre-configured kernel package including headers and > sources for the Thinkpad t40p -- or do I need to build a kernel > myself with the help of the web-pages found out there? > > The main reason I ask this is for the probl

Re: 'whereami'-package in debian, testing/unstable

2004-01-04 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 23:39, Olaf Krische wrote: > I have problems to install 'whereami' in testing/unstable > When it comes to the configuring process of the package, the process > just exits with status 10. > > $ apt-get install whereami > ... > Setting up whereami (0.3.1) ... > dpkg: error pro

Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-06 Thread Andrew McMillan
quieter than whatever it is you have in that Dell. :-) Andrew McMillan. - Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington WEB: http://catalyst.net.nz/ PHYS: Level 2, 150-154 Willis

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