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: 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: 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: 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: 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

Re: Thinkpad R50 Fan control

2004-07-14 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 17:11 +0200, Didrik Pinte wrote: > I'm not using ACPI but had the same problem on my R50. I've solved this > using the fglrx driver in place of the Radeon driver. Is that an R50p? Can you suspend OK with it? I found that when I (try to) resume with the fglrx driver I just ge

Re: Network Profiles

2004-07-18 Thread Andrew McMillan
) > > to configure WLan using a special encryption key and open > > authentification (to make it work, I had to run iwconfig myself...) > > eth1: do nothing (alternatively start with DHCP) HTH if you h

Re: 3d acceleration for radeon mobility 7500

2004-07-20 Thread Andrew McMillan
urrent drivers for radeon in Sid/Sarge do not support 3d for many recent ATI cards, and efforts to add that seem to be some way from completion. Cheers, Andrew McMillan. - Andrew @ Cata

Re: Debian update (almost) totallt sucessful

2004-07-27 Thread Andrew McMillan
proceed? If you don't find them in Sarge, then something is probably wrong in your /etc/apt/sources.list - they are definitely around. So what is your /etc/apt/sources.list for the Debian packages? Regards, Andrew McMillan ( here's kdelibs4 on a

Re: new debian user trouble with dwl-650 wireless network card

2005-06-27 Thread Andrew McMillan
ose drivers and see if they work better for you. Do you get modules loaded when you plug the card in? What does "lsmod" say before / after? Regards, Andrew McMillan, - Andrew

Re: Best "network manager"

2005-07-22 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 14:34 +0200, Rasmus Toftdahl Olesen wrote: > > > > apt-cache search laptop|sort > > > > dpkg -p divine > > dpkg -p ifplugd > > dpkg -p intuitively > > dpkg -p laptop-net > > dpkg -p laptop-netconf > > dpkg -p whereami > Ok, so i've reinvented the wheel :-) > > Before i sta

Re: Best "network manager"

2005-07-24 Thread Andrew McMillan
, exim4, qmail, postfix and sendmail in this regard. Cheers, Andrew McMillan. - Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington WEB: http://catalyst.net.nz/P

Re: Desktop WiFi

2005-07-30 Thread Andrew McMillan
he "pcmcia-cs" package installed? If you can answer these questions it will give us all a good start on finding some more questions to ask you... :-) Regards, Andrew McMillan. --

Re: ATI Radeon 9600 (RV350) on Toshiba M30X-159

2005-08-16 Thread Andrew McMillan
hould now be asleep, but possibly 'echo' returns before # it has quite happened ... sleep 1 # restore vbestate vbetool post vbetool vbestate restore < /tmp/VBESTATE rm -f /tmp/VBESTATE # Switch back to X chvt 7 = I'd be interested to k

Re: dhclient & switching networks

2005-09-08 Thread Andrew McMillan
- it can be waiting a little longer to see if it can't get the same IP again from a different server. See the comment around "select-timeout" in the dhclient.conf manpage - in my config it is set to 2 seconds, but I'm not sure if

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