Re: how do I compile a kernel image for 486, not pentium?

2002-11-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 08:48:23PM -0500, Drew Cohan wrote: > After > > > > 0) read the documentation that came with kernel-package > > 1) unpack the source tarball that is installed > > 2) enter into its directory > > 3) make menuconfig > > 4) select your options Under "Processo

Re: [Q] From RedHat to Debian

2002-11-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
When I made the transition (six or seven years ago) it was easy: 1. Attempt to upgrade Red Hat 2. Swear at system which will no longer boot. 3. Install Debian. Hopefully Red Hat has improved since then, but I learned my lesson. Bob On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:26:09AM -0800, Young-Jin Lee wrot

Re: Problems with SiS 7018 audio card

2003-01-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:25:26AM +0100, Riccardo Gusso wrote: > On Friday 10 January 2003 18:08, Albert Dengg wrote: > > > CONFIG_SOUND=y > > > CONFIG_SOUND_TRIDENT=m > > > > is the module loaded? > > try "modprobe trident' > > Yes, as I have discovered after, the problem was exacly this: the mo

Re: XFree86 DRI and SiS630

2003-01-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
I'm running sarge (XFree86 4.2.1) on a box with SiS630 and XFree86.0.log shows the following: $ grep DRI /var/log/XFree86.0.log (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI (II) SIS(0): [DRI] installation complete hth, Bob On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 06:09:23PM +0100, mw wrote: > Hello Paulo, and Jord. > >

Re: dselect sucks greasy cheese balls

2003-01-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 11:56:45AM -0500, Paul King wrote: > Dselect is now trying to make design decisions on my computer against my > wishes. I thought only GatesWare did that. But I digress. > > I have installed WordPerfect Office 2000 on my laptop. dselect reports these > as > brokenly inst

Re: cdrw/dvd, hdparm, and ide-scsi

2003-01-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:48:17PM -0500, cyn wrote: > > Oh, one last thing - shouldn't a high-resolution console look different? I > have sisfb compiled in and my append includes: > video=sisfb:mode:1024x768x16,mem:12288 > which seems to me like it should be setting the console to a high >

Re: cdrw/dvd, hdparm, and ide-scsi

2003-01-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 06:16:32PM +, Soren A wrote: > Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 23 Jan 2003 > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:48:17PM -0500, cyn wrote: > >> > >> Oh, one last thing - shouldn't a high-re

Re: Toshiba 320CDT

2002-09-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
Under "Code maturity level options --->", enable [*] Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers and you will see the FB option. Bob On Fri, Sep 13 , 2002 at 02:24:18PM +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > All I have is.. > [*] VGA text console

Re: Fwd: Removed from list

2002-09-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 10:53:07PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > - -- Forwarded Message -- > > Subject: Removed from list > Date: 15 Sep 2002 04:00:28 - > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: debian-laptop@lists.debian

Re: Removed from list

2002-09-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
Note that these emails were addressed to the list. If you had actually been unsubscribed, the message would have been from the listserver, addressed to you. Someone's playing games; there is nothing to worry about. On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 12:50:56PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: > ?n data

Re: intel pro/100 m LAN card

2002-09-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
I have a Compaq Presario 1070 with an Intel Pro/100 (not M, but possibly similar) Cardbus II card and have also not found a driver which works. I've looked at both the Intel and Scyld sites but can't find anything helpful. Does anyone know if a Linux driver exists for this card? Bob On Mon, Sep

Re: intel pro/100 m LAN card

2002-09-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 10:56:35AM -0100, Werner Heuser wrote: > > I have a Compaq Presario 1070 with an Intel Pro/100 (not M, but > > possibly similar) Cardbus II card and have also not found a driver > .. > > > I just bought a Toshiba Satellite 1405-s151 laptop, > > > which includes an intel pro/

Re: intel pro/100 m LAN card

2002-09-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 09:45:02AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 10:56:35AM -0100, Werner Heuser wrote: > > > I have a Compaq Presario 1070 with an Intel Pro/100 (not M, but > > > possibly similar) Cardbus II card and have also not found a driver > &g

Re: intel pro/100 Cardbus II LAN card

2002-09-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 07:31:17PM -1000, Craig Witherspoon wrote: > On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 21:46:44 -0700 > Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 09:45:02AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 10:56:35AM -0100, Werner

Re: kernel 2.4.19 and ethernet (clevo 2700t)

2002-09-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 01:41:26PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Boas > > I have a clevo 2700t which ethernet controller is a SiS900 10/100 and recently > installed in it the kernel 2.4.19-686 of Sarge. whith the 2.4.18-bf24 the > network > works fine but with the 2.4.19-686 it not work.

Re: Module 3c575_cb dropped from kernel-pcmcia-modules?

2002-09-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
That's strange, 3c575_cb.c is contained in the pcmcia-source package. Do you have the appropriate kernel-pcmcia-modules package installed? You can install pcmcia-source and kernel source and create your own modules package, if necessary. Bob On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 11:39:12PM +0200, Jan T. Kim

Re: on which mirror can I find woody with kernel 2.4.8

2002-10-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 02:20:14PM -0700, suresh kumar sharma wrote: > Hi, > I would like to Install a debian system with kernel > 2.4.8 and woody , > but I am not able to find which mirror to use for > download . > and from were to get the installation floppies for it > . The bf2.4 flavor of inst

Re: Installing packages from cd with dselect

2002-10-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 07:05:24PM +0100, Nick E. Messenger wrote: > Hi > > I am installing Woody 3.0 on an IBM Thinkpad 240. > I have mounted my external cd rom drive ok, but I am having trouble > selecting the directory on the cd rom to install packages. > > I have tried debian/dists/woody/main

Re: OT: how much disk space for linux + windows

2002-10-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 07:34:18PM +0200, mw wrote: > Hello List. > > I am trying to buy a used laptop on ebay next time, but there's one question > i'm quite unsure yet. > I would like to install both linux (debian ) and windows ( probably 2000 ) > because i want to use it for networking exerci

Re: RFC on low resource machine and debian

2002-10-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
zgv might be just what you are looking for (no X required). I say "might", because it doesn't work with all SVGA video cards, however with an older machine, the chances should be pretty good (although I never have had very good luck with Compaq boxen): Package: zgv Priority: optional Section: gra

Re: intel pro/100 m LAN card

2002-09-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
I have a Compaq Presario 1070 with an Intel Pro/100 (not M, but possibly similar) Cardbus II card and have also not found a driver which works. I've looked at both the Intel and Scyld sites but can't find anything helpful. Does anyone know if a Linux driver exists for this card? Bob On Mon, Se

Re: intel pro/100 m LAN card

2002-09-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 10:56:35AM -0100, Werner Heuser wrote: > > I have a Compaq Presario 1070 with an Intel Pro/100 (not M, but > > possibly similar) Cardbus II card and have also not found a driver > .. > > > I just bought a Toshiba Satellite 1405-s151 laptop, > > > which includes an intel pro

Re: intel pro/100 m LAN card

2002-09-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 09:45:02AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 10:56:35AM -0100, Werner Heuser wrote: > > > I have a Compaq Presario 1070 with an Intel Pro/100 (not M, but > > > possibly similar) Cardbus II card and have also not found a driver > &g

Re: intel pro/100 Cardbus II LAN card

2002-09-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 07:31:17PM -1000, Craig Witherspoon wrote: > On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 21:46:44 -0700 > Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 09:45:02AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 10:56:35AM -0100, We

Re: kernel 2.4.19 and ethernet (clevo 2700t)

2002-09-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 01:41:26PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Boas > > I have a clevo 2700t which ethernet controller is a SiS900 10/100 and recently > installed in it the kernel 2.4.19-686 of Sarge. whith the 2.4.18-bf24 the network > works fine but with the 2.4.19-686 it not work. >

Re: Module 3c575_cb dropped from kernel-pcmcia-modules?

2002-09-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
That's strange, 3c575_cb.c is contained in the pcmcia-source package. Do you have the appropriate kernel-pcmcia-modules package installed? You can install pcmcia-source and kernel source and create your own modules package, if necessary. Bob On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 11:39:12PM +0200, Jan T. Kim

Re: on which mirror can I find woody with kernel 2.4.8

2002-10-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 02:20:14PM -0700, suresh kumar sharma wrote: > Hi, > I would like to Install a debian system with kernel > 2.4.8 and woody , > but I am not able to find which mirror to use for > download . > and from were to get the installation floppies for it > . The bf2.4 flavor of ins

Re: RFC on low resource machine and debian

2002-10-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
zgv might be just what you are looking for (no X required). I say "might", because it doesn't work with all SVGA video cards, however with an older machine, the chances should be pretty good (although I never have had very good luck with Compaq boxen): Package: zgv Priority: optional Section: gra

Re: OT: how much disk space for linux + windows

2002-10-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 07:34:18PM +0200, mw wrote: > Hello List. > > I am trying to buy a used laptop on ebay next time, but there's one question > i'm quite unsure yet. > I would like to install both linux (debian ) and windows ( probably 2000 ) > because i want to use it for networking exerci

Re: how do I compile a kernel image for 486, not pentium?

2002-10-31 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 08:48:23PM -0500, Drew Cohan wrote: > After > > > > 0) read the documentation that came with kernel-package > > 1) unpack the source tarball that is installed > > 2) enter into its directory > > 3) make menuconfig > > 4) select your options Under "Processo

Re: [Q] From RedHat to Debian

2002-11-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
When I made the transition (six or seven years ago) it was easy: 1. Attempt to upgrade Red Hat 2. Swear at system which will no longer boot. 3. Install Debian. Hopefully Red Hat has improved since then, but I learned my lesson. Bob On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:26:09AM -0800, Young-Jin Lee wrot

Re: Problems with SiS 7018 audio card

2003-01-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:25:26AM +0100, Riccardo Gusso wrote: > On Friday 10 January 2003 18:08, Albert Dengg wrote: > > > CONFIG_SOUND=y > > > CONFIG_SOUND_TRIDENT=m > > > > is the module loaded? > > try "modprobe trident' > > Yes, as I have discovered after, the problem was exacly this: the mo

Re: dselect sucks greasy cheese balls

2003-01-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 11:56:45AM -0500, Paul King wrote: > Dselect is now trying to make design decisions on my computer against my > wishes. I thought only GatesWare did that. But I digress. > > I have installed WordPerfect Office 2000 on my laptop. dselect reports these as > brokenly install

Re: cdrw/dvd, hdparm, and ide-scsi

2003-01-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:48:17PM -0500, cyn wrote: > > Oh, one last thing - shouldn't a high-resolution console look different? I > have sisfb compiled in and my append includes: > video=sisfb:mode:1024x768x16,mem:12288 > which seems to me like it should be setting the console to a high >

Re: cdrw/dvd, hdparm, and ide-scsi

2003-01-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 06:16:32PM +, Soren A wrote: > Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 23 Jan 2003 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:48:17PM -0500, cyn wrote: > >> > >> Oh, one last t