disk, is it no longer possible to install the base system over the
network??
Thanks,
Bruce
Ignore previous post; I tried again using the "compact" boot floppies and it
worked; I have a feeling it may just have been the install not identifying my
pcmcia card first time around.
B.
. kernel 2.4.19 (soon to be 2.4.19jp, if everything goes well).
If anyone else has anything to contribute to getting this laptop to work
better under Debian, comments much appreciated.
Bruce
r,
it now no longer will come back automatically on resume.
Should it?? Is there a way to use the /etc/network/interfaces to bring the
card back up automatically when resuming?? Or should I just go back to using
the /etc/pcmcia/network.opts for configuring this card??
Bruce
_after_ pcmcia when booting to get an already
connected pcmcia device to work on boot?? If so, should I move pcmcia up, or
hotplug down, in the boot order?? Am I missing something, or does this
(default) configuration mean no coldplugging of PCMCIA devices in Woody?
Bruce
. kernel 2.4.19 (soon to be 2.4.19jp, if everything goes well).
If anyone else has anything to contribute to getting this laptop to work
better under Debian, comments much appreciated.
Bruce
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Should it?? Is there a way to use the /etc/network/interfaces to bring the
card back up automatically when resuming?? Or should I just go back to using
the /etc/pcmcia/network.opts for configuring this card??
Bruce
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Issue: HP Pavillion 5425 1Ghz laptop. Recently downloaded & compiled
custom 2.6.0 kernel from www.kernel.org sources. Everything working 32EW
cards are (strangely) loaded, but nothing happening on any of the cards.
For the record: SMC 2632W Prism2 wireless network card, and a Pyro 1394
firewire car
Issue: HP Pavillion 5425 1Ghz laptop. Recently downloaded & compiled
custom 2.6.0 kernel from www.kernel.org sources. Everything working 32EW
cards are (strangely) loaded, but nothing happening on any of the cards.
For the record: SMC 2632W Prism2 wireless network card, and a Pyro 1394
firewire car
"Christopher Hicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[email clients on both Windows 98 and Linux]
> Mahogany looks promising, but I've heard it is still excessively buggy. Does
> anyone have any other suggestions?
Any of the Emacs based mail programs ought to work. Or exmh (and
presumably tkrat).
"Christopher Hicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> Mahogany looks promising, but I've heard it is still excessively buggy. Does
> anyone have any other suggestions?
Any of the Emacs based mail programs ought to work. Or exmh (and
presumably tkrat).
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ssage).
The other is that when shutting down the laptop doesn't actually power
off, just waits with the final "power off" message for me to turn it off
manually.
Were there specific kernel options I should have enabled for the
behaviour I want?
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how did you get the
> mouse working?
I use an external serial mouse normally. The touchpad thing is
basically a PS/2 mouse.
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partly-binary driver available,
but I've never tried it. It's not trivial to get working.
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> (Presuming the 4000 comes with the same graphics card (ATI 3D Rage
> Mobility---a Mach64), then I can send you an XFree86-4 if you want.)
One thing I didn't mention is that XRender doesn't seem to be
supporte
irons have an ATI mach64 and a 1400x1050 screen, which
work fine (that's what I'm using at the moment). I don't doubt that
other laptops work just fine.
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have got iso8859-1 (or something similar), but now
it'll get iso10646-1, and be confused.
<http://bugs.debian.org/113278>.
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of packages confused
things, and random (gtk-related) stuff would break.
Why specifically Ximian? Debian unstable tracks GNOME pretty
well---personally I stick with that.
> I have heard that Red Carpet on Debian, is a frontend for apt, is
> that correct?
No idea.
[...]
e to Mandrake, where I can pick between them at login. I don't
> need that, I just need one, but what to choose then, and how do I
> install it?
If you aren't sure what to use (except that you want to use GNOME), I
suggest you just install one for now: "apt-get ins
t's resource-hungry. Unless your laptop has
lots of memory, I'd recommend using gmc rather than nautilus (or don't
use either, if you want---I don't use a file manager much).
"apt-get install evolution" should install evolution.
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lled if
newer versions exist in the sources you specify in
/etc/apt/sources.list. (The normal way of keeping a system up to date
is to run "apt-get update" every now and again followed by "apt-get
upgrade" or "apt-get dist-upgrade".)
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ge message).
The other is that when shutting down the laptop doesn't actually power
off, just waits with the final "power off" message for me to turn it off
manually.
Were there specific kernel options I should have enabled for the
behaviour I want?
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basically a PS/2 mouse.
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> (Presuming the 4000 comes with the same graphics card (ATI 3D Rage
> Mobility---a Mach64), then I can send you an XFree86-4 if you want.)
One thing I didn't mention is that XRender doesn't seem to be
supporte
Inspirons have an ATI mach64 and a 1400x1050 screen, which
work fine (that's what I'm using at the moment). I don't doubt that
other laptops work just fine.
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have got iso8859-1 (or something similar), but now
it'll get iso10646-1, and be confused.
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of packages confused
things, and random (gtk-related) stuff would break.
Why specifically Ximian? Debian unstable tracks GNOME pretty
well---personally I stick with that.
> I have heard that Red Carpet on Debian, is a frontend for apt, is
> that correct?
No idea.
[...]
e to Mandrake, where I can pick between them at login. I don't
> need that, I just need one, but what to choose then, and how do I
> install it?
If you aren't sure what to use (except that you want to use GNOME), I
suggest you just install one for now: "apt-get ins
t's resource-hungry. Unless your laptop has
lots of memory, I'd recommend using gmc rather than nautilus (or don't
use either, if you want---I don't use a file manager much).
"apt-get install evolution" should install evolution.
[...]
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lled if
newer versions exist in the sources you specify in
/etc/apt/sources.list. (The normal way of keeping a system up to date
is to run "apt-get update" every now and again followed by "apt-get
upgrade" or "apt-get dist-upgrade".)
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reinstalling uninstalled packages
for which configuration in fact exists.
But all that seems too simple, and people do recommend reinstalling,
so possibly I'm missing something important?
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ee with your comments about /var/lib/dpkg/info---that really
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Title: RE: gdm fails
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
Von: Martin Brenda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 23. Oktober 2003 09:15
An: debian-laptop
Betreff: Re: gdm fails
> There is just one other problem--i can't get my
> network connection working. The ethernet card is
vorgenommen habe.
cannot lock console ...
deferred until console is accessible
was muss ich da tun ??
Danke fuer Eure Hilfe.
gruss bruce
e the keyboard layout ??
thanx for ur help
bruce
Title: RE: gdm fails
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
Von: Martin Brenda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 23. Oktober 2003 09:15
An: debian-laptop
Betreff: Re: gdm fails
> There is just one other problem--i can't get my
> network connection working. The ethernet card is
vorgenommen habe.
cannot lock console ...
deferred until console is accessible
was muss ich da tun ??
Danke fuer Eure Hilfe.
gruss bruce
e the keyboard layout ??
thanx for ur help
bruce
I notice that after resuming from a suspend, the keyboard rate is
woefully low. I set about correcting that problem by dropping this
script into /etc/apm/events.d:
#!/bin/sh
case "$1" in
resume)
case "$2" in
suspend)
if netstat -na | grep ':6000' ; then
xset -display
I notice that after resuming from a suspend, the keyboard rate is
woefully low. I set about correcting that problem by dropping this
script into /etc/apm/events.d:
#!/bin/sh
case "$1" in
resume)
case "$2" in
suspend)
if netstat -na | grep ':6000' ; then
xset -display
My brother-in-law has recently purchased a Sony Vaio SR(??) subnotebook. The
computer has no internal cd or floppy (though I do have a USB floppy from my
laptop), but does have a PC-Card D-Link network card, and a USB ZIP drive.
More unfortunately, it came pre-installed with Windows ME.
He wants
nt Win2K from blowing away
lilo.
Luckily, it is a new computer so there is no problem in completely
reinstalling Windows at this point.
Thanks for the help.
Bruce
, USB CD drives are NOT bootable, but PC-Card drives are,
so should probably look at the latter.
Bruce
s we should try just formatting a ZIP disk w. DOS and
see if it will bootworth a try, in any case.
Bruce
>
>Actually there's one more option - netboot, use Partition
>Magic to resize your
>win2k partition and create new partitions for linux, then
>netboot->install.
>
."
Yikes! Void your warranty simply by trying to boot a disk?
Bruce
Thanks for the link, but it appears that USB Zip drives are not bootable, at
least according to this page (and I haven't seen anything to contradict it);
http://pw1.netcom.com/~deepone/zipjaz/special.html#boot
Bruce
>-Original Message-
>From: Gustaf Erikson [mailto:[EMAI
My brother-in-law has recently purchased a Sony Vaio SR(??) subnotebook. The
computer has no internal cd or floppy (though I do have a USB floppy from my
laptop), but does have a PC-Card D-Link network card, and a USB ZIP drive.
More unfortunately, it came pre-installed with Windows ME.
He wants
nt Win2K from blowing away
lilo.
Luckily, it is a new computer so there is no problem in completely
reinstalling Windows at this point.
Thanks for the help.
Bruce
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, USB CD drives are NOT bootable, but PC-Card drives are,
so should probably look at the latter.
Bruce
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s we should try just formatting a ZIP disk w. DOS and
see if it will bootworth a try, in any case.
Bruce
>
>Actually there's one more option - netboot, use Partition
>Magic to resize your
>win2k partition and create new partitions for linux, then
>netboot->install.
>
."
Yikes! Void your warranty simply by trying to boot a disk?
Bruce
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Thanks for the link, but it appears that USB Zip drives are not bootable, at
least according to this page (and I haven't seen anything to contradict it);
http://pw1.netcom.com/~deepone/zipjaz/special.html#boot
Bruce
>-Original Message-
>From: Gustaf Erikson [mailto:[EMAI
>-Original Message-
>From: Shyamal Prasad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>I don't use my Linux laptop much anymore. However, I did set it up
>with /etc/network/interfaces. The one thing I do have is have the
>hotplug interface installed
Thanks; I do have hotplug installed, and it seems t
se the 2.4.18 kernel instead. To do this, instead of
just pressing to install, type "bf24", then
Bruce
Yes, I switched to pump as well, but only because dhclient stopped working
one day (after I did something it didn't like, no doubt). For some unknown
reason, pump worked where dhclient didn't, so I stuck with it.
I'll post back if I figure it out.
B.
>if you are using pump for dhcp you should
Now you've got a feel for it, try installing "kernel-packge" and use
make-kpkg to compile your kernel. This makes a custom .deb file containing
your custom kernel and modules, which can be installed using dpkg, and saves
you having to manually do much of the work.
Bruce
>---
What do you get when you issue an "ifconfig" command?
>-Original Message-
>From: Andreas Goesele [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 10:34 PM
>To: Bruce Best (CRO)
>Cc: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: pcmcia help?
>
>
>"Bruce Best (CRO)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Shyamal Prasad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
>I don't use my Linux laptop much anymore. However, I did set it up
>with /etc/network/interfaces. The one thing I do have is have the
>hotplug interface installed
Thanks; I do have hotplug installed, and it seems
se the 2.4.18 kernel instead. To do this, instead of
just pressing to install, type "bf24", then
Bruce
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Yes, I switched to pump as well, but only because dhclient stopped working
one day (after I did something it didn't like, no doubt). For some unknown
reason, pump worked where dhclient didn't, so I stuck with it.
I'll post back if I figure it out.
B.
>if you are using pump for dhcp you should
Now you've got a feel for it, try installing "kernel-packge" and use
make-kpkg to compile your kernel. This makes a custom .deb file containing
your custom kernel and modules, which can be installed using dpkg, and saves
you having to manually do much of the work.
Bruce
>---
What do you get when you issue an "ifconfig" command?
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>-Original Message-
>From: Andreas Goesele [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 10:34 PM
>To: Bruce Best (CRO)
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: pcmcia help?
>
>
>"Bruce Best (CRO)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
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