Re: Does KDM need a password?

Dotan Cohen writes: > My laptop password-protects the harddrive, to unlock it I must enter a > password before the BIOS starts the OS. Is it thus redundant to have a > password at the KDM logon screen? I don't know about you, but I occasionally leave my laptop unattended, and while the KDE scree

Re: NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS?

Nima Azarbayjany writes: > I am planning to buy a new HP notebook.? The model that has caught my > eyes comes with an "NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS" graphics card.? Can any > one tell me how well is this graphics card supported under Lenny?? Poorly, if you want 3D support, as it will require the bina

Re: Lightweight Local Mail Solution

"Eli L." writes: > I've been looking for a way to setup a local mail system to get email > from services, mainly tripwire/other cron jobs, without running a full > MTA. > > Since it's a laptop, it seemed unnecessary to run a full-fledged mail > system for such a small task. > > Usually I use msmtp

Re: Starting fresh on my Toshiba A105-S2101 and want a custom kernel

Preston Boyington writes: > After happily using my laptop for the last couple years I've decided > to streamline it a good bit. My hard disk that contains the existing > Debian Sid install has been replaced with a clean drive. > > I believe I could get some speed with a custom kernel That is ex

Re: Starting fresh on my Toshiba A105-S2101 and want a custom kernel

Erik Sundin writes: > Den Wednesday > 08 April 2009 03.44.30 skrev Daniel Pittman: >> Preston Boyington writes: >> > After happily using my laptop for the last couple years I've decided to >> > streamline it a good bit. My hard disk that contains the existi

Re: How to use password-protected wireless networks?

John O'Hagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> John O'Hagan wrote: > [...] >> >One situation which has stumped me, however, is when the network requires >> > a password (which I have, of course, been given!): how do I enter the >> > password? > [...] > > Thanks to everyone who replied, you have pointe

Re: Running DHCP once wpa_supplicant associates with an AP?

Joe Emenaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think I've asked this before... either that or I searched and read a > million other threads where they said "That can't be done, yet". > > So, I'm trying to find out if it can be done *yet*. > > All I want to do is have wpa_supplicant trigger a dhc

Re: Video-in on laptop

Eildert Groeneveld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > does anyone know if it is possible to have a video signal that comes > out of an AV system on a laptop running debian (Thinkpad T40p) and use > it instead of a TV set? Not on any laptop that I am aware of, without adding additional hardware, and al

Re: Problem: kernel-image install -> menu.lst updated with wrong partition info

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My first attempt at posting a qustion, thanks very much in advance. [...] > Many attempts at installs and different partitioning schemes, migrating > from Debian testing to Debian unstable initially because of multimedia > applications (and didn't know about pinning

Re: ethernet after boot problem

Yigal Weinstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: G'day Yigal. > Thank you both Koen and Rob for the help. Rob it was iptables that > was messing me up. I don't know how to properly use a firewall like > that. After I removed it I have no problem using the internet after > putting the cable in after

Re: Deb-Sid: last updates: BAD:pcmcia,wireless-ipw2200,ogg123

Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 1/23/06, George Hein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If you havn't upgraded Deb-Sid (unstable) in the last two weeks, DON'T. >> >> If you do, backup everything before you do. >> >> On a ThinkPad-T42 the following fail: >> wireless, ogg123 sound (other so

Re: GPRS under Debian

G'day. > I'm trying adjust GPRS under Debian. > Its ok, but im have some problems to work gprs wery well. > I mean that ppp connection is UP (connected), but Internet not work. > Ping to any Internet addreses is time out, and DNS resolve too. It sounds like the default route isn't being configure

Re: lame hack to get dhcpcd and friends working...

On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, sen ml <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > during the boot process, the pcmcia subsystem doesn't initialize > itself quickly enough on my machine. as a result, arpwatch and > friends don't start up correctly because there is no interface > available when they try to start. Yup. Wo

Re: lame hack to get dhcpcd and friends working...

On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, sen ml <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] >> On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, sen ml <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> Well, if you use dhclient, you can put a sh(1) script in >> /etc/dhclient-exit-h

Re: lame hack to get dhcpcd and friends working...

On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> From: "Daniel Pittman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > > i'm using dhcpcd, so i don't know whether there is something >> > > analogous i can do. [...] >> > Well, I could see so

Re: pcmcia ethernet configuration scripts

On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Cody Koeninger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > the network starts correctly. However, this doesn't occur > automatically at boot time. I'm trying to find out what script is > supposed to call /etc/pcmcia/network at boot time . . . When the PCMCIA 'cardmgr' daemon starts

Re: possible to view video CD with Debian?

On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Benjamin F. Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it may sounds like a folish question. has anyone viewed VCD with > debian? Yes. Works well. daniel -- You must not quote to me what I once said. I am wiser now. -- Romy Schneider (1966)

Re: debian talks to mac :-)

On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, JC Helary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [... mac and Linux machine talking ...] > It looks like I need some kind of tcp/ip networking going on here, so > is there a way to implement this in a debianese way and/or without > spending too much money? Sure. A NULL-Modem cable, also

Re: running without a swap partition

On Wed, 09 Feb 2000, Christian DeKonink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can debian be run without a swap partition? Sure can. It's sensible to provide some sort of swap capability if you can -- otherwise you can get into a position where Linux will be unable to do /anything/ because it ran out of me

Re: running without a swap partition

On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 10:53:08AM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> On Wed, 09 Feb 2000, Christian DeKonink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Can debian be run without a swap partition? >&

Re: Mounting PCMCIA Compact Flash Card

On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to be able to read/write my CF Card which stores photo's > from a digital camera. I have a CF -> PCMCIA adapter, and my card is > dentified by the system. The output of the 'cardctl ident' command is: I have a CompactFlash card working

Re: Firewalls

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Nigel Sale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > However, when at work i sit behind a socks5 based proxy firewall, > which kind of screws things up. > > Does anybody have experience of this ? Sure. I live behind one at work and at home. Works good. :) > I have just started p

Re: Firewalls

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Nigel Sale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> > But my ultimate reason for doing this is that i want to be able to >> > use apt-get from behind this firewallso i need to socksify >> > apt-get, has anybody done this ? >> >> Er. I had real problems with apt-get and dante

Re: Firewalls

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Nigel Sale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> The version of apt-get in Debian unstable lets you specify proxies to >> use rather than always connecting directly, so I use it (now) by >> talking through my web proxy. > > So, if i understand you correctly you have a web prox

Re: Please tell your success story

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Dieter Ebner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Who has recently bought a laptop and was able to install LINUX? > > Could you please tell me the exact type of your laptop + how you have > solved problems. Gateway Solo 9300: Mobile P-II 400, 160MB, 10GB, 15" LCD, ATI Rage Mobility,

Re: XFCom_NeoMagic in 2.1 = XF86_SVGA in frozen?

On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Bryan K. Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings all, For a few months I had been running 2.1 on my Thinkpad > 390E. Recently, I upgraded to frozen and the frozen version of > Xfree86. During the upgrade, it asked me if I wanted to keep using the > NeoMagic server, and I

Re: Frozen distribution

On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Anyone who's running XFree86 4.0... > are there any noticeable advantages of it over the 3.x version? TrueType font support, with two drivers, at least one of which I used regularly as an external font server in pre-4.0 days. I wouldn't re

Re: Purchasing a laptop::Anyone fully satisfied with theirs?

On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, esoR ocsirF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, I hope this is not to far off topic. I am purchasing a new > laptop for the Science Journal at my school. I was hoping that I could > get some feed back on fairly recent laptops that are around $3000 and > *fully* functional

Re: Xfree86 3.3.6 with and without eth0

On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Michael Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have noticed a minor issue which I would like to submit to the > wisdom of the list. When I run xfree86 3.3.6 on my potato laptop with > an active ethernet connection, x will just start right up. My laptop > is a Dell Latitude Ls mod

Re: XFree86, ATI Rage Mobility

On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Hugo van der Merwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a laptop with an ATI Rage Mobility display card. I have a Gateway 9300 with 'ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage P/M Mobility AGP 2x (rev 64)' video card, and I do not observe the issues you mention. I run X in 16-bit 1024x768 h

Re: XFree86, ATI Rage Mobility

On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Hugo van der Merwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I have a laptop with an ATI Rage Mobility display card. >> >> I have a Gateway 9300 with 'ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage P/M Mobility >> AGP 2x (rev 64)' video card, and I do not observe the issues you >> mention. I run X in 16

Re: lame hack to get dhcpcd and friends working...

On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, sen ml <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > during the boot process, the pcmcia subsystem doesn't initialize > itself quickly enough on my machine. as a result, arpwatch and > friends don't start up correctly because there is no interface > available when they try to start. Yup. Wor

Re: lame hack to get dhcpcd and friends working...

On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, sen ml <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] >> On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, sen ml <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> Well, if you use dhclient, you can put a sh(1) script in >> /etc/dhclient-exit-hook

Re: lame hack to get dhcpcd and friends working...

On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> From: "Daniel Pittman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > > i'm using dhcpcd, so i don't know whether there is something >> > > analogous i can do. [...] >> > Well, I could see some a

Re: pcmcia ethernet configuration scripts

On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Cody Koeninger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > the network starts correctly. However, this doesn't occur > automatically at boot time. I'm trying to find out what script is > supposed to call /etc/pcmcia/network at boot time . . . When the PCMCIA 'cardmgr' daemon starts

Re: possible to view video CD with Debian?

On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Benjamin F. Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it may sounds like a folish question. has anyone viewed VCD with > debian? Yes. Works well. daniel -- You must not quote to me what I once said. I am wiser now. -- Romy Schneider (1966)

Re: Laptop install woes

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > The install program for Debian doesn't seem to acknowledge the > existance of laptops at all. The only thing that was configured > properly and working was PCMCIA. In fairness, they are not that much different from a desktop, save that they

Re: Suspend To Disk

On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Group, I use a Dell Latitude CPi 366 with Debian 2.2 and > Helix-Gnome. I would like to set up a 'suspend to disk' feature but do > not know where to start. In fact, I don't even know if it can be done > at all. So any poin

Re: using flash memory cards...

On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Alan Su <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i'm using a flash memory card in my laptop...gotta say it's pretty > slick how it appears as just another ide device! anyway, just out of > curiosity, i tried to pop the card out when it was mounted. it seems > the card is unmounted, but

Re: X-Fonts too big

On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just installed potato on my Sharp PC 9090 notebook. I used to run > slink with no problem, but in potato the fonts in Xwindows are > displayed far too big. I first noticed it when I started Communicator > and the text beneath the icons (back,

Re: Don't use swap partition for hibernation! (was Re: laptop experiences...)

On 25 Sep 2000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > I think we're talking about different things. I was talking about > making the kernel very aware of the whole hibernation thing and > tidying up everything in VM before actually going into > hibernation. This, however, would most likely mean that

Re: config dual pcmcia nics

On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, G. L. Inabnit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, > > I've had a merry night of wandering the HOWTO's, REAME's, and > just generally having a good time on google. :--) But I've yet > to discover how to configure my two pcmcia nics to be on > separate ad

Re: help with DSL/DHCP install

On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, ari gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > anyway, now im stuck. i dont know how to install the rest of the > system. more specifically, i dont know how to get apt to understand > that there's a PCMCIA card there just dying to connect to some ftp > site with the files on it.

Re: help with DSL/DHCP install

On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, ari gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > if i run dhclient (ive already modified the file and ran it before...) > i get the following output: > > Listening on LPF/lo/ > Sending on LPF/lo/ > Listening on LPF/eth0/00:a0:24:e3:ae:8c > Sending on LPF/eth0/00:a0:24:e3:ae:

Re: cdrom "exec" permissions denied

On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, J. R. S. Brownson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, I'm using a Targus Slim-Line cdrom via pc card interface on my > NEC P75. The cdrom is mounted from /dev/hdc to /cdrom and works fine > *except* for the fact that executable permission is denied. When I > type "mount", the

Re: cdrom "exec" permissions denied

On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, J. R. S. Brownson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7 Oct 2000, Daniel Pittman wrote: > >> The line you specify right there should tell you what you want to >> know: you[1] have specified, amongst the other mount options, that >> you do not want

Re: Suspend to disk.

On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Kieren Diment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an old Dell lattitude xpi P100 SD here with Slink installed. > Apm is working fine. Apparently there is a suspend to disk facility, > as when i press fn-d, i get a bios generated error message, somethiing > like "suspend to dis

Re: Suspend to disk.

On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Kieren Diment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > I have an old Dell lattitude xpi P100 SD here with Slink installed. >> > Apm is working fine. Apparently there is a suspend to disk >> > facility, as when i press fn-d, i get a

Re: Suspend to disk.

On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> That may sometimes be the case but, well, not with some of the >> hardware I have had. Let me assure you that there are, out there, >> plenty of laptops where the BIOS will hang, hard, trying to suspend >> to disk, or to restore from it. >>

Re: Suspend to disk.

On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Walt Mankowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> Well, if you build a custom kernel with ACPI support turned on, and >> it spots the ACPI stuff during boot, then you can use the matching >> userland acpid and give it some rigorous testing. It really needs to >> be beefed up

Re: Best Laptop?

Michelle Murrain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I'm new to the list (a few days), and I'm sure you get this > question often, but I figured I'd ask for some advice. I'm about to > buy a new laptop, and would like to maximize the hardware that will > work, and minimize the gotchas. I've been per

Re: Best Laptop?

CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 01:33:08PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> I would recommend the Gateway Solo 9300 series myself. The hardware >> is of good quality, with only the soft-modem unsupported. > > I have a 5300. Erm. Softmodem

Re: sound question

Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi All, I just recompiled my kernel so that my sound now works. The > only problem is that I have to enter: > > modprobe nm256 > > in order to get the module to load into the kernel. Any body know how > I can automate this or get it to run at startup

Re: sound question

Francois Gouget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, David Reviejo wrote: [...] >> % modutils (2.3.11-6)... >> % >> % * Don't install modclean anymore. It worked, but the current >> % implementation ignores post and pre-remove commands in >> % modules.conf. Upstream plans to hav

Re: running X in a telnet session

Andrew Dwight Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi All, I'm using telnet to log into my desktop machine from my laptop > and I would like to be able to run an application on the desktop > machine and have the display be on the laptop. After loging into the > desktop and switching the DISPLAY va

Re: running X in a telnet session

victorgv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Andrew Dwight Dixon wrote: >> Hi All, I'm using telnet to log into my desktop machine from my >> laptop and I would like to be able to run an application on the >> desktop machine and have the display be on the laptop. After loging >> into the desktop and s

Re: Back to Windows??

On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Christopher Wolf wrote: > At 09:04 PM 2/18/2001 +0100, A. Demarteau (linux rules!) wrote: >>On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Jan van Veldhuizen wrote: >> > This afternoon I bought a box with Suse Linux 7 and a set of books. >> > It took me 2 hours, but now X Windows is running properly. Bu

Re: ssh2 and non-stable

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is it safe to run the non-stable software package ssh2? Within the bounds of common sense, yes. I do. > Can I safely use apt-get to install it on my Dell laptop? Yes. Be aware that it will probably bring in a new libc and a few other bits... > I

Re: ssh2 and non-stable

On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > I can't connect to ssh1 now, but I'm sure I can config it to drop back > automatically, besides what I really needed was Protocol 2, I had to > connect to a machine which has no telnetd and only listens sshd Prot > 2. If nothing else, try usi

Re: [OT] reload files from disk

On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Daniel Reuter wrote: > How can one FORCE to have a program reloaded from disk and not from > buffer cache, when it has already been run once? Er, there really isn't a way to do that. However, you can flush it out by doing things that use a lot of memory (probably) or running a

Re: dhcp, cable modems...

On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Peter Cordes wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 11:40:51PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: >> also sprach xsdg (on Thu, 01 Mar 2001 11:29:05PM -0500): >> > > (dhcpcd is obsolete; It's been removed from Debian because it is >> >> do what? i missed something. oh, and dhcpcd is not the dhcp

Re: Switching keys around

On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Joanne Hunter wrote: [...] > So, my questions are twofold: > > 1) How can I swap the Window and Menu windows keys with the Insert and > Delete keys under X? (or, How can I set it up such that the Insert key > tells X that the Meta key has been pressed, the Window (Meta) key

Re: configurations, interfaces(5)

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Dave Morse wrote: > What is the best way to manage "configurations" on a laptop? Personally, I use `whereami' to do it. It's a package, which is nice, though I don't know if it's anywhere but unstable. > I.e. at home: through eth0/192.168.88.7, run NIS and NFS > At Work: thro

Re: pcmcia-cs and configuring network...

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Werner Heuser wrote: >> know intuitively and I think thje other is discover. There is at >> least two more. > `divine' and maybe some of the ARP packages. `whereami', which is a suite to detect and configure the network. Probably requires a little more scripting knowledge than

Re: CDRecord USB IomegaZipCD650

On Tue, 09 Oct 2001, Guillaume wrote: [...] > 2/ Baad: -scanbus OK, "Sorry, no CD/DVD-Recorder" (mouarf..) >>thufir:/home/silk# cdrecord -v -eject -data speed=4 dev=0,0,0 >>temp/gamer.iso > Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling > TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM > scsidev:

Re: CDRecord USB IomegaZipCD650

On Tue, 09 Oct 2001, Guillaume wrote: [...] > dmesg: > Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray > * sg0 is actually the dev that I can use sg0:0,0,0 Assuming that this is from when you plugged it in, not when you ra

Re: Laptop install woes

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > The install program for Debian doesn't seem to acknowledge the > existance of laptops at all. The only thing that was configured > properly and working was PCMCIA. In fairness, they are not that much different from a desktop, save that they

Re: Suspend To Disk

On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Group, I use a Dell Latitude CPi 366 with Debian 2.2 and > Helix-Gnome. I would like to set up a 'suspend to disk' feature but do > not know where to start. In fact, I don't even know if it can be done > at all. So any poi

Re: using flash memory cards...

On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Alan Su <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i'm using a flash memory card in my laptop...gotta say it's pretty > slick how it appears as just another ide device! anyway, just out of > curiosity, i tried to pop the card out when it was mounted. it seems > the card is unmounted, but

Re: X-Fonts too big

On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just installed potato on my Sharp PC 9090 notebook. I used to run > slink with no problem, but in potato the fonts in Xwindows are > displayed far too big. I first noticed it when I started Communicator > and the text beneath the icons (back,

Re: Don't use swap partition for hibernation! (was Re: laptop experiences...)

On 25 Sep 2000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > I think we're talking about different things. I was talking about > making the kernel very aware of the whole hibernation thing and > tidying up everything in VM before actually going into > hibernation. This, however, would most likely mean tha

Re: config dual pcmcia nics

On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, G. L. Inabnit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, > > I've had a merry night of wandering the HOWTO's, REAME's, and > just generally having a good time on google. :--) But I've yet > to discover how to configure my two pcmcia nics to be on > separate a

Re: help with DSL/DHCP install

On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, ari gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > anyway, now im stuck. i dont know how to install the rest of the > system. more specifically, i dont know how to get apt to understand > that there's a PCMCIA card there just dying to connect to some ftp > site with the files on it

Re: help with DSL/DHCP install

On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, ari gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > if i run dhclient (ive already modified the file and ran it before...) > i get the following output: > > Listening on LPF/lo/ > Sending on LPF/lo/ > Listening on LPF/eth0/00:a0:24:e3:ae:8c > Sending on LPF/eth0/00:a0:24:e3:ae

Re: cdrom "exec" permissions denied

On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, J. R. S. Brownson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, I'm using a Targus Slim-Line cdrom via pc card interface on my > NEC P75. The cdrom is mounted from /dev/hdc to /cdrom and works fine > *except* for the fact that executable permission is denied. When I > type "mount", the

Re: cdrom "exec" permissions denied

On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, J. R. S. Brownson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7 Oct 2000, Daniel Pittman wrote: > >> The line you specify right there should tell you what you want to >> know: you[1] have specified, amongst the other mount options, that >> you do not want

Re: Suspend to disk.

On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Kieren Diment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an old Dell lattitude xpi P100 SD here with Slink installed. > Apm is working fine. Apparently there is a suspend to disk facility, > as when i press fn-d, i get a bios generated error message, somethiing > like "suspend to di

Re: Suspend to disk.

On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Kieren Diment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > I have an old Dell lattitude xpi P100 SD here with Slink installed. >> > Apm is working fine. Apparently there is a suspend to disk >> > facility, as when i press fn-d, i get a

Re: Suspend to disk.

On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> That may sometimes be the case but, well, not with some of the >> hardware I have had. Let me assure you that there are, out there, >> plenty of laptops where the BIOS will hang, hard, trying to suspend >> to disk, or to restore from it. >>

Re: Suspend to disk.

On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Walt Mankowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> Well, if you build a custom kernel with ACPI support turned on, and >> it spots the ACPI stuff during boot, then you can use the matching >> userland acpid and give it some rigorous testing. It really needs to >> be beefed u

Re: Best Laptop?

Michelle Murrain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I'm new to the list (a few days), and I'm sure you get this > question often, but I figured I'd ask for some advice. I'm about to > buy a new laptop, and would like to maximize the hardware that will > work, and minimize the gotchas. I've been pe

Re: Best Laptop?

CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 01:33:08PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> I would recommend the Gateway Solo 9300 series myself. The hardware >> is of good quality, with only the soft-modem unsupported. > > I have a 5300. Erm. Softmodem

Re: sound question

Francois Gouget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, David Reviejo wrote: [...] >> % modutils (2.3.11-6)... >> % >> % * Don't install modclean anymore. It worked, but the current >> % implementation ignores post and pre-remove commands in >> % modules.conf. Upstream plans to ha

Re: running X in a telnet session

victorgv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Andrew Dwight Dixon wrote: >> Hi All, I'm using telnet to log into my desktop machine from my >> laptop and I would like to be able to run an application on the >> desktop machine and have the display be on the laptop. After loging >> into the desktop and

Re: sound question

Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi All, I just recompiled my kernel so that my sound now works. The > only problem is that I have to enter: > > modprobe nm256 > > in order to get the module to load into the kernel. Any body know how > I can automate this or get it to run at startu

Re: running X in a telnet session

Andrew Dwight Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi All, I'm using telnet to log into my desktop machine from my laptop > and I would like to be able to run an application on the desktop > machine and have the display be on the laptop. After loging into the > desktop and switching the DISPLAY v

Re: Back to Windows??

On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Christopher Wolf wrote: > At 09:04 PM 2/18/2001 +0100, A. Demarteau (linux rules!) wrote: >>On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Jan van Veldhuizen wrote: >> > This afternoon I bought a box with Suse Linux 7 and a set of books. >> > It took me 2 hours, but now X Windows is running properly. B

Re: ssh2 and non-stable

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is it safe to run the non-stable software package ssh2? Within the bounds of common sense, yes. I do. > Can I safely use apt-get to install it on my Dell laptop? Yes. Be aware that it will probably bring in a new libc and a few other bits... >

Re: ssh2 and non-stable

On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > I can't connect to ssh1 now, but I'm sure I can config it to drop back > automatically, besides what I really needed was Protocol 2, I had to > connect to a machine which has no telnetd and only listens sshd Prot > 2. If nothing else, try us

Re: [OT] reload files from disk

On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Daniel Reuter wrote: > How can one FORCE to have a program reloaded from disk and not from > buffer cache, when it has already been run once? Er, there really isn't a way to do that. However, you can flush it out by doing things that use a lot of memory (probably) or running

Re: dhcp, cable modems...

On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Peter Cordes wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 11:40:51PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: >> also sprach xsdg (on Thu, 01 Mar 2001 11:29:05PM -0500): >> > > (dhcpcd is obsolete; It's been removed from Debian because it is >> >> do what? i missed something. oh, and dhcpcd is not the dhc

Re: Switching keys around

On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Joanne Hunter wrote: [...] > So, my questions are twofold: > > 1) How can I swap the Window and Menu windows keys with the Insert and > Delete keys under X? (or, How can I set it up such that the Insert key > tells X that the Meta key has been pressed, the Window (Meta) key

Re: configurations, interfaces(5)

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Dave Morse wrote: > What is the best way to manage "configurations" on a laptop? Personally, I use `whereami' to do it. It's a package, which is nice, though I don't know if it's anywhere but unstable. > I.e. at home: through eth0/192.168.88.7, run NIS and NFS > At Work: thr

Re: pcmcia-cs and configuring network...

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Werner Heuser wrote: >> know intuitively and I think thje other is discover. There is at >> least two more. > `divine' and maybe some of the ARP packages. `whereami', which is a suite to detect and configure the network. Probably requires a little more scripting knowledge tha

Re: How to Manage Linux laptops on and off the network?

On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Jeff Boutet wrote: > I know this is more a sys admin thing. But it is somewhat relavent. > > My company is currently in the process of replacing all the Linux > development desktops for laptops, as to increase our developers > mobility. Thus the laptop will have to perform in

Re: CDRecord USB IomegaZipCD650

On Tue, 09 Oct 2001, Guillaume wrote: [...] > 2/ Baad: -scanbus OK, "Sorry, no CD/DVD-Recorder" (mouarf..) >>thufir:/home/silk# cdrecord -v -eject -data speed=4 dev=0,0,0 >>temp/gamer.iso > Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling > TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM > scsidev:

Re: CDRecord USB IomegaZipCD650

On Tue, 09 Oct 2001, Guillaume wrote: [...] > dmesg: > Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray > * sg0 is actually the dev that I can use sg0:0,0,0 Assuming that this is from when you plugged it in, not when you r

Re: Why Linux on a Laptop?

On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Alec wrote: > I'm wondering what everyone's motivation is for using Linux on a > laptop instead of Cygwin + Windows. I am curious also: why are you asking? Are you wondering what the major point you missed was, or just idly curious? > The way I see it, a laptop is basically

Re: Why Linux on a Laptop?

On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Alec wrote: > On Friday 30 November 2001 03:50 am, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Alec wrote: >> > I'm wondering what everyone's motivation is for using Linux on a >> > laptop instead of Cygwin + Windows. >> >&g

Re: xfs file system - apparently for real men 8-)

On Wed, 05 Dec 2001, Bret Waldow wrote: > Alexander Clouter wrote: > >> As for the XFS.GOOD MAN :) None of that 'girly-man' reiserfs >> crud :) >> I'm running it too and everything is just peachy :) > > Ok, I'll bite. What's bad about reiser, or what's good about xfs? > > Seriously, if t

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