Re: ipw2200 Acer TM 4100

2005-10-13 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 13 October 2005 08:57, Koen Vermeer wrote: > On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 09:54 +0200, Miguel Alvarez Ramirez wrote: > > About ipw2200 > > I have tried led=1 when insmod ipw2200.., echo 1> wirelessled ... but > > nothing > > Did you try acerhk? According to the website, it works with the T

Re: Mebius MP 50G black screen on X

2005-12-30 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 30 December 2005 10:29, Charles Muller wrote: > After having run my Sharp Mebius MP 50G successfully for a while with > Woody, and then Sarge, I recently installed Etch Beta 1, but can't > get X working. When I try to startx, it doesn't bounce back out, but > just goes into a black scree

Re: Mebius MP 50G black screen on X

2005-12-30 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 30 December 2005 13:10, Charles Muller wrote: > David Goodenough wrote: > > On Friday 30 December 2005 10:29, Charles Muller wrote: > >>After having run my Sharp Mebius MP 50G successfully for a while with > >>Woody, and then Sarge, I recently installed Etch B

Re: Acer 5002WLMi, Debian, and a nasty wireless chip

2006-01-30 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 30 January 2006 14:49, sjb wrote: > Hi, All - > > Love my laptop, hate my wireless (Broadcom 4318), and am > wondering if anyone has/had: > > a) any good response with the Broadcom43xx driver in development w/ the > above system &/or the above wireless card. > > b) any knowledge/experienc

Re: Acer 5002WLMi, Debian, and a nasty wireless chip

2006-01-30 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 30 January 2006 15:04, Barry, Christopher wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: David Goodenough [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 9:57 AM > > To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: Acer 5002WLMi, Deb

Re: Wireless on an Acer Aspire 3610

2006-03-07 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 06:15, Juanjavier Martínez wrote: > Does anyone know what chipset uses this laptop for wireless? > > Is any specific kernel needed? I have got 2.6.8-2-686 (for Celeron) kernel > installed. > > > Just asking. > > Cheers, > > Juanjavier Martínez. lspci is your friend here.

Re: Wireless on an Acer Aspire 3610

2006-03-07 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 21:16, Juanjavier Martínez wrote: > >On Tuesday 07 March 2006 06:15, Juanjavier Martínez wrote: > >> Does anyone know what chipset uses this laptop for wireless? > >> > >> Is any specific kernel needed? I have got 2.6.8-2-686 (for Celeron) > >> kernel installed. > >> > >> >

Re: Wireless on an Acer Aspire 3610

2006-03-08 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 20:06, Juanjavier Martínez wrote: > >On Tuesday 07 March 2006 21:16, Juanjavier Martínez wrote: > >> >On Tuesday 07 March 2006 06:15, Juanjavier Martínez wrote: > >> >> Does anyone know what chipset uses this laptop for wireless? > >> >> > >> >> Is any specific kernel nee

komnibook

2004-09-06 Thread David Goodenough
Has anyone used komnibook under Debian, if so is there a .deb for it anywhere. It does not seem to be part of the regular tree, and apt-get.org could not find one, but I thought I would ask. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: PCMCIA wireless on kernel 2.6

2004-09-22 Thread David Goodenough
Better still, use hostap. It has far more function that the orinoco driver, supports the same (more or less) set of chips (the prism 2/2.5/3 set) and runs using the standard pcmcia support in the recent 2.6 kernels. If you are running with a 2.6 kernel (there are only prebuild modules for 2.4.2

Re: Amilo A1630 - Somebody with this laptop out there

2004-10-14 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 14 October 2004 04:15, Christian Bjälevik wrote: > Tobias Krais wrote: > > Hi List Users, > > > > I search users with a Amilo A1630 Notebook out there. At the moment I > > have serveral problems, maybe somebody of you solved one: > > - IrDA / FIR > > - Modem > > - Ralink Wireless > > >

Re: ThinkPad T30, ACPI: backlight stays on during suspend

2004-10-08 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 07 October 2004 23:14, eddyp wrote: > Hi, > > Juergen Stuber wrote: > > Hi Steven, > > > > Steven Ihde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I have a ThinkPad T30 I just installed with the latest stuff from > >> testing. When I try to suspend with ACPI (echo "3" > > >> /proc/acpi/slee

Re: Alsa HP zv5000 ATI IXP150 AC'97

2004-11-26 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 26 November 2004 17:20, Mateusz Milian wrote: > Greetz to All! > > I've got a problem with my sound card. I've just install sarge on hp > zv5015ea, but there is no sound. When I try to calls xmms I get: > > melon:~# xmms& > [1] 8941 > melon:~# > ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open a

Re: Alsa HP zv5000 ATI IXP150 AC'97

2004-11-29 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 29 November 2004 10:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > thx a lot for advice, but I'll need some more help, (Sorry I'm quit fresh > in Debian only 3 weeks expierance) That means I made syslink, but then I > could't run "dpkg-reconfigure alsa-source", couse I got message:" > alsa-source is not

Re: filesystem corrupted like I've never seen

2004-12-13 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 13 December 2004 10:50, Alexandru Cabuz wrote: > Hello, > > My /home and /var filesystems just got corrupted real bad and I have > no idea why. > > I leave my (Latitude D600) laptop on overnight at the office normally. > Except this monday morning I came into the office and tried to read

Re: Custom DSDT--The Debian Way?

2004-12-20 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 20 December 2004 04:24, Ridge Chittenden wrote: > Hello all, > > The DSDT on my Dell Inspiron 300m seems buggy--KDE > tells me I "appear to have a partial ACPI > installantion," and I get a bunch of ACPI errors on > bootup. > > I'd like to try to edit the DSDT (or use one from > acpi.sour

Re: WLAN PCMCIA + USB Bluetooth under Deb

2004-12-29 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 12:45, Hans Kaiser wrote: > Hello list, > > I got irriteted searching and trying different WLAN and Bluetooth products. > Maybe this list could help. > > I need following WLAN-features: > - good support under linux (debian) ideally with open source drivers > directy fr

Re: HP laptop

2005-03-02 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 03:01, David Mandelberg wrote: > Dimitris E. Kiousis wrote: > > Will I encounter any problems? > > Probably nothing immediate, most basic things (e.g. keyboard, monitor, hard > drive, etc.) are supported. You may have problems with power management, > the touchpad (increa

Re: HP laptop

2005-03-02 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 10:12, Steffen Waldherr wrote: > Hi, > > > > E.g. if the touchpad doesn't work, search for 'linux "HP > > > NX-9030" touchpad' or similar. > > > > Most likely you will need the synaptics touchpad driver > > which seems to drive all of the touchpads I have met > > recently

Re: ifplugd, guessnet, ifscheme, netscript, whereami, ... -- what should I use?

2005-06-10 Thread David Goodenough
Not currently that I know of. Sounds like a good use for Kommander. I was thinking of writing something, but have not gotten around to it yet. David On Friday 10 June 2005 12:52, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO En cette nuit nuageuse du vendredi 10 juin 2005, vers 01:06, Matej > > Cepl <[EMAIL PROT

Re: APM + KDE3 bug, i guess...

2002-12-17 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 17 December 2002 12:14, Paulo Lopes wrote: > Hi, > > I've a laptop with Debian Woody with KDE 3.0.5 only with stable > packages, and when i don't use it for a while the KDE turns on the > screen saver, and after a while the APM subsystem turns the LDC off to > save power. This works fine

Re: fb+acpi(suspend) for sis630

2002-12-18 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 18 December 2002 13:34, Albert Dengg wrote: > hi > has anybody an idea if it is possible to get a fb running on a Gericom > Overdose3 (sis630 chipset)? > (the vesa,sis and vga16 ones do not work, anyway not with the standard > parameters...) Are you using the standard kernel fb suppor

Re: Li-ion battery doesn't charge

2003-02-10 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 10 February 2003 18:05, Paulo Lopes wrote: > Mark Janssen wrote: > >On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 13:01, Paulo Lopes wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>I've a Li-ion battery on my laptop that says that it's capacity is of > >>3600mAH, but i've compiled my kernel with acpi and i've been reading the > >>proc

Re: Li-ion battery doesn't charge

2003-02-11 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 10 February 2003 18:58, Paulo Lopes wrote: > >I have a Clevo 2700T and mine died after about a year. It got to the > > point of apparently charging fully, and then going down to about 1:04hour > > and then suddenly saying that it only had 4 minutes. > > > >I replaced it with a new 8 cell

Re: Problem with hermes wireless card

2003-05-30 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 30 May 2003 07:53, niklas adolfsson wrote: > mel kravitz wrote: > >Joel Alexandre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >>info about the pci card > >>02:08.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor Prism 2.5 Wavelan > >>chipset (rev 01) > > > >this chipset is better supported by the hostap, or lin

Re: network hopping tricks: an unsolicited plug for ifupdown-roaming

2003-06-05 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 05 June 2003 07:27, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 02:38, Tony Godshall wrote: > > There's been a lot of discussion on this list about tools to > > detect which network a laptop is connected to and configure > > various things. [...] I've tried several, and I think I > > a

Re: SiS 650 and text mode switching

2003-09-10 Thread David Goodenough
But are you using the Winischhofer frame buffer driver, or a sufficiently recent (2.4.22 I think) kernel what already has it. Console mode is entirely dependant on the frame buffer. David On Wednesday 10 September 2003 11:27, Eduardo Gsmez wrote: > Yes, I'm using the Thomas Winischhofer driver,

Installing 3.0 (woody eventually) on an ECS A900

2002-08-16 Thread David Goodenough
I received an ECS A900 this morning (in the UK its sold by Novatech as the N-Book) and tried to install Debian on it. First try was to install from the 2.2r3 CD I had (it has a CD drive, but no floppy). This hung just after it had detected the lack of floppy. So I downloaded a BF2.4 ISO, and tri

Re: Installing 3.0 (woody eventually) on an ECS A900

2002-08-17 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 16 August 2002 13:50, David Goodenough wrote: > I received an ECS A900 this morning (in the UK its sold by Novatech as the > N-Book) and tried to install Debian on it. > > First try was to install from the 2.2r3 CD I had (it has a CD drive, but > no floppy). This hung ju

[Ann] ECS A900 Debian install HOWTO

2002-10-24 Thread David Goodenough
I have posted a mini-HOWTO documenting my experience installing Debian unstable on an ECS A900 (aka Novatech nBook). While it is a tail that is specific to this box and distribution, there are bits of it that are useful to anyone with a SIS630 laptop, and to most Linux distributions. It can be fo

[Ann] ECS A900 Debian install HOWTO

2002-10-24 Thread David Goodenough
I have posted a mini-HOWTO documenting my experience installing Debian unstable on an ECS A900 (aka Novatech nBook). While it is a tail that is specific to this box and distribution, there are bits of it that are useful to anyone with a SIS630 laptop, and to most Linux distributions. It can be fo

Re: APM + KDE3 bug, i guess...

2002-12-17 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 17 December 2002 12:14, Paulo Lopes wrote: > Hi, > > I've a laptop with Debian Woody with KDE 3.0.5 only with stable > packages, and when i don't use it for a while the KDE turns on the > screen saver, and after a while the APM subsystem turns the LDC off to > save power. This works fine

Re: fb+acpi(suspend) for sis630

2002-12-18 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 18 December 2002 13:34, Albert Dengg wrote: > hi > has anybody an idea if it is possible to get a fb running on a Gericom > Overdose3 (sis630 chipset)? > (the vesa,sis and vga16 ones do not work, anyway not with the standard > parameters...) Are you using the standard kernel fb suppor

Re: Li-ion battery doesn't charge

2003-02-10 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 10 February 2003 18:05, Paulo Lopes wrote: > Mark Janssen wrote: > >On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 13:01, Paulo Lopes wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>I've a Li-ion battery on my laptop that says that it's capacity is of > >>3600mAH, but i've compiled my kernel with acpi and i've been reading the > >>proc

Re: Li-ion battery doesn't charge

2003-02-11 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 10 February 2003 18:58, Paulo Lopes wrote: > >I have a Clevo 2700T and mine died after about a year. It got to the > > point of apparently charging fully, and then going down to about 1:04hour > > and then suddenly saying that it only had 4 minutes. > > > >I replaced it with a new 8 cell

Re: network hopping tricks: an unsolicited plug for ifupdown-roaming

2003-06-05 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 05 June 2003 07:27, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 02:38, Tony Godshall wrote: > > There's been a lot of discussion on this list about tools to > > detect which network a laptop is connected to and configure > > various things. [...] I've tried several, and I think I > > a

Re: Problem with hermes wireless card

2003-05-30 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 30 May 2003 07:53, niklas adolfsson wrote: > mel kravitz wrote: > >Joel Alexandre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >>info about the pci card > >>02:08.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor Prism 2.5 Wavelan > >>chipset (rev 01) > > > >this chipset is better supported by the hostap, or lin

Re: SiS 650 and text mode switching

2003-09-10 Thread David Goodenough
But are you using the Winischhofer frame buffer driver, or a sufficiently recent (2.4.22 I think) kernel what already has it. Console mode is entirely dependant on the frame buffer. David On Wednesday 10 September 2003 11:27, Eduardo Gsmez wrote: > Yes, I'm using the Thomas Winischhofer driver,

Problem with kernel 2.4 on new laptop

2003-11-07 Thread David Goodenough
I just got myself a new laptop (the old one died). Its a Clevo D410E, with a Pentium IV and Ati 9000 graphics. My first attempt to install was to use Knoppix, but as soon as it tried to load the kernel (a 2.4 kernel) it cleared the screen and stopped. So I tried a Debian 3.0r1 CD, and installe

Re: Debian an Acer Travelmate 291lmi

2004-05-04 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 09:18, Jan Koch wrote: > Hello, > last week i bought this notebook (from Mediamarkt) and wanted experience > linux the first time. Because i want to understand linux i wanted to > choose debian. But i have a critical problem. I can't start the > installation. :( The cd and ev

Re: DVI output?

2004-05-22 Thread David Goodenough
Try taking a copy of Knoppix with you to the shop, and see it they will let you try it. Then you will know if it "just works". On Saturday 22 May 2004 20:34, Andreas Schwarz wrote: > Juraj Ziegler wrote: > > On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 03:56:54PM +0200, Andreas Schwarz wrote: > >>Hello, > >> > >>did

Problem with kernel 2.4 on new laptop

2003-11-07 Thread David Goodenough
I just got myself a new laptop (the old one died). Its a Clevo D410E, with a Pentium IV and Ati 9000 graphics. My first attempt to install was to use Knoppix, but as soon as it tried to load the kernel (a 2.4 kernel) it cleared the screen and stopped. So I tried a Debian 3.0r1 CD, and installe

Re: Debian an Acer Travelmate 291lmi

2004-05-04 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 09:18, Jan Koch wrote: > Hello, > last week i bought this notebook (from Mediamarkt) and wanted experience > linux the first time. Because i want to understand linux i wanted to > choose debian. But i have a critical problem. I can't start the > installation. :( The cd and ev

Re: DVI output?

2004-05-22 Thread David Goodenough
Try taking a copy of Knoppix with you to the shop, and see it they will let you try it. Then you will know if it "just works". On Saturday 22 May 2004 20:34, Andreas Schwarz wrote: > Juraj Ziegler wrote: > > On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 03:56:54PM +0200, Andreas Schwarz wrote: > >>Hello, > >> > >>did

komnibook

2004-09-06 Thread David Goodenough
Has anyone used komnibook under Debian, if so is there a .deb for it anywhere. It does not seem to be part of the regular tree, and apt-get.org could not find one, but I thought I would ask. David

Re: PCMCIA wireless on kernel 2.6

2004-09-22 Thread David Goodenough
Better still, use hostap. It has far more function that the orinoco driver, supports the same (more or less) set of chips (the prism 2/2.5/3 set) and runs using the standard pcmcia support in the recent 2.6 kernels. If you are running with a 2.6 kernel (there are only prebuild modules for 2.4.2

Re: mkinitrd is already adapted to add the DSDT

2005-07-01 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 01 July 2005 11:42, A Mennucc wrote: > hi there > > I am very interested in patches for custom DSDT support (I own > an ASUS notebook which has a broken DSDT, so ACPI suspend does not work; > and there is a fixed DSDT in acpi.sf.net that I would love to try); > > I hope that they would ac

Re: USB to RCA and time server

2005-07-03 Thread David Goodenough
On Sunday 03 July 2005 21:18, Miroslav Maiksnar wrote: > Dne ne 3. července 2005 20:37 gustavo halperin napsal(a): > > Second, I have a little problem with the clock or time in my laptop, > > maybe the > > battery is dead. The problem is that after each suspend to memory the > > clock loose the rea

Re: ACER3002LCI - wireless & bluetooth

2005-07-26 Thread David Goodenough
Use the lspci command to see what it installed. Paste the result into a response to this note and maybe we can help. David On Friday 15 July 2005 20:37, Angelo Zerbetto wrote: > Debian community, > > I´ve bought a Acer 3002 LCI and installed a Debian 3.1ra OS. > Debian identified almos

Re: prism54, 2.6.8, WG511

2005-08-12 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 12 August 2005 19:21, Chris Beggy wrote: > I'm failing to run a WG511 wireless CardBus card, with the latest prism54 > firmware and driver, on a Toshiba 2100. > > The prism54 seems to be loaded with hotplug. > > Is the problem with IRQ, pcmcia, PCI? > Restarting /etc/init.d/pcmcia or /etc