Re: Net-3-Packet

1999-11-23 Thread Drew Parsons
tion to a PC with CD-ROM.: "IBM Thinkpad 701C" - sure sounds like a laptop to me. Drew Parsons

Re: Multifunction cards functioning... er, multiply?

1999-11-30 Thread Drew Parsons
rnet and modem at the same time, so I'm not 100% sure. I'm running kernel 2.2.12 with pcmcia-cs v3.1.4-2. My card is a Xircom RealPort Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56 (REM56G-100). The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite Pro 490CDT. What's XJACK? Drew Parsons

Mail note - for the Laptop-HOWTO ?

1999-12-01 Thread Drew Parsons
t I had to do to get it running properly. I'm attaching my report for your edification. If you feel it's worth anything, feel free to add it to the Laptop-HOWTO. Drew Parsons Laptop Mail Configuration Suggestions. Some notes for ordinary users without too much sysadmin experience.

Re: Error compiling PCMCIA modules

1999-12-02 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 05:13:30PM +0100, Raph wrote: > > Well, seems like you are trying to build a kernel package (that is, > standard kernel+modules). I do not remember well how this is done > properly, but what I'm sure, is that it is not the proper way to build the > pcmcia-cs package. They a

Re: laptop USB printing

2002-10-30 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:49:11AM -0800, Paul Phillips wrote: > > I have created the /dev/usb devices as indicated in the docs: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev/usb# ls -l > total 0 > crw-rw1 root lp 180, 0 Oct 24 21:22 lp0 > crw-rw1 root lp 180, 1 Oct 24 21:25

Re: Xircom CardBus Ethernet II (32 Bits) 10/100

2002-11-03 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 11:16:28AM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi folks, > Iam got one Toshiba Tecra 8000 with built-in modem (works fine) + Xircom > CardBus Ethernet II (32 Bits - 10/100). Iam running one Slackware 8.1 with > Kernel 2.4.18 with PCMCIA support but when i start my PCMCIA card

Re: Xircom CardBus Ethernet II (32 Bits) 10/100

2002-11-04 Thread Drew Parsons
(forwarding back to debian-laptop for help) - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - > Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 16:07:42 -0200 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Xircom CardBus Ethernet II (32 Bits) 10/100 > To: Drew Parsons <[EMA

Re: Xircom CardBus Ethernet II (32 Bits) 10/100

2002-11-04 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 04:07:42PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My TOSHIBA Tecra 8000 bios seetings are: > Pointing Devices = Auto-Selected > Device Config = All Devices > PCI BUS = IRQ 11 > PC Card: Auto-Selected > NOTE: Iam change 'PC Card' seetings to "CardBus/16-bit" and "PCIC Compatibl

Re: Smart relay setting for Exim...

2003-01-19 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:08:17AM +0100, Florian Jenn wrote: > Darryl L. Pierce schrieb am Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 07:39:51PM -0500: > > Hi! > > > My question, is there a way to configure Exim to use my ISP's SMTP > > server and my SMTP server at work without having to manually change > > setting

Re: dselect sucks greasy cheese balls

2003-01-19 Thread Drew Parsons
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: Automatically suspend when X minutes battery time remain.

2003-01-24 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 01:23:19PM +0100, Alex Polite wrote: > > I have apm + apmd installed on my notebook. I can successfully "apm -s" > from command line and resume by pressing the power on button. > > I want the system to automatically suspend when x minutes of battery > time remain. > It

Re: Toshiba laptops

2002-02-16 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 07:15:07PM +, Luis Mendes wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there anybody out there with any experience of Debian in any of the > following Toshiba laptops? > > Satellite 1800-100, 1800-204S, 1800-314, 1800-354S and > 3000-X4 > Jonathan Buzzard has written a set of Toshiba Li

Re: freeze in bootup

2002-02-16 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:08:38AM +, Nikolaj Erichsen wrote: > I sometimes have some troubles in starting up my 2.4.14 and 2.4.17 > kernels on my dell Inspiron 8100 (with bios A08), the computer freezes > randomly during bootup, sometimes it's in configuring network, sometimes > it's when star

Re: 2.4.17 kernel & pcmcia problem

2002-02-18 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 02:17:35PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 08:23:26AM -0500, Pann McCuaig wrote: > > I had a similar problem. I turned off all PCMCIA support in the kernel. > > I don't know why it's there in the first place (seems to be new with > > 2.4.x). > > Well,

Re: re satellite pro pcmcia

2002-03-15 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 02:17:19PM +, Craig Laurie wrote: > The problem with my pcmcia ( toshiba satellite pro 440cdx) is that it > thinks the cards are memory cards. has any one came across this before? > I've seen that from time to time on my 490CDT. Usually I just reinsert the card a seco

Re: newbie soundcard problem

2002-03-19 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:29:32AM -0500, nick phillips wrote: > hello debian laptop list! > > i'm a complete linux newbie who's recently installed debian 2.2.17 on a > toshiba tecra 8000. everything seems to have worked ok except for the > soundcard. i use wmaker, and using the cdplayer or other

Re: Upgrade stops on pcmcia

2002-04-15 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 10:52:36AM -0400, Bob Koss wrote: > > I haven't apt-gotten upgraded my IBM Thinkpad 770Z for a few months. The > upgrade doesn't go past pcmcia-cs. Here is the error: > > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/pcmcia-cs_3.1.31-7_i386.deb > E:

Re: exciting dial up question

2002-04-30 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 01:30:24PM +0300, Alexei Khlebnikov wrote: > On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 08:34:14 - > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > As a debian novice I get a little lost. Today's problem is that though > > I run wvdial OK, which runs the modem OK, when I then launch Opera it > > doesn

Re: Which modem?

2002-05-09 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:56:44PM +0100, Nick E M wrote: > Hi > > I am looking into buying a second hand Megaherts modem/10/100 XJack PCMCIA > card off ebay. > > What is a good card with these specifications that works with Debian quite > happily. > My Xircom RealPort REMG56/100 (56K modem,

Re: TEAC CD-RW CD-W216E

2002-05-10 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:34:16PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > Still working on the new Dell Inspiron 8200. > I have the cdrw 16x10x24, but have not been able to get it to write any > faster the 4x. > > $ dmesg > hdb: TEAC CD-RW CD-W216E > > Anyone know how to get this thing to work properly.

Re: Connecting Cell Phone to Laptop

2002-05-15 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 10:15:58AM -0400, Chad Thompson wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone have any knowledge with connecting a cellular phone to a > laptop to dialup to a PPP server under Linux? I have a samsung Sprint > PCS phone and they gave me the "Wireless Web Connection Kit v2.0" It > only sup

Re: Ethernet via PCMCIA

2002-06-04 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 03:37:41PM +0200, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote: > Hi all, > > I just bought a (16bit) PCMCIA EthernetCard (Netgear FA411) > and want to connect to the company`s (Win2k)-network. > > But installing PCMCIA is not easy (tried it the first time) - > here is what I did: ... > * unt

Re: Advice for Ethernet/Modem Combo Card

2002-06-07 Thread Drew Parsons
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 10:07:06PM +0100, Luis Mendes wrote: > > 1) Does the fact that both devices are in the same card affects in any > way the ease of installation under woody or is it advisable to get > separate cards for the two functions? > Like Jeremy, I too have a Xircom RealPort combo c

Re: XFree86 4.2 (binaries) over XFree86 4.1 (Debian) - Mini-HOWTO

2002-06-08 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 11:00:05AM +0200, Werner Heuser wrote: > Hi, > > on my laptops I have encountered some troubles with XFree86 4.1, so > I wanted to try the new 4.2 release. Since there are no Debian > packages available yet, I have decided to install the binaries from > XFree86. Please not

Re: Trademark Trouble: MobiliX wins Against Obelix

2002-06-13 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 01:10:32PM +0200, Werner Heuser wrote: > In the hearing from June 12th the court > has rejected the arguments of > "Lés Editions Albert René". The court says > the words "MobiliX" and "Obelix" can > hardly be mixed up with each other. Also the work of MobiliX > is dedicat

Re: creating my own pcmcia modules package

2002-06-17 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 06:44:55PM -0500, Kenny Hitt wrote: > Hi. I create my kernel with the kernel-package. I compile my pcmcia modules > from the > pcmcia source using make all then make install. You may find "make-kpkg kernel_image" easier than "make all; make install" > I would like to cr

Re: error in loading ... libstdc++--libc6.1-1.so.2

2002-06-20 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 01:24:21PM -0700, Gale Stafford wrote: > Hi folks! This is not necessarily laptop-specific but perhaps one of you > can help. I'm getting an error when trying to run the mozilla-install > for Mozilla 1.0. "mozilla-install" ? This sounds like you're using the installation

Re: Modem RX errors

2002-06-20 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 10:18:56AM -0700, alberto wrote: > > Hi, > I have a Zoom modem V.92 3075 PCMCIA. > > The problem is that my dialup connection is extremely slow (can go down to > 30 B/s), even if it shows differences between FTP (where I can get a fair > 1KB/s), and HTTP, 30-200KB/s

Re: Battery Life

2002-06-24 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 11:21:32PM -0700, Derek Gladding wrote: > > Have you got your kernel compiled to "make CPU Idle calls when Idle ?" > > Are you running a journalling FS (ext3 etc) which will stop your HD from > ever spinning down ? > > Those are the two biggest things (in my experience) w

Re: Battery Life

2002-06-24 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 05:01:35PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote: > > I run ext3, but I still seem to get the full two hours or more of battery > > life. > > Try mounting your disks as ext2 and run noflushd and see if your > batteries last three hours? ;) > They may well run longer with finer twea

Re: Battery Life

2002-06-24 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 06:07:10PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote: > > My main point is that the journalling filesystem isn't a *huge* strain on > > power resources (even if you can do even better with just ext2). > > Well, it prevents noflushd from powering down your hard drive. I tried > it. After

Re: Which laptop tu buy.

2002-06-24 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 08:22:49PM +, Simon Ross wrote: > If your looking at ibooks then IMHO stick with Apple's OSX. Hmmm, can I > get away with this on a Debian list.. :-) > I've not used Apple kit at all, but I have seen OSX in action and it > looks very nice. But most importantly it will su

Re: Tosh 490CDT (was: Which laptop tu buy)

2002-06-25 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 11:01:51AM -0700, Jim Richardson wrote: > > > > I use Toshiba (an old 490CDT, admittedly). I prefer the mouse button-stick > > (what's the proper term for these things?) over the touchpads. It's > > something to think about if you're buying your first laptop. > > > > I

Re: Tosh 490CDT (was: Which laptop tu buy)

2002-06-26 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 10:28:45AM -0700, Heather Stern wrote: > On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 02:20:12PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > > > > The laptop has an S3ViRGE/MX video chip, but the proper s3virge driver isn't > > quite working properly (under XFree86 v4). It ten

Re: "your system doesn't need PCMCIA"

2002-06-29 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 07:38:04PM -0500, Jeremy Turner wrote: > > > It appears not to be asking a question, but giving the impression that > "I checked out your system, and it doesn't look like you have PCMCIA; > Would you like me to remove it?" I don't understand if this is talking > about the

Re: Minimum HD space

2002-07-03 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 10:02:31AM -0700, Heather Stern wrote: > > Then tweak your /etc/apt/sources.list file so it points at "woody" > instead of the word "potato" or "stable". I say "woody" because we are > close to freeze, and when it really does freeze, some other name will be > assigned to t

Re: APM and ACPI

2002-07-06 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 05:16:38PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > Can I build both ACPI and APM into my kernel, and then choose which I > want to use with kernel boot-up parameters or some such option? (e.g. > apm=on, or something like that?) > Yep, sure can. I think APM gets preference, so

Re: cd writing

2002-07-11 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 06:20:11PM -0700, steve thompson wrote: > > First, does anyone recommend any particular cd burning > software? > gcombust mostly works well. But there are many CD burning programs. gcdmaster is fantastic for handling audio CDs. Drew -- PGP public key available at htt

Re: Lexmark laser

2002-07-18 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 06:06:38PM +, Simon Ross wrote: > Saw the last post about an Epson printer which got an excellent answer. > :-) So here is my printing problem... > > Dell Inspiron 8000 > Debian Woody kernel-2.4.17 > Lexmark Optra E310 > > If anyone has a setup like this and it's all w

Re: Lexmark laser

2002-07-19 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 02:25:13PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: > >>>>> "Drew" == Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Drew> On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 06:06:38PM +, Simon Ross wrote: > >> Saw the last post about an Epson printer wh

Re: Xircom CEM56 modem

2002-08-06 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 04:08:41PM -0400, Neil L. Roeth wrote: > I've been using a Xircom CEM56 Ethernet/modem PCMCIA card for a couple of > years, but only the Ethernet part. I recently tried to get the modem part > working, and have been unable to do so. > > Does anyone have any clues? Any way

Re: Problems with playing DVD

2002-08-16 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 09:34:52PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote: > There used to be firmware updates for these toshiba drives that remove > any region code from your drive, so you should be able to play any > region code DVD. "Used to be" ..?? What is the current situation with DVD drives? Seem

Re: How to get online with Whoody installed on a Toshiba Tecra 8100?

2002-08-22 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 03:09:36PM -0700, Joel Birnbaum wrote: > Hi all, > I just installed Whoody and can't get online neither with dail up or DSL > connection. > Does anyone know the steps to configure Linux to get online. pppconfig sets up your modem and dialup account. To run it: ifconfig et

Re: install problems with debian 3.0

2002-08-24 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 02:36:57PM -0400, Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine wrote: > Howdy all, > > I've gotten the following while attempting to install: > > file:/instmnt/pool/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.2.2-5-6_i386.deb was corrupt > > Anyone seen anything like this? > > Vendor CDs. >

Re: Installing Xfree on a Satellite 2100CDS

2002-09-06 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 08:16:17PM +0200, Charles de Miramon wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to install Debian Sid (Xfree 4.2) on a Toshiba Satellite 2100CDS > wit a S3/Virge video chipset. > I've had some pixel corruption problem that I managed to resolve by adding an > "noaccel" option to the Xfre

Re: Debian & sound

2002-09-06 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 08:34:09AM +0300, Jani Tiainen wrote: > I tried to setup linux running on my Chembook 9870M. > > It has OPL-3SAx non-pnp soundchip and I couldn't get it working. I tried > using OSS/Lite OPL-3SA2 driver without success. I tried same thing on ALSA > drivers without success.

Re: Debian & sound

2002-09-09 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 08:10:04AM +0300, Jani Tiainen wrote: > > > options -k opl3sa2 isapnp=0 io=0x538 mss_io=0x530 mpu_io=0x330 > ^^ > > This setting got my attention. Is that port real ctrl io address, or > something that I have to use instead of real ctrl

Re: toshutils and fan operation

2002-09-11 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 07:13:38AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > > I've have toshset and toshutils installed on my 2805-S302. I have a few > questions: > > First, a question about the fan. Does it come on automatically regardless > of software? That is, without using toshset or toshutils will i

Re: toshutils and fan operation

2002-09-13 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 07:12:44AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /dev/toshiba > crw-rw-rw-1 root root 10, 181 Sep 10 06:02 /dev/toshiba > > > > > What version of toshutils are you using? > > ii toshutils 2.0.1-2 Toshiba laptop utili

Re: Sound-probs with Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600

2002-09-14 Thread Drew Parsons
On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 09:16:01PM +0200, Dirk Hahn wrote: > > That is a pci type card (chip) and therefore, I would recommend just > using > > 'modconf'. This program is a module loader for all sorts of modules > from > > file system types to ether-net cards. Go into the sound section and > pic

Re: appolgise for the name

2002-09-21 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 08:10:36PM -0400, TooMany Mirrors wrote: > Just noticed that when I signed up for this hotmail account I set the name > as "Linus Torvals" to not give my real name, but this is of course a > butchering of his name I belive and just generally not cool. Sorry to all > and L

Re: toshiba 490XCDT

2002-09-24 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 05:26:41PM +0100, James Tappin wrote: > On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 18:22:46 +0200 > Benoit Mortier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > BM> Hello, > BM> > BM> Helping a friend to install debian woody on is toshiba 490XCDT but > BM> no luck using xfree 4.1 and s3virge and s3virge/mx com

Re: toggle resolution

2002-10-02 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 07:22:40PM -0700, steve thompson wrote: > Can anyone tell me how I can change the resolution? > I have several resolution entries in XF86Config-4, > but how do I toggle from one to another? > Try Ctrl-Alt-+ (that's the '+' on the number pad) Drew -- PGP public key avail

Re: toggle resolution

2002-10-03 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 01:13:47PM +0200, David Reviejo wrote: > * Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021003 11:49]: > > On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, steve thompson wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me how I can change the resolution? > > > I have several resolution entries in XF86Config-4, > > > but how do I t

Re: toggle resolution

2002-10-03 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:45:31PM +0200, David Reviejo wrote: > > > > Have they moved the keys around? On a 490CDT the Ctrl, Fn and Alt keys are > > right next to each other so it's very easy to press all three at once. > > Which model do you have? > > I have a 2540CDS, and here you can't "pres

Re: Re: Can't Reboot to Win98 After Restarting from Woody

2002-10-26 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 03:02:53PM +0200, Yuhanes Tjandra wrote: > This is how I got it works. > > It wasn't APM that caused the problem. It was pcmcia service that tried > to load inapporiate module which was "i82365.o" > The PC card (Linksys PCMLM56) wasn't working. Adding the module > "yenta_

Re: Keyboard Layout Config

2002-10-27 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 04:10:21PM -0400, José Vicente Tomé Vecchione wrote: > I can't configure the keyboard layout... I need to set it to US English > International in order tu use the ñ, á é í ó ú normally (deadkeys) but can't > do it. I've read the xmodconf info but doesn't help I get a

Re: Toshiba laptops

2002-02-16 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 07:15:07PM +, Luis Mendes wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there anybody out there with any experience of Debian in any of the > following Toshiba laptops? > > Satellite 1800-100, 1800-204S, 1800-314, 1800-354S and > 3000-X4 > Jonathan Buzzard has written a set of Toshiba L

Re: freeze in bootup

2002-02-16 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:08:38AM +, Nikolaj Erichsen wrote: > I sometimes have some troubles in starting up my 2.4.14 and 2.4.17 > kernels on my dell Inspiron 8100 (with bios A08), the computer freezes > randomly during bootup, sometimes it's in configuring network, sometimes > it's when sta

Re: 2.4.17 kernel & pcmcia problem

2002-02-18 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 02:17:35PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 08:23:26AM -0500, Pann McCuaig wrote: > > I had a similar problem. I turned off all PCMCIA support in the kernel. > > I don't know why it's there in the first place (seems to be new with > > 2.4.x). > > Well,

Re: re satellite pro pcmcia

2002-03-14 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 02:17:19PM +, Craig Laurie wrote: > The problem with my pcmcia ( toshiba satellite pro 440cdx) is that it > thinks the cards are memory cards. has any one came across this before? > I've seen that from time to time on my 490CDT. Usually I just reinsert the card a sec

Re: newbie soundcard problem

2002-03-19 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:29:32AM -0500, nick phillips wrote: > hello debian laptop list! > > i'm a complete linux newbie who's recently installed debian 2.2.17 on a > toshiba tecra 8000. everything seems to have worked ok except for the > soundcard. i use wmaker, and using the cdplayer or other

Re: Upgrade stops on pcmcia

2002-04-15 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 10:52:36AM -0400, Bob Koss wrote: > > I haven't apt-gotten upgraded my IBM Thinkpad 770Z for a few months. The > upgrade doesn't go past pcmcia-cs. Here is the error: > > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/pcmcia-cs_3.1.31-7_i386.deb > E:

Re: exciting dial up question

2002-04-30 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 01:30:24PM +0300, Alexei Khlebnikov wrote: > On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 08:34:14 - > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > As a debian novice I get a little lost. Today's problem is that though > > I run wvdial OK, which runs the modem OK, when I then launch Opera it > > does

Re: TEAC CD-RW CD-W216E

2002-05-10 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:34:16PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > Still working on the new Dell Inspiron 8200. > I have the cdrw 16x10x24, but have not been able to get it to write any > faster the 4x. > > $ dmesg > hdb: TEAC CD-RW CD-W216E > > Anyone know how to get this thing to work properly

Re: Connecting Cell Phone to Laptop

2002-05-15 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 10:15:58AM -0400, Chad Thompson wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone have any knowledge with connecting a cellular phone to a > laptop to dialup to a PPP server under Linux? I have a samsung Sprint > PCS phone and they gave me the "Wireless Web Connection Kit v2.0" It > only su

Re: Ethernet via PCMCIA

2002-06-04 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 03:37:41PM +0200, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote: > Hi all, > > I just bought a (16bit) PCMCIA EthernetCard (Netgear FA411) > and want to connect to the company`s (Win2k)-network. > > But installing PCMCIA is not easy (tried it the first time) - > here is what I did: ... > * un

Re: Advice for Ethernet/Modem Combo Card

2002-06-07 Thread Drew Parsons
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 10:07:06PM +0100, Luis Mendes wrote: > > 1) Does the fact that both devices are in the same card affects in any > way the ease of installation under woody or is it advisable to get > separate cards for the two functions? > Like Jeremy, I too have a Xircom RealPort combo

Re: XFree86 4.2 (binaries) over XFree86 4.1 (Debian) - Mini-HOWTO

2002-06-08 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 11:00:05AM +0200, Werner Heuser wrote: > Hi, > > on my laptops I have encountered some troubles with XFree86 4.1, so > I wanted to try the new 4.2 release. Since there are no Debian > packages available yet, I have decided to install the binaries from > XFree86. Please no

Re: Trademark Trouble: MobiliX wins Against Obelix

2002-06-13 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 01:10:32PM +0200, Werner Heuser wrote: > In the hearing from June 12th the court > has rejected the arguments of > "Lés Editions Albert René". The court says > the words "MobiliX" and "Obelix" can > hardly be mixed up with each other. Also the work of MobiliX > is dedica

Re: error in loading ... libstdc++--libc6.1-1.so.2

2002-06-20 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 01:24:21PM -0700, Gale Stafford wrote: > Hi folks! This is not necessarily laptop-specific but perhaps one of you > can help. I'm getting an error when trying to run the mozilla-install > for Mozilla 1.0. "mozilla-install" ? This sounds like you're using the installatio

Re: Modem RX errors

2002-06-20 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 10:18:56AM -0700, alberto wrote: > > Hi, > I have a Zoom modem V.92 3075 PCMCIA. > > The problem is that my dialup connection is extremely slow (can go down to > 30 B/s), even if it shows differences between FTP (where I can get a fair > 1KB/s), and HTTP, 30-200KB/

Re: Battery Life

2002-06-24 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 11:21:32PM -0700, Derek Gladding wrote: > > Have you got your kernel compiled to "make CPU Idle calls when Idle ?" > > Are you running a journalling FS (ext3 etc) which will stop your HD from > ever spinning down ? > > Those are the two biggest things (in my experience)

Re: Battery Life

2002-06-24 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 05:01:35PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote: > > I run ext3, but I still seem to get the full two hours or more of battery > > life. > > Try mounting your disks as ext2 and run noflushd and see if your > batteries last three hours? ;) > They may well run longer with finer twe

Re: Battery Life

2002-06-24 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 06:07:10PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote: > > My main point is that the journalling filesystem isn't a *huge* strain on > > power resources (even if you can do even better with just ext2). > > Well, it prevents noflushd from powering down your hard drive. I tried > it. After

Re: Which laptop tu buy.

2002-06-24 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 08:22:49PM +, Simon Ross wrote: > If your looking at ibooks then IMHO stick with Apple's OSX. Hmmm, can I > get away with this on a Debian list.. :-) > I've not used Apple kit at all, but I have seen OSX in action and it > looks very nice. But most importantly it will s

Re: Tosh 490CDT (was: Which laptop tu buy)

2002-06-26 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 10:28:45AM -0700, Heather Stern wrote: > On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 02:20:12PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > > > > The laptop has an S3ViRGE/MX video chip, but the proper s3virge driver isn't > > quite working properly (under XFree86 v4). It ten

Re: "your system doesn't need PCMCIA"

2002-06-29 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 07:38:04PM -0500, Jeremy Turner wrote: > > > It appears not to be asking a question, but giving the impression that > "I checked out your system, and it doesn't look like you have PCMCIA; > Would you like me to remove it?" I don't understand if this is talking > about th

Re: Minimum HD space

2002-07-03 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 10:02:31AM -0700, Heather Stern wrote: > > Then tweak your /etc/apt/sources.list file so it points at "woody" > instead of the word "potato" or "stable". I say "woody" because we are > close to freeze, and when it really does freeze, some other name will be > assigned to

Re: appolgise for the name

2002-09-21 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 08:10:36PM -0400, TooMany Mirrors wrote: > Just noticed that when I signed up for this hotmail account I set the name > as "Linus Torvals" to not give my real name, but this is of course a > butchering of his name I belive and just generally not cool. Sorry to all > and

Re: toshiba 490XCDT

2002-09-24 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 05:26:41PM +0100, James Tappin wrote: > On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 18:22:46 +0200 > Benoit Mortier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > BM> Hello, > BM> > BM> Helping a friend to install debian woody on is toshiba 490XCDT but > BM> no luck using xfree 4.1 and s3virge and s3virge/mx co

Re: toggle resolution

2002-10-02 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 07:22:40PM -0700, steve thompson wrote: > Can anyone tell me how I can change the resolution? > I have several resolution entries in XF86Config-4, > but how do I toggle from one to another? > Try Ctrl-Alt-+ (that's the '+' on the number pad) Drew -- PGP public key avai

Re: toggle resolution

2002-10-03 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 01:13:47PM +0200, David Reviejo wrote: > * Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021003 11:49]: > > On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, steve thompson wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me how I can change the resolution? > > > I have several resolution entries in XF86Config-4, > > > but how do I

Re: toggle resolution

2002-10-03 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:45:31PM +0200, David Reviejo wrote: > > > > Have they moved the keys around? On a 490CDT the Ctrl, Fn and Alt keys are > > right next to each other so it's very easy to press all three at once. > > Which model do you have? > > I have a 2540CDS, and here you can't "pre

Re: Re: Can't Reboot to Win98 After Restarting from Woody

2002-10-26 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 03:02:53PM +0200, Yuhanes Tjandra wrote: > This is how I got it works. > > It wasn't APM that caused the problem. It was pcmcia service that tried > to load inapporiate module which was "i82365.o" > The PC card (Linksys PCMLM56) wasn't working. Adding the module > "yenta_

Re: Keyboard Layout Config

2002-10-27 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 04:10:21PM -0400, José Vicente Tomé Vecchione wrote: > I can't configure the keyboard layout... I need to set it to US English >International in order tu use the ñ, á é í ó ú normally (deadkeys) but can't do >it. I've read the xmodconf info but doesn't help I

Re: laptop USB printing

2002-10-30 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:49:11AM -0800, Paul Phillips wrote: > > I have created the /dev/usb devices as indicated in the docs: > > root@apollo:/dev/usb# ls -l > total 0 > crw-rw1 root lp 180, 0 Oct 24 21:22 lp0 > crw-rw1 root lp 180, 1 Oct 24 21:25 lp1 >

Re: Xircom CardBus Ethernet II (32 Bits) 10/100

2002-11-02 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 11:16:28AM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi folks, > Iam got one Toshiba Tecra 8000 with built-in modem (works fine) + Xircom > CardBus Ethernet II (32 Bits - 10/100). Iam running one Slackware 8.1 with > Kernel 2.4.18 with PCMCIA support but when i start my PCMCIA card

Re: Xircom CardBus Ethernet II (32 Bits) 10/100

2002-11-04 Thread Drew Parsons
(forwarding back to debian-laptop for help) - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - > Envelope-to: drew@localhost > Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 16:07:42 -0200 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Xircom CardBus Ethernet II (32 Bits) 10/100 > To: Drew Parsons <[EMA

Re: Xircom CardBus Ethernet II (32 Bits) 10/100

2002-11-04 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 04:07:42PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My TOSHIBA Tecra 8000 bios seetings are: > Pointing Devices = Auto-Selected > Device Config = All Devices > PCI BUS = IRQ 11 > PC Card: Auto-Selected > NOTE: Iam change 'PC Card' seetings to "CardBus/16-bit" and "PCIC Compatibl

Re: Smart relay setting for Exim...

2003-01-19 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:08:17AM +0100, Florian Jenn wrote: > Darryl L. Pierce schrieb am Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 07:39:51PM -0500: > > Hi! > > > My question, is there a way to configure Exim to use my ISP's SMTP > > server and my SMTP server at work without having to manually change > > setting

Re: dselect sucks greasy cheese balls

2003-01-19 Thread Drew Parsons
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: Automatically suspend when X minutes battery time remain.

2003-01-24 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 01:23:19PM +0100, Alex Polite wrote: > > I have apm + apmd installed on my notebook. I can successfully "apm -s" > from command line and resume by pressing the power on button. > > I want the system to automatically suspend when x minutes of battery > time remain. > It

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