Re: Emacs questions

2000-06-14 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Jeffrey Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Quick emacs questions: > does syntax hightlighting work in emacs > (*not* xemacs) -- font-lock doesn't seem > to give me any pretty colors outside of X, > and I can't for the life of me find anything > in the documentation. This may have changed, but

Re: Emacs questions

2000-06-14 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Jeffrey Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the responses; i know this isn't an Emacs mailing list --- > How can this be possible? The bloated Emacs with every feature known to > humanity can't do the one thing that lil' ol' vim does with ease: give me > syntax highlighting outside

Re: IBM Thinkpad

2000-08-21 Thread Gary Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Abdus-Sabur, Qadir) writes: > Should I expect any complications installing debian on a IBM Thinkpad > ( 80M RAM, 1G HD, & CD-Rom. I intend to run Word Perfect on this box. I've installed Debian on 2 thinkpads. An old 486 model (can't remember the precise model #) and a 600E. Yo

PCMCIA trouble in latest potato

2000-05-31 Thread Gary Hennigan
Sorry if this is a repeat for some of you, but a more informed person than I pointed out the laptop-specific Debian group so I'm reposting this from debian-user. Slightly modified forward from debian-user-- Anyone else having PCMCIA trouble with the latest version in

Re: PCMCIA trouble in latest potato

2000-06-01 Thread Gary Hennigan
Thanks for the reply Bentley. My problem isn't with the ppp stuff, but with the core PCMCIA stuff in general. I was using the 2.2.15 kernel though and that may be an issue, although not one I can get around since I told the installation not to maintain backward compatibility with 2.0.x kernels whe

Re: PCMCIA trouble in latest potato

2000-06-01 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the reply Bentley. > > My problem isn't with the ppp stuff, but with the core PCMCIA stuff in > general. I was using the 2.2.15 kernel though and that may be an > issue, although not one I can get around

Re: pcmcia? duh!

2000-06-02 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Jeffrey Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hello all: Hi. First, if you're going to reply to a message to create a new message on the list please also remove the "References:" header from your new message. Doing it the way you did doesn't play nice with threading news readers. To me your post

Re: PCMCIA modules recompilation: Undefined symbols

2000-06-08 Thread Gary Hennigan
Keith Geffert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been running potato for a while and have upgraded kernels when they > released new ones into the distribution points. So, I use kpkg to make > my > custom kernels and I've done it three or four times now and I've got my > routine > now. But since t

Re: Emacs questions

2000-06-14 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Jeffrey Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Quick emacs questions: > does syntax hightlighting work in emacs > (*not* xemacs) -- font-lock doesn't seem > to give me any pretty colors outside of X, > and I can't for the life of me find anything > in the documentation. This may have changed, but

Re: Emacs questions

2000-06-14 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Jeffrey Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the responses; i know this isn't an Emacs mailing list --- > How can this be possible? The bloated Emacs with every feature known to > humanity can't do the one thing that lil' ol' vim does with ease: give me > syntax highlighting outside o

Re: IBM Thinkpad

2000-08-21 Thread Gary Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Abdus-Sabur, Qadir) writes: > Should I expect any complications installing debian on a IBM Thinkpad > ( 80M RAM, 1G HD, & CD-Rom. I intend to run Word Perfect on this box. I've installed Debian on 2 thinkpads. An old 486 model (can't remember the precise model #) and a 600E. You

pcmcia custom installation

2000-08-29 Thread Gary Hennigan
I've got a newer PCMCIA card that's not supported under potato (pcmcia 3.1.8). It is supported under a later release of PCMCIA though. Is there a "Debian Way (TM)" to use the raw pcmcia-cs-3.1.xx.tar.gz? Perhaps something similar to the way you can use raw linux-*.tar.bz2 kernel source with make-kp

Re: pcmcia custom installation

2000-08-29 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 29-Aug-2000 Gary Hennigan wrote: > > I've got a newer PCMCIA card that's not supported under potato (pcmcia > > 3.1.8). It is supported under a later release of PCMCIA though. Is > &g

Re: pcmcia custom installation

2000-08-29 Thread Gary Hennigan
Pat Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 01:49:40PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > On 29-Aug-2000 Gary Hennigan wrote: > > > I've got a newer PCMCIA card that's not supported under potato (pcmcia > > &

Re: pcmcia custom installation

2000-08-29 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Doesn't work. I get some error from a shell script and I wanted to > > find out if there was a cleaner way to do this before I tried to track > > it down. Sure would be nice if there were some type of a package like > > make-kpkg that allo

Re: pcmcia custom installation

2000-08-29 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs' > > /bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `;' > > /bin/sh: -c: line 1: `set -e ; for d in ; do make -C $d ; done' > > make[3]: *** [all] Error 2 > > make[3]: Leaving dir

Re: pcmcia custom installation

2000-08-29 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Did you test it with the pcmcia-cs-3.1.19 source? Looks to me like > > there's some Makefile trouble in that version. If you used an older > > version it may not have showed up. It certainly works fine with the > > Debian package pcmcia-cs.t

Card recommendations (was Re: pcmcia custom installation)

2000-08-29 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> What card are you trying to support? > > > > It's a 3COM Megahertz 10/100 LAN + 56K modem card. Unfortunately I > > read in SUPPORTED.CARDS that it uses a Winmodem. Oh well, I can use my > > old 10M card for modem and the new one for ethernet.

Re: OT: Why no new driver? (Was: Re: LinModems)

2000-09-20 Thread Gary Hennigan
Nils Kassube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joerg Braukhoff wrote: > > > I met some Lucent people a few weeks ago, when they were running a > > presentation about UMTS at the company I work for right now and > > asked them why there is no real support and the company's future > > plans for linux, b

pcmcia custom installation

2000-08-29 Thread Gary Hennigan
I've got a newer PCMCIA card that's not supported under potato (pcmcia 3.1.8). It is supported under a later release of PCMCIA though. Is there a "Debian Way (TM)" to use the raw pcmcia-cs-3.1.xx.tar.gz? Perhaps something similar to the way you can use raw linux-*.tar.bz2 kernel source with make-k

Re: pcmcia custom installation

2000-08-29 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 29-Aug-2000 Gary Hennigan wrote: > > I've got a newer PCMCIA card that's not supported under potato (pcmcia > > 3.1.8). It is supported under a later release of PCMCIA though. Is > &g

Re: pcmcia custom installation

2000-08-29 Thread Gary Hennigan
Pat Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 01:49:40PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > On 29-Aug-2000 Gary Hennigan wrote: > > > I've got a newer PCMCIA card that's not supported under potato (pcmcia > > &

Re: pcmcia custom installation

2000-08-29 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Doesn't work. I get some error from a shell script and I wanted to > > find out if there was a cleaner way to do this before I tried to track > > it down. Sure would be nice if there were some type of a package like > > make-kpkg that all

Re: pcmcia custom installation

2000-08-29 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs' > > /bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `;' > > /bin/sh: -c: line 1: `set -e ; for d in ; do make -C $d ; done' > > make[3]: *** [all] Error 2 > > make[3]: Leaving di

Re: pcmcia custom installation

2000-08-29 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Did you test it with the pcmcia-cs-3.1.19 source? Looks to me like > > there's some Makefile trouble in that version. If you used an older > > version it may not have showed up. It certainly works fine with the > > Debian package pcmcia-cs.

Card recommendations (was Re: pcmcia custom installation)

2000-08-29 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> What card are you trying to support? > > > > It's a 3COM Megahertz 10/100 LAN + 56K modem card. Unfortunately I > > read in SUPPORTED.CARDS that it uses a Winmodem. Oh well, I can use my > > old 10M card for modem and the new one for ethernet

Re: OT: Why no new driver? (Was: Re: LinModems)

2000-09-20 Thread Gary Hennigan
Nils Kassube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joerg Braukhoff wrote: > > > I met some Lucent people a few weeks ago, when they were running a > > presentation about UMTS at the company I work for right now and > > asked them why there is no real support and the company's future > > plans for linux,

Serious crash

2003-03-27 Thread Gary Hennigan
The other day I had a serious problem with my Debian laptop. I rarely run it on batteries but a couple of days ago I did just that. After it had been idle for around 2 hours I went to try and use it. No response to any keys, so I powered it down. When it came back up the Debian partition was totall

Re: Serious crash

2003-03-31 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Frank Trenkamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Maybe the (upgraded) amount of RAM doesn't fir to the existing partition > > size > > (no more). Then it would overwrite some Megs. No wonder fsck is slightly > > overcharged. > > Unlikely. IIRC, the machine was a Dell laptop. If system memory + vg

Re: two questions

2003-04-03 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Alessandro Speranza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > 1)I've got my laptop (compaq Presario 700) running debian stable (thanks > to everyone who put up on the web some information about ACPI and other > issues with this laptop). Now I would need something with which I can > autodect the networ

Serious crash

2003-03-27 Thread Gary Hennigan
The other day I had a serious problem with my Debian laptop. I rarely run it on batteries but a couple of days ago I did just that. After it had been idle for around 2 hours I went to try and use it. No response to any keys, so I powered it down. When it came back up the Debian partition was totall

Re: Serious crash

2003-03-31 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Frank Trenkamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Maybe the (upgraded) amount of RAM doesn't fir to the existing partition size > > (no more). Then it would overwrite some Megs. No wonder fsck is slightly > > overcharged. > > Unlikely. IIRC, the machine was a Dell laptop. If system memory + vga car

Re: two questions

2003-04-03 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Alessandro Speranza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > 1)I've got my laptop (compaq Presario 700) running debian stable (thanks > to everyone who put up on the web some information about ACPI and other > issues with this laptop). Now I would need something with which I can > autodect the networ