Re: No /dev/dsp after switch from 2.6.12/hotplug to 2.6.15/udev

2006-03-05 Thread John Schmidt
On Sunday 05 March 2006 01:03, Michael Marte wrote: > Hello *, > > recently I upgraded my kernel from 2.6.12 to 2.6.15 and encountered some > problems: > > - ACPI gets activated though my machine (a Dell Latitude CS 400 XT with > a Pentium II processor) has only APM. It was easy to work around this

Re: Order of network interfaces (WLAN and ethernet)

2006-03-31 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 31 March 2006 13:29, Philipp Frauenfelder wrote: > Hi > > I have a Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook E 4010D with a wlan and > ethernet adapter (the one where you have to plug in a cable > before being online). Most stuff works fine, also both network > interfaces. However, sometimes my wlan is et

Re: network interfaces

2006-04-07 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 07 April 2006 14:02, chris jackson wrote: > why, after working just fine for over a month, would my computer start > assigning different numbers to my network interfaces? My wireless, that > always used to be eth1 is now eth2, my pci card that used to be eth2 is > now eth3, even though e

Re: Help, installing softmodem driver

2004-10-19 Thread John Schmidt
On Tuesday 19 October 2004 09:26 am, Rony wrote: > Hi, > > >From some article about how to get the Toshiba laptop's softmodem > > working, i downloaded slmodem-2.9.9.tar.gz from > http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/ > I followed the instruction, and got the below msg. I know very li

Re: Smart Link Modem

2005-05-06 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 06 May 2005 11:40 am, Henry Gunter wrote: > I have a Sager 9860 laptop with a smartlink internal > modem. I have installed the deb packages sl-modem-daemon > and sl-modem-source. After building the driver i get the > following message at boot. > > slamr: module license 'Smart Link Ltd.'

Re: What to choose? Mac or PC?

2003-02-19 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 6:23 pm, Randy Duran wrote: > > A discussion regarding linux on Laptops appeared on Slashdot a day or > two ago(too lazy to look right now). People there offered up some > links. I offer the few that I can rememeber here: > > http://www.powernotebooks.com/ > http://

Re: laptop recommendation

2003-04-09 Thread John Schmidt
itting right next to me and it is substantially slower (greater than 4X) than my laptop in compilations and run time. There was nothing on the market from Apple that had the characteristics I needed. John Schmidt

Re: What to choose? Mac or PC?

2003-02-19 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 6:23 pm, Randy Duran wrote: > > A discussion regarding linux on Laptops appeared on Slashdot a day or > two ago(too lazy to look right now). People there offered up some > links. I offer the few that I can rememeber here: > > http://www.powernotebooks.com/ > http://

Re: tape backup ?

2004-05-25 Thread John Schmidt
On Tuesday 25 May 2004 01:06 pm, Provost, Stephane wrote: > Hmmm didn't think about this. That's a great idea though. And how do I > restore the files now ? Say my HDD crashes, do I need to reinstall Debian > and then run a reverse rsync or something like this ? > > Does rsync allow to backup an en

Re: tape backup ?

2004-05-25 Thread John Schmidt
On Tuesday 25 May 2004 01:06 pm, Provost, Stephane wrote: > Hmmm didn't think about this. That's a great idea though. And how do I > restore the files now ? Say my HDD crashes, do I need to reinstall Debian > and then run a reverse rsync or something like this ? > > Does rsync allow to backup an en

Re: Moving from XFree to xorg with Debian sid

2005-09-22 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 22 September 2005 05:41 am, Bob Alexander wrote: > I have a Thinkpad T40 (ATI Rad M9 1400x1050 panel) Debian system > tracking sid. > > AFAIK I should be running Debian's version of XFree rel 4.3.0. > > dpkg -l |grep xfree > > xfree86-common6.8.2.dfsg.1-7