Ethernet Card --> that works ?

2000-07-24 Thread Martyn Pearce
Jens Helweg writes: | I give up on my PCMCIA Ethernet Card. I think I've tried almost | everything. 3 different Kernels, 3 different versions of PCMCIA | sources. The card gets recognized but as soon as I start to send | packages to it (e.g. ping an address or just execute route) the whole | sys

Re: DELL Inspiron 5000 wrong harddisk-size

2000-04-12 Thread Martyn Pearce
Kero van Gelder writes: | > I've got my first notebook a Dell Inspiron 5000. For all I've read, | > I thought this one would work with Linux. But: | > First thing, Linux complains about the harddisk which was preinstalled | > with WIN98 (sorry for the words...). It has 12GB. After killing all | >

PCMCIA (FAST) ETHERNET CARD

2000-05-17 Thread Martyn Pearce
Carlos Menezes writes: | Does someone tested the pcmcia (fast) ethernet card DLINK 650? Is it | Linux compatible? I have a DFE-650. Works a charm: Socket 0: KTI ETHER-C16 Fast ethernet 0 network pcnet_cs0 eth0 It suffers over suspend; I need to restart pcmcia services. I

Re: XFree86, ATI Rage Mobility

2000-06-07 Thread Martyn Pearce
Hugo van der Merwe writes: | > 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 happily. | | Do you use the XF86_SVGA server (which gives me no problems), or the | XF

Ethernet Card --> that works ?

2000-07-24 Thread Martyn Pearce
Jens Helweg writes: | I give up on my PCMCIA Ethernet Card. I think I've tried almost | everything. 3 different Kernels, 3 different versions of PCMCIA | sources. The card gets recognized but as soon as I start to send | packages to it (e.g. ping an address or just execute route) the whole | syst

RE: Upgrading slink kernel -> 2.2.12 -no pcmcia -Reply

1999-09-23 Thread Martyn Pearce
Au contraire: I'm running Potato on my Dell Inspiron 7000, from scratch (i.e., I didn't slink & upgrade); it works a treat. Mx. CHRIS HOOVER writes: | Ok, I just did this, and the pcmcia would not compile since I was com

Re: Upgrading slink kernel -> 2.2.12 -no pcmcia -Reply

1999-09-24 Thread Martyn Pearce
Germano Leichsenring writes: | >>>>> Martyn Pearce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | Martyn> I'm running Potato on my Dell Inspiron 7000, from scratch (i.e., I | Martyn> didn't slink & upgrade); it works a treat. | | Where did you get the floppies from??

hd not reporting correctly on install

1999-09-24 Thread Martyn Pearce
CHRIS HOOVER writes: | I decided to go ahead and reinstall everything and use potato this time. | This was prompted since I was told potato was fairly stable, plus there was | a disk manager (western digitals dynamic disk overlay) running that my | original install did not remove and it was preve

RE: Tochiba Satellite 2590CDT and Linux

1999-10-15 Thread Martyn Pearce
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I very much agree on this - 1024x768 is very nice, but usually rather | expensive... I have Dell Inspiron 7000 with a 15" screen and I like it | very much, although it's a bit on the heavy side. So if you don't mind | a bit of size and weight I very much recommend it.

Re: Recommendations for Laptop

1999-11-05 Thread Martyn Pearce
Graham Ashton writes: | I avoided the Inspiron too, partly because Dell recommended I go for the | Lattitude, but mainly because at the time the Inspiron had more | unsupported hardware, and was generally more clunky. The dual battery | thing is a real boon (it used to go for 8 hours when the bat

RE: Upgrading slink kernel -> 2.2.12 -no pcmcia -Reply

1999-09-23 Thread Martyn Pearce
Au contraire: I'm running Potato on my Dell Inspiron 7000, from scratch (i.e., I didn't slink & upgrade); it works a treat. Mx. CHRIS HOOVER writes: | Ok, I just did this, and the pcmcia would not compile since I was com

Re: Upgrading slink kernel -> 2.2.12 -no pcmcia -Reply

1999-09-24 Thread Martyn Pearce
Germano Leichsenring writes: | >>>>> Martyn Pearce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | Martyn> I'm running Potato on my Dell Inspiron 7000, from scratch (i.e., I | Martyn> didn't slink & upgrade); it works a treat. | | Where did you get the floppies from??

hd not reporting correctly on install

1999-09-24 Thread Martyn Pearce
CHRIS HOOVER writes: | I decided to go ahead and reinstall everything and use potato this time. | This was prompted since I was told potato was fairly stable, plus there was | a disk manager (western digitals dynamic disk overlay) running that my | original install did not remove and it was preve

RE: Tochiba Satellite 2590CDT and Linux

1999-10-15 Thread Martyn Pearce
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I very much agree on this - 1024x768 is very nice, but usually rather | expensive... I have Dell Inspiron 7000 with a 15" screen and I like it | very much, although it's a bit on the heavy side. So if you don't mind | a bit of size and weight I very much recommend it.

Re: Recommendations for Laptop

1999-11-05 Thread Martyn Pearce
Graham Ashton writes: | I avoided the Inspiron too, partly because Dell recommended I go for the | Lattitude, but mainly because at the time the Inspiron had more | unsupported hardware, and was generally more clunky. The dual battery | thing is a real boon (it used to go for 8 hours when the bat