Re: badiane: T21 eth0 set to half-duplex

> I noticed that when I boot up my machine my nic card gets set to > half-duplex. I thought that it was a full-duplex card. > > eth0: Initial media type MII > eth0: MII #0 status 786d, link partner capability 40a1, setting > half-duplex. You need an ethernet switch to run in full duplex, not

Re: Installing programs from a none-debian CD or from the Harddisk

ame extension indicates that the archive has been gzipp'ed. This might explain why the 'j' option doesn't work. -- Mike Alborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # pgp keyid: C36DC30D # http://odoitau.dyn.dhs.org no brainer: A decision which, viewed through the retrospect

Re: winmodem on laptop, can it work? (lspci -vv output)

esses: http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html http://www.sfu.ca/~cth/ltmodem/ I'm running debian sid on a Toshiba with a Xircom (Lucent) Winmodem built in, and it works fine, both in 2.2.19/2.2.20 and 2.4.14. (BTW, .debs are further down on the second lin

Re: video card changing...

a couple of years in a computer shop fixing the things, and I have never heard of a source for jobber parts. -- Mike Alborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # pgp keyid: C36DC30D # http://odoitau.dyn.dhs.org Justice, n.: A decision in your favor. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Dell latitude C810

hough to be honest I don't suspend that often, I usually power the laptop down totally.) -- Mike Phillips Linux Token Ring Project http://www.linuxtr.net mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Compiling PCMCIA with kernel 2.4.13

Hi, You need to upgrade to the pcmcia-cs packages in sid, the ones in woody and potato will NOT compile under later 2.4 kernels. I believe any version above .27 will work correctly. Give that a shot. Hope that helps, --Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Problemswith XFree4.0

nput device for the touchpad ? I'm not sure about your particular model, but the accupoint on my Toshiba is connected as a PS/2 mouse. HTH, -- Mike Alborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # pgp keyid: C36DC30D # http://odoitau.dyn.dhs.org It is undignified for a woman to play servant to a m

Re: gatos drivers for rage mobility p (dell latitude)

w the instructions on the gatos web site. I'm using unstable with X4.1, make sure you get the correct version of the drivers from the site. I can now actually play dvd's under Linux without dropping frames or loosing the sync with audio, even at full screen resolution. -- Mike Phillips Li

Re: How to slow-down a PCMCIA ethernet card

from source). > > Thanks for your help. > Olivier. > > -- > > > Olivier Crouzet, Ph.D. > Institut des Sciences Cognitives > CNRS - Universit? Claude Bernard Lyon 1 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with

Re: Debian and archives and Proliant oldies....

gt; in linux or am I going to need to spring for a new RAID controller? > > Thanks > Josh > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Mike Alborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: tapping disabled for touchpad under dell inspiron 600m

nce i upgraded to 2.6.11... Though i've not investigated as far as you did, and did not solve the problem. There are interesting informations in your message to start investing, I might give it some try... Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Thanx for unsubscribeing... So long Your Mike J. --  So kann also die Mathematik definiert werden, als diejenige Wissenschaft, in der wir niemals das kennen, worüber wir sprechen und niemals wissen, ob das, was wir sagen, wahr ist. (Bertrand Russel

Re: LED and lasers supply

Unlicensed nuclear accelerators, anyone? Mike

HP Laptop acpi

I have the acpi package installed through apt on the (knoppix) 2.4.19-xfs kernel. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to enable it (ie create the /proc/acpi file)? Thanks, Mike

Re: sound on an HP pavilion zt1135

oading it (it's a CD based installation of Debian 2.4.19-xfs which runs entirely out of a ramdisk but can be written to the HD if desired) just to see how it autodetects and sets up your sound. Worked for me :) Mike -- MikeKelland.com Delivery information: If your email is very time sensitiv

Re: HD performance question (3hd raid)

arranty and the tv tuner. Then again, when you're paying 6000+ dollars w/tax, the tv tuner doesn't seem so frivoulous :D Mike

Re: HD performance question (3hd raid)

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Robert Michel wrote: > Salve Mike, > > no no, I wouldn't buy a golden case for my laptop either, > I thought about an selfmade and cheap raid, > Linux-dell-laptop is also discussing how to change CPUs of Laptops, > to make them faster (and the batte

Re: trying to discover video chipset

Drew Cohan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had this to say on 12/11/02 at 23:43: > Can anyone offer any advice on how I can discover the video chipset of > an old dell latitude xp 475c (so I can choose the correct driver for X?) Try ; put in your service tag number; it will give you

Re: floppy install

Kenneth D. Weinert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had this to say on 12/13/02 at 10:01: > I *know* I'm missing something here, because I did it once before, but > I appear to now be missing a crucial step. > > I'm trying to install Woody on an old ThinkPad (701C, the one with the > butterfly keyboard) and I

Re: Yet another "what laptop should I buy?" question

Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had this to say on 12/13/02 at 12:01: > They gave me my money back and told me to keep the thing (which is > completely useless of course). :) Not completely; sell it. Now you have more money than when you started (since they refunded your money); so

Re: floppy install

Glen Mehn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had this to say on 12/13/02 at 13:30: > >I did it with the "bf24" series of floppies, on an old IBM ThinkPad that > >had > >a busted CD-ROM. > > > > > > > pcmcia support is available as a module for most/all of the boot > floppies flavours. Just watch-- IIRC, it's

Re: Woody on ThinkPad A31

rking at 1400x1050 ok, I did use the gatos (http://gatos.sourceforge.net) drivers though as they've got better Xv support, but it does work with the std X drivers. Mike

Re: Woody on ThinkPad A31

k fine too. > well, when I am setting up X, I don't see a radeon driver, all i have is an > ati driver. > I don't know which utility you're using to configure X with, but there's definately a radeon driver in X4.2. Moreover, X should autodetect the card and the driver to use automatically. Mike

Re: Re-partitioning failing...

Jeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had this to say on 12/23/02 at 10:46: > I recommend converting the NTFS to FAT32. I believe you can do this > with built-in tools on WinXP. This will give you a much better No, it only converts the other way - FAT32 to NTFS. -- PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C7

Re: Re-partitioning failing...

Jeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had this to say on 12/24/02 at 01:47: > Mike Leone, 2002-Dec-23 21:55 -0500: > > Jeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had this to say on 12/23/02 at 10:46: > > > > > I recommend converting the NTFS to FAT32. I believe you can do this > > > with bu

Re: Automatically suspend when X minutes battery time remain.

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, 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. > > I read the man for apmd and

Re: RAM upgrade ignored or kernel panic arises on Thinkpad T22

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Virgil wrote: > I added > append="mem=256M" > to lilo.conf and ran and executed /sbin/lilo -v Try mem=255M and see what happens

Re: Getting PCMCIA to work?

Derek Broughton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had this to say on 02/07/03 at 09:14: > From: "Marc Mongeon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 02:44:56PM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > > > Another is to make sure that /etc/default/pcmcia has > > > PCIC="yenta_socket" rather than PCIC="i8236

Re: Getting PCMCIA to work?

Brian Kendig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had this to say on 02/07/03 at 14:42: > Mike Leone wrote: > >yenta_socket is the name of the kernel-level PCMCIA driver. > > What's 'yenta' mean, by the way? Is it the name of one of the chips? > Just curious... I know th

Re: Getting PCMCIA to work?

Derek Broughton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had this to say on 02/07/03 at 16:38: > Mike Leone wrote: > >Brian Kendig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had this to say on 02/07/03 at 14:42: > > > >>The Debian pcmcia-modules package depends on the pcmcia-cs package... > >>does ins

Re: make-kpkg, was: Getting PCMCIA to work?

Ivar Alm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had this to say on 02/08/03 at 06:02: > For the record, I made my kernels the "Linux way" before, but as I got > acquainted with make-kpkg, I stick to it. The only modification I need is > that after the installation of created kernel package, I need to modify > so

Re: Getting PCMCIA to work?

Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had this to say on 02/08/03 at 03:09: > >>"Mike" == Mike Leone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Well, it didn't work when I did it the make-kpkg way (I believe I was > > following the direction on the WIRELESS

Re: Getting PCMCIA to work?

Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had this to say on 02/09/03 at 00:48: > >>"Mike" == Mike Leone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had this to say on 02/08/03 at 03:09: > >> > >> I don't know wh

RE: Battery Life

r dip when plugged into the docking station, it doesn't even try to go to battery, just dumps the laptop. Mike

Re: /etc/network/interfaces and unique identifiers for NICs

tion order? see /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples/ Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184 CPU's dont tend to work very well after their "magic smoke" has escaped.

Re: making a new kernel

On 26 Feb 2003, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade to a recent kernel, and I'm running into an odd > problem. > "wish"? Tap your heels together three times, and exclaim, "there's no place like home" three times. I think it's part of tk, so try apt-get install tk8.3 > However,

Re: making a new kernel

ses" if that doesn't in fact get ncurses support? I would like to > understand so I can decode other naming tricks... > the base ncurses is just the runtime, the -dev is all the development, which is what the menuconfig stuff needs. as for the tk issue, it was a half-assed stab in the dark that tk would have wish in it, from looking at packages.debian.org. sorry it didn't work out. Mike

Re: making a new kernel

On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Glen Mehn wrote: > Mike Dresser wrote: > > Try libncurses-dev > > > > > try libncurses5-dev Oddly enough, I make a typo and it STILL works :) Mike

Re: Help with wireless

as a Belkin F5D6020 -- or, worse, that a D-Link DWL-650+ is more or less the same as a D-Link DWL-650. In both cases, the cards in each similarly-named pair are _totally_ different, with different chipsets. -- Mike Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Software Engineer, Index Data UK.

Re: CD-reader on SONY VAIO SR27K [+ kernel compile]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had this to say on 03/08/03 at 12:47: > 8. make bzImage > 9. cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-[version/extension] > 10. cp System.map /boot/System.map-[version/extension] > 11. mv System.map System.map.old > 12. mv vmlinuz vmlinuz.old > 13. ln -s System

Re: Mail (smtp) config at different locations. Script or ..?

Joao Pedro Clemente ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had this to say on 03/09/03 at 22:35: > As I'm the single user of my laptop, this seems a overkill: > - I only fetch mail of 1 user (me) from my [1] pop3 account. Don't use POP, use IMAP. Then you won't need to fetch, and all the mail is always avaialable

Re: Mail (smtp) config at different locations. Script or ..?

r=~/Mail # where I keep my mailboxes set spoolfile='+INBOX'# where my new mail is located Thats it. Works for me(tm) Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184 yip yip yip yip yip yip yap yap yip *BANG* NO TERRIER

Re: Mail (smtp) config at different locations. Script or ..?

re doing. # SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail > that functionality is built into offlineimap. check out the > preauthtunnel configuration. (mine actually does more, like work out if it has to log into the firewall first, then port forward from there.) But yes, if offlineimap does it, use that. Pr

Re: Mail (smtp) config at different locations. Script or ..?

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:55:55AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Is the message subsequently deleted from the outbox folder? No, I periodically do that manually. Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184 "In the beginning the Univer

Re: grub on ext3

3 is ext2 + additional data, so, if you read an ext3 fs with routines to read ext2, it works. Therefore, grub can use an ext3 /boot partition, even if it doesn't really support it natively (i.e if it only supports ext2). -- Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "This will go a long way

Re: Mail (smtp) config at different locations. Script or ..?

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 01:43:35PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > so courier keeps track of which of these have been sent? New flag? Read the docs. AIUI, it sends mail which gets *saved* to that mailbox. Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP

Re: Mail (smtp) config at different locations. Script or ..?

Joao Pedro Clemente ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had this to say on 03/10/03 at 21:10: > > > Joao Pedro Clemente ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had this to say on 03/09/03 at > > 22:35: > > > > > As I'm the single user of my laptop, this seems a overkill: > > > - I only fetch mail of 1 user (me) from my [1] pop3 ac

Re: thinkpad 560 + RAM [OT - but running woody ;-)]

;t work. I've seen a few laptops that used chips that were removeable, so the same procedure would work for those. Mike

Re: your mail

ia/network.opts. So use the 'up' directive in /e/n/interfaces RTFM://interfaces(5) - around line 70 or so. Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184 "This isnt Mission Difficult Mr Hunt, this is Mission Impossible.

Re: offlineimap (Re: Mail (smtp) config at different locations. Script or ..?)

you run the server, use courier as the server. Then you can have an Outbox folder.. Courier sucks, but that feature is nice. (I'd use cyrus, but thats overkill, and well, uw is just stupid) Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184 &quo

Re: your mail

rfaces for all of my PCMCIA cards, have never had to modify /etc/pcmcia/*.opts . Go read some docs yourself, before commenting. (specifically, the last 16 or so lines of /etc/pcmcia/network.opts) Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184 Spock

Re: your mail

ne of my > experiments, > but even having downgraded this to 3.1.33-6 it does _not_ seem to invoke > ifup/ifdown (all that seems different is the use of hotplug in sid). I _did_ > reset DHCP="y" when I recreated the network.opts file. Of cource, you do realise that when usin

Re: your mail

... > Mar 20 09:07:01 casio.othello.dyn.ca /etc/hotplug/net.agent: invoke ifup eth0 > Mar 20 09:07:10 casio.othello.dyn.ca cardmgr[308]: + /sbin/ifup: interface > eth0 already configured Get rid of hotplug, it's getting there 'first'. Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184 Contentsofsignaturemaysettleduringshipping.

Re: your mail

figuration alone. Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184 "This isnt Mission Difficult Mr Hunt, this is Mission Impossible. Difficult should be a walk in the park for you." -- MI:2

Re: online/offline exim config

> So, when I send local mail, it is queued. Um, why do you need 25 open? Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184 Contentsofsignaturemaysettleduringshipping.

Re: DWL-650 (D-Link)

DWL650/Firmware/dwl650_firmware_8c2.exe now go find a windows laptop. :) (I accept no responsibility for any bad outcome of the above activities. they Worked For Me(tm). Above all, I HIGHLY recommend reading ALL of the documents found within the 1.4.9.zip file at the netgate URL) Mike.

Re: online/offline exim config

ed with /usr/bin/sendmail Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184 Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.

Re: Wifi Cards for Linux?

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:16:20PM -0900, Jon wrote: > Hi, > > I could not get the D-Link 650 to flash and/or even detect drivers, on > the windows disk... so I give up.. Of course, you need to install the drivers for it, that came with it. Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[

Re: online/offline exim config

il to inject mail into the local MTA's queue, and if they do so, they do not require the MTA to be listening on port 25. This is an awareness factor, more than anything else. Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184 "Sometimes I think that the surest sign that intellegent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."

Re: Exim config...

he exim queue run cron job, and add a manual queue run to your 'connection' scripts, whatever that may be. see /etc/cron.d/exim Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184 "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has

Re: Serious crash

t an Omnibook 5500/5700 hybrid, and back when it was a 5500, I had suspend to disk turned on by accident. First time the battery ran low, it wrote over the first 32 meg of the disk drive. Luckily I hadn't had time to do much besides install Debian on it. Shut that off in a hurry after. Mike

Re: hdd spindown + wifi question

s a Prism2 > card? If not is it worth getting, say over a $79 Linksys Card? Works prefectly for me. what seems to be the problem? Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184 yip yip yip yip yip yip yap yap yip *BANG* NO TERRIER

Re: linux-wlan packages...

was > my understanding that the card is PrismII and that the package would > support that. Am I mistaken? Yes, it would. did you install the necessary modules? Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184 "In the beginning the Universe was cr

Re: linux-wlan packages...

On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 07:04:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I thought the DWL-650 used tulip_c. It doesnt. Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184 The first 90% of the code in a project takes 90% of the time. Th

Re: linux-wlan packages...

On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 08:04:25PM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > I assume so. I selected the ones for the 2.4.20-686 kernel image, and > they were found successfully when I rebooted my system. Ok, some log entries please. a description of what happens. hi-lo tones? Mike. -- Mike B

Re: linux-wlan packages...

4 localhost cardmgr[567]: + SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device Looks like the problem. I suggest you get some more details on that card, and/or investigate what is or is not happening when this module is loaded. Try stopping cardctl, and manually inserting the card and modules, and let us know the re

Re: wireless.opts

eah. leave wireless.opts as the default distributed file, and use a stanza in /etc/network/interfaces. see /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tools for a view of how the options are set by ifupdown. Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184

Re: compiling & installing kernels

es-dev. > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: No protocol specified You need to allow the user running that to access your X server. root I imagine. easy: as your uid - 'xhost +localhost' better: as root, 'ln -sf ~youruid/.Xauthority ~' Mike. --

Re: Change interface name

> searching the list archive. You cant. the driver registers the card as 'eth', not 'wlan'. AFAIAA, linux-wlan-ng is the only set of drivers that registers 'wlan' devices. (find the module source, you'll see 'eth' hardcoded) Mike. -- Mike Beattie <

Nec LaVie MX LX60T/5 + keys

here specific keymaps for laptops? I'll get to ACPI issues later I guess, Thanks in advance, PS: from what I could guess, a pretty similar version of this laptop has been released in France under the name of "Versa Ultralite", and in the US under the name of "Versa Daylite"

Re: How many of you?

500/5700 hybrid of mine is very old. The laptop was made in about 1998, and the screen was made in 1996(I'm using the screen off my old 5500, and the bottom off a 5700. Swapped the screen and video card out) Mike

Re: alt-gr problem off-topic

, containing "keycode = Mode_switch" and call it from your .xinitrc or .xsession by adding "xmodmap .xmodmaprc". That's it! -- mike dentifrice

troubles with ACPI on a NEC LaVie MX

his state, and any acpi querrying would crash the shell... Any idea how to fix this? More info on my configuration: $ uname -sr Linux 2.4.20-wolk4.0s-pre-final $ cat /proc/acpi/info version: 20030328 states: S0 S1 S3 S4 S5 -- mike dentifrice

Re: Problems getting ACPI support to work on a HP Pavilion

Niko Schmuck disait : > Setting the System clock using the Hardware Clock as reference... The RTC (realtime clock) driver is responsable for this. You should recompile your kernel without it... -- mike dentifrice

Re: alternate boot for internet connection

o piss around with updated .opts files, and manually copying changes. *) All information for all configs is in one place. Disadvantages: *) I cant think of any. Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184 Spock, the wom

Re: Replacing Stolen laptop

hike in premimums over a 25 dollar laptop is going to outweigh the value of getting a new laptop, to me. Mike

Dell Latitude LS: crash on reboot w/ 2.4.x

er a reboot (with "reboot"). Switching the computer off with "halt", and switching it on again causes no trouble at all. Has anyone encountered such a weirdness? Any explanation? Solution? Thanks in advance, -- mike dentifrice This is what happens when I do a "hdparm -c 1 -d

Re: [OT] laptops stolen

te firmware. 1.4.9 is the best I've found. Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184 "Sometimes I think that the surest sign that intellegent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."

Re: Firmware upgrade Was: [OT] laptops stolen

there a way to upgrade the firmware from linux? Not that I know of. I used the windows tool with a workmate's windows laptop. Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184 Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.

Re: experience with late model laptops?

rocessor) Mike -- "Do you know what's the best thing about being me ? There's so many me ! " -- Agent Smith Reloaded

Re: experience with late model laptops?

On Friday 08 August 2003 14:11, Russell Coker wrote: > I am under the impression that there are slight variations between > countries on the permitted frequencies for in the range that 802.11 uses. > So 802.11 devices sold in different countries have different capabilities. > Maybe Intel wants to

Re: experience with late model laptops?

On Sunday 10 August 2003 11:25, Micha Feigin wrote: > Well, they are certainly much prettier then any pc I know. > As for functionality, if you what you want is multimedia processing then > that the way to go, and considering that OSX is now unix based its even > better. > As for a linux platform,

Re: Installing XFree 86 4.3 on my laptop

On Thursday 14 August 2003 03:00, Norman Walsh wrote: > I've recently upgraded to "unstable" (silly me, perhaps). > > I don't know if it's related or not, but my XIG AccelleratedX driver > has stopped working. So I wanted to give the XFree 86 4.3 drivers another > try. (I've recovered my system wit

mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

st via IMAP, and thus recquires the installation of an imapd server both on the laptop and on the desktop. Plus it does not support ssh (which is not such a big deal though, since it can be tunnelised). I've also looked at isync, but it only supports Maildir. So, any idea/experience? Thanks in advance! -- mike dentifrice

Re: 802.11b cards

unky old desktop into win98 to update the MAC access list on the AP, I just changed the MAC locally on the laptop. Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184 "Why Not? I'm drunk right now."-- Anthony Towns when asked about

Re: Prism chipset Re: 802.11b cards

http://hostap.epitest.fi/hostap/2002-08/1701.html Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184 yip yip yip yip yip yip yap yap yip *BANG* NO TERRIER

Re: Wireless

er is currently being developped, though it still needs the proprietary firmware: http://acx100.sourceforge.net/ There's also a link to a (useless) D-Link infopage: http://support.dlink.com/faq/view.asp?prod_id=1042&question=DWL-650+%20/%20DWL-520+ -- mike dentifrice

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

it won't know if a mail is to be suppressed (because deleted) or added (because new), right? -- mike dentifrice

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

Daniel Andor said: > Any tools to convert mbox to maildir? The qmail site (http://www.qmail.org) provides a set of scripts to do this (cf http://www.linuxchix.org/pipermail/techtalk/2002-November/013929.html) See also http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/1999-q4/1477.html -- m

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

to be disconnected environents, or connected via a regular 33k6 modem (which means slow and expensive bandwidth). -- mike dentifrice

Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop

en read the mbox-file with > mutt. When it saves the changed status, it saved it in maildir format. If you save to a different, new, mail box name. Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184 If you can stay calm, while all around you

Re: [OT] help in bios update for a japanese laptop (I can't read/speak japanese)

able to upgrade your BIOS. On the other hand, if I correctly understand all it is about (I can't read all kanjis), you probably don't really need this update. BTW, IIRC (I'm not at home at the moment, but will check then), I have the same Vaio model, never upgraded it, and had no problem with it... Mike

Re: [OT] help in bios update for a japanese laptop (I can't read/speak japanese)

y support. It seems to be about a Windows crash when you hot-plug the cdrom drive... can a native japanese person confirm ? :) Mike

Re: [OT] help in bios update for a japanese laptop (I can't read/speak japanese)

On Tuesday 19 August 2003 16:22, Mike Hommey wrote: > BTW, IIRC (I'm not at home at the moment, but will check then), I have the > same Vaio model, never upgraded it, and had no problem with it... Oops, this is a GR7_F_ I have :-p Mike PS: According to tsuno's mail, I understoo

Re: [OT/2] Need some help on translating document

On Tuesday 19 August 2003 20:30, François TOURDE wrote: > Around 16 ;) ... FDL doesn't need to be translated yet :) FDL is considered non-free (see debian-legal ML). Please consider using GPL or OPL for documentations. -- "I have sampled every language, french is my favorite. Fantastic language

Re: orinoco_cs problem/question

th kernel: eth1: Error -110 writing Tx descriptor to > BAP I had a lot of those with an old orinoco_cs version, and older firmware on a prism2 card. How about you start by telling us the driver version, and the chipset/firmware version of your card? (nearly all of this you'll get from dr

Re: orinoco_cs problem/question

21:31:30 hoth kernel: orinoco_cs.c 0.11b (David Gibson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others) ... > So I take it that the driver version is 0.11b and the firmware is > Intersil 1.04, correct? Correct. try upgrading your kernel to 2.4.2x or so, where you'll get 0.13b which I believe fi

Re: No fsck in battery mode

heck the -i and -c options. My ext3 fs' have a max mount of 50, and an interval of 6 months. Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184 The first 90% of the code in a project takes 90% of the time. The next 10% of the c

Re: No fsck in battery mode

our script touch /fastboot when on battery, as that will completely bypass the running of fsck - just make sure it runs before checkroot.sh!... you'd need a static copy of on_ac_power (well, awk/grep..), and /etc/rcS.d/S09powercheck.sh or so) Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: No fsck in battery mode

just after the remount rw. I forgot to mention, it could delete the file too, if it finds you're running on AC. Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184 The first 90% of the code in a project takes 90% of the time. The next 10%

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