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: 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: 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: 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 ..?

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: 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); som

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: 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: 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: 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 ..?

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 account