Re: Graphical wirless tools

2004-07-08 Thread Romana Branden
ce graphical tools for displaying wireless data (like signal > > | strength)? ?I use cards based on Prism (using hostap) and also and > > | Aironet 350. > > Kde apps: kwifimanager, wireless monitor kicker plugin ;) > > GTK? I'm running icewm so no Gnome or KDE

Re: Graphical wirless tools

2004-07-08 Thread Romana Branden
ioned wavemon, looked at my desktop at my gkrellm and went doh! gkrellm has a nice wireless plugin i use too:) -- Romana Branden ITShare SA Inc/ComputerbankSA http://itshare.org.au/ ITShare SA gives away computer systems created from donated hardware and opensource software. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Acer Aspire 1500er LMi and Linux

2004-07-09 Thread Romana Branden
to fix that, has been low priority..). Compiled a custom 2.6.6 kernel, including drivers for a prism chipset based USB wireless card. Mostly I use my senao PCMCIA though, because of its vastly superior range (esp with wardriving). this site is very useful: http://www.tuxmobile.org/acer.html HTH,

Re: using acpi

2004-07-13 Thread Romana Branden
nd have it suspend nicely - first laptop I've been able to do that with consistently. Kernel 2.6.6, self compiled. hth, r:) -- Romana Branden ITShare SA Inc/ComputerbankSA http://itshare.org.au/ ITShare SA gives away computer systems created from donated hardware and opensource software.

Re: proposal: create a documentation packages for each laptop brand-serie

2004-07-22 Thread Romana Branden
wireless cards/usb stuff. (REALLY rough draft form, incomplete, but enough to get idea: http://www.timelady.com/~romana/acer.html bult a custom kernel for this boxen as a deb i'd be happy to contribute too:) i'd be happy to be involved further. r:) -- Romana Branden ITShar

Re: solution: documentation packages for each laptop brand

2004-07-23 Thread Romana Branden
onate to low income types.. We are attemtping to standardise a debian sarge install... We just dont see many laptops donated, wish we did:((( But druver issues remain the same.. *sigh* fun fun fun r:) -- Romana Branden ITShare SA Inc/ComputerbankSA http://itshare.org.au/ ITShare SA

Re: Dell 700m Touchpad problem - TAP isn't recognized

2004-12-14 Thread Romana Branden
Mouse" > Driver "mouse" > Option "SendCoreEvents""true" > Option "Device""/dev/input/mice" > Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > EndSection > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Generic Video Card" > Driver "i810" > EndSection > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Generic Monitor" > HorizSync 30-90 > VertRefresh 50-160 > Option "DPMS" > # 1280x800 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 49.68 kHz; pclk: 83.46 MHz > Modeline "1280x800_60.00" 83.46 1280 1344 1480 1680 800 801 804 > 828 -HSync +Vsync > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Default Screen" > Device "Generic Video Card" > Monitor "Generic Monitor" > DefaultDepth24 > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 > Modes "1280x800" > EndSubSection > EndSection > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "Default Layout" > Screen "Default Screen" > InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" > InputDevice "Configured Mouse" > InputDevice "Generic Mouse" > EndSection > > Section "DRI" > Mode0666 > EndSection -- Romana Branden Sticks & stones may break my bones, but words can break my heart.. ITShare SA Inc - http://itshare.org.au/ ITShare SA gives away computer systems created from donated hardware and opensource software. pgpZyV0Bimpa1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Loud Harddrive Clicking noise periodicaly-Dell700m

2004-12-15 Thread Romana Branden
bother anything. running sid and the evil xp - but 99% of time sid. does it in both though, so not o/s issue:) -- Romana Branden Sticks & stones may break my bones, but words can break my heart.. ITShare SA Inc - http://itshare.org.au/ ITShare SA gives away computer systems created from do

Re: Debian vs. Fedora on Laptops

2004-12-25 Thread Romana Branden
oing a kernel (2.6 in this case) the debian way(tm, pat pend, etc etc;) ) hohothing, r:) -- Romana Branden Sticks & stones may break my bones, but words can break my heart.. ITShare SA Inc - http://itshare.org.au/ ITShare SA gives away computer systems created from donated ha

Re: Hotplug running user scripts

2004-12-27 Thread Romana Branden
change it to whatever you want...all this should give you a good starting point:) hth, r:) -- Romana Branden Sticks & stones may break my bones, but words can break my heart.. ITShare SA Inc - http://itshare.org.au/ ITShare SA gives away computer systems created from donated hardware and opensource software. pgpd1IAHkoOFe.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Toshiba 2430-S255

2005-02-08 Thread Romana Branden
Sergio Basurto Juarez wrote: --- Darryl Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anybody have any suggestions or advice for running testing on this laptop? I've had it for about two years now and only recently was able to use Debian as the host operating system. Prior to this, I've only had luck with run

ndiswrapper, kernel panics

2005-02-22 Thread Romana Branden
ening'. there seems to be a suggestion encryption may be the issue yet ndiswrapper site indicates success stories... help? r:) -- Romana Branden Sticks & stones may break my bones, but words can break my heart.. ITShare SA Inc - http://itshare.org.au/ ITShare SA gives away computer sy

Re: Graphical wirless tools

2004-07-08 Thread Romana Branden
ce graphical tools for displaying wireless data (like signal > > | strength)? ?I use cards based on Prism (using hostap) and also and > > | Aironet 350. > > Kde apps: kwifimanager, wireless monitor kicker plugin ;) > > GTK? I'm running icewm so no Gnome or KDE

Re: Graphical wirless tools

2004-07-08 Thread Romana Branden
ioned wavemon, looked at my desktop at my gkrellm and went doh! gkrellm has a nice wireless plugin i use too:) -- Romana Branden ITShare SA Inc/ComputerbankSA http://itshare.org.au/ ITShare SA gives away computer systems created from donated hardware and opensource software. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Acer Aspire 1500er LMi and Linux

2004-07-09 Thread Romana Branden
to fix that, has been low priority..). Compiled a custom 2.6.6 kernel, including drivers for a prism chipset based USB wireless card. Mostly I use my senao PCMCIA though, because of its vastly superior range (esp with wardriving). this site is very useful: http://www.tuxmobile.org/acer.html HTH,

Re: using acpi

2004-07-13 Thread Romana Branden
nd have it suspend nicely - first laptop I've been able to do that with consistently. Kernel 2.6.6, self compiled. hth, r:) -- Romana Branden ITShare SA Inc/ComputerbankSA http://itshare.org.au/ ITShare SA gives away computer systems created from donated hardware and opensource software.

Re: proposal: create a documentation packages for each laptop brand-serie

2004-07-22 Thread Romana Branden
wireless cards/usb stuff. (REALLY rough draft form, incomplete, but enough to get idea: http://www.timelady.com/~romana/acer.html bult a custom kernel for this boxen as a deb i'd be happy to contribute too:) i'd be happy to be involved further. r:) -- Romana Branden ITShar

Re: solution: documentation packages for each laptop brand

2004-07-23 Thread Romana Branden
onate to low income types.. We are attemtping to standardise a debian sarge install... We just dont see many laptops donated, wish we did:((( But druver issues remain the same.. *sigh* fun fun fun r:) -- Romana Branden ITShare SA Inc/ComputerbankSA http://itshare.org.au/ ITShare SA