On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Wichmann, Viggo wrote:
>Russell wrote:
>
> So you create a 1M partition for swap then. Using RAM as swap will
>not gain
> you anything. At best it won't be used and will just be a waste of
>memory
> that could otherwise be used for disk cache. At worst you
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Heather wrote:
>> So you create a 1M partition for swap then. Using RAM as swap will not gain
>> you anything. At best it won't be used and will just be a waste of memory
>> that could otherwise be used for disk cache. At worst you will have programs
>> being paged to it whi
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Heather wrote:
>> The point is that a scrap of swap in ram decreases main memory and makes the
>> swap more likely to be used.
>>>[...]
>> The issue is that it will be used directly if it's not forced to be in swap
>> because of main memory being used by a RAM disk (for swap).
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
>> >> The issue of Cardbus being required for 100baseT is definately worth
>> >> noting.
>> >
>> >It's also not true. I have a 100baseT PCMCIA card. I haven't tried
>> >measuring the actual throughput, but it's definately much faster on a
>> >100baseT
On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, koyote wrote:
>> I am a reseller of COMPAQ, HP, IBM and Toshiba laptops, and would like to
>> know if their current products are compatible with Debian GNU/Linux ?
>>
>> I have not found any reference to this on their respective homepages, and
>> this question is important
" is the solution as other people have said. If you tell
it 128M then your machine is unlikely to boot as the Thinkpad hardware likes
to use the last few hundred K of RAM for shadow or something. Tell it 127M
or watch the boot messages from the BIOS which will tell you how many K of
memory to u
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 09:44, Tim Connors
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Um? Actually, you know your 1.4GHz machine? It emits 1.4GHz, as well
> as every harmonic above - 2.8, 4.2, 5.6, Ghz. And if you are only
> executing an instruction every n clock cycles, then you also emit at
> 1.
>This sounds very interesting to me, as I have a Dell Latitude CPi, and
>I've never managed to get suspend-to-disk working in Linux. Even normal
>suspend is a bit flaky. I have tried many 2.2 kernels with apm compiled
>in, and I run apmd too. It suspends and writes data to disk, but when I
>resume
>From the page:
>
>http://gamgee.acad.emich.edu/~roth/EXTENSA/suspend.html
>
>I got the command:
>
> hdparm -m16 -c1 -u1 /dev/hda
>
>Which enabled suspend to disk on my Mitsubshi Amity. I've
>no idea if it will help you on your machine.
I expect that the -m16 has no impact. The -u1 (unmasking
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I hope you decide to keep this discussion here. It seems very
>apropriate for this forum and I for one am interested in it.
>
>One thing I would like to see when installing Debian on a laptop
>would be a series of setups that optimise for low power con
>> One thing I would like to see when installing Debian on a laptop would
>> be a series of setups that optimise for low power consumption such as
>> increased intervals between syncs etc.
>
>i'd like to see apm work "out of the box" too. can anyone explain to me why
>apm isn't available as a kern
>> >http://gamgee.acad.emich.edu/~roth/EXTENSA/suspend.html
>> >
>> >I got the command:
>> >
>> > hdparm -m16 -c1 -u1 /dev/hda
>>
>> I expect that the -m16 has no impact. The -u1 (unmasking IRQs) is a
>
>Hi,
>and no, the -m16 is needed (at least on my Acer Extensa 355). It allows
>the BIOS to
>> would you mind giving some specific details on what you mean by "sound
>> does't work properly [on a neomagic chipset]"?
>
>i've had reports from about 6 other people of the same thing. basically
>sound works fine until you suspend/hibernate/save to disk. after that it
>just doesn't work right
>> mouse. The only drawback so far is the apm - suspend works, but not
>> hibernate; and suspend is only good for about 8 hours before the battery
>> runs out.
>
>hrm, mine is the other way around. nothing works reliably for me but save
>to disk. save to disk always works but neither suspend or
>> What exactly do you mean by suspend and hibernate here? Usually
>> hibernate means saving to disk.
>
>when i read my thinkpad's documentation it described three suspend modes.
>suspend, hibernate and save to disk. to be honest i'm not sure what the
>difference between suspend and hibernate is
>> The solution is to make the sound driver a module, and then have the
>> /etc/apm/apmd_proxy script do an rmmod and a modprobe for the module
>> (thus re-initialising the sound). I'm running a June 1998 Thinkpad 380
>> with Crystal sound. The sound card worked OK with SoundBlaster drivers
>> (bu
>> As I mentioned above. With SB emulation I had no problems with
>> suspending. But recording just didn't work at all.
>
>hrrm, okay i'll try that instead. i stuck with the sa2 emulation cause
>everything i read said that the sound quality was much better with the
>chipset i had then with the s
>> Why not use the VESA FB driver and Xserver-fbdev. Then you could just
>> have your machine run "fbset -a" on resume...
>
>because i didn't realise it was an option available to me. are there any
>requirements that i have to meet to be able to run this?
Have modern hardware with VESA 2.0 video
>> Package task-laptop
>> Depends: anacron, ??
>> Suggests: netenv, dhcp-client (or one of these)
>> Conflicts: ??
>> Replaces: ??
>> Recommends: ??
>>
>> Until irda gets in fully, it is not an option. I should have initial divine
>> packages here soon as well.
>>
>
>How about suggesting the pac
>> > If your laptop is not connected to a network, what exactly is it that
>> > you are doing that would make any sense in a network-less context that
>> > causes DNS timeouts?
>>
>> trying to send email. you don't expect it to be delivered but you want it
>> to be queued so as soon as you do con
>> IMHO hdparm is no more important to a laptop than to a desktop...
>>
>
>I'm not sure here, are you saying hdparm should be included, or it's useful on
>all computers; desktops and laptops, so shouldn't be included here? I think
>if apmd is going to be suggested for power management, hdparm sho
30 seconds of
I didn't realise that it had this capability. It should be made part of the
standard dependencies then.
Russell Coker
I am running a Thinkpad 380XD which is a Pentium-233 with 96M of RAM. Quite
similar hardware to you.
I have never had a 2.0.x kernel work properly. The earliest kernel that I had
work on my machine was ~2.1.90. My sister has a Thinkpad of the same model,
but her machine wouldn't work reliably un
>You can use CS4232 and have duplex in kernels 2.2.x. If you ever get it
>working as modules, upload the .config for us to see :)
It's attached to this message.
Here's my /etc/modules line:
cs4232 dma=1 dma2=0 irq=5 io=0x530
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I'm in Utrecht. I'd like to meet any Linux users in the area, or a
> I have an IBM Thinkpad 390E and have been trying to install Debian
>2.1 on it for about two weeks now. I can install it no problem, except
>that I cannot get X Windows configured correctly. I even updraded to
>XFree86 3.3.5, and still can't get it to work (although I can get Red Hat
>6.1
>I want to buy a pcmcia-ethernet-card for my notebook. I have a Sharp
>9090 and I want to establish a little network with an old Pentium 75.
>
>First, is a 10 MBit/s card enough or should I buy a 100 MBit/s card?
>Are these cards much more expensive?
>
>Furthermore, are there any problems with thes
>> The issue of Cardbus being required for 100baseT is definately worth
>> noting.
>
>It's also not true. I have a 100baseT PCMCIA card. I haven't tried
>measuring the actual throughput, but it's definately much faster on a
>100baseT network than a 10baseT network. (And it's capable of talking
On Fri, 05 Nov 1999, Andrew Clark wrote:
>I would like to get a laptop and run Debian on it. Does anyone have any
>recommendations for machines/manufactures to buy or avoid?
I have just bought a Thinkpad 600E, PentiumII-400MHz, 64M, 10G,
1024x768x16bpp. Everything works fine except the built in
> I have been trying to get hibernation mode working on several
>different laptops of different brands (IBM, Toshiba), and unfortunately
>there is (apparently) no way to have it work under linux. I expect some
>messy APM BIOS hook into m$-win, for which I have (yet) not found any
>documentation
>All you need is a FAT filesystem of sufficient size to hold the hibernate
>volume. It does not need to have a working copy of DOS, or anything else
>on it. My 96 Mb box uses a little over 99 M for its hibernate volume,
>which shows up (if you look at it via DOS, or mount it up) as a hidden file.
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Heather wrote:
>> >What I do not know, because I set it up correctly early on, is whether it
>> >needs to be the first partition, or whether you can just use ext2resize
>> >and sacrifice a scrap of your /tmp volume to it.
>>
>> For Thinkpad's you use a program PS2.EXE to creat
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Heather wrote:
>Heather:
>>>Would it be possible to use that under Dosemu+DOS so that you can force
>>>which
>>>partition is visible as "D:" then do it?
>>
>> Maybe. But unless you have really good backups you probably don't want to
>> try it. Just imagine the bios dumpi
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Wichmann, Viggo wrote:
>Russell wrote:
>
> So you create a 1M partition for swap then. Using RAM as swap will
>not gain
> you anything. At best it won't be used and will just be a waste of
>memory
> that could otherwise be used for disk cache. At worst you
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Heather wrote:
>> So you create a 1M partition for swap then. Using RAM as swap will not gain
>> you anything. At best it won't be used and will just be a waste of memory
>> that could otherwise be used for disk cache. At worst you will have programs
>> being paged to it whi
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Heather wrote:
>> The point is that a scrap of swap in ram decreases main memory and makes the
>> swap more likely to be used.
>>>[...]
>> The issue is that it will be used directly if it's not forced to be in swap
>> because of main memory being used by a RAM disk (for swap).
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
>> >> The issue of Cardbus being required for 100baseT is definately worth
>> >> noting.
>> >
>> >It's also not true. I have a 100baseT PCMCIA card. I haven't tried
>> >measuring the actual throughput, but it's definately much faster on a
>> >100baseT
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 15:02, xsdg wrote:
> Hi all. This is just a reminder to please trim your replies to that part
> of the mail being replied to which pertains to your response. Thanks!
How amusing, someone with a 9 line sig starts telling us about email courtesy.
Please trim your sig to 4 lines
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:43, Emmanuel Di Pretoro wrote:
> I try to install my ADSL modem (an Alcatel Speedtouch), but it's failed :-(
>
> Can you tell me if the installation 2.4.18 kernel is compiled with the
> right options ?
It is not AFAIK.
You need to compile your own kernel with the kernel-pat
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002 12:55, Emmanuel Di Pretoro wrote:
> avalon:/home/saorge# ping http://www.google.be
> ping: unknown host http://www.google.be
Ping takes host names not URLs. Try pinging "www.google.be" for better
results.
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On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:22, Philipp Haller wrote:
> I am trying to cope with different network environments. I set up various
> schemes in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. This works fine. For one of those
> schemes I need to set http_proxy. I tried the following (in
> /etc/pcmcia/network.opts): # Extra st
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:56, Walter Hofmann wrote:
> Yet another idea: If you always use a proxy, then set http_proxy to
> something like http://123.45.67.89:12345 and use iptables to redirect
> all outgoing connections to the proxy instead of 123.45.67.89:12345.
> This allows you to switch proxies o
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:23, Rob Walker wrote:
> However, if the goal is to force outgoing web surfing to go somewhere
> else, what about masquerading anything going to ports 80 and 443 from
> the local machine. That way you wouldn't have to change the proxy
> settings on whatever browser you were u
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:16, Matthias Hentges wrote:
> > alcatel speedtouch usb adsl modem
>
> Have a look at this page (Google is your friend)
> http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/SpeedTouch/
>
> > USB askey ale070 (I think the full name is Dynalink ALE070 USB ADSL
My package kernel-patch-2.4-speedto
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:25, Anders Ellenshøj Andersen wrote:
> It's a 650MHz celeron with 320 mb ram (ASUS A1).
>
> On mplayer i consistently get the message that my system is too slow to
> play dvd. And as I said cpu use is around 95%. I use mplayer for playing
> dvds. I also tried xine but it was
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 18:32, Pietro Calogero wrote:
> Also, I found out the hard way that I cannot establish firewall security
> for my machine unless I install kernel 2.4.x. Woody comes with iptables
> (which work only with 2.4x) and Woody does NOT come with ipchains (which
> work with 2.2x or 2.4x)
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 22:57, Pietro Calogero wrote:
> 1. Is there a way of searching the apt database for specific files?
In "dselect" go to "Select" then type "/ipchains".
Or even just "apt-get install ipchains", for some things you can just figure
that they use the most obvious name and install
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 19:16, Soren A wrote:
> > Try "vga=791".
>
> Since I cannot see any obvious correlation between this "791" and the
> parameters given above (which I didn't know one could do, having just read
> everything on LILO I could get my hands on, 12 hours ago), could you please
> elabora
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 17:55, Thorsten Hirsch wrote:
> > In the documentation for framebuffer (I think -- sorry it was a couple
> > of days ago that I read it) it seems to say something like "if you set a
> > video mode other than VGA-standard in your lilo.conf, you will not be
> > able to switch to a
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 07:15, Joris wrote:
> I know it has little to do with debian on laptops (altough a non-windows
> OS booting meight look suspecious to customs), but:
You must have some charge in your battery when going through the security
checks as they will want to see the machine running.
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 19:27, Hubert Chan wrote:
> You can even use a stock laptop, but fill one of your peripherals with
> explosives. Getting around airport security is pretty trivial. (You
> can even go to the Tim Horton's in the gate area, and get an orange
> juice. It comes in a nice glass bot
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:05, Derek Broughton wrote:
> From: "Matej Cepl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > Carl Baldwin wrote:
> > > Tem certeza que no menu "Loadable Module Support" todas as opcoes
> > > estao escolhidas?
> >
> > Guys, could you please switch to English?
>
> This is a public list. Just bec
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:39, Hugo S. Carrer wrote:
> > > This is a public list. Just because English is the
> > > language we (mostly) have in common is no reason people
> > > shouldn't use their own language. I don't speak
> > > anything else, and can't read much better, but I have no
> > > proble
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 22:14, Hugo S. Carrer wrote:
> Anyway I agree with you that it would be chaotic if we had a
> babel list. But one mail every now and then is not that bad
Every spammer says that one mail every now and then is not that bad!
The belief that you deserve to be the exception to the
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 23:55, yoda2 wrote:
> Regarding the removal off the battery when on AC, i was wondering if
> that's a good thing to do. I was told the battery "filters" the spikes
> from the powernet so the electronics of you laptop get a stable spike
> free current
>
> So the "filter" stor
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 01:50, Tim Wood wrote:
> I have a 4 year old Gateway 5150. It runs on the mains most of the time.
> I leave the battery in all the time.
>
> Yesterday, as a check against what has been said on this list, I ran it
> for 50 min. It went from 100% down to 50%.
You may find that it
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 11:13, Ross Burton wrote:
> Doh, IBM ThinkPad X22.
>
> Would it be safe to remove the battery whilst on? I don't fancy having
> to shutdown/startup twice a day!
I've tried that on several models of Thinkpad and friends have tried it on
several other models. All the test resul
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 11:52, Matěj Hausenblas wrote:
> Now I stand before a decision, what to buy, I've heard that the Macs are
> more powerfull and aren't so quickly obsolete as PC's, but I never touched
Being quickly obsolete is a really good thing if you want to buy second-hand!
Ebay has
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 04:16, Joao Pedro Clemente wrote:
> Anyway, I'm working at 2 different locations and besides that I also have
> net at home... This totals 3 different configs to send mail, so I would
> try to figure out what's best to setup..
For sending mail from my laptop I have Postfix inst
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 23:36, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Martin Fluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.10.1825 +0100]:
> > No problem. There is no diference between ext3 and ext2 file system in
> > this case.
>
> ... provided that you did properly umount the filesystem before.
> accessing an ext
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 19:12, Andre Timmermann wrote:
> So I should be able to use up to 160 MB RAM, but the BIOS shows only
> 130496 kb of memory:
>
> 163840 kb installed,
> 130496 kb usable
Try forcing the matter with "mem=" on the command line. It may be that you
can get Linux to use more memory
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 17:25, Gary Hennigan wrote:
> The other day I had a serious problem with my Debian laptop. I rarely
> run it on batteries but a couple of days ago I did just that. After it
> had been idle for around 2 hours I went to try and use it. No response
> to any keys, so I powered it do
On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 06:14, florian wrote:
> im currently searching a nice laptop which works well
> with debian. basically it should have a at least 15" big
> screen and at least 1400x1050 px resolution..
>
> would be also great if it would not be too heavy and
> big.. anybody got an recommendation
On Sun, 13 Apr 2003 22:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am to change from SuSE to Debian and also am far from being a Power User.
> Thus, is there something in specific that I should take care of before
> trying to install Debian on my Notebook?
Notebooks can be problemmatic, and getting ALL the i
On Tue, 27 May 2003 02:54, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> The point of this whole diatribe is that I have decided that I will
> probably get the Lindows (yuck!) Mobile PC (available from idot.com). If I
> purchase it I will erase Lindows and install Debian Sid on it. I am asking
> here
Lindows does ha
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:55, Juergen Stuber wrote:
> Not (i.e. no longer) true, the T series machines have touchpads,
> otherwise I wouldn't be typing this on a T30 (they have the stick, too).
Can you disable one of the forms of mouse device to exclusively use the other?
I would like to use the sti
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 01:33, Johannes Graumann wrote:
> This might be a provoking question but I was wondering whether anybody on
> the list had tried Gentoo Linux ... I get the impression that the custom
> compiling done through this distribution might be the right thing for the
> limited resources
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 07:37, Johannes Graumann wrote:
> Well, I'm aware that some of the BIG stuff will take a while to compile ...
> am not planning to run KDE or Gnome though (Ion is what I use) - non the
> less, I assume that a XFree86 compile will take a while ... but would it be
> worth performa
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 22:21, Dan Rasmussen wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 12:14:38PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > An E-mail from to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > with subject Re: Application has been intercepted. The virus
> > W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] in attachment your_details.zip has been detecte
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 23:35, Paul Bryan wrote:
> That's exactly right. Whenever a request comes in on port 80, inetd starts
> up an apache process to handle it. Once the request is completed, inetd
> kills the apache process.
inetd does not kill the Apache process, it reaps (via wait()) the Apache
p
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 10:39, Paul Bryan wrote:
> > If Apache decides not to die then most (all?) inetd programs will happily
> > allow it to do so.
[...]
> Only serving a single connection makes sense to me, as otherwise it seems
> to defeat the purpose of using inetd in the first place. In any event,
I have just tried switching from the pcmcia-source package to the kernel tree
for the PCMCIA drivers.
When I insert my network card the correct device driver is loaded, but the
pcmcia-cs code does not run dhclient etc.
The kernel is the only thing that I have changed, with the other kernel with
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 05:56, mi wrote:
> > I have just tried switching from the pcmcia-source package to the kernel
> > tree for the PCMCIA drivers.
>
> /etc/default/pcmcia CPC=yenta_socket is alright ?
Here is the contents of my /etc/default/pcmcia:
# Defaults for pcmcia (sourced by /etc/init.d/pcm
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 22:11, Sam Clegg wrote:
> Shouldn't /etc/network/interfaces control when and where to run
> dhclient? Presumably the pcmcia scripts should call ifup eth? (or
> send a hotplug even which then calls ifup eth?) at some
> point which would then trigger dhcp (if thats what you speci
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 06:08, mi wrote:
> > Here is the contents of my /etc/default/pcmcia:
> > # Defaults for pcmcia (sourced by /etc/init.d/pcmcia)
> > PCMCIA=yes
> > PCIC=i82365
> > PCIC_OPTS=
> > CORE_OPTS=
> > CARDMGR_OPTS=
> > Are there any specific changes that you recommend I should try?
>
> y
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:33, Ottavio Campana wrote:
> The adapter seems to work only with the yenta_socket module. If I load
> it I see the correct debug output. I've seens that the debian
> package of pcmcia always loads the i82365 module, even if I specify
> PCIC=yenta_socket .
>
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 02:00, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > However my PCMCIA functionality is currently less than yours, when a card
> > is inserted the driver is loaded but no scripts are run.
>
> iirc, you didn't have a PCMCIA card, it was a Cardbus card. In which case,
> it should skip the pcmcia sc
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 07:41, Micha Feigin wrote:
> From personal experience and quite a few people I work with, IBM seem to
> be a good option.
When in Ottawa my Thinkpad started dieing from over-heat (the cooling fan was
not working properly. Also the screen was dull (for unknown reasons - but
th
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 18:42, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> several manufacturers have expressed concerns over giving out details of
> their 802.11{b,g,??} chips. The explanation given is that users could try
> to pervert the frequencies or power output of the cards for nefarious
> purposes.
I am unde
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 14:31, Jason Straw wrote:
> Can we please ban these auto responders?
>
> they are worse then the virus themselves... and I am seeing a lot of
> this virus...
Just deal with them the way you deal with all other spammers.
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On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 09:53, Stefan Goessling-Reisemann wrote:
> since I wrote two messages to the list, I receive approx. 60 virus mails
> per day. Seems that my address has gotten into the addressbook of some
> poor virus-victims whose mail program (Outlook?) now sends out virusses by
> the thousan
On Sun, 4 Nov 2001 20:59, Enrico Zini wrote:
> I have a Mitac 7521 laptop, which is a SIS630 chipset with a Phoenix BIOS
> and some interesting hardware around.
>
> Until kernel 2.4.9 included I was able to suspend to ram and to disk with
> APM and to have my system back most of the times, and I wa
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001 18:53, Harry Palmer wrote:
> I have a (decent, 400MHz PII) laptop with no CDROM and an LS120 IDE
> floppy drive instead of a standard floppy (which boot disks pick up as
> hdd).
>
> Is that me stuffed as far as getting potato up and running? I tried a
> few things with the idepci
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 01:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I was originally looking at a toshiba Tecra 9000 for a new Laptop to fit
> my budget of $5000 CAD. I recently came across the IBM Thinkpad A30p
> which i can squeeze into the budget as well. I'm favouring this over the
> tecra now for a few re
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 02:06, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> > With a journaling system, the stability of the fs is granted.
>
> ...once the data is committed to the journal.
>
> > But I will type that in again. If the fs dies, I can't rewrite it from
> > scratch. Of course, if the data I write is important
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 21:27, Grigory Batalov wrote:
> And have this:
> Mounting 192.168.84.1:/pub on /mnt/nfs failed: Invalid argument
Can you ping the server? Or alternately can the server ping the client (if
the client lacks the ping program)?
When I was setting up NFS root with initrd I had to
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 07:55, Grigory Batalov wrote:
> > Serial line installation is extremely slow. I would recommend the
> > parallel port (PLIP) connection. There is a Howto, and although some of
> > the stuff was a bit outdated, I managed to install Debian 2.0 on an old
> > machine that way. It's
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 12:19, Paul King wrote:
> > personal preference, I think.
> >
> > And perl/python is apples and oranges: python is object oriented (like
> > java, C++), while perl is more like C.
>
> Perl is more like C, but with objects (and lots of other
> stuff).
Perl is nothing like C.
Pe
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 13:38, Simon R Tod wrote:
> My laptop's been left on for the past 48 hours. When I came back to it
> this morning it was very hot, the fan was kicking in evert minute or two
> and everything was working really slowly It's now just ceased up
> completely. The text has disappea
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:52, Werner Heuser wrote:
> laptop. Especially I don't know how to solve the power
> supply for a 3.5" IDE disk. Since I don't have a desktop,
> but sometimes have to check hard disks from friends
> (my disk is just broken, can you check it with Linux?) this
> is important to m
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:41, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > Not wishing to start a debate, but just setting some facts straight here
>
> ???
>
> Given that Erik's 'facts' were correct, what's not to debate :-) And
> what's wrong with debate anyway, as long as it doesn't degenerate to flame
> wars.
>
> M
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 17:56, Al Stone wrote:
> laptops over the last year, with no problems other than
> devices that aren't supported yet (winmodems, specifically).
What type of winmodem?
I've got a Lucent PCI winmodem in one Thinkpad (T20) working fine, another
Thinkpad (600e) has some sort of I
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 20:35, Glenn Becker wrote:
> Successfully replaced my 2.1G HD on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 470CDT with
> a 30G-er I won off eBay. Re-installed Win98 (ecch) and just for the hell
> of it, checked the drive size ... it seems to be only 8G.
>
> I've heard of older machines having a "
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 01:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > That's only for older operating systems. Linux 2.2 will probably only
> > see 8G by default (but can be forced to recognise the rest if you pass
> > the appropriate parameters). Linux 2.4 should recognise the full size of
> > the drive.
>
>
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:36, Heather wrote:
> > Why don't we have an spaming filter on the lists?
> > to filter all the comercial out of the lists
> >
> > Greatings
> > Christian Precht-Jensen
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> "UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that
> would
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 15:25, H Mahi wrote:
> Somebody help me with lilo : how can I cancel lilo from the MBR and
> reinstall windows NT boot loader.
> I have installed NT in my first partion and Linux in the second. Now when I
> start my PC, it opens directly in the Linux.I don't have access to win
On Sun, 3 Mar 2002 05:46, Thedore Knab wrote:
> When I transfer files, I get a hugh amount of collisions on one of the
> 2 ethernet cards I am transfering too.
>
> Running watch /sbin/ifconfig on 2 seperate machines on LAN.
>
> |--[Router]--[Internet]
>
> [Laptop
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 22:23, Richard Wurdack wrote:
> I discover, however, that if I shut the lid on the box (it might be
> hibernating, don't know - I didn't doing anything special for APM), and
> reopen it, pon can't dial out without a reboot (just like Windows!).
Here's the APM related kernel buil
On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 22:41, Heather wrote:
> > If you want to try ACPI, though, beware that kernel support for it is
> > not as mature as for APM, and it may not work as well.
>
> To clarify re ACPI:
>
> Kernel support seems to be much further along than it was several months
> ago... but that's just
On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 07:58, Heather wrote:
> The choice of experimenting with crappy APM (because the Beast From Redmond
> implements ACPI so much better than they implement APM, hardware
> manufacturers no longer properly regression test it; I have first hand
> experience with that issue) ...
>
>
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:38, Luis Mendes wrote:
> I am running woody on a Toshiba 1800-314. I decided to compile a new
> kernel to fine tune a few things, include fb support and upgrade to
> 2.4.17 (previously I was using the kernel image 2.2.20). The
> compilation process was quite straightforward a
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