text formatted far left, ugly and big,...

I run debian woody 3.0 on a old toshiba satellite 335cds. (circa 1998) I don't run X but i really like the present screen text size and way the text is formatted in the middle of the screen, (yes, it's a asthethics question, sorry about that). I just compiled a new kernel and the text is really b

new kernel, console font large, to left

I run debian woody 3.0 on a old toshiba satellite 335cds. I just compiled a new kernel and all seems to be well except the text size and style within console mode (i.e not X). Previously, when i boot i get a quick flash of text that prints to the far left of the screen, after that i get another 'qu

lspci -vv "pcilib: cannot open,... error"

Does anyone know what this error is about? This is happening on a laptop running debian woody 3.0, 2.4.18-bf2.4. I havent been using this laptop but i just jsut started again. Before i stopped using it, it had a really bad crash, i had to boot to single user mode only, any other runlevel it wou

pcmcia, CardBus eth0 was working, now it's not seen?

I'm running debian woody 3.0, 2.4.18-bf2.4. I havent used this laptop in a while but i just started again. Before i stopped using it, it had a really bad crash, i could boot to single user mode only, any other runlevel it would crash. I graduately began turning on services and trying runlev

wireless device has ip, can't ping

Ok, i know that this is because the system is not seeing the correct nameservers. I just installed this wireless card and it seems to come up ok, with the correct drivers etc, The problem is i can't ping aything not on my local network, like, 'yahoo.com', however i can ping: 64.58.79.230, which is

text formatted far left, ugly and big,...

I run debian woody 3.0 on a old toshiba satellite 335cds. (circa 1998) I don't run X but i really like the present screen text size and way the text is formatted in the middle of the screen, (yes, it's a asthethics question, sorry about that). I just compiled a new kernel and the text is really b

new kernel, console font large, to left

I run debian woody 3.0 on a old toshiba satellite 335cds. I just compiled a new kernel and all seems to be well except the text size and style within console mode (i.e not X). Previously, when i boot i get a quick flash of text that prints to the far left of the screen, after that i get another 'qu