Re: Compiling pcmcia source w/ 2.4.x kernel

2001-08-18 Thread Tupshin Harper
Not sure what your particular problem is, but I haven't had luck getting my wireless pcmcia (D-Link 650) working with anything later than 2.4.6. You might try going back to that rev. -Tupshin - Original Message - From: "Steve Witt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001

Re: Compiling pcmcia source w/ 2.4.x kernel

2001-08-18 Thread Tupshin Harper
Not sure what your particular problem is, but I haven't had luck getting my wireless pcmcia (D-Link 650) working with anything later than 2.4.6. You might try going back to that rev. -Tupshin - Original Message - From: "Steve Witt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001

Re: Sound problems

2001-08-18 Thread edoc
> Here we go again ;>. Firstly, have you tried things we've already > covered in the debian-user archives. If those don't work we'll need to > know what your /etc/modules.conf looks like in addition to your /dev/dsp > and /dev/mixer ls -al output. Then /proc/interrupts /proc/ioports and > /proc/

Re: Chrooting a user?

2001-08-18 Thread Christian Jaeger
Don't forget that - you will of course waste ram since every library etc is loaded multiple times - it's not secure if you use a kernel with modules or allow raw memory access (don't remember what it's called exactly) since the user could change the running kernel to allow him to escape the jai

Re: 3c509b and dos utility to disable PnP; or isapnptools

2001-08-18 Thread Greg Madden
Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 06:01:08PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > What would be better, disabling PnP for 3c509b using the DOS utility from > > http://www.3com.com ? or use isapnptools? > > I would like to hear some opinions before proceeding. I was about to install

Re: Unable to boot from hard drive

2001-08-18 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > Yes, i ran /sbin/lilo after changing lilo.conf and it prints the > message that Linux was added, the master boot record was written. In > particular, the settings i tried playing with were the lba32/linear > options, and adding the hard drive geometry to the file

Re: Unable to boot from hard drive

2001-08-18 Thread destruss
On 18 Aug 2001, at 18:36, Mike Miller wrote: > You wrote: > > I see you have two kernel's, does lilo add both when running lilo? > >I would check cmos settings to see if your computer is set up to > >boot from harddrive. HTH Dean > > I agree that's exactly what it looks like, but the BIOS

Re: DriveStatusError BadCRC on hda

2001-08-18 Thread Christian Jaeger
Thanks for your reply. I've built the kernel with apm as a module. I've modprobe'd the apm module now (/proc/apm reports -1% battery charge :-) ) and installed apmd - i'll see if that changes anything. christian At 20:13 Uhr -0500 18.8.2001, Brian McGroarty wrote: With a previous machine, I

Re: Sound problems

2001-08-18 Thread Scott Dier
* edoc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010818 20:37]: > the older Stormix automatically detected and installed drivers for my > HP OmniBook 4100 sound chip and the newer Progeny ... even after Progeny was developed as a Base for NOW, which is primaryly for desktops. Laptops aren't the primary scope of prog

Re: External modem line drops with activity

2001-08-18 Thread adam krell
>Martin F. Krafft writes: >> ...or use pon/pff with pppconfig, adding the line >>debug to >> /etc/ppp/peers/. >pppconfig adds that line by default (you can turn it >off in the 'Advanced' menu). >> ...while monitoring /var/log/ppp.log. >Which you can do with plog. Here is a copy of the ppp.log.

potato to woody troubles

2001-08-18 Thread James Lindenschmidt
Greetings, I'm trying to upgrade my potato box to woody so I can run KDE 2.2. I'd also like to upgrade to Xfree86 4.x. I tried using apt-get, but I'm getting an error message and having trouble tracking it down. I added these sites to my /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debi

Re: potato to woody troubles

2001-08-18 Thread James D Strandboge
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 11:30:00PM -0400 or thereabouts, James Lindenschmidt wrote: > liborbit-dev: Conflicts: orbit (< 0.4.3-2) but 1:0.5.8-ximian.1 is to be Take the ximian lines out of sources.list, and I would recommend removing all the ximian stuff before the upgrade. Also your sources.l

Re: DriveStatusError BadCRC on hda

2001-08-18 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hello > > I've seen some messages in the system log and am wondering what to do > with them: You may want to consider replacing the IDE cable. The CRC errors make me suspicious that it may be bad. The "sector not found" errors may be

Re: DriveStatusError BadCRC on hda

2001-08-18 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > There are lots of reasons why a 2 year old G3 Mac has a 1 meg cache and > the Athlon has a 256k cache, all of which are irrelevent given the > difference between the CPU architectures. Um, that shoudl read: There are lots of reasons wh

Re: Unable to boot from hard drive

2001-08-18 Thread Mike Miller
You wrote: >The manual says this: >() No part of LILO has been loaded. LILO either isn't installed >or the partition on which its boot sector is located isn't active > >I don't know what it means by that except that it sounds like it would >be important if you were putting LILO in a partition

Re: potato to woody troubles

2001-08-18 Thread Todd V . Rovito
I just got the same setup to work on my computer without upgrading to woody, have you thought about that. Just follow the steps below. 0) Compile and install the 2.2.19 kernel 1) Download the binary packages of X from xfree86.org and install 2) Download kde 2.2. Compile and install. Follow the dire

Re: External modem line drops with activity

2001-08-18 Thread MaD dUCK
which kernel are you using, and does it have VJ compression enabled? the option should be around the configuration item for PPP. martin

Re: Sound problems

2001-08-18 Thread edoc
Sure wish I knew that up front! My expectations would have been different and so would have been my preparations prior to install! Anyhow ... now trying to run the ALSA update gauntlet ... Downloaded and unzipped as follows ... bunzip2 -x alsa-driver-0.5.11.tar.bz2 bunzip2 -x alsa-lib-0.5.10b.t

CD device file problem and kernel questions

2001-08-18 Thread Jeremy
Hello all! I'm having a problem with accessing my CD drive, and I was hoping to possibly get a little insight into the situation. Basically the situation is that I have an IDE CD-RW drive, but I can't get much to find it. Normally it would be /dev/hdc, but I have the ide-scsi option (append="hdc

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