On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 14:56, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote:
Can anyone gets the Broadcom's nic in the i5100 works with DHCP ? It
runs fine on static ip but it just timed out when requesting dhcp, it
can't reach the router. And there's nothing wrong with my router running
as a dhcp server because all
I'm looking to buy a laptop that can easily be set up to run debian
linux. I do not need a high end graphics card, nor is there a real
need for a big screen. Being light weight is not a primary factor,
whereas rugged reliability would be. Can anyone suggest particular
brands and models that
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Hi,
well the one basic rule I've set up for my next purchase is this one:
Do NOT buy from Dell. Dell does not support Linux and actually does
everything to make it as difficult as possible to use. They mess with
the BIOS in non-standard ways so
Hi guys.
I'm writing to ask your opinion on the following.
I've got no phone at home, and I'm thinking about an easy way to connect
my laptop to the internet, at least to read email, when I stay working at
home. My mobile is wap, but I have no cable, plus I have no serial port on
my laptop
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:19:22AM +0200, Magnus von Koeller wrote:
well the one basic rule I've set up for my next purchase is this one:
Do NOT buy from Dell. Dell does not support Linux and actually does
everything to make it as difficult as possible to use. They mess with
the BIOS in
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 19:19, Magnus von Koeller wrote:
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Hi,
well the one basic rule I've set up for my next purchase is this one:
Do NOT buy from Dell. Dell does not support Linux and actually does
everything to make it as difficult as
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On Friday 12 September 2003 11:58, Damien Solley wrote:
I have received word back from Dell tech support. They claim:
Dell engineering is working on the issue and latest bios
updatewill be released after some time.
They told me, repeatedly, that
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On Friday 12 September 2003 11:48, Johann Spies wrote:
That is interesting. Our management recently decided to buy Dell
servers. We tested installation of different operating systems on
IBM, HP and Dell servers and the Dell-server was the easiest
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Hi,
besides my Dell-related rant, some more (maybe a little more useful)
advice: The i855GM integrated graphics chipset has proven to be a
source of trouble with Linux. I have one and that is what all those
Dell-problems have been about.
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:47:26AM +0200, Alessandro Speranza wrote:
...
You may find a survey of GRPS PCMCIA or CF cards and their Linux
status at http://tuxmobil.org/pcmcia_linux.html
Almost all cards should work.
I guess the easiest thing would be buy a gprs mobile phone with usb cable
and
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 18:12, Jon wrote:
I'm looking to buy a laptop that can easily be set up to run debian
linux. I do not need a high end graphics card, nor is there a real
need for a big screen. Being light weight is not a primary factor,
whereas rugged reliability would be. Can anyone
Alessandro Speranza [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I guess the easiest thing would be buy a gprs mobile phone with
usb cable and use that as a modem, but I've got the same
problem: do you know if that works with Linux?
this worked fine for me last month in bonasola (near la spezia),
using a
My advise would be to take a Knoppix CD to your local computer store, and
try the machines that have the features you want. Make sure it has exactly
the hardware you are thinking of. If it won't run Knoppix, you are headed
for trouble.
--
Victor R. Cain (865)435-5084
On September 12, 2003 02:50, Damien Solley wrote:
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 14:56, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote:
Can anyone gets the Broadcom's nic in the i5100 works with DHCP ? It
runs fine on static ip but it just timed out when requesting dhcp, it
can't reach the router. And there's nothing wrong
Problem solved!
from Kev82 at linuxquestions.org:
there is a unmarked dependancy somewhere in the hid/input code its been
there for the last few kernels, i meant to report it but forgot, anyway
if you enable all the hid stuff other than hiddev and you enable mouse
keyboard and joystick support
Thanks a lot for your suggestions guys. I think I'll go for the usb cable
for my mobile. About this, I had an email by thi who had some experience,
but in a foolish cleaning mind-attach, I deleted it; could you send it
back please!
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Los Alamos Computers specializes in selling computers with Linux
pre-installed and will even put Debian on the laptops they sell for no
additional charge.
http://www.laclinux.com/en/Laptop
Jon wrote:
I'm looking to buy a laptop that can easily be set up to run debian
linux. I do not need a
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 21:40, ttt wrote:
I have yet to find a definite solution to using console blanking with
acpi. With my old desktop pc, I could simply check console blank using
apm in the kernel settings and the screen would switch to standby after
a few minutes. However, my TM 800 does
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 07:41:37AM -0700, Brian C wrote:
Los Alamos Computers specializes in selling computers with Linux
pre-installed and will even put Debian on the laptops they sell for no
additional charge.
...
LAC and others are mentioned in the Linux laptop resellers survey
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 03:45, Damien Solley wrote:
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 18:12, Jon wrote:
I'm looking to buy a laptop that can easily be set up to run debian
linux. I do not need a high end graphics card, nor is there a real
need for a big screen. Being light weight is not a primary
Doh! Debian.org already has a page that lists vendors that will
pre-install Debian here:
http://www.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed
There's some overlap with that nice tuxmobil list, but also some new
ones. From what I can tell the only new *laptop* reseller (US) found is
SWT, otherwise the
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 01:12:47AM -0700, Jon wrote:
I'm looking to buy a laptop that can easily be set up to run debian
linux. I do not need a high end graphics card, nor is there a real
need for a big screen. Being light weight is not a primary factor,
whereas rugged reliability would be.
According to Johann Spies,
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:19:22AM +0200, Magnus von Koeller wrote:
well the one basic rule I've set up for my next purchase is this one:
Do NOT buy from Dell. Dell does not support Linux and actually does
everything to make it as difficult as possible to use.
On Friday 12 September, 2003 11:48:31AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:19:22AM +0200, Magnus von Koeller wrote:
That is interesting. Our management recently decided to buy Dell
servers. We tested installation of different operating systems on
IBM, HP and Dell
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Hallo!
I've set up an NFS share (server runs Woody), and I can mount it from the
allowed computer, but I cannot write to it from the client 8-?
Here are the configs:
Server:
- -
quiniserver:/# cat /etc/exports
# /etc/exports: the access
According to Alessandro Speranza,
Hi guys.
I'm writing to ask your opinion on the following.
I've got no phone at home, and I'm thinking about an easy way to connect
my laptop to the internet, at least to read email, when I stay working at
home. My mobile is wap, but I have no cable, plus I
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 03:41, Damien Solley wrote:
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 15:06, Magnus von Koeller wrote:
On Thursday 11 September 2003 06:00, you wrote:
Hi Magnus
Do you have anywhere that I can find an (English) description of
this patch? I am not sure what it is patching, or what
Quoting Magnus von Koeller [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
well the one basic rule I've set up for my next purchase is this one:
Do NOT buy from Dell. Dell does not support Linux and actually does
everything to make it as difficult as possible to use. They mess with
the BIOS in non-standard ways so that
I have an IBM Thinkpad i 1400/1500 with a RAGE MOBILITY - MAGP video
adapter. I want to run a DOS program which is compatible with VMI and
Most Super VGA cards at 1024x768 (256 colors). Are there any drivers for
the RAGE adapter that will emulate either of the supported cards?
Robert Hoyt
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 18:02, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:
Quoting Magnus von Koeller [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
well the one basic rule I've set up for my next purchase is this one:
Do NOT buy from Dell. Dell does not support Linux and actually does
everything to make it as difficult as possible to
Egon Willighagen wrote:
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 01:44, GnuLocs wrote:
Egon Willighagen wrote:
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 06:26, Dave Harrison wrote:
I have a PCMCIA wireless card, a Linksys WPC11 v3 card.
As far as I know... this version does not work. Linksys
I am using the b44 (experimental) driver in kernel 2.4.22 , I think I'll
try the bcm4400 and see if it helps.
Thanks,
On 12 Sep 2003 16:50:46 +1000
Damien Solley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 14:56, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote:
Can anyone gets the Broadcom's nic in the i5100
Can anyone gets the Broadcom's nic in the i5100 works with DHCP ? It
runs fine on static ip but it just timed out when requesting dhcp, it
can't reach the router. And there's nothing wrong with my router running
as a dhcp server because all my other machines, all run Debian, can dhcp
request
this post was: (was usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22)
I have renamed it in order to try and clean up the mess again, and
hopefully attract some more input.
thanks to all that have contributed so far, please continue!!
ok. here is where I am at:
latest kernel-2.4.22 compile using
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 14:56, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote:
Can anyone gets the Broadcom's nic in the i5100 works with DHCP ? It
runs fine on static ip but it just timed out when requesting dhcp, it
can't reach the router. And there's nothing wrong with my router running
as a dhcp server because all
I'm looking to buy a laptop that can easily be set up to run debian
linux. I do not need a high end graphics card, nor is there a real
need for a big screen. Being light weight is not a primary factor,
whereas rugged reliability would be. Can anyone suggest particular
brands and models that
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Hi,
well the one basic rule I've set up for my next purchase is this one:
Do NOT buy from Dell. Dell does not support Linux and actually does
everything to make it as difficult as possible to use. They mess with
the BIOS in non-standard ways so
Hi guys.
I'm writing to ask your opinion on the following.
I've got no phone at home, and I'm thinking about an easy way to connect
my laptop to the internet, at least to read email, when I stay working at
home. My mobile is wap, but I have no cable, plus I have no serial port on
my laptop
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:19:22AM +0200, Magnus von Koeller wrote:
well the one basic rule I've set up for my next purchase is this one:
Do NOT buy from Dell. Dell does not support Linux and actually does
everything to make it as difficult as possible to use. They mess with
the BIOS in
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 19:19, Magnus von Koeller wrote:
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Hi,
well the one basic rule I've set up for my next purchase is this one:
Do NOT buy from Dell. Dell does not support Linux and actually does
everything to make it as difficult as
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Hash: SHA1
On Friday 12 September 2003 11:58, Damien Solley wrote:
I have received word back from Dell tech support. They claim:
Dell engineering is working on the issue and latest bios
updatewill be released after some time.
They told me, repeatedly, that
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On Friday 12 September 2003 11:48, Johann Spies wrote:
That is interesting. Our management recently decided to buy Dell
servers. We tested installation of different operating systems on
IBM, HP and Dell servers and the Dell-server was the easiest
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Hi,
besides my Dell-related rant, some more (maybe a little more useful)
advice: The i855GM integrated graphics chipset has proven to be a
source of trouble with Linux. I have one and that is what all those
Dell-problems have been about.
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:47:26AM +0200, Alessandro Speranza wrote:
...
You may find a survey of GRPS PCMCIA or CF cards and their Linux
status at http://tuxmobil.org/pcmcia_linux.html
Almost all cards should work.
I guess the easiest thing would be buy a gprs mobile phone with usb cable
and
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 18:12, Jon wrote:
I'm looking to buy a laptop that can easily be set up to run debian
linux. I do not need a high end graphics card, nor is there a real
need for a big screen. Being light weight is not a primary factor,
whereas rugged reliability would be. Can anyone
Alessandro Speranza [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I guess the easiest thing would be buy a gprs mobile phone with
usb cable and use that as a modem, but I've got the same
problem: do you know if that works with Linux?
this worked fine for me last month in bonasola (near la spezia),
using a
My advise would be to take a Knoppix CD to your local computer store, and
try the machines that have the features you want. Make sure it has exactly
the hardware you are thinking of. If it won't run Knoppix, you are headed
for trouble.
--
Victor R. Cain (865)435-5084
On September 12, 2003 02:50, Damien Solley wrote:
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 14:56, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote:
Can anyone gets the Broadcom's nic in the i5100 works with DHCP ? It
runs fine on static ip but it just timed out when requesting dhcp, it
can't reach the router. And there's nothing wrong
Problem solved!
from Kev82 at linuxquestions.org:
there is a unmarked dependancy somewhere in the hid/input code its been
there for the last few kernels, i meant to report it but forgot, anyway
if you enable all the hid stuff other than hiddev and you enable mouse
keyboard and joystick
Thanks a lot for your suggestions guys. I think I'll go for the usb cable
for my mobile. About this, I had an email by thi who had some experience,
but in a foolish cleaning mind-attach, I deleted it; could you send it
back please!
Los Alamos Computers specializes in selling computers with Linux
pre-installed and will even put Debian on the laptops they sell for no
additional charge.
http://www.laclinux.com/en/Laptop
Jon wrote:
I'm looking to buy a laptop that can easily be set up to run debian
linux. I do not need a
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 21:40, ttt wrote:
I have yet to find a definite solution to using console blanking with
acpi. With my old desktop pc, I could simply check console blank using
apm in the kernel settings and the screen would switch to standby after
a few minutes. However, my TM 800 does
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 07:41:37AM -0700, Brian C wrote:
Los Alamos Computers specializes in selling computers with Linux
pre-installed and will even put Debian on the laptops they sell for no
additional charge.
...
LAC and others are mentioned in the Linux laptop resellers survey
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 03:45, Damien Solley wrote:
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 18:12, Jon wrote:
I'm looking to buy a laptop that can easily be set up to run debian
linux. I do not need a high end graphics card, nor is there a real
need for a big screen. Being light weight is not a primary
Doh! Debian.org already has a page that lists vendors that will
pre-install Debian here:
http://www.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed
There's some overlap with that nice tuxmobil list, but also some new
ones. From what I can tell the only new *laptop* reseller (US) found is
SWT, otherwise the
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 01:12:47AM -0700, Jon wrote:
I'm looking to buy a laptop that can easily be set up to run debian
linux. I do not need a high end graphics card, nor is there a real
need for a big screen. Being light weight is not a primary factor,
whereas rugged reliability would be.
According to Johann Spies,
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:19:22AM +0200, Magnus von Koeller wrote:
well the one basic rule I've set up for my next purchase is this one:
Do NOT buy from Dell. Dell does not support Linux and actually does
everything to make it as difficult as possible to use.
On Friday 12 September, 2003 � 11:48:31AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:19:22AM +0200, Magnus von Koeller wrote:
That is interesting. Our management recently decided to buy Dell
servers. We tested installation of different operating systems on
IBM, HP and Dell
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Hash: SHA1
Hallo!
I've set up an NFS share (server runs Woody), and I can mount it from the
allowed computer, but I cannot write to it from the client 8-?
Here are the configs:
Server:
- -
quiniserver:/# cat /etc/exports
# /etc/exports: the access
According to Alessandro Speranza,
Hi guys.
I'm writing to ask your opinion on the following.
I've got no phone at home, and I'm thinking about an easy way to connect
my laptop to the internet, at least to read email, when I stay working at
home. My mobile is wap, but I have no cable, plus I
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 03:41, Damien Solley wrote:
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 15:06, Magnus von Koeller wrote:
On Thursday 11 September 2003 06:00, you wrote:
Hi Magnus
Do you have anywhere that I can find an (English) description of
this patch? I am not sure what it is patching, or what
Quoting Magnus von Koeller [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
well the one basic rule I've set up for my next purchase is this one:
Do NOT buy from Dell. Dell does not support Linux and actually does
everything to make it as difficult as possible to use. They mess with
the BIOS in non-standard ways so that
I have an IBM Thinkpad i 1400/1500 with a RAGE MOBILITY - MAGP video
adapter. I want to run a DOS program which is compatible with VMI and
Most Super VGA cards at 1024x768 (256 colors). Are there any drivers for
the RAGE adapter that will emulate either of the supported cards?
Robert Hoyt
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 18:02, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:
Quoting Magnus von Koeller [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
well the one basic rule I've set up for my next purchase is this one:
Do NOT buy from Dell. Dell does not support Linux and actually does
everything to make it as difficult as possible to
Egon Willighagen wrote:
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 01:44, GnuLocs wrote:
Egon Willighagen wrote:
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 06:26, Dave Harrison wrote:
I have a PCMCIA wireless card, a Linksys WPC11 v3 card.
As far as I know... this version does not work.
I am using the b44 (experimental) driver in kernel 2.4.22 , I think I'll
try the bcm4400 and see if it helps.
Thanks,
On 12 Sep 2003 16:50:46 +1000
Damien Solley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 14:56, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote:
Can anyone gets the Broadcom's nic in the i5100
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