Re: Best network card for network install? a question about /dev/psaux

2001-09-28 Thread Brian Button
Glen == Glen S Mehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Glen are you running gpm? if so, you might try setting your mouse Glen to /dev/gpmdata Or try stopping gpm before starting X. I actually am running gpm, and this was causing the problem. I turned it off, and things worked great. Glen

RE: Best network card for network install? a question about /dev/psaux

2001-09-27 Thread Glen S Mehn
# Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection -Original Message- From: Brian Button [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 07:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Best network card for network install? a question about /dev/psaux - Original

RE: Best network card for network install? a question about /dev/psaux

2001-09-27 Thread Glen S Mehn
# Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection -Original Message- From: Brian Button [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 07:35 PM To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Best network card for network install? a question about /dev/psaux

Re: Best network card for network install?

2001-09-26 Thread Glen Mehn
before configure device drivers do Alternate-- configure pcmcia I've had good luck with just about every pcmcia card I've tried-- several xircom's, netgearfa410x, several different 3com's... I think you just need to add pcmcia support before you configure the network (and I think that I do it

Re: Best network card for network install?

2001-09-26 Thread Glen Mehn
AH-- I see. Slink is pretty darn old-- it's the ex-release version-- if you're doing a network install, why not try the latest boot disks-- from potato (2.2r3) I think that the pcmcia stuff was somewhat borked even when slink was out-- I seem to remember having to jump through hoops, and

Re: Best network card for network install? a question about /dev/psaux

2001-09-26 Thread Brian Button
- Original Message - From: Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Glen Mehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Brian Button [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 2:26 PM Subject: Re: Best network card for network install? I'm glad to hear Glen had better experience

Best network card for network install?

2001-09-26 Thread Brian Button
Gee, this sure seems like an FAQ, and I apologize for asking it again. But I've been trying to install 2.2r3 via a network install for two days now, and I haven't made any progress at all. I can't seem to get any of my linksys cards recognized at the point of the install where you have to

Re: Best network card for network install?

2001-09-26 Thread Glen Mehn
before configure device drivers do Alternate-- configure pcmcia I've had good luck with just about every pcmcia card I've tried-- several xircom's, netgearfa410x, several different 3com's... I think you just need to add pcmcia support before you configure the network (and I think that I do it

Re: Best network card for network install?

2001-09-26 Thread Tony Godshall
I did a network install via Linksys pcmcia card but I had to drop to shell, edit (/target?)/etc/pcmcia/network.opts manually and then (/target?)/etc/init.d/pcmcia (re?)start . (Sorry my memory is fuzzy... didn't take notes :( .) At that point ifconfig told me eth0 was configured so I exited the

Re: Best network card for network install?

2001-09-26 Thread Tony Godshall
I'm glad to hear Glen had better experience than I did. Glen and Brian, could you note which release you're installing? As I noted, my experience was with slink. -- Tony On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 09:58:15AM -0700, Glen Mehn wrote: before configure device drivers do Alternate-- configure pcmcia

Re: Best network card for network install?

2001-09-26 Thread Glen Mehn
AH-- I see. Slink is pretty darn old-- it's the ex-release version-- if you're doing a network install, why not try the latest boot disks-- from potato (2.2r3) I think that the pcmcia stuff was somewhat borked even when slink was out-- I seem to remember having to jump through hoops, and

Re: Best network card for network install? a question about /dev/psaux

2001-09-26 Thread Brian Button
- Original Message - From: Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Glen Mehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Brian Button [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 2:26 PM Subject: Re: Best network card for network install? I'm glad to hear Glen had better