On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 11:13:13AM +0000, Sunnanvind Briling Fenderson wrote: > Bentley Taylor wrote: > > during boot, do you get the 2 high beeps, meaning > > that the box recognizes the pcmcia card > > "presence"? or, do you get a high beep and then a > > low one? or no beeps? > > I don't use any pcmcia cards currently; before my pcmcia network card > broke, I used it from time to time, but I usually didn't boot with it - > rather, I put it in when I needed to transfer some files or something. > The modem is an external one (an old 33.6, one of usr robotic "sportster" > models), connected through one of various ports on the back. It's the > same modem I use for my old non-notebook p100. I should've been more > clear on this. > > <snip> > > if you get the boot beeps, you may just need to > > use setserial for the right config. > > Oh. I'm sooo clueless on how to do that. I'll go sift through the man > pages one more time; maybe I can find some info-documents or something > like that. > > > is it possible to post dmesg? > > I guess I've really been away from Debian too long (or I never got it in > the first place) - what's that?
// hi, ...sorry, i've no experience with external modems... re dmesg: it's the command to see the lines on the screen when the computer boots. as far as "capturing" all those lines, i just use the "script" command: script dmesg_1 (btw, "dmsgs_1" just represents a new file name that script would be piping the contents into, or something to that effect...) then just type the command, in this case, "dmesg" (no quotes). to end "script," just type, "quit" (no quotes). so with the file "dmesg_1" (or whatever you would choose to name it, you could then attach that file in your email, thus posting the contents of dmesg)... good luck with the modem; perhaps someone else knows about external modems. hth, bentley taylor. // >
