Re: Asante Mini EN/SC driver

2005-08-25 Thread Ken
My Reply follows quote. On 25/08/2005 21:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Howdy. > >I have a PowerBook 180 that works great for me except for the screen and >batteries (of course). While the screen has those black horizontal lines on >the left side indicating dead pixels, it is tolerable. My prese

Re: Which flavour of Unix/Linux used most OR run better on older model Powerbooks?

2005-08-25 Thread victoria duggan
On 26 Aug 2005, at 04:33, Manfred wrote: Hello, Debian works best on the 3400c. Depending on the chipset the wireless lan works fine. My Lucent card does. Besides, on a Kanga Yellow Dog works best. But only one of the older releases. There is even a software package for powerbooks making all

Asante Mini EN/SC driver

2005-08-25 Thread Kenneth Smith
Howdy. I have a PowerBook 180 that works great for me except for the screen and batteries (of course). While the screen has those black horizontal lines on the left side indicating dead pixels, it is tolerable. My present task is to 1) get my Asante Mini EN/SC SCSI to Ethernet device working and

Re: Which flavour of Unix/Linux used most OR run better on older model Powerbooks?

2005-08-25 Thread Manfred
Hello, Debian works best on the 3400c. Depending on the chipset the wireless lan works fine. My Lucent card does. Besides, on a Kanga Yellow Dog works best. But only one of the older releases. There is even a software package for powerbooks making all buttons work (brigthness, loudness) and shows

Which flavour of Unix/Linux used most OR run better on older model Powerbooks?

2005-08-25 Thread Sorular
G'day I have a powerbook 3400c that I use quite often for simple tasks like text / email even some simple browsing etc... It's maxed out Ram and very good battery (1+ hours) with 2gb hdd. I recently bought and start using Avaya wireless and it just gave a whole new enjoyment to it... However

Re: Install 7.6 on Powerbook 3400 doesn't work

2005-08-25 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
> When I try to boot of the CD or try open the Installer (within the > 8.6), I just get a message like "this software was not made for this > computer...bla,bla,bla..". > ** > I believe the 3400c came with system 7.6.1 on board and so 7.6 won't > work. Perhaps someone else on the

Re: Install 7.6 on Powerbook 3400 doesnt work

2005-08-25 Thread B.L.
PowerBooks wrote on 8/25/05, 14:30: When I try to boot of the CD or try open the Installer (within the 8.6), I just get a message like "this software was not made for this computer...bla,bla,bla..". ** I believe the 3400c came with system 7.6.1 on board and so 7.6 won't work. P

PB 1400 BookCover Template

2005-08-25 Thread Noah Wood
Subject says it all, if anybody has the template for the 1400 BookCover in AppleWorks or ClarisWorks or any fiel format That would really be apperciated. Thanks! -- Have a Nice Day! /\/ () /-\ |-| \/\/ () () |) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PowerBooks is sponsored by and... Sm

Re: Hard drive makes whining noise

2005-08-25 Thread John Perkins Jr.
It hesitated to spin up TWICE yesterday. Is it bad for it if I leave the computer on all the time? And could that drop have damaged the hard drive? The computer wasn't on at the time. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Re: Which model?

2005-08-25 Thread John Perkins Jr.
>Don't go for the 1400CS, the screen is unlikely to be satisfactory You probably forget that I am using a 520. Anything color would be satisfactory. >I suggest That if you have less than 40mb ram in one you >stick with 8.6 which is fine for most of the day to day task's nowadays. I have 8.1 on my

Re: Which model?

2005-08-25 Thread Krow Magnum
On 8/25/05, John Perkins Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Don't go for the 1400CS, the screen is unlikely to be satisfactory > You probably forget that I am using a 520. Anything color would be > satisfactory. > > >I suggest That if you have less than 40mb ram in one you > >stick with 8.6 which

Re: Hard drive makes whining noise

2005-08-25 Thread Naftali Shani
John, regardless if the PB was on or not, hard drives in general don't like being dropped. Had the PB been powered and dropped, you probably would have damaged the head/s and plate/s (it can survive gentle acceleration of <<1 g, but a drop shock is hard acceleration >>1 g). As it wasn't powered,

Install 7.6 on Powerbook 3400 doesnt work

2005-08-25 Thread Paxson
Hi @ll, I'm desperatly trying to install MacOS 7.6 on my old powerbook 3400 (144MB RAM/2GB/12xCD).. At the moment there are 3 Partitions (all ~700 MB). One of the partions ist hfs+ with an installed MacOS 8.6 which is working fine and stable all the time!!! Now I am trying to install MacOS