Re: [SLUG] Laptop problem

2005-11-04 Thread Michael Fox
On 11/4/05, Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have had my BenQ A32e-V01 for 3 weeks. It's new with warranty? If so then take it back to supplier/purchaser and have them check if everything else fails. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs

Re: [SLUG] Laptop problem

2005-11-04 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi Bill, I'll presume your talking about a laptop here. Sometimes the internal capacitors can overfill (for want of a better term), due to overcharging.. what you can do is remove the power cable and remove the battery. then hold down the ON button for 1-2 minutes (or longer). this drains the ca

[SLUG] Laptop problem

2005-11-04 Thread Bill
Have had my BenQ A32e-V01 for 3 weeks. Suddenly it wont boot - The battery charging light says battery is fully charged and the AC light shows that it is receiving power from the wall-socket, and the power-pack led is lit. I don't even get the Manufacturers logo on-screen so it appears that the

Re: [SLUG] Laptop problem

2003-01-21 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 09:14, Dave Airlie wrote: > > Just the failed eth0 initialisation, saying that it would come back to > > it later. The annoying (and difficult) problem is that usually it does > > seem to get started, but about 20% of the time it doesn't happen. I > > haven't been able to find

Re: [SLUG] Laptop problem

2003-01-21 Thread Dave Airlie
> Just the failed eth0 initialisation, saying that it would come back to > it later. The annoying (and difficult) problem is that usually it does > seem to get started, but about 20% of the time it doesn't happen. I > haven't been able to find anything in the logs that distinguishes > between a goo

Re: [SLUG] Laptop problem

2003-01-21 Thread Alan L Tyree
> > is it possible that it reordered your changes? changing boot order is > supposed to be done by editing the scripts in question -- there is a > comment at the top which a program called chkconfig or something reads. > There should be a skel file lying around with the meanings of each of > the n

Re: [SLUG] Laptop problem

2003-01-21 Thread James Gregory
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 16:59, Alan L Tyree wrote: > On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 08:38, Ken Foskey wrote: > > ARRR! Bloody thing didn't work on boot this morning! > > I changed it back to the original, shut the machine down. Restart: > during boot it reports that the eth0 config has failed, but w

Re: [SLUG] Laptop problem

2003-01-20 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 08:38, Ken Foskey wrote: ARRR! Bloody thing didn't work on boot this morning! I changed it back to the original, shut the machine down. Restart: during boot it reports that the eth0 config has failed, but when I log in it is OK. I give up. Back to a nice simple dos m

Re: [SLUG] Laptop problem

2003-01-20 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 08:12, Alan L Tyree wrote: > On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 20:13, Ken Foskey wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 16:51, Alan L Tyree wrote: > > > On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 06:27, James Gregory wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 21:57, Alan L Tyree wrote: > > > > > I'm having trouble with a

Re: [SLUG] Laptop problem

2003-01-19 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 06:27, James Gregory wrote: > On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 21:57, Alan L Tyree wrote: > > I'm having trouble with a laptop ethernet hookup. When the machine > > boots, it fails to see eth0 but then it seems to configure it later. I think I have fixed this. In the startup directories

Re: [SLUG] Laptop problem

2003-01-19 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 06:27, James Gregory wrote: > On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 21:57, Alan L Tyree wrote: > > I'm having trouble with a laptop ethernet hookup. When the machine > > boots, it fails to see eth0 but then it seems to configure it later. Sounds like it is worth a look - many thanks, > > I

Re: [SLUG] Laptop problem

2003-01-19 Thread James Gregory
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 21:57, Alan L Tyree wrote: > I'm having trouble with a laptop ethernet hookup. When the machine > boots, it fails to see eth0 but then it seems to configure it later. I haven't played much with it, but my laptop purports to have recently installed a thing called ifplugd which

Re: [SLUG] Laptop problem

2003-01-19 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 14:01, Dave Airlie wrote: > > > > what distribution are you using, I know on my laptop,MDK 8.1 used to bring > up eth0 before it existed and then pcmcia would bring it up when it > spotted the card, but used to send packets before the link was negotiated > with the switch and

Re: [SLUG] Laptop problem

2003-01-19 Thread Dave Airlie
On 20 Jan 2003, Alan L Tyree wrote: > I'm having trouble with a laptop ethernet hookup. When the machine > boots, it fails to see eth0 but then it seems to configure it later. > what distribution are you using, I know on my laptop,MDK 8.1 used to bring up eth0 before it existed and then pcmcia wou

[SLUG] Laptop problem

2003-01-19 Thread Alan L Tyree
I'm having trouble with a laptop ethernet hookup. When the machine boots, it fails to see eth0 but then it seems to configure it later. Unfortunately, it doesnt' then do the right DHCP thing. If I # ifconfig eth0 down # ifconfig eth0 up # dhclient Then it connects to the network the way that it