Re: Problems with setserial and pcmcia
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 09:38:38AM +0100, Gordon Russell wrote: I am getting some reports that the new setserial 2.15-3 interferes with pcmcia cardservices. It would appear that setserial runs first, and initialises the pcmcia card for serial use. This is fine unless the card is a combo modem/ethernet card, in which case the ethernet part of the card is not initialised by cardservices. Is this a problem with setserial or with pcmcia?? I am the original submitter of this bug, and I've done some digging since then. As far as I can see, this is caused because setserial generates is new-format config file _after_ pcmcia has been started (when you install the new setserial package). It therefore includes the ports on pc-cards that has already been set up by pcmcia-cs, and somehow setserial is able to initialize these ports even before pcmcia-cs has been started (perhaps the pcmcia controller 'remembers' the state before boot). A fix could be to do a cardctl config before generation of the new-style config file, and avoid the ports, that pcmcia-cs is responsible for, e.g.: ford:~$ cardctl config Socket 0: not configured Socket 1: Vcc = 5.0, Vpp1 = 0.0, Vpp2 = 0.0 Interface type is memory and I/O IRQ 3 is dynamic shared, level mode, enabled Speaker output is enabled Function 0: Config register base = 0x03f8 Option = 0x68, status = 0x08 I/O window 1: 0x0300 to 0x031f, auto sized I/O window 2: 0x03e8 to 0x03ef, 8 bit In this example, 0x0300 (my netcard, not important) and 0x03e8 (my modem) should be ignored when probing/saving the config. Hope this solves the problem - I will work on a solution and send the script to you when I have a moment to do this, but perhaps you should do this yourself (since my time is sparse ATM), and then send the package, and I will test it for you. -- Andreas
Re: X on a Dell Inspiron Laptop
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 08:14:32PM -0500, Douglas Bates wrote: A friend recently bought a high-end Dell laptop computer. The model is the Inspiron 8000, if I recall correctly. Check out http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/ for notes on the Inspiron 7000, I think much of the info there is usable. -- Andreas
Intent to package GoldED
I intend to package GoldED when my developer-application processes From freshmeat appindex: GoldED is a very nice console full-screen mail/newsreader for Fidonet and Internet. It is one of the best of it's kind for Fidonet and quite usable for Internet. For Internet mail and news you need a program which handles SOUP packets, such as the excellent SOUPER, which connects to the SMTP/POP3/NNTP servers and transfers the mail/news. This functionality is planned to be built into GoldED in the no-so-far future. I work the same place as the upstream author and therefore have a quick way to resolve any upstream bugs. -- Andreas pgpRQGwWKDo36.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Intent to package GoldED
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 08:23:24AM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote: I intend to package GoldED when my developer-application processes From freshmeat appindex: GoldED is a very nice console full-screen mail/newsreader for Fidonet and Internet. It is one of the best of it's kind for Fidonet and quite usable for Internet. For Internet mail and news you need a program which handles SOUP packets, such as the excellent SOUPER, which connects to the SMTP/POP3/NNTP servers and transfers the mail/news. This functionality is planned to be built into GoldED in the no-so-far future. I work the same place as the upstream author and therefore have a quick way to resolve any upstream bugs. Is it still non-free, no source, etc, etc? = No, it's GPL and LGPL as of 3.0.0 - www.goldware.dk, but my first task will obviously be to get Odinn to include license files in the distribution, I can't seem to find licenses for all the modules -- Andreas
Re: Intent to package GoldED
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 06:04:45PM +0100, Andreas Plesner Jacobsen wrote: On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 08:23:24AM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote: I intend to package GoldED when my developer-application processes From freshmeat appindex: GoldED is a very nice console full-screen mail/newsreader for Fidonet and Internet. It is one of the best of it's kind for Fidonet and quite usable for Internet. For Internet mail and news you need a program which handles SOUP packets, such as the excellent SOUPER, which connects to the SMTP/POP3/NNTP servers and transfers the mail/news. This functionality is planned to be built into GoldED in the no-so-far future. I work the same place as the upstream author and therefore have a quick way to resolve any upstream bugs. Is it still non-free, no source, etc, etc? = No, it's GPL and LGPL as of 3.0.0 - www.goldware.dk, but my first task will obviously be to get Odinn to include license files in the distribution, I can't seem to find licenses for all the modules And it seems I was just a bit too fast to take on this task, GoldED still needs a lot of work on the makefiles (autoconf), and since this is my first debian package, I decided to temporarily cancel my project. -- Andreas
Debian-PPC on RS/6000
Anybody been running debian-ppc on an RS/6000 yet? One of my friends and I are playing around with it, but as of yet I have been unable to find any pointers on how to install it on anything but Macintoshes. -- Andreas
