Re: ready to use debian or ubuntu laptop reccomendations?

2006-03-01 Thread M-L
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 08:25 am, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: >> Britton Kerin wrote: >> >> >I would like to buy my non-linux girlfriend a ready to >> >use laptop with: >> > >> > wireless scan, falling back to CAT5 DHCP >> > open office >> > CD ROM that auto

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-18 Thread M-L
On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 01:14 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: >> > AFAIK thinkpads will not run without butteries. Don't know if its a > design > > feature of flaw though. >> >> Nope, they run without the battery.  Had my roommate unplug the > battery while > in the truck the other day by a

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-18 Thread M-L
On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 11:26 am, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: >> On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:47:28 -0600 >> John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > [...]I am the author of pppconfig[...] >> >> Knowing that may I say how easy it made setting up my accounts when I >> still used di

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-18 Thread M-L
On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 11:42 am, M-L wrote: >> [installed with win2.1] Sorry, that should be win 3.1 -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 +++ We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing. .Henry David T

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-18 Thread M-L
On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 11:27 am, Micha Feigin wrote: >> AFAIK thinkpads will not run without butteries. Don't know if its a > design > feature of flaw though. >> >> Not sure what would happen with a dead battery. I can't speak for Thinkpads, but previously I had a brand that I can't e

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-18 Thread M-L
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 08:32 pm, john gennard wrote: >> a. Is it harmful to use the Laptop with Adapter >> without any battery on board? No way, works a treat without the battery. My brother-in-law has used a Toshiba laptop without a battery for 5 years and it runs like on rails still. I ha

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread M-L
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 04:51 am, john gennard wrote: >> Just before Christmas, I bought a secondhand T20 >> Laptop and installed Sarge which works fine. >> >> The vendor said there was a battery which 'worked >> well'. Embarrassingly, I have so far always used the T20 >> with

Re: image view software

2006-02-16 Thread M-L
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 01:01 am, Deephay wrote: >> Greetings all, >> >> Anyone can recommend me a good image viewing software? >> I am not using Gnome / KDE, so the I don't want to use >> software such as Gwenview. Thx! >> >> Deephay showimg is good for viewing, haven't

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-16 Thread M-L
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 06:12 pm, S Clement wrote: >> I am wondering if I should be sending this to Debian or to a > psychiatric facility. > >> I have just spent a little over two weeks unable to connect to the > web. My windows connection went down and I could not re-install it. I > figu

Re: Failing Sarge net install

2006-02-16 Thread M-L
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 02:44 pm, Glenn Taylor wrote: >> Bruno Buys wrote: >> > Glenn Taylor wrote: >> > >> >> I am trying to install sarge on an old PC that has been running > RedHat > >> 8.0 for a few years now and I am having no luck with Sarge. > PC is an > >> AMD k6 300mhz

Totem - optical device......

2006-02-11 Thread M-L
I have posted a question about trying to get Totem to recognise the optical devices on my Acer laptop, on a previous occasion but never received a reply. I have a partial answer to this, but now another question. Totem is still empty without finding any optical devices when started. But if I in

Re: cdrom scsi problem

2006-02-08 Thread M-L
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 10:56 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] thought about and sent this: >> I am running Sarge, linux 2.4.27, and grub with a NEC cdrom. I have > run > into what seems to be a common problem, but can find no pointer > to the > solution. How can I tell the kernel that I want > "/dev

Re: Prepare Window XP laptop for Debian Linux

2006-01-29 Thread M-L
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:02 am, Samuel Gabriel thought about and sent this: > Hi All, > I was wondering what are the steps that I have to make to prepare my Windows > XP laptop for a new install of Debian Linux. I have a PM1.8GHZ with 1.5GB of > Ram and 60GB HDD divided into two par

Re: dialup modem recommendation for debian sagre?

2005-11-21 Thread M-L
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:42 am, Katipo wrote: ---> Yuri Gorshkov wrote: ---> ---> >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- ---> >Hash: SHA1 ---> > ---> >Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: ---> > ---> > ---> > ---> >>The only dialup modem to get is an external USRobotics 56K modem. It ---> >>hooks up to your serial po

Re: dialup modem recommendation for debian sagre?

2005-11-07 Thread M-L
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 06:26 am, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: ---> [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] ---> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Hasler wrote: ---> > Bruno Buys writes: ---> >> I moved recently, and there´s no easy/cheap broadband in the new ---> >> address. So, what

Re: Thunderbird and deleting msgs in threaded display

2005-11-06 Thread M-L
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 07:29 am, Adam Hardy wrote: ---> I'm using Thunderbird 1.0.2 which is the latest available Debian ---> packaged release, and I'd like to know if anyone else sees this bug, ---> which is giving me grief at the moment due to my heavy use of the delete ---> button. ---> ---> I wonde

Re: printer trouble

2005-10-25 Thread M-L
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:11:32 -0400 Mark Grieveson considered, crafted and sent: >|--- Hello. I am trying to set up an Epson Stylus Photo 890 at my workplace, >|--- but thus far I've been unsuccessful. I have installed cups, and >|--- gimp-print for the drivers. I used the browser, with por

Re: Dial-up modem 'No CARRIER'

2005-10-16 Thread M-L
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:26:37 +0100 marc considered, crafted and sent: >|--- The modem on the new laptop is dialing and exchanging with the ISP. >|--- Then, 24 times out of 25, all I get is 'NO CARRIER'. Very, very >|--- occasionally, I connect >|--- >|--- I've tried both wvdial and KPPP in

Re: Help!

2005-09-07 Thread M-L
On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 13:32:58 -0600 Glenn used the keyboard to craft this: >|On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 18:43 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: >| >|> We've had a lot of these queries recently. Does that suggest the >|> installation process needs to be adjusted slightly, to combat the >|> assumption a

Re: PPP Carrier Detect problem.

2005-08-22 Thread M-L
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:32:52 +0200 "Louis Swart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Intel x86 installation that has pppd version > 2.4.3. > > I have a GPRS modem connected to /dev/ttyS0. > I can connect and get a ppp0 interface. > When I unplug the GPRS modem fro

Re: PLIP setup?

1997-02-28 Thread D M-L
> > I'm trying to configure a PLIP connection between two machines, but I'm > having some problems... > > I get a pair or error messages when I try to configure the plip interface > using ifconfig: > > SIOCSIFADDR: No such device > SIOCSIFDSTADDR: No such device > > The two machines are both

Re: Realtek RTL8029

1996-12-20 Thread D M-L
> > I need help on installing this ethernet card, as the drivers don't seem to > be included. > Thanx > Miro > I have 4 NE200 ethernet cards, one is a RL8029, but I don't remember, which one. Maybe the PCI card ? for this, I use io=0xFF80 and irq=12 for each other ISA card, I use the DOS pr

Re: How to convert attached files - Question

1996-12-16 Thread D M-L
try 'munpack' from 'mpack' package. > Hi- > In the post "Re: FWD: FVWM95 Configuration File Wanted", and other there is > an attached file of the format: > > ---1950339284-1924296775-850739935=:11680 > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; name=".fvwm2rc95" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: BAS

Re: Debian 1.1 (1-Jul-96) networking problem

1996-12-10 Thread D M-L
It seems you NE2000 is not configured, because you are using module. Add in you '/etc/modules' one line : ne to say kerneld to load module ne at boot time and add in your /etc/conf.modules something like : ne irq=10 io=0x300 to give parameters to module ne, because MODULE ne can't autoprobe

Re: how emulate a WINDOWS 95 station

1996-12-06 Thread D M-L
> > Hi, > I supervise a network with a station on debian an many station on Windows > 95. The Windows 95 can see them on the network, i think they used the > NETBEUI protocol. I would like to know how configurate the debian server > in mannner that i will be seen by other win95 stations like a win

mpack recommends news readers, why ?

1996-12-06 Thread D M-L
I don't have Internet connexion at home. I don't nedd news readers, but sometimes I use munpack to uudecode. why not just suggests news readers, or suggest anythings -- Spineux Alain == Spineux Alain

Re: too many syminks?

1996-12-06 Thread D M-L
> > Sorry to be back to the list so soon, > > This is the error I'm getting after upgrading many packages to > frozen: (which was a joy for this novice) > > Dec 5 15:33:24 joanrich init: open (/dev/console): Too many symbolic > links encountered > > What have I done? try # cd /dev # ls -l

Re: mpeg_play, can't load libXt.so.6

1996-12-05 Thread D M-L
As root add the line "/usr/X11R6/lib" to "/etc/ld.so.conf" then run "ldconfig" > Hi > == > > I am trying to use mpeg_play to visualize some videos (in mpeg > format). > > The installation with dselect (or with dpkg -i) seems OK, no > error messages, but when I try to run mpeg_play t

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