Re: [newbie] laptop install

2001-02-21 Thread Olof Liungman
Hi! I have Mandrake 7.0-2 on an Inspiron 3800. I had some problems with the install but once I did the partioning manually everything worked fine. However, my machine (acquired in June last year) comes with a built-in Winmodem which is not supported by Mandrake 7.0-2. Same thing with the ESS s

[newbie] Missing strstream.h when compiling ncurses...

2001-02-06 Thread Olof Liungman
Hi, this relates to an earlier posting of mine. I tried to compile ncurses 5.1 from scratch since I need ncurses.h for another software package, and the compile breaks with missing "strstream.h" (apparently belongs to the c++ library). What have I done wrong, such that I seem to miss so many i

[newbie] Missing ncurses.h when installing ALSA sound card drivers

2001-02-06 Thread Olof Liungman
Hi, I didn't get any reply to my first posting so I'll try once more and keep my fingers crossed... Problem: When installing ALSA sound card drivers the compilation of the utils package stops with the error "missing ncurses.h". How do I install this file in the easiest way? Background: Dell

[newbie] Missing ncurses.h

2001-02-02 Thread Olof Liungman
Hi! I'm trying to install the ALSA sound drivers for my ESS Maestro-3i sound card (I have a dual-boot Dell Inspiron 3800 laptop with Win 98 and Mandrake 7.0-2). When compiling the ALSA utils, I get the error that ncurses.h cannot be found. True enough, the file is nowhere to be found. I have n

[newbie] pcmcia eth0 not started by network script

2000-12-15 Thread Olof Liungman
Hi, /etc/rc.d/init.d/network fails to start my pcmcia ethernet card, apparently because I'm missing the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. How should this file look? I've taken a peek at ifcfg-lo (loopback), but it contains some data I do not have for the eth0 device, such as IP-addr