Re: [newbie] Laptop hp ze4325us boot freeze solved on 10.1 community (acpi) and wlan--Thanks to all

2004-11-12 Thread Pat Patterson
A big thank you to all who helped me. I am sitting in my Lazyboy sending this from a linux box that for the first time since Mandrake 7.2 does everything I want it to do. I am going to enjoy this for a few weeks and then when I get 10.1 Official I will try breaking it by building a kernel

Re: [newbie] Download HTTP?

2004-11-10 Thread Pat Patterson
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 02:24, Eric Scott wrote: Yo; does anybody know where I can download Mandrake 10.1 PPC via http instead of FTP? On the FTP mirrors I'm getting an average of about 9KB/s. That just won't do when download 2100MB of data. My satellite broadband has roughly a

Re: [newbie] Laptop hp ze4325us boot freeze solved on 10.1 community (acpi)

2004-11-08 Thread Pat Patterson
Sounds similar to my Compaq 2100's issues. I was able to setup/load a custom DSDT, which solved the ACPI and related problems. (Although prism54 still doesn't work as I hit the usual, mfg changed internals but kept the same product number. Ndiswrapper works for me, from sourceforge.) Some

Re: [newbie] browser identification

2004-11-08 Thread Pat Patterson
On Monday 08 Nov 2004 17:33, M.Schild wrote: I would be sorely tempted to change banks, but then. mine gives me no trouble Maryse A few days ago I was downloading Opera and in the things fixed page they mentioned the ability to connect to banks. Do not remember if this was Linux or

[newbie] Laptop hp ze4325us boot freeze solved on 10.1 community (acpi)

2004-11-07 Thread Pat Patterson
This did not seem to go through the first time. Fixed this and thought I would report it here and in twiki. HP ze4325us Athlon chip, Ali chipset, Radeon video. UNknown motherboard. This machine installed 10.0 great. Under 10.1 installs and freezes on reboot. I tried noapic noalpic noacpi

[newbie] Wireless wpc54g ver2

2004-11-07 Thread Pat Patterson
I hope some one can point me in the right direction. This card uses the TI chipset and is recognized on boot but does not load. From dmesg I collected the following: PCI: Enabling device :02:00.0 ( - 0002) PCI: Setting latency timer of device :02:00.0 to 64 acx100_probe_pci:

Re: [newbie] Wireless wpc54g ver2

2004-11-07 Thread Pat Patterson
You need the proprietary firmware for your card from your Windows CD This HOWTO should help you http://www.houseofcraig.net/acx100_howto.php Firmware usually goes in /lib/hotplug/firmware in Mandrake although the HOWTO mentions a different location. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net

Re: [newbie] Wireless wpc54g ver2

2004-11-07 Thread Pat Patterson
On 7 Nov 2004 at 18:07, Sevatio wrote: Have you looked at ndiswrapper? Yes and have had problems wit it due to ignorance i am sure :) Since this card has native support in 10.1 I want to try that first Thanks, Pat ps going to jump into what Derrick suggested in another post will report

Re: [newbie] Wireless Lan on 10.0

2004-07-14 Thread Pat Patterson
On Wednesday 14 July 2004 02:29 pm, Kevin Ferguson wrote: Pat Patterson wrote: On Tuesday 13 July 2004 10:13 am, Kevin Ferguson wrote: Hi Mate Try this this link http://sourceforge.net/projects/acx100/ I have a dwl 520+ got it working on 9.1 but not on mandrake 10. Also try this link too

Re: [newbie] Wireless Lan on 10.0

2004-07-14 Thread Pat Patterson
On Wednesday 14 July 2004 04:16 am, graham wrote: I am using a dwlg520+ with mdk10 official and have had no problems with it. Easy to set up - just have to remove the ndiswrapper.ko that mdk instals and install ver 0.6. try http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ for more info. Graham Thanks

Re: [newbie] Wireless Lan on 10.0

2004-07-13 Thread Pat Patterson
On Tuesday 13 July 2004 10:13 am, Kevin Ferguson wrote: Hi Mate Try this this link http://sourceforge.net/projects/acx100/ I have a dwl 520+ got it working on 9.1 but not on mandrake 10. Also try this link too which will help http://www.houseofcraig.net/acx100_howto.php. I've yet to find

[newbie] Wireless Lan on 10.0

2004-07-12 Thread Pat Patterson
can just pop in and go? Thanks, Pat Patterson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] 3Com Gigabit Ethernet 3C940 supported?

2004-02-15 Thread Pat Patterson
I have a ASUS P4P800 Motherboard with a built-in Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Model and Chipset 3Com 3c940. Autodetection doesn't work and even selecting it manually doesn't work, because it's not in the list and all other available 3Com models won't work. Does anyone by any chance

Re: [newbie] smbclient problem on 9.2 solved- It was the NIC

2003-12-18 Thread Pat Patterson
At 08:15 AM 12/18/2003 +, you wrote: On Thursday 18 Dec 2003 1:54 am, Pat Patterson wrote: I have been trying to get samba fully functional for a couple of months now and it has been driving me crazy. My internet connection worked. The Samba server worked but for some unknown reason that I

Re: [newbie] smbclient problem on 9.2 solved- It was the NIC

2003-12-18 Thread Pat Patterson
At 12:32 PM 12/18/2003 -0600, you wrote: It's becoming more an more frequent to see success stories with 3c940's, but 3com support has always lagged in the past and this is a new NIC. It appears that the sk98lin driver is winning out, as this NIC uses a chipset furnished by SysKonnect, not

[newbie] smbclient problem on 9.2 solved- It was the NIC

2003-12-17 Thread Pat Patterson
I have been trying to get samba fully functional for a couple of months now and it has been driving me crazy. My internet connection worked. The Samba server worked but for some unknown reason that I researched thoroughly, only some of the machines on my network could be reached from the linux

[newbie] A thank you for Kaj and an apology to Derek Jennings

2003-12-14 Thread Pat Patterson
answered over time. Pat Patterson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Smbclient lm9.2

2003-11-05 Thread Pat Patterson
I have been setting up 9.2 and it has been going pretty well but I am having a Samba problem. I can access the linux box from all of my other machines a mix of w98, w2k, and a laptop with XP home. My problem is with accessing some of the other machines from linux. I have lisa running. It will

RE: [newbie] Radeon 9000, xwindows and Mandrake 9.0

2002-11-10 Thread Pat Patterson
I had the same problem same card the first time I loaded 9.0. However, the second time around I did a clean install and went with the vesa driver which it defaulted to and it runs great. No tux racer etc but for normal stuff it works fine. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?