[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

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

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

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 when I

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

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 good

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

2003-01-20 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 laptop

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

[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

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 would

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 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 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 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