Hi all,

I'm looking to get a wirless network set up.  I have an i4100, what
NIC would people reccomend, so far as I have figured the Prism chip
is the easiest to get running under Linux.  I'm running MD8.1

Cheers
Norm.

--- In linux-dell-laptops@y..., Thomas Deselaers <thomas@d...> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 10:29:23AM -0400, James D Strandboge wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 07:55, Ansgar Hellwig wrote:
> > > karim_jafarmadar wrote on Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 05:22:56PM -0000:
> > > > hello
> > > >
> > > > the problem is:
> > > > i cannot play mp3's with 22050Hz
> > > >
> > > > i am using debian unstable with kernel 2.4.18 (i810_audio as a
module)
> > > > on an inspiron4100
> > > >
> > > > mpg123 says No supported rate found and xmms plays the file in
double
> > > > speed
> > > > even when i convert the file into a wav file (e.g. with
winamp) xmms
> > > > won't play the wav file correct [but i can play the wav file
with play]
> > > >
> > > > this all looks very confusing to me, and i have no idea where the
> > > > problem could be
> > > >
> > > > any ideas?
> > >
> > > I have experienced the same problem with my i2500. The sound
hardware and
> > > the "i810_audio" kernel driver are only capable of a sampling
rate of
> > > 48000 Hz. Some applications refuse to work properly with that
module.
> > > Therefore, I'm using the ALSA driver, which works well.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > On an i8200, I have no complaints using the i810_audio, but my wife's
> > i4100 has the problems mentioned.
> >
> > I have used ALSA on other hardware, but always found that the
click that
> > often sounds at the beginning of playing wav files is too annoying.
> > Does anyone else have these clicks?  What version of ALSA works best?
>
>
> I have these clicks on my i8200, too. And I am using alsa, because the
> i810_audio drivers are not capable of internet-telephony-applications
> like gphone (which works with alsa), rat (which does not work with alsa)
> and gnomemeeting (which I have not really tested but seems to work too
> with alsa).
>
> Anyone a hint how to de-click the drivers?
>
>
> --
> Gruß
>  thomas
>
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>   «< Unless stated otherwise everything I write is just my opinion >»

thanks for the help
with ALSA i can play all the files

but, i have same experience with the "click" at the beginnig of
playing a file.. ;(

is anyone just living with it .. or is there a solution?

bye, karim

Hi all,

ia am not able to install the Suse Linux (8.0) from the DVD. It
boots, but, when entring Yast for the setup, it cannot read the
package list and descritption.

I receive error messages stating that i am trying to read over the
end of the device, so my comprehension here is that the Samsung sn-
308b Drive gives uncorrect info to the Driver.

Note that i am able to install from CDs, but i anyway would like an
answer.

Any help???

I think the easiest is a toss-up between the intersil prism2 and any of the
lucent wavelanIEEE/orinoco chipsets.

cheers,
steve

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 10:09:04AM -0000, no_mates_norm wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking to get a wirless network set up.  I have an i4100, what
> NIC would people reccomend, so far as I have figured the Prism chip
> is the easiest to get running under Linux.  I'm running MD8.1
>
> Cheers
> Norm.
>

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hi ....

i've been around looking at messages on this group for quite some
time..... now i have a problem here that i cant sort out..... can
someone pls help me?

i recently got a i82k. i recently got a set of red hat 7.3 cds from
a friend. he downloaded them for me.... now when i try to install i
can boot from the first cd and i get around to choosing the language
scene before it tells me that it cannot find the cd containing the
linux media.... i booted from the cdrom so it sounds more strange...

then i did a ctrl+alt+f4 and found some messages that said...
>cant find ext2fs on dev....
can this be because the cds are using a joliet fs that linux cant
comprehend?

how can i use the cds i have to install linux.... mebbe some sort of
a hard disk image etc from the cds....

pls help..... thanks in advance

dattatraya

it sounds like your cd images might be screwed up.
try doing the 'linux mediacheck' boot.

-steve

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 11:16:04AM -0000, madgoks wrote:
> hi ....
>
> i've been around looking at messages on this group for quite some
> time..... now i have a problem here that i cant sort out..... can
> someone pls help me?
>
> i recently got a i82k. i recently got a set of red hat 7.3 cds from
> a friend. he downloaded them for me.... now when i try to install i
> can boot from the first cd and i get around to choosing the language
> scene before it tells me that it cannot find the cd containing the
> linux media.... i booted from the cdrom so it sounds more strange...
>
> then i did a ctrl+alt+f4 and found some messages that said...
> >cant find ext2fs on dev....
> can this be because the cds are using a joliet fs that linux cant
> comprehend?
>
> how can i use the cds i have to install linux.... mebbe some sort of
> a hard disk image etc from the cds....
>
> pls help..... thanks in advance
>
> dattatraya
>
>
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Hi forum.
I have a inspiron 2500 with Mandrake 8.2
I tried many things, but my PCMCIA Target Networks 24011 don't run in
linux.
I want a buy a new PCMCIA. Which PCMCIA linux compatible do you
recomended me? better wireless.

Thanks.
Sergio Martín
Barcelona. Spain

Try the fall back of using disk 1 or disk 2 in lieu of
dvd.


--- lucabotti <lucabotti@...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> ia am not able to install the Suse Linux (8.0) from
> the DVD. It
> boots, but, when entring Yast for the setup, it
> cannot read the
> package list and descritption.
>
> I receive error messages stating that i am trying to
> read over the
> end of the device, so my comprehension here is that
> the Samsung sn-
> 308b Drive gives uncorrect info to the Driver.
>
> Note that i am able to install from CDs, but i
> anyway would like an
> answer.
>
> Any help???
>
>


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hi sergio,
	 just answered this in another post. :) any card based on the orinoco
chipset (Lucent WaveLan/IEEE), or the Intersil Prism2 (LinkSys) chipsets should
work fine.

-steve

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 04:22:43PM -0000, giosoftware wrote:
> Hi forum.
> I have a inspiron 2500 with Mandrake 8.2
> I tried many things, but my PCMCIA Target Networks 24011 don't run in
> linux.
> I want a buy a new PCMCIA. Which PCMCIA linux compatible do you
> recomended me? better wireless.
>
> Thanks.
> Sergio Martín
> Barcelona. Spain
>
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Hi, I'm new to laptops, and linux, and have an i8200 with
the TrueMobile wireless LAN miniPCI card.  It works fine with
XP, but I don't have a clue how to configure it under linux.
I'm assuming I need some drivers, or some /dev/blah-blah (again,
I'm coming to linux from a unix background, so I have a lot
to learn!)...   have any of you done this, or could you point
me to a website with the drivers, or caveats or...  save
me spending a week surfing for it?  :)

Thanks a lot!
  - Judy

the faq mentions it...you want to use the orinoco_cs driver.

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 06:23:44PM -0000, jdigjudy wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm new to laptops, and linux, and have an i8200 with
> the TrueMobile wireless LAN miniPCI card.  It works fine with
> XP, but I don't have a clue how to configure it under linux.
> I'm assuming I need some drivers, or some /dev/blah-blah (again,
> I'm coming to linux from a unix background, so I have a lot
> to learn!)...   have any of you done this, or could you point
> me to a website with the drivers, or caveats or...  save
> me spending a week surfing for it?  :)
>
> Thanks a lot!
>  - Judy
>
>

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for some reason if my laptop goes into suspend and then comes out,
the everything on the screen is kinda cut in half and then flipped,
so the bottom half is on the top and the top half is on the bottom.
also after the screen flips all of the "buttons" have remained in
place which just makes shutting down the x server that much harder

well thats my current problem, if anyone has had this problem or
knows the solution to it please email me

thanks,
jon

On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 14:39, jubeiyagu17 wrote:
> for some reason if my laptop goes into suspend and then comes out,
> the everything on the screen is kinda cut in half and then flipped,
> so the bottom half is on the top and the top half is on the bottom.
> also after the screen flips all of the "buttons" have remained in
> place which just makes shutting down the x server that much harder
>
> well thats my current problem, if anyone has had this problem or
> knows the solution to it please email me

I have had this problem, but not just coming out of suspend.  It was
just trying to get into and out of the setup screens (eg Fn+F1).  Wish I
had the solution, but I only recently started having this problem.

It seems crazy, but I think it might be related to the dvd/cdrw-- it
doesn't seem to happen unless there is a disk in the drive.  Mind you,
this is just a hypothesis, and is in no way intended to be the
definitive cause or explanation.

Jamie Strandboge

Thanks to the advise from Scott, I finally got the internal modem on
my I4100 to work with the hsf drivers.

However, I have one problem I need to work around before it works
flawlessly: It takes my phone company too long for the standard
settings to give me a dial tone: If I just let the computer try to do
a dial up, I (in most cases) get a ``NO DIALTONE'' error.  If I
instead lift the handset I have in parallel with the computer's line,
wait for the dial tone, and then ask the computer to dial up, it
connects.

I browsed to the documentation of the v.90 codes, but I have not been
able to find the right code.  So does anybody knows how I ask for a
longer delay before the modem times out saying ``NO DIALTONE''.

Thanks

Peter
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On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, epark wrote:

> --- In linux-dell-laptops@y..., "D. D. Brierton" <darren@d...> wrote:
> > Do I actually need to use the Win XP boot loader like this whether
> > I use GRUB or LILO? Emil replied earlier that he has dual boot
> > working just fine with LILO in the MBR. I thought that the Win XP
> > boot loader was only if you needed to use multiple version of
> > Windows?
>
> LILO? GRUB? To put on the MBR or not on the MBR? All these options
> are viable : )
>
There is one other consideration:  on my Latitude CPi, the 'suspend to
disk' function depends upon a MBR which looks at the 'active' flag in the
partition table, and chains to the loader in the first sector of that
partition.  To my knowledge, neither Lilo or grub pay any attention to the
'active partition' flag, so if you wish to implement s2d, you must use a
MBR such as the old DOS loader which supports this algorithm.

Rick Green

Hi,

After suspending and resuming my computer (i8200), if I try to
access the CDRW/DVD drive then the computer hangs and I have to
reset it. Has anyone solved this problem yet? I was wondering if I
can just issue some command which will restart that device.

--
Cheers
James Ots

--- In linux-dell-laptops@y..., "jubeiyagu17" <jubeiyagu17@y...>
wrote:
> for some reason if my laptop goes into suspend and then comes out,
> the everything on the screen is kinda cut in half and then
flipped,
> so the bottom half is on the top and the top half is on the
bottom.
> also after the screen flips all of the "buttons" have remained in
> place which just makes shutting down the x server that much harder
>
> well thats my current problem, if anyone has had this problem or
> knows the solution to it please email me

I used to get that problem, but I haven't for a while. I don't know
what I've done to change it though!

What version of the graphics drivers do you have? (And which
graphics card?) I have 1.0-2960 installed - but I had to hack the
kernel driver so that it would allow the laptop to suspend.

--
Cheers
James Ots

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 at 09:06 (-0700), david carlton wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 10:01:25 -0300 (ADT), Jim Diamond <jdiamond@...>
said:
>
> > I wanted to add 256MB memory to my I8K, and the only thing I can find
> > locally (at a reasonable price) is Azen.  Has anyone used this brand in an
> > I8K?  Any success?
>
> I can't answer your question, but for what it's worth, I had a good
> experience with <http://www.crucial.com/>.  They make it very easy to
> find the right kind of memory for your model of computer, I'm under
> the impression that their memory comes from reputable vendors, the
> price seems right (it's certainly cheaper than Dell's prices...), and
> the memory arrived quickly.

David,

thanks for the reply.  I get the impression that you haven't been a member
of this list for a long time... the Crucial memory was discussed 8 or 10
(?) months ago, and the general concensus at the time was that its current
draw was far higher than other brands and caused problems with some
people's Inspirons.

The other problem is that I'm in Canada, and ordering one chip from a U.S.
mail order place is an expensive proposition, there are some fees that get
tacked on (for customs inspection?) that make the price uninteresting.

Anyone out there with Azen memory that didn't feel like answering first
time around??

Cheers.

				 Jim

>
>
>I browsed to the documentation of the v.90 codes, but I have not been
>able to find the right code.  So does anybody knows how I ask for a
>longer delay before the modem times out saying ``NO DIALTONE''.
>

It might be S7=[time in milliseconds].

BTW, for speed dialing I always use s11=50.  50 milliseconds is the
shortest amount of time that each tone will be played.  You could type
s11=0, but it will only drop to 50 milliseconds anyway.

On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 07:06, jamesots wrote:
> --- In linux-dell-laptops@y..., "jubeiyagu17" <jubeiyagu17@y...>
> wrote:
> > for some reason if my laptop goes into suspend and then comes out,
> > the everything on the screen is kinda cut in half and then
> flipped,
> > so the bottom half is on the top and the top half is on the
> bottom.
> > also after the screen flips all of the "buttons" have remained in
> > place which just makes shutting down the x server that much harder
> >
> > well thats my current problem, if anyone has had this problem or
> > knows the solution to it please email me
>
> I used to get that problem, but I haven't for a while. I don't know
> what I've done to change it though!
>
> What version of the graphics drivers do you have? (And which
> graphics card?) I have 1.0-2960 installed - but I had to hack the
> kernel driver so that it would allow the laptop to suspend.
>

I figured I'd respond to this too since I have the same problem.  I have
the latest drivers with the kernel hack to suspend.  I have the original
BIOS though.

Jamie Strandboge

--- In linux-dell-laptops@y..., Rick Green <rtg@a...> wrote:
> 'active partition' flag, so if you wish to implement s2d, you must
> use a MBR such as the old DOS loader which supports this algorithm.

Hi Rick,

Do you know whether NTLDR supports that 'active partition' flag? I'd
assume yes, otherwise s2d wouldn't work under WinNT/2K/XP, right?

Cheers,
Ed
Linux Guide: http://geocities.com/epark/linux

On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 09:06:55 -0300 (ADT), Jim Diamond <jdiamond@...> said:

> I get the impression that you haven't been a member of this list for
> a long time...

No, just a couple of months.  (And I read through the archive for
maybe the two months before that before joining the list.)

> the Crucial memory was discussed 8 or 10 (?) months ago, and the
> general concensus at the time was that its current draw was far
> higher than other brands and caused problems with some people's
> Inspirons.

Interesting.  Mine has worked flawlessly; I just searched the
archives, though, and it's possible I'll run into problems, since I
haven't yet tried to run any high-powered games on it.  (I'm still
waiting for my software to arrive that I should have gotten soon after
I ordered the computer; it might be on its way now, though.  At least
I got rid of some of my annoyance by venting at Dell/redeem-it.com at
<http://math.stanford.edu/i8200/timeo.html>.)

With luck, maybe it will work for me.  The 8200 has different memory
than earlier models; maybe Micron manufactures that with a lower draw
(or Dell manufactures their machines to be able to handle the higher
draw).  Or maybe, given that I'll have the laptop plugged in, the
powermizer stuff won't kick in.  Or maybe I can turn it off
explicitly, or maybe the current video drivers handle this better.
We'll see...

David Carlton              |  <http://math.stanford.edu/~carlton/>
carlton@...  |  Go books: <http://www.gobooks.info/>

        ..Everything is....FLIPPING AROUND!!

winnt/2k/xp uses its own suspend to disk/hibernate file scheme...it doesn't use
a separate partition system the way linux does.  it hibernates to a file on the
windows filesystem.

-steve

On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 03:05:45PM -0000, epark wrote:
> --- In linux-dell-laptops@y..., Rick Green <rtg@a...> wrote:
> > 'active partition' flag, so if you wish to implement s2d, you must
> > use a MBR such as the old DOS loader which supports this algorithm.
>
> Hi Rick,
>
> Do you know whether NTLDR supports that 'active partition' flag? I'd
> assume yes, otherwise s2d wouldn't work under WinNT/2K/XP, right?
>
> Cheers,
> Ed
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>

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Hi

I have the following setup at home. I have a desktop computer that is
always on and working as a gateway to Internet for my laptop. What I
want to do is to have my home directory available both on the laptop
and on the desktop. So if I work on something at home and saves it to
my home directory i can work on it on my laptop when commuting to
work, and when I get to work an realizes that I have left my laptop
on the train I can connect to my home desktop and retreive the file.
How do I achieve this in a nice way?

I got a information, that a changing in the XF86Config can get the
wheel of my mouse working. But I have not a clue how to create the
option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"  in the XF86Config... Who can help me???
Thanks very much!

i wanted to know if the lilo with rh 7 is capable of dual booting
win xp. i have a 50 mb partition before the 1024 cy on my i82k. shud
i put the lilo in the mbr or in /boot. can i use the nt loader to
boot into linux??

any help wud be welcome..... thanks in advance

dattatraya

I try to use the Media Bay of my I4100 for the floppy drive and the
CD/CDRW/DVD Combo drive.
Unfortunately i only get the CD/DVD Drive working yet – not the
floppy and thus it is not possible to change the drives (Disk / CD)
without rebooting.
Can somebody tell me what i should do?

Thanks
Andreas

put it in the "Pointer" section.
run `man XF86Config` for more info on the format.

-steve

On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 12:39:02PM -0000, andreasseyfert wrote:
> I got a information, that a changing in the XF86Config can get the
> wheel of my mouse working. But I have not a clue how to create the
> option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"  in the XF86Config... Who can help me???
> Thanks very much!
>
>
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lilo is capable of booting it. the NT loader should also be fine..

-steve

On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 01:49:27PM -0000, madgoks wrote:
> i wanted to know if the lilo with rh 7 is capable of dual booting
> win xp. i have a 50 mb partition before the 1024 cy on my i82k. shud
> i put the lilo in the mbr or in /boot. can i use the nt loader to
> boot into linux??
>
> any help wud be welcome..... thanks in advance
>
> dattatraya
>
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you can put your home dir on your desktop machine, and export it via NFS to
your laptop.  this however would not help you in working on your laptop when
you are commuting however.  it seems that you might want to use a tool like
'rsync' to synchronise files before shutdown or something.

cheers,
steve

On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 12:32:44PM -0000, d99ma wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have the following setup at home. I have a desktop computer that is
> always on and working as a gateway to Internet for my laptop. What I
> want to do is to have my home directory available both on the laptop
> and on the desktop. So if I work on something at home and saves it to
> my home directory i can work on it on my laptop when commuting to
> work, and when I get to work an realizes that I have left my laptop
> on the train I can connect to my home desktop and retreive the file.
> How do I achieve this in a nice way?
>
>
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