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24723 Hamish Morgan
hamish_iam Send Email
Aug 1, 2004
9:16 am
The following is copied from the FAQ at Synaptics Touchpad driver page http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/ * Does it work on a Dell Inspiron 8200? No,...
24724 Jack Schneider
dpindexng Send Email
Aug 1, 2004
11:49 am
Hi, Dell TrueMobile 1150, works on Libranet 2.8, SuSE 8.2 right out of the box. Uses Orinoco chipset with the PCMCIA_ cs option. I have not tried any...
24725 Anthony
daffyduck44 Send Email
Aug 1, 2004
4:09 pm
if ya got a chance check out my new group... its for anyversion of Simcity.. or derivations there of.. regions, cities, and game tips and discussions are ...
24726 Jason
Oneodd1 Send Email
Aug 1, 2004
4:41 pm
You might try checking the alsa mixer to make sure that nothing is muted. I had the same issue with dvd's on my laptop in gentoo. HTH ... From: steveh7676...
24727 Andy Farlie
Andy_Farlie Send Email
Aug 1, 2004
5:23 pm
Not answering the read-only issue, but if you are intending to regularly backup from one drive to the other, consider using rsync instead of cp. If you want to...
24728 Raju Kurunkad
rajukv Send Email
Aug 1, 2004
9:20 pm
Hi, My Inspiron 8200 fans are making some odd noise. I press "Fn-Z" to reread the temperature and it stops for some time. $ cat /proc/i8k 1.0 A10 BXXXXXX 2 2...
24729 Amjad Farooq
amjadfarooq Send Email
Aug 1, 2004
9:39 pm
Hamish, "fdisk -l" command returns the following: /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 I have two external SCSI (maxtor) drives and i respectively mount them to the following...
24730 Hamish Morgan
hamish_iam Send Email
Aug 2, 2004
10:15 am
Hi Amjad, Well I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel here but try running hdparm -r /dev/sdb Instead /dev/disk2 since hdparm is designed for setting device...
24731 John Ruschmeyer
jruschme Send Email
Aug 2, 2004
1:25 pm
Silly question, but has the OP tried reading the output of 'dmesg&#39; when the disk is in read-only mode? I'm wondering if it is pulling some kind of error...
24732 mchristoph.eckert@... Send Email Aug 2, 2004
3:14 pm
... Hash: SHA1 ... * Try removing the dust from the fans using a spray duster * Check if some screws on the bottom of your chassis are not correct mounted ...
24733 Marc Chamberlin
marc_chamberlin Send Email
Aug 2, 2004
11:55 pm
Well you got my curiosity up! I have a Insprion 8100, running SuSE 9.1, and sure enough if I press the Fn-Z keys, my fans immediately stop running also! I am...
24734 Jason Morganson
jasonmorganson Send Email
Aug 3, 2004
3:15 am
The Synaptics drivers don't seem to on the 8200. What should I do? ... page ... be ... until ... engineer ... have ... box ... So ... on ... now. ... nusence...
24735 Matthew
tachyonhacker Send Email
Aug 3, 2004
3:17 am
I've got Slackware 10.0 running just fine on a Inspiron 8500. I've got two main issues, though. The first is I have no clue how to setup acpid to properly...
24736 Raju Kurunkad
rajukv Send Email
Aug 3, 2004
6:59 am
... On linux, if your kernel has support for the i8k SMM driver(most modern kernels have this support), you can use the i8k utilities from...
24737 Raju Kurunkad
rajukv Send Email
Aug 3, 2004
7:01 am
... Thanks for the advice. The fan noise stopped after I cleaned it using a can of compressed air(available at office depot). Raju...
24738 wiley hundley
wileyhundley Send Email
Aug 3, 2004
10:02 am
I have found out thur much hard work that Linux just isn't worth the trouble. I have tried about every flavor out. And while the insall on konppix and mandrake...
24739 L.V.Gandhi
lvgandhi Send Email
Aug 3, 2004
12:33 pm
As you have said most of the things work in linux. For modem it is the problem with dell selecting a vendor having closed source soft modem like bcm or wifi...
24740 George H-S
volvodriver7s Send Email
Aug 3, 2004
12:49 pm
... I just want to echo some of your frustrations. I have experimented with Linux in many flavors for a number of years. Like you I can get some of it to...
24741 adam@...
quinophex Send Email
Aug 3, 2004
8:03 pm
... Hehe, I wish I could say the same about windows, since getting my M60 the wireless card randomnly stops working in Windows needing a reboot to get it...
24742 Jeff Smith
linux_jjs Send Email
Aug 3, 2004
8:47 pm
I've asked before, but does anyone here have suggestions for an 802.11g wifi miniPCI card that works in a dell C600 Latitude? The Dell one they show for...
24743 Gregory Gulik
ggulik Send Email
Aug 3, 2004
9:28 pm
You have you tried the ndiswrapper???? I use it with Linksys 802.11g card with Fedora Core 2 and it was pretty easy to set up and so far no problems. ...
24744 hitout160 Send Email Aug 4, 2004
3:26 am
www.hitout.com ITS free...
24745 linux_jjs Send Email Aug 4, 2004
4:31 am
No, I hadn't. I've tried to support companies that release specs. However, I may have to break down and try this, if no one can recommend a good miniPCI...
24746 Ivan Fernandez Pelaez
neripunk Send Email
Aug 4, 2004
6:11 pm
... Same here. It's a bit of a pain, but I finally decided to go with a PCMCIA card for wireless rather than going the ndiswrapper way. I've got an SMC...
24747 Gregory Gulik
ggulik Send Email
Aug 4, 2004
6:47 pm
The SMC 3635W is 802.11b, there are plenty of chipsets for 11Mbits that have open source drivers. I myself used Orinoco cards before going to 54Mbits. I am...
24748 Daevid Vincent
DAE51D Send Email
Aug 4, 2004
9:29 pm
atheros. a/b/g madwifi drivers. solid choice. http://www.netgate.com/5354AriesMP.html _____ From: Gregory Gulik [mailto:greg@...] Sent: Tuesday, August...
24749 adam@...
quinophex Send Email
Aug 4, 2004
10:10 pm
... http://www.prism54.org/ but they do need a non-free binary firmware that is uploaded to the card (I think, I havn't actually used one) Adam -- jabberid =...
24750 Bryan Simmons
bznutz_is_king Send Email
Aug 4, 2004
10:51 pm
Has anyone here tried driverloader from linuxant? I've used it twice now and it works great. On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 23:10:05 +0100, adam@... ... -- ...
24751 Howard Coles Jr.
dhcolesjr Send Email
Aug 5, 2004
3:05 am
I'm not sure about the 11g, but Orinoco based cards work well. (Dell should be able to tell you which of theirs is based on it) The miniPCI card I use in my...
24752 Brian Kurle
kurleb Send Email
Aug 5, 2004
5:55 am
I can't say for MiniPCI (I'm still patiently waiting/watching Intel's progress for my 2200 BG MiniPCI card), but Madwifi does cover my D-Link DWL-G650...
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