I'm searching around for a minipci card that will work in a dell
inspiron 4100.  It has an empty slot and I'd like to dispense with the
PC card I use if possible.  I don't mind using ndiswrapper or linuxant
to build support.  I already use linuxant for the wpc54g cardbus card
I use.  Anyone install a specific minipci card on a Dell I4100?  I've
used the intel cards on later model dells; just need to know which
cards may work with the 4100.

BTW, running debian unstable, non-debian 2.6.7 kernel here.

Thanks!

Mike

Hi

I'm searching for a wifi card (pcmcia) for my Dell inspiron 8200.
I 'd tried an SMC 2835, but i couldn't find drivers for kernel 2.6.x

Have you some ideas?

and ...Happy new year for all of you ;D

I just found this site today and am sooo happy about it.  I installed
fedora 3 a while back and have been playing with it off and on.  I
really wanted to use fedora more, but my motorola wireless card on my
laptop would not work.  Long story short, I had to reinstall
Ndiswrapper (the rpm wouldn't work) and I had to find out that
l("letter L") and 1("One") are two different characters  Doh!!

Anyway, it all works now!!  How much fun this is - using about $700
worth (in microsoft money) of free software to surf the internet, play
movies, prepare spreadsheets, write letters, and on and on and on...

Linux rules!!

Will

On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, ooouio wrote:

> I'm searching for a wifi card (pcmcia) for my Dell inspiron 8200.
> I 'd tried an SMC 2835, but i couldn't find drivers for kernel 2.6.x

i've used a linksys WPC11 V3 for well over a year now, and it works
fine out of the box on my 8100 running fedora core 3.

apparently, the V4 version of that card is not linux-compatible, so
you really want to make sure you have a V3, unless things have changed
lately.

rday

>
> On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, ooouio wrote:
>
>> I'm searching for a wifi card (pcmcia) for my Dell inspiron 8200.
>> I 'd tried an SMC 2835, but i couldn't find drivers for kernel 2.6.x
>
> i've used a linksys WPC11 V3 for well over a year now, and it works
> fine out of the box on my 8100 running fedora core 3.
>
> apparently, the V4 version of that card is not linux-compatible, so
> you really want to make sure you have a V3, unless things have changed
> lately.
>

I have the V4 version linksys pcmcia card and it works fine with the
ndiswrapper and redhat 9.0.

     Martin D. White
     http://www.mindspring.com/~martinwhite

I mean, wannabe Linux junkie.

I want to put a good KDE based Linux distro on my Dell Latitude LM
laptop. It has:

2 gig HD (3 when compressed)
76MB RAM
166MHz Pentium (with MMX)
I want to install the OCE edition of Xandros, but I don't know how
good it would run. Any suggestions?

On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 02:54 +0000, randomwosp wrote:
>
> I mean, wannabe Linux junkie.
>
> I want to put a good KDE based Linux distro on my Dell Latitude LM
> laptop. It has:
>
> 2 gig HD (3 when compressed)
> 76MB RAM
> 166MHz Pentium (with MMX)
> I want to install the OCE edition of Xandros, but I don't know how
> good it would run. Any suggestions?
>
>

It will run poorly, if at all. With only 76MB Ram you won't be able to
run either GNOME or KDE acceptably. However, you could use a lighter
desktop like XFCE, IceWM, etc. Both are quite useable coming from a MS
Windows background.
Alternatively you could upgrade your RAM to 256MB or more.
Regards
Damien

Hi All,

I have a Dell Latitude D600 which is a nice laptop. I'm running Fedora
on it (currently FC3.) However, I can't get the PCMCIA to work when I
build my own kernel. With the stock redhat kernel, it works ok;
however, with mine, it hangs hard

# service pcmcia start

(Hang == nothin' doing, gotta hit the power key for 5 seconds to
restart.)  This behavior has been since the FC1 series.

I've looked at the suggestions on the web, e.g.,
http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~occ/laptop/ suggests changing the
configuration file:

> Change /etc/pcmcia/config.opts as follows: from  include port 0x100-0x4ff,
port
> 0x800-0x8ff,port 0xc00-0xcff  to include port 0x100-0x4ff,port 0xc00-0xcff

Mine was already in the changed state (maybe Fedora comes this way)
but it does not work none-the-less. Any suggestions? I've tried to
make my kernel .config look like redhat's but so far no luck.

Cheers,
Peter

Hi,

I recently fiddled with my kernel, and a few funky things have happened.
I'm running debian with 2.4.22 kernel.

One odd thing that happened is Fn doesn't seem to work anymore.
Primative things like turning on number lock works, but increasing and
decreasing brightness doesn't work anymore. Fn+F8, which changes the
display doesn't work anymore either. Does anyone have any idea what
this goes under in the kernel?
Another thing, the i810 doesn't seem to be capable of loading to the
right clockspeed. In order for me to get the sound working properly, I
have to insmod i810_audio clocking=48000. Is there anyway to automate
this?

ACPI doesn't work well either... but I think I'll save that for
another day. I'm going to tinker some more with software suspend once
I get some free time.

If anyone knows anything that might be able to help me with my
problems, especially with the softkeys, it would be greatly
apprecaited. I guess the question is simply, where do softkeys go in
the kernel?

Jack

I'm not sure if this will help, but I run X200 with debian 2.4.22. The
minipc card I use is the stock TrueMobile1150 provided by dell, and it
works fine with orinoco_cs drivers. I haven't gotten monitor mode to
work with the card, but that just requires me to apply a few kernel
patches, I believe.

Jack

--- In linux-dell-laptops@yahoogroups.com, "Michael Perry"
<meperry_94587@y...> wrote:
>
> I'm searching around for a minipci card that will work in a dell
> inspiron 4100.  It has an empty slot and I'd like to dispense with the
> PC card I use if possible.  I don't mind using ndiswrapper or linuxant
> to build support.  I already use linuxant for the wpc54g cardbus card
> I use.  Anyone install a specific minipci card on a Dell I4100?  I've
> used the intel cards on later model dells; just need to know which
> cards may work with the 4100.
>
> BTW, running debian unstable, non-debian 2.6.7 kernel here.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mike

I've tried a netgear WG511 and it works out of the box with Mandrake
kernel 2.6 (prism54 module). I've read that the netgear WG511T, 802.11
B/G/SuperG, also works (madwifi driver).

Alex.

ooouio wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I'm searching for a wifi card (pcmcia) for my Dell inspiron 8200.
> I 'd tried an SMC 2835, but i couldn't find drivers for kernel 2.6.x
>
> Have you some ideas?
>
> and ...Happy new year for all of you ;D
>
>
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
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>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

Also, attached is the kernel config file I've tried using the latest
kernel.org kernel with the software suspend 2 patches.

Thanks for any help.

Peter


On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 23:14:19 -0600, Peter Wittich
<peter.wittich@...> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a Dell Latitude D600 which is a nice laptop. I'm running Fedora
> on it (currently FC3.) However, I can't get the PCMCIA to work when I
> build my own kernel. With the stock redhat kernel, it works ok;
> however, with mine, it hangs hard
>
> # service pcmcia start
>
> (Hang == nothin' doing, gotta hit the power key for 5 seconds to
> restart.)  This behavior has been since the FC1 series.
>
> I've looked at the suggestions on the web, e.g.,
> http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~occ/laptop/ suggests changing the
> configuration file:
>
> > Change /etc/pcmcia/config.opts as follows: from  include port 0x100-0x4ff,
port
> > 0x800-0x8ff,port 0xc00-0xcff  to include port 0x100-0x4ff,port 0xc00-0xcff
>
> Mine was already in the changed state (maybe Fedora comes this way)
> but it does not work none-the-less. Any suggestions? I've tried to
> make my kernel .config look like redhat's but so far no luck.
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
>

--- In linux-dell-laptops@yahoogroups.com, Haedn Thorn
<lordhaedn@y...> wrote:
>
> --- Chris Worley <chrisw@l...> wrote:
>
> >
> > The $19 driver at linuxant.com seems to work well.
> > There's an Open
> > Source NDIS wrapper too, but I haven't tried it.
> >
> > On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 14:18, michaelzhao12 wrote:
> > > I have a Dell Latitude 600 Laptop (D600) with a
> > wireless B card (model
> > > is Intel Pro Wireless 2100). Before, I had SuSE
> > 7.2 Pro edition. It
> > > didn't get onto to the Internet. The answer was
> > because it did not
> > > have a driver. For Christmas, I just got SUSE 9.1
> > Pro edition. I
> > > installed it promptly hoping the laptop will get
> > onto the Internet. No
> > > such luck. YAST recognizes the card and installed
> > the drives, but I
> > > don't know why it will not work.
> > >
> > > I have a Broadcom driver as well (wired) on eth1.
> > The wireless card is
> > > on eth0. The card works fine on my Windows XP Pro
> > Partition. Just not
> > > on SUSE 9.1. I love everything about SUSE 9.1, I
> > really don't want to
> > > use Windows.
> > >
> > > Please help me so I can experience Linux better!
>
> http://ipw2100.sf.net ... Linux Native straight from
> Intel .



I already have the driver though.

Hi to you,
may be some one has find a way to 'grep' these multimedia buttons on
top of the computer. I have 2 volume buttons which in function with
'i8kutils' but the other ones (x4) are out of function. In former
times i could give in the term "xev" and then i was able to find the
right number for each button; but now in "kernel-2.6" there were only
an output by '/var/log/messages' with the infomation: "... unknown key
released ... code 0x81 on isa0060/"; and nothing more.
If someone has found a solution - i would like to hear about it!
Cheers  --Thomas Rump

--- linux-dell-laptops@yahoogroups.com wrote:

>
> There are 11 messages in this issue.
>
> Topics in this digest:
>
>       1. WIFI card for Dell inspiron 8200 on Fedora
> core 3?
>            From: "ooouio" <ooouio@...>
>       2. I'm a Newbie and my wireless works now!!!
>            From: "Will" <wasilvers@...>
>       3. Re: WIFI card for Dell inspiron 8200 on
> Fedora core 3?
>            From: "Robert P. J. Day"
> <rpjday@...>
>       4. Re: WIFI card for Dell inspiron 8200 on
> Fedora core 3?
>            From: "Martin D. White"
> <martinwhite@...>
>       5. My name is Brad, and I'm an alchoholic....
>            From: "randomwosp" <randomwosp@...>
>       6. Re: My name is Brad, and I'm an
> alchoholic....
>            From: Damien Solley <dsolley@...>
>       7. dell latitude d600, can't get PCMCIA to
> work with custom kernel
>            From: Peter Wittich
> <peter.wittich@...>
>       8. X200 2.4.22 softkeys
>            From: "laserlights2000"
> <robotics@...>
>       9. Re: Inspiron 4100, minipci card
>            From: "laserlights2000"
> <robotics@...>
>      10. Re: WIFI card for Dell inspiron 8200 on
> Fedora core 3?
>            From: Alexandre Tessier
> <Alexandre.Tessier@...>
>      11. Re: dell latitude d600, can't get PCMCIA to
> work with custom kernel
>            From: Peter Wittich
> <peter.wittich@...>
>
>
>
________________________________________________________________________
>
________________________________________________________________________
>
> Message: 1
>    Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 22:25:39 -0000
>    From: "ooouio" <ooouio@...>
> Subject: WIFI card for Dell inspiron 8200 on Fedora
> core 3?
>
>
> Hi
>
> I'm searching for a wifi card (pcmcia) for my Dell
> inspiron 8200.
> I 'd tried an SMC 2835, but i couldn't find drivers
> for kernel 2.6.x
>
> Have you some ideas?
>
> and ...Happy new year for all of you ;D
>
>
The Orinico/Proxim 8471 card works good with the
ndiswrapper package.




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Using gnome, I mapped the multimedia keys simply using the Keyboard
Shortcuts preferences dialog to map the keys to the actions I wanted
performed. Works like a charm.

-Mike

--- In linux-dell-laptops@yahoogroups.com, "ooouio" <ooouio@y...> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I'm searching for a wifi card (pcmcia) for my Dell inspiron 8200.
> I 'd tried an SMC 2835, but i couldn't find drivers for kernel 2.6.x
>
> Have you some ideas?

If they're still available, Dell's TrueMobile 1150 mini-PCI card works
great in the i8200 (I have one) with FC3 out of the box.  Best of all,
it doesn't take a PC card slot.  (It fits in a little pocket in the
bottom of the machine.)

Dave Kristol

I have an Inspiron 4000 and a Netgear MA401 pcmcia card. I used to
run Fedora Core 1 and I had it working, I think using the external
pcmcia_cs package (can't remember for sure how).

I've now installed Fedora Core 3 and have set up the card with all
the correct settings, and Fedora seems to have detected it and
everything looks good, but no connection. I have not tried the
external pcmcia_cs with Core 3 yet, reading the documentation seems
to indicate that it won't work with 2.6 kernels.

I haven't tried NdisWrapper yet either, never have used it. Anyone
have any experience, suggestions or thoughts?

Thanks,
Brian

Michael,

This problem could be a known DHCP bug which occurs when two
different connections are attempting to use DHCP (i.e. wireless and
ethernet cards).  I had this problem on my Dell Inspiron 4150 laptop
(Dell 3C920 Integrated Ethernet Controller and Intel PRO/Wireless
2200BG card) running SuSE 9.2.  The caveat (although I don't think
this matters) is that the numbering is reversed--my ethernet card is
eth0 and my wireless card is eth1.  I could only get eth0 to connect
to the internet, even if I tried to "force" the wireless connection
(i.e. no ethernet cable connected and sitting right next to my
wireless router).  :)

How have you verified that the card doesn't work?  Are you watching
the start up messages (i.e. assignment of an IP address to eth0 and
eth1) or trying to surf the internet?  I couldn't get an IP or use
the internet when trying to use my wireless card BUT I could
successfully ping another live IP address with it.

If this is your problem, the solution is easy and is described at:
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/10/multi_dhcp_client.html

Briefly, as superuser, you have to add the following line to the end
of the file /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan-id-XXXXXXXXXXX:

DHCLIENT_PRIMARY_DEVICE=yes

Then you have to type "rcnetwork restart" and you should see an IP
address now assigned to the appropriate connection(s).  If this
works, you shouldn't have to type "rcnetwork restart" again the next
time you reboot.

Also make sure your other settings are correct.  My file looks
roughly like this:
##############################################################
BOOTPROTO='dhcp'
MTU=''
REMOTE_IPADDR=''
STARTMODE='auto'
UNIQUE='QOEa.9LS7U1W0872'
USERCONTROL='no'
WIRELESS_AP=''
WIRELESS_AUTH_MODE='open'
WIRELESS_BITRATE='auto'
WIRELESS_CHANNEL=''
WIRELESS_DEFAULT_KEY='0'
WIRELESS_ESSID='INSERT_CASE_SENSITIVE_NETWORK_NAME_HERE'
WIRELESS_FREQUENCY=''
WIRELESS_KEY=''
WIRELESS_KEY_0='INSERT_YOUR_WIRELESS_KEY_HERE'
WIRELESS_KEY_1=''
WIRELESS_KEY_2=''
WIRELESS_KEY_3=''
WIRELESS_KEY_LENGTH='128'
WIRELESS_MODE='Managed'
WIRELESS_NICK=''
WIRELESS_NWID=''
WIRELESS_POWER='yes'
WIRELESS_WPA_PSK=''
_nm_name='bus-pci-0000:02:03.0'
DHCLIENT_PRIMARY_DEVICE=yes
##############################################################

I actually work on multiple wireless networks (home, work, etc.) so
I keep separate backup files with the name appended (i.e.
network_name.ifcfg-wlan-id-XXXXXXXXXXX) so I don't have to change
the key and essid everytime.  When I switch to a new network, I copy
the appropriate file to ifcfg-wlan-id-XXXXXXXXXXX and type
"rcnetwork restart".  Not that hard.

I haven't found any software which dynamically searches for and
tries to configure wireless connections like Windoze has.  I read
there maybe something in the new Gnome desktop, but I'm a KDE fan.
If anyone knows of a tool that does exist, by all means please clue
me in!

Hope this helps,
Michelle Gill


-- In linux-dell-laptops@yahoogroups.com, "michaelzhao12"
<michaelzhao@c...> wrote:
>
> --- In linux-dell-laptops@yahoogroups.com, Haedn Thorn
> <lordhaedn@y...> wrote:
> >
> > --- Chris Worley <chrisw@l...> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > The $19 driver at linuxant.com seems to work well.
> > > There's an Open
> > > Source NDIS wrapper too, but I haven't tried it.
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 14:18, michaelzhao12 wrote:
> > > > I have a Dell Latitude 600 Laptop (D600) with a
> > > wireless B card (model
> > > > is Intel Pro Wireless 2100). Before, I had SuSE
> > > 7.2 Pro edition. It
> > > > didn't get onto to the Internet. The answer was
> > > because it did not
> > > > have a driver. For Christmas, I just got SUSE 9.1
> > > Pro edition. I
> > > > installed it promptly hoping the laptop will get
> > > onto the Internet. No
> > > > such luck. YAST recognizes the card and installed
> > > the drives, but I
> > > > don't know why it will not work.
> > > >
> > > > I have a Broadcom driver as well (wired) on eth1.
> > > The wireless card is
> > > > on eth0. The card works fine on my Windows XP Pro
> > > Partition. Just not
> > > > on SUSE 9.1. I love everything about SUSE 9.1, I
> > > really don't want to
> > > > use Windows.
> > > >
> > > > Please help me so I can experience Linux better!
> >
> > http://ipw2100.sf.net ... Linux Native straight from
> > Intel .
>
>
>
> I already have the driver though.

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 06:49 pm, Brian wrote:
> I have an Inspiron 4000 and a Netgear MA401 pcmcia card. I used to
> run Fedora Core 1 and I had it working, I think using the external
> pcmcia_cs package (can't remember for sure how).
Package is for the pcmcia card only
>
> I've now installed Fedora Core 3 and have set up the card with all
> the correct settings, and Fedora seems to have detected it and
> everything looks good, but no connection. I have not tried the
> external pcmcia_cs with Core 3 yet, reading the documentation seems
> to indicate that it won't work with 2.6 kernels.
Wireless works with 2.6.x kernels. I'm currently using 2.6.9 and a Belkin
wireless card with success.
>
> I haven't tried NdisWrapper yet either, never have used it. Anyone
> have any experience, suggestions or thoughts?
I used ndiswrapper and was able to get the wlan0 working in about 30 minutes
using the instructions in the wiki.

I use a debian system.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
>
>
>
>
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>

Hello, all.
     I'm trying to install a redhat 9 in my computer but the solution
of Xwindows is only 800x600. I downloaded the 855patch from internet
and ran it. The result is:
i855GM chipset found
If you get a segmentation fault, call: /usr/sbin/855patch 32000 nocheck
BIOS currently knows of 480 kB of VideoRAM
Successfully setting size to 32000 kB

But when I enter Xwindow again, the solution is still 800x600 ! ! !

The last few sections of my XF86Config is:

Section "Device"
         Identifier  "Videocard0"
         Driver      "i810"
         VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
         BoardName   "Intel 855"
         VideoRam    32768
EndSection


Section "Screen"
         Identifier "Screen0"
         Device     "Videocard0"
         Monitor    "Monitor0"
         DefaultDepth     24
         SubSection "Display"
                 Depth     24
                 Modes   "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
         EndSubSection
EndSection


Section "DRI"
         Group        0
         Mode         0666
EndSection


       Thank you very much. Your help will be highly appreciated.

Wow... i just installed this and got a tingly feeling in my no-no spot..

After 2 months of searching this really seems to be the distro for me
(and i suggest other newbies check it out).

OK so it's only been on my machine for about an hour however had no
problems with the basic build using the latest release candidate.

* Wireless: My 1300 wireless using the kwifimanager that is built in
(no playing with ndiswrapper).  works flawlessly.. even with wep.
* Comes with cd/dvd burning apparel however i haven't had the chance
to check it out.
* The nvidia fx5200 video works
* Installation was almost too easy.
* Haven't looked at the dial modem (I don't use it)
* Boots up and down clean.
* Debian based (so nice package manager)
* Useful packages pre-installed.

alrighty.. just wanted to share ;-)

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On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 17:13 +0000, linux-dell-laptops@yahoogroups.com
wrote:
>       6. Inspiron 7000 easiest Linux to install
>            From: "Nick Braybrooke" <nickbraybrooke@...>

> Message: 6
>    Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:46:39 -0000
>    From: "Nick Braybrooke" <nickbraybrooke@...>
> Subject: Inspiron 7000 easiest Linux to install
>
>
> Hi, I am new and wanted ask some questions. 1. What is the easiest
> Linux to install in an I7000 so I can learn Linux? 2. I am installing
> a wireless LAN at home does Linux support this capability?
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> ________________________________________________________________________


Based on my recent limited experiences with Live CD's on my Dell
Inspiron 2650 laptop, I would say, though a long time Mandrake user
since v. 6.5, that for a true beginner, anything but a Live CD for first
use and learning is now totally obsolete, and especially so if the
beginner has fast Internet and can download the iso's, then burn the
image into the CD.

Live CD's use Ram, assuming you have enough, not HD, to load and run
software, so one need not install the Distro to use it, Windows need not
be affected, though some Live CD's can easily be installed if you like
it.  Allegedly if you find a good Live distro for your machine, it is
possible to connect to the Web, even print and run wireless without
installing.  Some do offer the capacity to store your configs on floppy
or even the HD, so you need not re-type the entire cheat code.

After downloading the iso image, also get the md5sum from the same
source, though you might have to look for it a bit. Md5sum is an
algorithm, sort of fancy check sum to verify that your file is correctly
downloaded.

If you are using a Linux machine, md5sum path filename.iso <enter> for
your downloaded file gives you a lengthy number. IF it is correct, your
download is good.

On Windows, google for md5summer.ex and download it, it produces a
mini-window for handling md5 sums.

I assume most know how to burn a CD, do be sure to burn as an image, or
you end up with a big file on a CD that will not boot. This is a common
error that smart people make.

After you burn the CD, I do not know how to md5sum an entire CD in Win,
but in Linux, it is md5sum /dev/cdrom and the result should be the same
as the file itself.If not, don't use it, burn again.

To run a Live CD, assuming you can boot from your CDROM, install your
Live CD in the CD drive, and boot.  If you have several live distros,
one or more should boot for your machine and find most hardware, except
dial-up winmodems. Well, some will even find the lucent chips, but many
others will not be set up. And, some claim to find external modems, I
don't know if this is true or not.

The more Live CD's you download, the better your chances of finding one
which will handle the particular combo of hardware in your machine.

When you boot, you get a boot: prompt, and depending upon your machine,
you need to type different "cheat codes".  Example, on some distros, it
will hang probing SCSI devices, so reboot with  boot: linux noscsi

Other cheat codes allow you to set monitor freqs, and install certain
modules, if the distro cannot figure it out.

First on my list of recommends is Kanotix. On his forum, Kano himself is
likely to answer your questions if he has time. What a great guy. Many
of the multiple-distro geeks have said Kanotix is the easiest to
install.

When I booted it on my Dell Inspiron 2650, it came up nicely, with a
default selection of boot cheats supplied for select and enter, and
voila, I had solid connection via the NIC to my daughter's Cable
Internet with the included browser. It identified and claimed to set up
my HSF modem with Smartlink-Softmodem package, but it did not really.

I was impressed with the default nv video, Mandrake 9.1 took me two days
to get video working on this Dell, so automatic selection in Kanotix was
delightful. I could not get Kanotix to run video on an old Compaq with
Sis530 video.
***
Others:

Knoppix 3.7  (Knoppix was apparently the pioneer of Live CD's though we
had live floppies some years ago. I don't think I have tried 3.7 but 3.4
did work on the 2650.

LiveSlax 4.2.0  Worked on my machine.

Linuxpcos Xorg version -- did not work on my video.

Linuxpcos Nvidia version -- did not work on my GEforce video.

I did not take time to see if I could make them work, which is highly
probable, it is just too easy to toss a 20 cent CD aside, and use one
which works.
***
LinEx  This one is from Spain, is in Spanish, and the standard linux
applications have unusual and original names. Province Extremadura
several years ago did a study how to keep bright young folks at home.
The decision was made to develop a special distro to be used by all in
the province. Money was budgeted, and local programmers were hired to
develop and maintain the distro. They are also paid to develop special
apps not available, such as medical and agricultural progams. I think
recently the provincial government has announced that there will be no
more funds for MS software, unless a special case is made for some
special need. (e.g.-- AutoCad or Inventor 8 could be examples of special
needs that cannot be met in Linux.)

I kept trying and since they have no mirrors, I kept getting a 20 hour
download prediction. Finally, at a family memeber's house, I got a 10
hour download, and got a good burn on LinEx.

I think I had to cheat noscsi and did not have access to the Internet,
but a lot of the stuff worked. I did note the desktop icons did not want
to work, but the Gnome menu did activate icons.
***
I also downloaded SimplyMepis; Ubuntu Warty, and Knoppix-STD (security
and hacker stuff as well as a distro).  Alas, the Flexwriter  CD writer
with Nero 5 on her machine made good copy of LinEx, but then the next 8
attempts produced bad CD's, thus it is important to verify your
downloaded files and CDs, there are a lot of begs for help with CD's
that don't work. So tomorrow I will visit another daughter, and download
those three again, directly to my Linux 2650 which with K3B has never
written a bad CD yet.

There is a Mandake Live CD as well, though I have not downloaded it yet.

The big advantage of LIVE is that you can find one which works on your
machine, without all the work of installation just to see if it will
work on your machine. It is very frustrating to spend some considerable
time installing a new distro and then find it is going to take many
hours or days to make it work because of some quirk in your machine and
differences in distros.

Live Rocks.
***
I don't know if the Development stuff is included to let you add
software from tarballs, I will check later when I have time, but most
distros are based on a common distro, and you can download their
packages if you decide to install the LIVE CD. By memory,  I think
Kanotix and Knoppix are Debian based so you can download almost any free
debian app; fear not, if this is wrong, someone will let us know.

There are instructions available from Knoppix to let you mount the .iso
file as a loop back file, and access it to add or delete software to
customize your own CD. I made a Live floppy several years ago using
Martin's Mandrake, which was a text mode only distro on two floppies. I
wanted dc, the hundreds-of-digit Reverse Polish calculator program for
linux. LiveSlax and LinEx both include it.  I recently did a calculation
for a forum which involved an answer with 965 digits to the left of the
decimal point, and 5000 to the right. Anyway, on the floppies, I got all
the information from LINUX FROM SCRATCH, and I suspect that still works
on CD .iso's as well.  I do not yet know how to compress the files to
fit 2GB into one CD. One thing at a time.

Hi,

Under Linux, I can do:
setpci -d 8086:3340 08.b
and get:
03
According to
ftp://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/specupdt/25348802.pdf
(page 6), this means I have the "A3" "Stepping" (and
cannot get 333 MHz memory performance).
Does anyone out there get, as page 6 indicates, "21"
(or higher) which would indicate the B1 stepping (or
higher)???

I know several other people with other Dell laptops
(i.e. Inspiron 8600) which uses the 82855PM chipset.
and lspci on all of them, even though they are less
than 6 months old, have the rev "03"

Does anyone know how to get this detail chipset
revision info under windows? (To facilitate
communications with windows people:)
Note: I've seen a post from a year ago on another
board that someone though that the processor "Stepping
Mask" that the Sandra software reports under CPU and
BIOS info was the revision of the chipset; I believe
this is completely incorrect; it's the stepping mask
for the processor (which may just happen to look like
a valid revision for the chipset)

Thanks,
Ron


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Does anyone know of an easy way that one can turn on and off the
touchpad so that when you are typing on the keyboard you can't
accidentally bump it?

Unloading and reloading the touchpad driver/module might be one possible
method, does anyone know a better one?

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> method, does anyone know a better one?

You can disable the touchpad in the BIOS but it is not a better method!

Alex.

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Hi
i am building a 2500, as i have been buying parts on ebay, but i m
short the lcd (a 14.1") and the motherboard. I was wondering if anyone
had one or both of these around, if so, I would be interested in
buying them.

On Fri, Jan  7, 2005 at 12:17 (+1300), Smbawhisky wrote:


> Does anyone know of an easy way that one can turn on and off the
> touchpad so that when you are typing on the keyboard you can't
> accidentally bump it?

> Unloading and reloading the touchpad driver/module might be one possible
> method, does anyone know a better one?

There is a driver for the touchpad which you can download the source
for, which gives you far more control than the regular touchpad
driver.

I used it for a while, but on my hardware (a D600) there were some
issues.  (The D600 uses an Alps glidepoint, which, compared to the
cheap touchpad model on my I8K, is a piece of crap... I never knew why
some people hated touchpads so much until I got the D600.  Now I am
unfortunately aware of where their feelings come from.)

I don't recall what the issues were, but IIRC the driver was a bit
flakier than the regular one.  I have problems on this D600 where
mouse clicks are occasionally generated while I am typing, even though
my hands are no-where near the glidepoint.  (Generally when this
happens one of the letters was missing... not my idea of a good
trade.)

The touchpad driver version I was using is synaptics-0.13.5; maybe
there is a newer version, I haven't checked in a few months.

Cheers.

				 Jim

I used ndiswrapper to get my card working.  I had some trouble
because I used the rpm (for fedora) but it did not install correct.
I was not aware of that problem and could not figure out why it
wouldn't work.  Finally I took the rpm out and did the "make
install" option.  Once it was in correctly, It worked great!!  Since
I use Fedora I had a few items to update - the info was on the
distribtions page on the "wiki" site for ndiswrapper/sourceforge.net
info.  Kinda hard to locate.

Once I had the correct install, I was up and running in less than 5
minutes.  Most of that was just double checking my settings and
finding out that the card will recognize itself if it is ejected and
reinserted.

Have fun experimenting!