... Alex, Thanks much for the info. I've been running gkrellm and it's a nice application. It shows the battery state-- for both batteries if I have the...
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Walter Cazzola
emeth69
Jul 1, 2005 7:22 am
Dear Linux experts, I've just installed a mandriva (mandrake 10.2) on a new inspiron 9300, most of the hw worked out of the box, but I have still few problems...
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ken
gebserisch
Jul 1, 2005 4:33 pm
... You might want to check in the BIOS to see if the "radio" is turned on. You might have a key combo (mine's FN-F2) to turn the "radio" on/off. Also check to...
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Walter Cazzola
emeth69
Jul 1, 2005 4:41 pm
Ken, thanks for the help. ... I have already checked, I have just three options: always off, hw on/off and sw on/off, at the moment is on the hw on/off and...
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ken
gebserisch
Jul 1, 2005 5:03 pm
Fixed a typo in previous post. ... -- A lot of us are working harder than we want, at things we don't like to do. Why? ...In order to afford the sort of...
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Haedn Thorn
lordhaedn
Jul 1, 2005 5:12 pm
... Check out rfswitch.sf.net ... I haven't tried it with my ipw2200 since mine defaults to on, but I think it could get you going....
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Chris Fox
goldandtanza...
Jul 1, 2005 6:13 pm
... Hash: SHA1 One thing Irlandes and I agree on is the excellence of CentOS. Well they recently released 4.1 and I just got around to upgrading my Latitude...
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ken
gebserisch
Jul 1, 2005 7:03 pm
... Well, then that's the basic problem. If you can't turn the radio on, you're not going to be able to use the wireless! Maybe if you set the BIOS to "sw...
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Herman
herman@...
Jul 1, 2005 8:01 pm
The radio should default to on. If it doesn't, then there is something wrong with the driver. When all else fails, try the very latest ndiswrapper and a...
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bruce_marsh
Jul 1, 2005 9:42 pm
I am writing this message on my Dell Inspiron 1150 with the Dell WLAN 1350 Mini-PCI Card. I'm running Knoppix 3.7 booting from the CD. My only problem is that...
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Herman
herman@...
Jul 1, 2005 10:06 pm
Yup - same damn problem over here. The way to fix it is to write a little script and store it and the .inf and .sys files on the USB dongle, then run it after...
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Herman
herman@...
Jul 1, 2005 11:01 pm
Herman wrote: I created a little wup script and got this going: #! /bin/bash ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf modprobe ndiswrapper ndiswrapper -m iwconfig wlan0 mode...
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Herman
herman@...
Jul 1, 2005 11:39 pm
Herman wrote: I created a little wup script and got this going: #! /bin/bash ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5a.inf modprobe ndiswrapper ndiswrapper -m iwconfig wlan0 mode...
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bruce_marsh
Jul 2, 2005 4:30 am
Thanks for the help! -Bruce ... make ... connect...
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Michelle L. Gill
michellelgill
Jul 3, 2005 1:01 pm
The following may not apply to running linux from a boot disk, but I am able to get my BCM4306 card to work on a Suse 9.3 install (not boot from CD) without...
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Michelle L. Gill
michellelgill
Jul 3, 2005 1:10 pm
One more thing, the DHCP line that you add to ifcfg-wlan0 should take care of setting the default gateway and obtainin an IP, if you have DHCP configured. I...
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Herman
herman@...
Jul 3, 2005 6:05 pm
... If the DHCP server is configured correctly, then it will send all the info to the client, including the default GW. So, if you don't receive all the...
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Herman
herman@...
Jul 3, 2005 6:10 pm
... Cool. I basically use Knoppix as a test and debug CD, not as a permanent hard disk installation. Getting the WiFi adaptor to work was more of a mental...
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faithevangelicalchurch
faithevangel...
Jul 3, 2005 8:20 pm
Hey, I'm running Mandrake 10.1 on my Inspiron 5160. Everything is working great, but I'd like to hook up an external monitor. Every time I hook up the...
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Herman
herman@...
Jul 3, 2005 9:30 pm
... That is a hardware switch function. You should be able to cycle between 3 states: a. Notebook screen b. External screen c. Both However, switching is not...
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Christoph Eckert
mchristoph.eckert@...
Jul 3, 2005 10:15 pm
... If you're running the nvidia driver then you can configure X.org for clone or even twin view, which needs manual adjusting of the config file. Best regards...
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Sharon Sudduth
sr_sudduth
Jul 3, 2005 10:54 pm
I'm getting ready to get a new Dell Inspiron laptop. Can anybody tell me the pros and cons of the Dell 1370 Internal Wireless card to the Intel® PRO/Wireless ...
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vishwa
vusharani
Jul 3, 2005 11:04 pm
hi, I am unable to run divx extenstion files in redhat linux. I tried to run with realplayer, but failed. Can you help me, how do i go about it.. Even i tried...
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Douglas S. Oliver
quantumnight
Jul 4, 2005 1:21 am
Have you tried Xine? I don't know whether it'll work, but I now it handles a lot of different formats/codexes. Redhat disables certain programs because of...
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Pawel Drapala
pwdrapala
Jul 4, 2005 1:26 am
Hi, How do I find out what my swap drive is? ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy...
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Douglas S. Oliver
quantumnight
Jul 4, 2005 1:55 am
One way is to use fdisk or cfdisk and use the p option. That will print the partition table. If you use the t option, you can look at the octal values of the...
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Haedn Thorn
lordhaedn
Jul 4, 2005 2:25 am
'cat /etc/fstab' should give a list of automatically mounted partitions. "swap" should be among the list....
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Herman
herman@...
Jul 4, 2005 5:18 am
... /swap Do this: $ su - superuserpassword # mount 'Hope this helps! Cheers, H....
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Pawel Drapala
pwdrapala
Jul 4, 2005 5:46 am
Shan, Thx for posting such a great website. I went ahead and installed FC4 on my 700m. Everyting went smooth acording to your instructions, with one exception....
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Walter Cazzola
emeth69
Jul 4, 2005 7:24 am
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, ken wrote: [BIOS settings] ... right, in fact I would like to turn it on :-((( ... well, from what I read (but it could be wrong) the "hw...
