--- In linux-dell-laptops@y..., Stephen Lau <slau@u...> wrote:
> What does fdisk report your partition geometry as?
>
> -steve

I don't know I can't get back into the partitioning part of the
installation. Windows fdisk does not report any problems. Is there a
way to use linux fdisk before you begin the installation process?

>
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 12:24:13PM -0000, Don wind wrote:
> > I'm installing RH7.1 on my internal 48Gb hard drive. I started of
by
> > partitioning the drive in Red Hat, as follows:
> >
> > hda1   450MB              os2 hidden c      /s2d
> > hda2   10GB               Win32 FAT LBA     /mnt/windoze
> > hda3   20MB               Linux             /boot
> > hda4   the rest of drive  Extended Partition
> > hda5   768MB              Linux Swap
> > hda6   the rest of drive  Linux             /
> >
> > Then I installed Win Me on hda2. Then when I tried to install RH
7.1,
> > it halted before I got to the partition screen with the following
> > error:
> >
> > An error occurred reading the partition table for the block
device
> > hda. The error was:
> >
> > Partition(s) do not end on cylinder boundary
> >
> > This occours because the drive geometry detected by the Kernel
used
> > by the installer is different than the drive geometry used when
the
> > drive was partitioned. This can be corrected by specifying the
drive
> > geometry on the kernal command line when booting the installer.
> >
> >                                                 Skip Drive?
> >
> > I've never seen this kind of error before. I don't even know what
> > syntax to use on the kernel command line, and what information
it's
> > looking for. Anyone seen this error before? Any suggestions on a
> > better way to get RH installed? Did I do something wrong? Thanks
in
> > advance for any help.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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--- In linux-dell-laptops@y..., "Sergey Gribov" <sgribov@y...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Did anybody succeded to connect i8000 S-video to the TV?
> I've tried to do it, but it seems that there is no signal... :(
> I have i8000 with ATI RAGE 128 card and Debian linux.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance,

Sergey,

I tried mine about a month ago but it didn't work either.  I have
the same experience as you (no signal).  I've never tried it under
windows.  I'll be watching this thread to see if anyone else
responds because I would like to use the S-Video/Composite out.

Frank

Glad to hear it's working now... :)

You might need to recompile PCMCIA to match your 2.4.7 kernel.. the
sources are at http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net

cheers,
steve

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 08:21:36AM -0000, kjones@... wrote:
> Stephen,
>
> thanks for your time on this.
>
> Well - I don't believe this - I upgraded to the 2.4.7 kernel and
> resume now works!
>
> The only thing that doesn't happen is that the PCMCIA card is not
> restarted, do I need to do something particular to start the card and
> the eth0 interface (popping out and pushing back in the card is works
> fine BTW),
>
> Kevin Jones
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
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> FAQ: http://www.whacked.net/ldl-faq
>
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>

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On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 09:57:00AM -0000, Don wind wrote:
> I don't know I can't get back into the partitioning part of the
> installation. Windows fdisk does not report any problems. Is there a
> way to use linux fdisk before you begin the installation process?

Yes, boot off your install CD and tell it to load a rescue system, this
will run a live system off the CD, and let you run fdisk on the hard
drive.

cheers,
steve
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--- In linux-dell-laptops@y..., Stephen Lau <slau@u...> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 09:57:00AM -0000, Don wind wrote:
> > I don't know I can't get back into the partitioning part of the
> > installation. Windows fdisk does not report any problems. Is
there a
> > way to use linux fdisk before you begin the installation process?
>
> Yes, boot off your install CD and tell it to load a rescue system,
this
> will run a live system off the CD, and let you run fdisk on the hard
> drive.
>
It won't boot into rescue mode. It locks up running anaconda.

--- In linux-dell-laptops@y..., Stephen Lau <slau@u...> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 09:57:00AM -0000, Don wind wrote:
> > I don't know I can't get back into the partitioning part of the
> > installation. Windows fdisk does not report any problems. Is
there a
> > way to use linux fdisk before you begin the installation process?
>
> Yes, boot off your install CD and tell it to load a rescue system,
this
> will run a live system off the CD, and let you run fdisk on the hard
> drive.
>
I was able to boot into expert mode. Fdisk does not report any
geometry errors

on 8/7/01 6:02 PM, Stephen Lau at slau@... wrote:

> As far as I know, Linux doesn't catch S2R in any way at all - the
> notebook bios takes care of everything... there isn't really anything
> you can do under Linux to control S2R.

A possibly related problem i'm dealing with for s2d on my I3800 (Mandrake 8)
is that when i attempt to Suspend to Disk, the BIOS responds that the s2d
partition already has an unrestored session. I know this isn't the case
because i wiped and initialized the partition myself.

Any suggestions?

AjD
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OK thanks, I'll try that,

Kevin

--- In linux-dell-laptops@y..., Stephen Lau <slau@u...> wrote:
> Glad to hear it's working now... :)
>
> You might need to recompile PCMCIA to match your 2.4.7 kernel.. the
> sources are at http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net
>
> cheers,
> steve
>
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 08:21:36AM -0000, kjones@d... wrote:
> > Stephen,
> >
> > thanks for your time on this.
> >
> > Well - I don't believe this - I upgraded to the 2.4.7 kernel and
> > resume now works!
> >
> > The only thing that doesn't happen is that the PCMCIA card is not
> > restarted, do I need to do something particular to start the card and
> > the eth0 interface (popping out and pushing back in the card is works
> > fine BTW),
> >
> > Kevin Jones
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > Please post your X config files in the group links or database
> > FAQ: http://www.whacked.net/ldl-faq
> >
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http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
> >
>
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On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 01:46:01PM -0400, Art Delano wrote:
> A possibly related problem i'm dealing with for s2d on my I3800 (Mandrake 8)
> is that when i attempt to Suspend to Disk, the BIOS responds that the s2d
> partition already has an unrestored session. I know this isn't the case
> because i wiped and initialized the partition myself.

You might try using mks2d or phdisk (whichever one is relevant to your
system/bios) to reinitialise the partition... I'm not entirely sure, but
that's probably what I would try.

cheers,
steve
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hey don,
	 i just noticed there's an XF86Config.clone file in the files
section that someone uploaded that purports to have TwinView working in
Linux... you might try that configuration.

	 and on that note - has ANYONE at all been able to get dual-head
working on the ATI card under Linux at all?

cheers,
steve

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 12:31:12AM -0000, don wrote:
> Does the I8k with Geforce support TV/SVIDEO out? (windows or linux)
> I have possibly a unique I8k? It came from the factory with the ATI
> 32M, I ordered the GeForce and added it later, so It has the
> tv/svideo port and the geforce, but I didn't see anywhere in the
> geforce drivers to enable the tv(windows) (possibly twinview?)
>
> PS has anyone heard any news on when a new geforce driver release
> might happen?
>
>
> --- In linux-dell-laptops@y..., Rich Pinkall Pollei <whraven@w...>
> wrote:
> > > Did anybody succeded to connect i8000 S-video to the TV?  I've
> tried
> > > to do it, but it seems that there is no signal... :( I have i8000
> > > with ATI RAGE 128 card and Debian linux.
> >
> > I have the same chipset and problem, and haven't had the time to
> > pursue the matter.  Under W2K (I have triple boot setup --
> > DOS/W2K/Linux), the S-Video port has to be enabled via the ATI
> > drivers' Advanced Setup menu, and the requirements are non-
> intuitive:
> > The S-Video shows up in the menu as an external monitor, and you
> have
> > to remember it's not in the same place as the `normal' external
> > monitor entry, and it only works if you properly select
> > primary/secondary displays.
> >
> > I don't use it much, and I'm quite pleased with everything else
> about
> > the machine.
> >
> >
> > Rich Pinkall Pollei
> > ---
> > "...one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
> > lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
> > their C programs."
> > -- Robert Firth
>
>
>
>
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>
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I know this has been talking about before, but I have a I8k with the nvidia
card and it won't play DVD video.  I get the pretty blue screen (with xine)
and then sound in the background.  Is this a driver problem?? 'cause I have
this exact same setup on my desktop and it works fine, but on the laptop it
won't work.  I also tried the latest tars of xine which check for libXv at
compile I believe yet when I run the program it says...can't find any video
output devices or something along those lines.  Basically I'm asking, has
ANYONE gotten dvd playback (full or non-full) screen to work??

I've got about a 7 hour car ride to vegas in an hour or so and I REEEEAAAALY
want DVD playback w/o installing windows =)

Thanks in advance,
Joseph

Hi all,

For a number of days I've been trying to get X working on my new laptop
i8k
The highest resolution that the laptop can handle is 1400x1050
I have installed redhat 7.1

I already downloaded the latest drivers from nvidia.
I also followed their installation instructions
When X is started, it seems like there is a synchronization problem
In the /var/log/XFree86.0.log-file I can find no errors

In this mailgroup I found a number of new model-lines. I tried them, but
it is still not working.

Is there somebody with a similar configuration that can send me his/hers
XF86config????

Thanks in advance

Maurice

I am running a dual boot system, Win2K and Debian
Linux with at 2.4 kernel on a Dell C600. On the Linux
side, when I log out of KDE as a user (it hasn't
happened yet as root), instead of returning to the kdm
login screen, the LCD screen S-L-O-W-L-Y goes black,
fading from the botttom center in a semi-circular
pattern up to the top. The system is frozen at this
point--even when using an external CRT I cannot switch
the display back to it--so I have to shut down the
system manually and keep my fingers crossed that
nothing fatal has happened to my hard drive.

Is the problem with X? I have tried every XF86Config
file that I can find on this list and elsewhere.
Perhaps the problem is that it is a very new, 1GHz,
C600, and one of my friends with one claims that my
display is nicer than the one on his 750 Hz machine,
so I should be using a different configuration? Or is
X fine and should I be submitting a bug report to KDE?

If this has happened to anybody else (or if you know
what to do about it even if it hasn't), please let me know.

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What video configuration do you have?  Have you disabled DRI?

-steve

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 10:23:54PM +0100, J. Ashley Burgoyne wrote:
> I am running a dual boot system, Win2K and Debian
> Linux with at 2.4 kernel on a Dell C600. On the Linux
> side, when I log out of KDE as a user (it hasn't
> happened yet as root), instead of returning to the kdm
> login screen, the LCD screen S-L-O-W-L-Y goes black,
> fading from the botttom center in a semi-circular
> pattern up to the top. The system is frozen at this
> point--even when using an external CRT I cannot switch
> the display back to it--so I have to shut down the
> system manually and keep my fingers crossed that
> nothing fatal has happened to my hard drive.
>
> Is the problem with X? I have tried every XF86Config
> file that I can find on this list and elsewhere.
> Perhaps the problem is that it is a very new, 1GHz,
> C600, and one of my friends with one claims that my
> display is nicer than the one on his 750 Hz machine,
> so I should be using a different configuration? Or is
> X fine and should I be submitting a bug report to KDE?
>
> If this has happened to anybody else (or if you know
> what to do about it even if it hasn't), please let me know.
>
> ____________________________________________________________
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this seems to be a driver problem  - the only way to get video
playback at the moment is to use something uses software rendering.

--- In linux-dell-laptops@y..., jtersch <jtersch@v...> wrote:
> I know this has been talking about before, but I have a I8k with
the nvidia
> card and it won't play DVD video.  I get the pretty blue screen
(with xine)
> and then sound in the background.  Is this a driver
problem?? 'cause I have
> this exact same setup on my desktop and it works fine, but on the
laptop it
> won't work.  I also tried the latest tars of xine which check for
libXv at
> compile I believe yet when I run the program it says...can't find
any video
> output devices or something along those lines.  Basically I'm
asking, has
> ANYONE gotten dvd playback (full or non-full) screen to work??
>
> I've got about a 7 hour car ride to vegas in an hour or so and I
REEEEAAAALY
> want DVD playback w/o installing windows =)
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Joseph

unsubscribe linux-dell-laptops

Hi,

I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 with NVIDIA Geforce Go2 and
ActionTec MiniPCI combo card and installed SuSE 7.2 on it.

Unfortunately I have troubles with the built-in ethernet.
In 10Mbit mode it works fine. But with 100Mbit transmitting
data last terrible long.

Due to this problems I bought a noname PCMCIA ethernet card
with a tulip chip.

I put the built-in ActionTec in 10Mbit mode and run a firewall
on it for the case I am away on business and run the PCMCIA card
in 100Mbit for the in house network.

But here is the problem: As long as the eepro100.o driver for the
built-in ActionTec is loaded, the PCMCIA card is also terrible slow.
It has the same troubles.

ifconfig says that there are no lost packages.

I found out, that booth ehternet cards use irq 11. When I remove the
eepro100.o driver the PCMCIA card works. Thus this it seems to me that
the eepro100.o driver handles that shared irq wrong.

How can I force the PCMCIA card to use a different interrupt?
(disabled kernel PCMCIA support and use the pcmcia-cs-3.1.27 package).

How can I convince the built-in ActionTec to work in 100Mbit mode?

Best regards,

Franz Hollerer

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Hi,

I have a Inspiron 8000 with NVIDIA Geforce Go2 with SuSE 7.2 on it.

I installed the driver from NVIDIA. But they have some known bugs.
e.g. the X server must not be restarted otherwise the system crashes.
Unfortunately that is exactly what kdm does.

Is there I way to use the original XFree86 drivers? Does someone
has an example config file for it?

Best regards,
Franz Hollerer

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Usually we don't have kangaroos.

jtersch wrote:
>
> I know this has been talking about before, but I have a I8k with the nvidia
> card and it won't play DVD video.  I get the pretty blue screen (with xine)
> and then sound in the background.  Is this a driver problem?? 'cause I have
> this exact same setup on my desktop and it works fine, but on the laptop it
> won't work.  I also tried the latest tars of xine which check for libXv at
> compile I believe yet when I run the program it says...can't find any video
> output devices or something along those lines.  Basically I'm asking, has
> ANYONE gotten dvd playback (full or non-full) screen to work??
>
> I've got about a 7 hour car ride to vegas in an hour or so and I REEEEAAAALY
> want DVD playback w/o installing windows =)

Same problem here :-( I hope it works with the news driver Nvidia is
about to release.
But I can play DVDs successfully with xine when using XShm, though not
in fullscreen mode. You can also try ogle.

Juri

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      then each of us now has two ideas.

Franz Hollerer wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a Inspiron 8000 with NVIDIA Geforce Go2 with SuSE 7.2 on it.
>
> I installed the driver from NVIDIA. But they have some known bugs.
> e.g. the X server must not be restarted otherwise the system crashes.
> Unfortunately that is exactly what kdm does.

Check how kdm is started on your SuSE system. I had the same problem on
my RedHat system and had to change the following line in /etc/inittab:
x:5:repawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
to read:
x:5:once:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

> Is there I way to use the original XFree86 drivers? Does someone
> has an example config file for it?

No, AFAIK even XFree 4.1.0 does not support the Geforce2Go.

Juri

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      then each of us still has one object.
   If each of us have one idea,   and we exchange them,
      then each of us now has two ideas.

Franz Hollerer wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 with NVIDIA Geforce Go2 and
> ActionTec MiniPCI combo card and installed SuSE 7.2 on it.
>
> Unfortunately I have troubles with the built-in ethernet.
> In 10Mbit mode it works fine. But with 100Mbit transmitting
> data last terrible long.
>
> Due to this problems I bought a noname PCMCIA ethernet card
> with a tulip chip.
>
> I put the built-in ActionTec in 10Mbit mode and run a firewall
> on it for the case I am away on business and run the PCMCIA card
> in 100Mbit for the in house network.
>
> But here is the problem: As long as the eepro100.o driver for the
> built-in ActionTec is loaded, the PCMCIA card is also terrible slow.
> It has the same troubles.
>
> ifconfig says that there are no lost packages.
>
> I found out, that booth ehternet cards use irq 11. When I remove the
> eepro100.o driver the PCMCIA card works. Thus this it seems to me that
> the eepro100.o driver handles that shared irq wrong.
>
> How can I force the PCMCIA card to use a different interrupt?
> (disabled kernel PCMCIA support and use the pcmcia-cs-3.1.27 package).
>
> How can I convince the built-in ActionTec to work in 100Mbit mode?

Hmm, I also have the built-in ActionTex with the eepro100 and no
problems at all. Maybe your switch/hub doesn't do the autonegotiation
right?
Check with mii-tool what it reports.
Also what kernel are you running? Here it works with 2.4.7.

Juri

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      then each of us still has one object.
   If each of us have one idea,   and we exchange them,
      then each of us now has two ideas.

I want to install Linux Mandrake 8.0 on my Inspiron 8000 but I can't
find the file mks2d.exe mentioned in FAQ on the Dell site. Where can I
find this program?

Raymond Laia

> I'm running Redhat 7.1, (2.4.3-12) on a Dell latitude CPi R400GT and
> every now and again get a "spurious interrupt 7" error message
> (usually during the boot process).  I also see the ERR's in
> /proc/interrups increasing.
I also have this problem at my Inspiron 5000e with SuSE Linux 7.2
(and had this with older versions as well).

It seems for me, that the LPT-port sends interrupts and the linux kernel
does not know anything about this port.
I switched off the interrupt of the LPT-port in the BIOS and the message
disappears.
Now I have other messages about interrupt 5 :-)
They disappear when I load the module for the soundcard...

I think this is a general problem, when linux got interrupts from parts
which it doesn't know about (yet).
But I'm not 100% sure.

with regards,
Matthias

Hi,

my tip is also to buy it... even if 1600x1200 is to high for normal
font sizes, you can still use bigger fonts or change to 1024x768
for software that does not support it (makes the display a bit
unsharp, but still quite okay).
And for the software that supports setting the fontsize, it is the
best display I've ever seen on a notebook.

I think the downsizing is also best for the 1600x1200 display. I am
pretty sure that 1400x1050 does not look so good if downsized.

Marc

--- In linux-dell-laptops@y..., fpm@f... wrote:
> I was worried about the display resolution vs screen size myself. I
> agonized over this and oher brands for a month. Once I decided on
the
> Deill I8K I was still unsure about the UXGA or the SXGA. Could I
> really see the 1600 x 1200? I took my 19" monitor of my desktop and
> set it to the 1600 x 1200 res. I could barely see it.
>
> I don't know why but I ordered it anyway and it is terrific! At
1600
> x 1200 the pictire IS small but is very sharp.
>
> Paul
>
>
> --- In linux-dell-laptops@y..., "Lon" <lfaren@e...> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >     I'm looking into purchasing an Inspiron 8000. The UltraXGA
> > resolution of 1600x1200 sounds cool (wow! big numer!) but in
> reality
> > is that just too much for a 15" screen? I'd love to hear some
> > feedback from some of you who use them. How well does it scale to
> > other resolutions? (1400x1050 for instance).
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Lon

Hi,

> > I have possibly a unique I8k? It came from the factory with the
ATI
> > 32M, I ordered the GeForce and added it later, so It has the
> > tv/svideo port and the geforce, but I didn't see anywhere in the
> > geforce drivers to enable the tv(windows) (possibly twinview?)
> Yes, it has a TV/Svideo out and it works within Windows. I never
tried
> it with Linux though I seem to recall that there is a sample
> configuration in the README from the Nvidie driver.

it seems to me that this is a common problem. I also tried to
use it and even didn't get it to work with Win 2000. I cannot
ad an external monitor and therefore I also cannot use it to
display the video there (as far as I understood, this is how
it should be done under Win2k...)

For that reason I have not even tried to get it running under
RedHat 7.1 with the nVidia 1251 driver.

If anyone has it working - I would also be interested in getting
it working. What am I doing wrong for Windows and what steps
are necessary for Linux?

Marc

Marc Hoeschele wrote:

> > Yes, it has a TV/Svideo out and it works within Windows. I never tried
> > it with Linux though I seem to recall that there is a sample
> > configuration in the README from the Nvidie driver.
>
> it seems to me that this is a common problem. I also tried to
> use it and even didn't get it to work with Win 2000. I cannot
> ad an external monitor and therefore I also cannot use it to
> display the video there (as far as I understood, this is how
> it should be done under Win2k...)

Don't know about W2k - I ordered my I8k with WinMe. It works there.

Juri

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      then each of us still has one object.
   If each of us have one idea,   and we exchange them,
      then each of us now has two ideas.

Hi,

the thing you are probably missing are the entries in the
modules.conf file. Have them not around, but they are posted
on some of the websites around describing how to get the I8K
running under Linux.

I also had the same problems until I somewhere found the
information that somethings needs to be added to modules.conf.
The XF86Config-4 is not enough!

Hope you can find the necessary info now, if not, give me a
message and when I'm home I'll look for them.

Marc

> For a number of days I've been trying to get X working on my new
> laptop i8k The highest resolution that the laptop can handle is
> 1400x1050
> I have installed redhat 7.1

Have also RedHat 7.1 but have 1600x1200. But as I know that there
are also XF86Config files for your screen resolution.

> I already downloaded the latest drivers from nvidia.
> I also followed their installation instructions
> When X is started, it seems like there is a synchronization problem
> In the /var/log/XFree86.0.log-file I can find no errors
Only message is: Can't find screen (or something similar, right?)

> In this mailgroup I found a number of new model-lines. I tried
> them, but it is still not working.

see above - find the modules.conf statements that are essentially
to get it running!

marc

> I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 with NVIDIA Geforce Go2 and
> ActionTec MiniPCI combo card and installed SuSE 7.2 on it.
>
> Unfortunately I have troubles with the built-in ethernet.
> In 10Mbit mode it works fine. But with 100Mbit transmitting
> data last terrible long.

Hmm, I have been using my I8000 with the Actiontec card with
Redhat 7.0 for quite a while, with no problems.

> Due to this problems I bought a noname PCMCIA ethernet card
> with a tulip chip.

I did have autonegotiation problems with a Linksys tulip
based card in my old Sony VAIO.  Make sure you have the
latest drivers, I had to use developmental drivers from
scyld.com to get autonegotiation working properly.

> But here is the problem: As long as the eepro100.o driver for the
> built-in ActionTec is loaded, the PCMCIA card is also terrible slow.
> It has the same troubles.
>
> ifconfig says that there are no lost packages.

What does the other side of the connection indicate?  Are
there any errors shown by "netstat -i"?

> I found out, that booth ehternet cards use irq 11. When I remove the
> eepro100.o driver the PCMCIA card works. Thus this it seems to me that
> the eepro100.o driver handles that shared irq wrong.

Or the tulip driver does - hard to say from the description so far.
Is there anything in the logs?

> How can I force the PCMCIA card to use a different interrupt?
> (disabled kernel PCMCIA support and use the pcmcia-cs-3.1.27 package).
>
> How can I convince the built-in ActionTec to work in 100Mbit mode?

I suspect it is working in 100 bit mode, but the autonegotiation is
failing on either the NIC or the switch/hub.  This should result
in errors being detected on at least one end of the connection,
since one side will be operating in full-duplex (and thus not
listening for collisions) and the other side will be in half
duplex and getting errors such as late collisions.

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on 8/9/01 5:11 AM, Sirus Laia at slaia@... wrote:

> I want to install Linux Mandrake 8.0 on my Inspiron 8000 but I can't
> find the file mks2d.exe mentioned in FAQ on the Dell site. Where can I
> find this program?

It should be on the Dell System Disk which came with your laptop, or
downloadable from http://support.dell.com/ (enter using your unit's service
tag code. It's a very useful site for Dell computer owners.)

If your computer's drive has not been formatted or partitioned since it
arrived from Dell, the partition that mks2d would create is already on the
disk, and you won't need the mks2d utility unless you reformat the entire
disk before installing Linux.

AjD
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Hello,
I'm going to purchase a new dell laptop.
Here is the config of the machine I selected

Inspiron 8000 Pentium III 850VT
256Mb RAM
20GB HDD
DVD-ROM/CD-RW Combo Drive
16MB Nvidia Video Memory
Dell 1394 Movie Studio Software
PCMCIA Modem
PCMCIA 10/100 NIC
MS Windows ME
MS Works Suite 2001
Norton Anti Virus 2K

Can you please suggest me if the above config will be ok for linux?

Thanks in advance

Raju