I think I talked to you before? Anyway, go with Debian. It really installs the best on the older Porteges. P. ... -- Philip J. Hollenback philiph@... ...
hey guys, i am having the hardest time installing linux on my machine. when i attempt RH9 or Fedora the install does not reconize my PCMCIA cdrom (panasonic). ...
... at least me, i had the same problem and still no solution :( (just from my memories ...) an older (RH7 or 6) worked fine so far. and other distros too. so...
... Assuming you can boot off compact flash. I doubt it though. the other option is ro use fips or partition magic to resize your windows partition, then...
Hi, I've spent the last week (and weekend) trying to get my new Suse installalation, running on my Portege 7020CT, wirelessly enabled. I tried first with an...
... try messing with iwconfig. Often times I had to run iwconfig with all relevant options needed for my wireless setup before it would work. Also if you are...
... I have the dwl-650 running quite happily under rh8.0 on a 3110ct. http://www.wmc.care4free.net/linux-wireless.html There is a teensy bit more to getting it...
... You *probably* need to say: insmod prism2_cs prism2_ignorevcc=1 which is better (I think) put into the modules.conf file. Just insert (anywhere, I think) ...
RH 8.0 installed fine but my 3c574bt card isn't found. When I remove and reinsert it no beep is heard. I've run service pcmcia restart with no success....
I have a Portege 7000CT with Win 98 SE installed. When I boot up the computer only (no docking station), I frequently get an error message - "Insert system...
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You may have a flaky boot sector on the hard disk, boot with a floppy and type in fdisk /mbr At the A: prompt to fix it. I doubt if the jump drive had anything...
Sid, Thanks for the reply. I am not a Windows heavyweight, so I need a little coaching. Can you give some more details for the process you mention below....
It has to be a system disk, made with the bootable system which is installed already, ie Win98. Method 1: Go to Start, settings, control panel, add/remove...
Hi I have debian 2.4 installed on my portege 7140CT. I want to upgrade my HD (just not enough space) - but would ideally like to keep everything i have -...
Stick your drive and the new on on the secodary controller of a Windoze machine and clone it across with Norton Ghost. Even the boot sector will be the same. ...
Greetins all, I just joined the list after having found it from a google search and am hoping that someone might have info on how I go about mounting a cdrom...
Need a Portege DVD dock or would you like an extra one for your dorm, home, office? $1 buck takes it. item=3473729552 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ...
I am having an unusual problem with my Portege 3490 relating (possibly) to APM. While I never had any problem with Windows 2000 on this machine, when I...
You may have a battery problem. It's hard to tell for sure without some "testing", but this is how Li-ion batteries behave when they're on their way out, they...
Sid, Thanks for getting back to me. I think my problem is with the Jump Drive. The boot up problem seems to have occured whenever I unplug the Jump Drive...