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Hey, did you get anywhere with your upgrade? I have a 3490CT upgraded to 256MB RAM. The correct chip will be a PC100 MicroDIMMs 128MB module. I got mine from...
terris_of_knappagh
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Feb 20, 2005
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Anyone running Knoppix on a 3490? It is almost certainly the same on a 3480, and probably some of the older 34xx series too. I boot up the from the CD fine,...
C. A. M. Terris
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Feb 20, 2005
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... Never tried Knoppix but I do run Mepis, which is also Debian-based. I never had a problem with the Savage (neither did I on a Thinkpad T23). What sort of...
Thierry de Coulon
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Feb 20, 2005
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Are you booting from a cardbus cd rom or a usb cdrom. if it is a cardbus cd rom is it the original port noteworthy brand one.check bottom of cdrom to see. if...
Kosh
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Feb 20, 2005
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Hi Kosh, thanks for answering my query! I am using the bootable Toshiba CD drive in the Select Bay of the Port Replicator that I got with the 3490. I have used...
C. A. M. Terris
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Feb 20, 2005
10:54 pm
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As far as i know ppl have have no probs with live distros of linux using usb cd rom with the 3480CT. so i gather the 3490Ct wouldn't be much different. ... -- ...
Kosh
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Feb 21, 2005
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Well, I decided to try to use the USB CD drive but I got nowhere this time. It did not boot up at all from this. I was under the impression that select bay...
C. A. M. Terris
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Feb 21, 2005
3:27 pm
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Have you tryed using usb cdrom and booting from floppy? ... -- ... site--> www.kosh101.com ... forum--> www.kosh.tk...
Kosh
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Feb 21, 2005
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btw i know for a fact that the 3480ct can boot up in knoppix using usb cdrom. As i know someone who has done it with thiers. Yea i know they different...
Kosh
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Feb 21, 2005
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I load the CD and startup. Everything boots fine and I get the Knoppix 3.7 startup screen with a prompt. I press enter and startup proceeds through several...
C. A. M. Terris
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Feb 21, 2005
9:12 pm
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I am not sure how I should boot with a floppy. There is only one USB port (as you know, the ultra-portable compromise ...) so I cannot normaly have the floppy...
C. A. M. Terris
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Feb 21, 2005
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Eureka! I finally got it to boot up normally! I found the answer in post 989 from November 2001! For anyone searching: - Enter bios settings by holding down...
C. A. M. Terris
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Feb 21, 2005
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Thierry, I got my 3490 booted up with Knoppix finally (after modifying the PC Card controller in the bios to "PCIC compatible", not the default "Auto-select")....
C. A. M. Terris
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Feb 22, 2005
1:46 am
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YES i have only one usb too but i plug in a port replicator and whammo i have 2 lol. also there are usb hubs. OR buy a pcmcia Usb 2 card :) they can work...
Kosh
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Feb 22, 2005
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Yea you will find that it will do it with all Live distros of linux then just like mine does. It either gets to your point and drops it shell or does kernal...
Kosh
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Feb 22, 2005
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Yes i know how to enter the bios :) hmmm ill check to see if mine is set to the same as yours. I don't enter the bios that much. ... -- ... site-->...
Kosh
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Feb 22, 2005
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ahhh i don't have a mini docking station with cdrom drive for mine, hmmm you could do install now too ) good for war driving wi fi ... -- ... site-->...
Kosh
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Feb 22, 2005
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Hi, didn't seem to have much information, but who knows... http://itsa.ucsf.edu/~pjd/linux/laptoplinux.html i found it via ...
Joao Dias
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Feb 22, 2005
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... Hi! Well sound always was quite bad on the 3110, but it's better on the 3480 I now use and, AFAIK, 3480 and 3490 only have a processor difference. From the...
Thierry de Coulon
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Feb 22, 2005
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hmmm interresting. Mandrake 10.1 and Redhat 8/9 work fine on the 3480ct without the need of audio drivers. I've tryed mepis the live one and no live distros i...
Kosh
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Feb 22, 2005
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Yea australia has a offical toshiba support site for linux users. but i don't recall the url. ... -- ... site--> www.kosh101.com ... forum--> www.kosh.tk...
Kosh
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Feb 22, 2005
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Yea it was this link but australia one. http://linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp/linux/index.htm ... -- ... site--> www.kosh101.com ... forum--> www.kosh.tk...
Kosh
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Feb 22, 2005
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Correction: Using the PCIC compatible setting means PC cards will not be recognised at all. I tried the Cardbus/16-bit setting instead and this works better...
C. A. M. Terris
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Feb 23, 2005
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Anyone have any sort of success connecting to a wireless access point with your linux install. I can create an ad hoc network and see it in net stumbler, but...
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Feb 27, 2005
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I'm writing this from my Suse 9.2 3480CT connected wirelessly and using WEP and in managed mode. Not tried to connect using ad hoc mode though. Hard part in...
Wai
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Mar 1, 2005
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i can't get suse to work on my 3480CT. i have 196mb of ram and it keeps saying in need 256mb min of ram. yet i cant upgrade ram because it has 64mb interigated...
Kosh
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Mar 1, 2005
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... What version are you using. I checked on the web, and requirements for 9.2 Professionnal are given as 128MB, but SuSE entreprise state 256MB. I'd guess...
Thierry de Coulon
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Mar 1, 2005
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I did not get this when I tried to install. I did get ram errors though, sometimes it would crash during the install process or when I changed discs. Not sure...
Wai
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Mar 1, 2005
11:24 pm
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ok what type of cd rom are you using and did you using floppy disks to help you boot? As i downloaded all 5 cd's of Suse Pro (kernel 2.6.8-24 default) I did it...
Kosh
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