RE: NIC identification
If you want to find the vendor of any piece of eletrical equipment and you can find the FCC code on it then go to http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/ and type that number in. Works every time Robin -Original Message- From: Sebastiaan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 January 2001 16:17 To: John Griffiths Cc: Casey Webster; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: NIC identification On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, John Griffiths wrote: > At 11:38 PM 1/16/2001 -0600, Casey Webster wrote: > >if its netware approved you might try the ne2k driver, that thing works > >for a lot of cards with that sticker, also if you can figure out the > >card's MAC address (in the form of xx:xx:xx:yy:yy:yy and often on the card > >somewhere) then search google for a MAC address to vendor converter and > >pop on the xx:xx:xx from the mac addr and it will give you the vendor of > >the card and then you can check thier website for the model number and try > >and figure out what driver to use > > > >-Casey > well the things we learn.. > > any ideas what the MAC might look like? where it may be? It looks like a serie of hexadecimal numbers (xx and yy are he in the example above). It can be found in the card's eeprom(not bootprom), but to get there you should know the cardtype, and that is the problem (I beliove) Greetz, Sebastiaan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
No perl; can't apt-get; need neat solution
I have done something to my box ( I was using unstable for a while and ran out of disk space ), I do not have perl on my box anymore :-( I tried apt-get install perl but this uses /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure which is a perl scrit! So how can I put perl onto this box in a neat way? Robin
gs testing on stable
I need to install gs from testing on my stable system. So I tried:- apt-get source gs --compile This retrieved the files and tried to comiple them but ended with an error on dh_clean. The error I get is:- dh_clean: Sorry, but 2 is the highest compatability level of debhelper currently supported. I searched the internet and found the same problem for another app and the suggested solution is to set DH_COMPAT=2, this doesn't fix it. How do I get gs ( or any other app ) to build neatly from source using apt-get source? Thanks in advance Robin
lpr and pdf
Is there a HOWTO or other guide on how to setup lpr/lpd to be able to print PDF files? Robin
Video camera ( not digital ) to VCD
I need to be able to backup my large collection of home movies to VCD so that I can play them on my DVD player. Has anyone setup a video capture card and scripted it to write to CD? I would like to know how good quality thye results were etc. Regards Robin
RE: cs89x0_cs precompiled?
I have setup these cards and they work OK, I found that they needed ( at least my one ) irq=10 io=0x300 Robin -Original Message- From: Wayne Topa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 May 2001 17:06 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: cs89x0_cs precompiled? Date: Thu, May 24, 2001 at 09:26:55AM -0400 In reply to:Andrew Perrin Quoting Andrew Perrin([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm having trouble compiling the cs89x0_cs module for a recycled IBM > EtherJet PCMCIA card, and wondering if: > > 1.) Anybody has one precompiled that I can pinch (kernel is: > achebe:/src# uname -a > Linux achebe 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown > > stock from potato 2.2r0) > > or, > 2.) Anyone can give me some advice on compilation. I don't have kernel > sources on the laptop (it's an old machine without enough disk space) so > I have to do everything via nfs-mounted directories on my other machine. > > Thanks for any help. I picked a couple of those cards from ComputerGeeks. I had to go to http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/MIGR-4GHMN7.html?lang=en_US&page=brand&brand =IBM+Options%7CEthernet+ to get the info on them as well as the setup utility pgm. As the Geeks said they worked with the ne2000 I tried it and it worked fine. I did have to run the DOS setup util to switch the IRQ. I am not running a 2.2.x kernel so can't help there. I am running potato 2.2r3 with the 2.4.4 kernel .The cs89x0_cs is included in it if you really want to use it. :-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-) -- Real Time, adj.: Here and now, as opposed to fake time, which only occurs there and then. ___
