Re: Debian install for beginners?

2002-03-08 Thread James Mayer
> Weird. Is it a laptop CPU? or underclocked? Laptop CPU. Intel's developer documentation agrees with you, though regarding the desktops... -- Excellent day for putting Slinkies on an escalator.

Re: Debian install for beginners?

2002-03-08 Thread James Mayer
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:05:29AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > "Karl E. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [snip] > > Hardware: > > - Motherboard. Carbon-16 didn't work, so it must be old. > > - 133 MHz Pentium (probably MMX) > > Probably not. I believe 166 MHz was the slowest Pentium-M

Re: dh-client setup problems

2002-02-23 Thread James Mayer
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 02:18:20PM -0500, Ayman Haidar wrote: > most cable providers authenticate based on either the MAC address of > the NIC or by setting up the host name. in the commented > /etc/dhclient.conf file there is some entries for both. uncomment the > apropriate ones and try again. I

Re: DHCP and debian

1999-05-26 Thread James Mayer
Joel Keating wrote: > > What is the settting that allows you to set the hostname on the client? I > run dhcpcd on my linux box on a Win network, and my dhcpc always sets my > hostname to dhcpc1. Where is this seting you are talking about i've been > trying to find it for weeks. > Hi Joel, I a