intel ethernet

Hi, I have a compaq presario 1800XL 190 with an Intel Pro/100 S Mobile LAN built in. It's basically as simple as Debian just can't find it. I have the correct device driver installed (installation is successful and I think it essentially knows the hardware is there) but I always get timeou

Gnome/X stuff

Okay, here's what's going down. I've put Gnome on a few ways. First setup I had going I was originally running Debian 2.1, then I went up to 2.2, and downloaded Gnome with apt-get. So it's kind of working fine, but it's also giving me some flak kinda. First of all the whole session save thin

small problems PS

Hi, Another one I forgot: I'm running GNOME with enlightenment, and when I'm in root, the pager (GNOME's pager, I got rid of enlightenment's) displays the icons as if they were programs. Each of these (the link to home and then 3 urls) are called 'gmc'. If I close the programs the icons go aw

small problems

Hi, These are a few easy problems that have got me confused. There are one or two I can't remember the specifics of, but the really simple ones are as follows. 1. Touchpad! In windows it defaulted to no "tap-clicking"... you know, where tapping the pad is taken as a mouse click. Well now it'

upgrading kernel

Hi, I did an upgrade recently just using apt-get --fix-broken dist-upgrade and I figured this would upgrade my kernel as well. Nope. So that's my goal... what do I do to update to the newest kernel Debian's got on their FTP? Also, as a side note, when I upgraded, kbd was held back. I used dp

LILO-rific

Okay, I pretty much get LILO... Here's my deal: Windows in on hda1, Linux is on hda3 (hda2 is a compaq backup, and hda4 is Linux Swap). What I want to have happen is that when I start my comp without any boot floppies or CDs, I have the choice to load Win or Lin. I would like Win as default, a

LILO/Boot floppies

I upgraded my Debian system today, so the kernel is the newest Debian's got up, but since I'm booting off a floppy right now, I'm still loading the old kernel. I'm still a little stuck on getting LILO working. I'm dual-booting Linux and Windows, and I chose Windows as default from hard disk.

configuring X

X is a big meanie :-) Okay, well actually it's my own inability to configure my video properly (I *think* that's what's going on at least.) So my setup: I'm using Debian 2.2. I just did a full upgrade of whatever Debian's newest of everything is, so I'm not quite sure what version of X I've

ppp problems

Hi, I'm not sure if I sent something to this effect already, I've tried a few lists and I kind of lost track (does anyone ever use debian-isp? I haven't gotten one message from it yet) so I apologize if you've already heard this. --- Begin Message --- Hi, I've been having manymany problems with

wvdial

Hi, The story thus far: I'm using Debian 2.1. I loaded up the ltmodem.o driver and all that's working just perfectly. I linked ttyS14 to my /dev/modem (or maybe the other way around, either way I did it out of a book, so I know it's right :-) The problem is, when I run wvdial, it displays a f

LILO

I could not ask this one more ignorantly :-) How do I make LILO work, or what prompt would I see if it were? When I installed Linux, I set it to boot from hard drive (making win defaul, however) and also made a boot floppy. I'm stuck using the boot floppy because I don't know how to choose Li

Configuring Mouse in X

Hi, I just installed all the files for X Free 86 3.3.6 onto my system, and I'm having a little trouble (ironically). While I'm quite sure of how to get my card and monitor up, I can not get my mouse to work at all. I have a Compaq Presario 1800XL 190 Laptop, which uses a touch pad for mouse co

Help with installing X

--- Begin Message --- I'll try to give as much information as I can. I'm using Debian 2.1, it came with X 3.3.2 or something around there I *think*. I know for a fact it's older than 3.3.6. Anyway, I'd like to install 3.3.6. Apparantly for 4.0.1 (or whichever the newest stable release is,