What I didn't tell you, and just remembered, was that this computer has an internal modem, that I assumed was fried during a lightning storm, because it no longer worked but was recognized by WXP. And, in a gamble, bought a pc card plug in modem, which wouldn't work until I removed the "fried motherboard modem" in XP Control Panel for Hardware. Then, I disabled the fried modem as XP wanted to add it every boot. Then, XP recognized the pc card modem and configured it and it has worked fine since.
Perhaps the conflict still exists for Libranet 2.8. I've run out of Gui, and have to look to the command line, with which I need help, big time.
How do I find whether the dead internal modem is active or not in Libranet 2.8?
How do I disable the internal dead modem?
How do I find if the pc card Xircom modem is recognized, is active and is configured?
Libranet KPPP does not communicate with the Xircom dialup part at setup. I tried all the options available. LPPP says connected, gives some data which I don't understand, and in about 10 seconds disconnects. How do I get Libranet to recognize the Xircom dialup card? Stay connected?
Why does XP give a dialup noise, and I don't hear any on Xircom? Perhaps it isn't dialing. ping yahoo.com doesn't show any encouragement.
Tony
----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Lordi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Jonathan Drew, Robert Citek, JT Moree, et all. Thanks for the help and comments. I'll answer your questions. As outlined, everything worked on WXP. Xandros was the biggest problem as neither the sound nor the mouse worked on any of the versions, and being command line and keyboard deprived, without a mouse, I wasn't getting anywhere. The live cds I tried(knoppix, Mepis, Ubuntu, and Kanotix were fine but didn't recognize the ES1789Audio Drive WDM audio codecs sound card manufactured by ESS Technology Inc. The mouse is a ps2 nubbin, but I got the same results with a usb mouse with Xandros.
The Xircom pci card is a dual dial up modem and 10/100 ethernet card with two openings, one for phone line and one for cat 5 cable. The dial up side worked with wxp at home and the ethernet side worked with Kanotix at ACLU.
Giving up on Xandros, I installed Libranet 2.8. Libranet recognized the ps2 Psaux mouse so I could get to adminmenu to use the sound card config gui. Failing to configure the sound card
initially, adminmenu guided me to alsa and got an isa es18xx driver from the second cd and it works. The only problem I have now is getting the dialup to work. I think I have a conflict between KPPP and LPPP as my modem isn't recognized yet. I'm working on it.
Tony
--- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Citek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Central West End Linux Users Group" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 8:49 AM
Subject: Re: [cwe-lug] laptops
On May 16, 2005, at 8:12 AM, JT Moree wrote:Anthony Lordi wrote:
| use, my answer is what will configure. I wanted to configure it with a
| live CD, but Knoppix, Mepis and Ubuntu have issues with my laptop, a
| Compaq Armada 7800, P2 233(or 266 as per Knoppix), 144MB, and 6GB. Will
| bring Libranet 2.8, and Xandros 2 for the hard drive. Tony
should have mentioned this yesterday.
Actually, Tony did. A few of us at the far end were throwing out ideas. I tried various modprobes using Kanotix without success. Although the sound card did not work, the internal speaker was wonderfully loud, letting us know whenever we made a typing mistake.
there is a web site for linux onlaptops. www.linux-on-laptops.com
Doh! Of course. Yes, we should have tried that.
IT doesn't have any 7800 laptops but does have some 7700 series. are they anything alike?
http://www.geocities.com/dxn1999/linux_install.html
IIRC, there were two issues: the mouse and the sound. Under Kanotix, the mouse worked, because we were able to open various windows (terminal, Control Center, etc.) Under Xandros (2 and 2.5), the mouse did not work. The sound did not work under any distribution we tried at the meeting (Kantox, Xandros 2 & 2.5).
Tony, what was the model for the sound card?
it would benefit the community to write a page describing your problems and how you solved them (or they aren't solved yet). If you need somewhere to host it I can give you a page on our server.
Agreed. One other success: Tony had an external ethernet adapter from Xircom. I couldn't tell how it was connected, but it worked. Tony, what kind of external ethernet adapter was it?
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