Hello all:
Now there was an intelligent title. *Smirk* Ok....system config:
Inspiron 3000
4 gig HD
266(think mmx, not sure)
80 Meg ram
RedHat 5.0 (No I HAVN"T upgraded yet..:)
PCMCIA Card Services...3.0.0? Something like that.
Ok here is the problem. I was in linux about a month ago then the keyboard
broke on this thing. Dell had me ship the entire system back less the
memory, harddrive, pcmcia cards, etc.. They fixed the thing. Now however,
i try to get into linux and it hangs on bootup when trying to load in the
PCMCIA modules. I've re-compiled PCMCIA and re-installed the modules over
the top of the old ones, still no luck. I can boot in with no problem if I
remove PCMCIA services in the startup, however that takes me off the
network. Any initial thoughts on this one? It was working, went back to
Dell for fixing, and came back "broken" nothing on the HD has changed.
Also, I checked the BIOS and it is still set with all my previous
settings...WinDOZ had no problems and didn't detect anything new (I don't
think) when it started up with no problems. Any initial ideas on this one?
Also, semi-servey: If there was a utility out there for an administrator
to make notes to a file (I'm thinking for making system configuration
change notes) would that be useful? Would you all use it? What should go
into it (functionality)?
I've tried myself to keep a system configuration change log, however it it
a pain in the ass to continualy have to go to and edit the file each time I
make a system change. My idea is a short utility that would work something
like this:
sysconflog Recompiled kernel added support for Power Management.
And it would date/time/user stamp a change log and append that statement to
the end of the change log. Does this sound useful? Am I missing
something? Anything else it should do? Suggestions are welcom as I am
looking to write a small utility for this.
Douglas Wagner
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
p.s. If you don't want to post suggestions on the last question to the
list, send to me at above address...thanks..:)
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