On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 15:02:48 +1300 Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thought that I would post my results after finally getting Debian > running on this laptop. You may recall last that week I asked the > list about the tricky dicky NIC "XH7912": > > I installed Debian 30r1 from CD and got the PCMCIA "XH7912" NIC > working after that. Once that was running I used apt-get [update | > install] to get what I wanted. > > Indeed the Dick Smith "XH7912" is a Realtek 8139C. The drivers I > downloaded for it on the DSE website were too difficult to compile - I > don't know why, there were include problems. Basically, the DSE > module was too hard to compile (even though the instructions were very > specific I think they were well out of date) and not even required > because the 8139C has kernel support. This is common in the dse downloads, often they are only an (old) copy of something already in the kernel. Useful pointer to the right module though... > > I newly compiled a 2.4.23 kernel to support the 8139C and the maestro3 > sound card. It was far easier in the end to compile in the 8139C > driver than try and work out /etc/pcmcia/config and friends. I'm > still coming to grips with Debian's module configurator. Compiling the > kernel let me fine tune and learn what I could and couldn't do without > for a laptop. APM even seems to be working (once I took ACPI out of > the kernel since only APM is supported in BIOS). Remarkable. sounds a lot like my Gateway Solo 5300, apm works, maestro3 sound, lucent modem. > > The most impressive thing I've seen for linux is the support for > lucent modems. The people who maintain this should be heartily > congratulated. The installer that I used (ltmodem-8.26a9), although a > command line utility, was very easy to use and provided lots of > information through the install process. Not only that but it > installed itself and worked first time without me having to change > anything (except "chgrp dip /dev/ttyLY0" and add myself to the group > "dip"). > yeah this is great isn't it. on gentoo it is just "emerge ltmodem", but I have also compiled it like you did on debian. > I've had quite an adventure with the sound though... I've fluctuated > between having the maestro3 compiled in or as module. I can't get > xine to play sound perhaps because I've mucked up the installation... > see next post. > > Best, > Michael. > >
