Re: Question about wireless support

2005-03-28 Thread Jeff Smith
--- Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 12:29 -0500, Numberwhun wrote: > > Hello! I am just curious if anyone here has had any > experience with > > using wireless cards with Linux? I have one of the > Linksys pci cards > > that holds one of the pcmcia wireless (802.11b) ca

Re: TODAY: Symposium on Current Trends in FOSS Movements

2005-03-28 Thread Jeff Smith
thanks for the report (& post to Groklaw). Overall great wrapup. Did you get to the other talks? My comments below (IANAL, recognize you're just reporting, etc) - --- Bill Sconce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's encouraging that these messages (all of the messages > at this > conferenc

Re: Monitor Question

2005-03-28 Thread Paul Lussier
I may well have a pair of these connected in a dual-head display. Ping me at work tomorrow, and I'll check. -- Seeya, Paul pgp69B3UndlBC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Knoppix (was Re: Custom live CD)

2005-03-28 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:03:49 -0500 Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Knoppix is great... I always bring a few copies of Knoppix with me to installfests. Additionally, when I teach my Linux class at Northeastern, I also bring Knoppix. -- Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Boston Linux and

Laptop power bricks (was: Dell laptops)

2005-03-28 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:29:23 -0500, Michael ODonnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fire hazard! I have an Inspiron 7500 with one of the > affected units (I always did think it got a little > toasty) ... I've seen recall notices, at one time or another, for laptop power bricks from Dell, HP, IBM,

Re: Custom live CD

2005-03-28 Thread Ted Roche
On Mar 28, 2005, at 1:45 PM, Donald Leslie {74279} wrote: I need to create a bootable CD for a diskless laptop. Instead of booting intothe desktop it needs to start with a menu of choices . One of these will be the desktop. Don: I'm not sure what you're looking for. Are you looking for more info

Re: Dell laptops (was: Knoppix)

2005-03-28 Thread Michael Nolin
--- Michael ODonnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Debian runs great on my Inspiron with 128Mb but > SLES9 refuses to load because it's decided that > isn't > enough memory. I found the single config line in > the > SLES9 booter CD where that limit is set so I assume > I could re-burn it with that cons

Monitor Question

2005-03-28 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
Does anyone out there have a Dell E173FP LCD monitor? I just got a 2nd flat panel, and it is slightly different then my first (Dell E171FP). I can't seem to get the X settings quite right for it, so my dual monitor setup is driving me crazy. If it matters, my card is an NVidia GForce 440 MX dual he

Dell laptops (was: Knoppix)

2005-03-28 Thread Michael ODonnell
Just FYI, speaking of hosed-up Dell laptop adapter HW: https://www.delladapterprogram.com/Main.aspx Fire hazard! I have an Inspiron 7500 with one of the affected units (I always did think it got a little toasty) so I signed up for a replacement adapter thru that site in October of 2004 - th

Re: Knoppix

2005-03-28 Thread Derek Martin
On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 02:58:18PM -0500, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote: > On Monday 28 March 2005 02:03 pm, Derek Martin wrote: > > Only tangientially related to this... > > > > While I was in Korea, my old Dell laptop experienced catastrophic > > failure (well, what REALLY happened was the power cabl

Re: Knoppix

2005-03-28 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Monday 28 March 2005 02:03 pm, Derek Martin wrote: > Only tangientially related to this... > > While I was in Korea, my old Dell laptop experienced catastrophic > failure (well, what REALLY happened was the power cable got caught on > something, forcefully yanking it out of the power receptacle

Knoppix (was Re: Custom live CD)

2005-03-28 Thread Derek Martin
On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 01:45:32PM -0500, Donald Leslie {74279} wrote: > I have tried KNOPPIX 3.7 and 3.7 which both offer 2.6 kernels. I have > had a number of problems in trying update the KNOPPIX copied to a local > directory. Only tangientially related to this... While I was in Korea, my old

Custom live CD

2005-03-28 Thread Donald Leslie {74279}
I need to create a bootable CD for a diskless laptop. Instead of booting intothe desktop it needs to start with a menu of choices . One of these will be the desktop. The others will start an X application a a specified remote machine. I have started looking at KNOPPIX . Remastering is not simple