Quickie response before I go to bed... On Thursday 11 April 2002 03:36, you wrote: <SNIP> > Furthermore, the modern linux seemed to be a hog compared to what it was a > few years ago for such a system as this laptop (although it does support > more hardware and is better designed,
I put Slackware 8 on my HP Omnibook 4000C about 2 months ago. 700 meg HD, 32 megs of RAM (upgraded from 16). It will almost play an MP3 (128, stero) straight :). If I play it mono or down-sample it will play it fine. I'm running Window Maker and it seems to run OK, but I don't over tax it much. > Ok, enough justification. Here are my problems. The laptop has a > PCCARD network card which should be recognized because it is an Etherlink > clone (which one, I forget, but an extreamly old version of debian (like > from 1997 or so) recognized it on another laptop). However, an ifconfig > -a gives me: > No usable adress families found. <SNIP> I knew it would be network trouble... I fought my 3com 10/100 + modem for about a year off and on. I had Windows 95 on the Omnibook and everything worked fine. I nuked the partition and tried to put Slackware 7 on at the time. It went OK, but the 3com NIC didn't work. It detected it, but it gave strange errors at boot up and then no packets in or out. I ended up fixing the problem by editting config.opts (I think.) in /etc/pcmcia and telling it not to use 0x300 for the PCMCIA adapter. It was already taken by the sound card and Linux was freaking out. > > Sincerely, > Christopher J. McKenzie Good luck :). -Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
