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Re: [PLUG] laptops and Debian
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I don't know if its still there but i know that the pcmcia modules were
out of sink with the kernel in potato. I know from my laptop. I just
dl'd some debs of a matching set and installed them. I just don't upgrade
those packages so i don't know if its fixed or not.
N-Tropy
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Trevor Martin wrote:
> I seem to be having some real problems with running Debian on my laptop.
> Mandrake and Slackware ran fine on it , but when i installed debian (potato)
> my ethernet card stopped working. Its kind of strange , but
> the pc card (a linksys 10/100 pcmcia card) will just stop responding
> and the only way to "wake it up" is to execute "/etc/init.d/networking
> restart"
>
> Whats even stranger is that if i type "route" to list my routing table
> it will hang for about 10 seconds before showing the default route
> which is 192.168.0.1
>
> Just to be sure that it wasn't the hardware, i partitioned the HD and
> installed win98. No probs whatsoever.
>
> Just to be sure that the networking was configured correctly , I
> installed linuxconf and reconfigured everything .... same problem.
>
> Anyone have any idea's as to why this is happening ?
>
> -Trevor
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