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RE: [PLUG] Help installing to VAIO SuperSlim...
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http://orion.chem.vt.edu/i8000/
Look there. Should help.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org [mailto:plug-
> admin@lists.phillylinux.org] On Behalf Of William Shank
> Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 4:07 PM
> To: 'plug@lists.phillylinux.org '
> Subject: RE: [PLUG] Help installing to VAIO SuperSlim...
>
>
> can someone tell me how to disable pcmcia probing? that is the exact
> problem
> i have with mandrake 8.1, it get's to the configuring pcmcia devices
> screeen
> and locks up.
>
> thanks
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Nocks
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Sent: 10/19/01 9:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Help installing to VAIO SuperSlim...
>
> I downloaded the "jogdial" applet off of sourceforge. It works OK. I
> can't
> even download Windows 2000 drivers for the thing. I'm running with the
> stock
> kernel from Mandrake 8.0 on my Vaio Z505 (2.4.3 I think? - I'm on my
> desktop
> at the moment. And the notebook is packed up in the car for a weeklong
> triip).
>
> The only goofy thing I had to do to get things loaded, besides what's
> been
> mentioned so far, is to disable probing PCMCIA when booting for the
> initial
> install. I think the install kept getting a panic until I did that. And,
> that
> was with an external Sony DVD-ROM drive (which is mostly an overly
> expensive
> CD-ROM drive under Linux for the moment).
>
> Good luck,
> -Jason Nocks
>
> On Friday 19 October 2001 04:45 pm, you wrote:
> > damn sony. nice little laptops but they're pretty proprietary. do
> you
> > have a little wheel on the lower right part of the keyboard? i found
> out
> > there are drivers for that too under kernel 2.4.10.
> >
> > sure, we can get together to install off the sony cdrom sometime.
> next
> > week? how did you end with a non-sony cdrom?
> >
> > stephen
> >
> > -- My name is not leroy
> >
>
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