[wplug] install fest

Zachary Uram netrek at gmail.com
Fri Nov 12 18:58:45 EST 2004


hi!

i'm new to the list and haven't yet been to a WPLUG meeting.

i saw on the website there will be install fest tomorrow at CMU campus
at Newell-Simon Hall at 10am - is this still going to happen? what room?

i have Dell Latitude C600 laptop

i have wireless card and NIC in it but at home i just have dialup access.

apparently this machine has the NIC and PCI modem on the motherboard
and i tried getting the modem working (3Com Mini-PCI) with my Knoppix
disc but my attempts at using setserial failed :( lspci -v shows that
the NIC and PCI both have IRQ of 11 and the modem is port 0xd000 so i
entered those arguments in setserial but the OS hanged when i did
that. the modem works fine in Windows though.

on my old desktop machine i was able to get a PCI winmodem working.

i dont have CD burner so i was wondering if someone could burn me the
install CDs for Debian woody (stable) or sarge (testing)? i can pay
for costs of the media.

also my laptop battery won't hold charge so will there be grounded (3
prong) power outlets at install fest?

regards,
zach


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