From hsundt@uswest.net Tue Jan 26 20:03:34 1999 From: hsundt@uswest.net To: users@lists.opensuse.org Subject: [SuSE Linux] LINUX on Laptops: Sound & pcmcia Modem Configuration Status Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 12:03:34 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1269505565444820994==" --===============1269505565444820994== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable LINUX on Laptops: Sound & pcmcia Modem Configuration Status For Linux to "take" as an Operating sysytem the basic needs of laptop=20 computers must be met. This means internet connectivity. (And sound=20 card operation!) Many lists ceaselessly return to the problems of diald, pppd, dial up=20 connection failure, and failure of modem functionality. There still remains a badly defined series of steps involved in=20 getting a Laptop pcmcia modem operating using S.u.S.E Linux 5.3. I=20 want to put you together with two others that may help resolve the=20 problem. First there is the "Linux/XFree86 on the Gateway Solo 2500 Webpage" http://www.fatcatlabs.com/lapto= ps/solo2500.html> run by jcarpenter(a)sfresearch.com Whilst Sound-card operation is secondary to me, he boasts this is a=20 solved problem. QUOTE: Sound Support for the NeoMagic Here is the update! Thanks to Myles for paying more attention to my=20 friends than I do, we have sound! Download the latest copy of=20 OSS/Linux and configure as follows: First, set PnP OS to "NO" in the BIOS, and take note of your=20 sound settings under Integrated Peripherals. Using the install program coming with OSS, select the Generic Yamaha OPL-3SAx=20 (YMF715/YMF719) non-PnP. Take the defaults OSS assigns to resources. Change to the directory you installed OSS to and=20 edit the devices.cfg file to read: /SECUREAUDIO OFF /IRQEXCLUDE 3 4 /DMAEXCLUDE 2 -opl3sax#Generic Yamaha OPL3-SAx (YMF715/YMF719) non PnP OPL3SAX ON P530 I5 D0 d1 (Didn't work for me originally=20 cuz I had D1 d0) OPL3SAMPU ON P330 I10 OPL3 ON P388 Run soundon from there and you should be good to go. If your settings=20 differ (these are the manufacturing defaults), make the mods as=20 needed. Let me know if you need any help with that. Thanks Myles!!!!! :UNQUOTE But my primary problem is internet connectivity. If you can't connect=20 to the internet you can't get those updates that reportedly make=20 everything work, you can't get or send e-mail, in other words, you're=20 out of business. The first problem to overcome is the pcmcia card configuration. I=20 quote an e-mail to the suse linux list: QUOTE: Subject: [SuSE Linux] PCMCIA module for Panasonic KXL-D740 CD-ROM Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 12:23:33 -0500 Am attempting to install SuSE 5.3 on a Sony 505F laptop. Have booted from a floppy and need to recognize Panasonic CD-ROM KXL-D740 . (DejaNews tells me the Panasonic SCSI card is based on QLogic CSE chip set.) When I attempt to load PCMCIA modules, it finds i82365 chipset and asks for "Parameters for PCMCIA core modules." I have no idea what to enter. f I leave it blank, system freezes. Can anyone help? :UNQUOTE My first install I made modem connection intermittently. I would have=20 to dial 5-8 times before a connect would catch, and then no matter=20 how many places I configured my modem speed to 58600 or whatever, it=20 would only be 2800. After my second install, both minicom and kppp=20 lock up when trying to access modem. So I review procedures. #1.) Remove "lock" from /etc/ppp/options #2.) Enter dial up provider's internet adress and name in /hosts.resolv #3.) Make certain /dev/ttys0 is ln -s to /dev/modem #4.) Made certain ppp is indeed installed, and diald is installed.=20 (TAST can bypass this). References: Linux PCMCIA Information Page:=20 http://hyper= .stanford.edu/HyperNews/get/pcmcia/home.html> PCMCIA Card Services Download: ftp://hyper.stanford.edu= /pub/pcmcia> The XBF NeoMagic X Server from RedHat: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/XBF> - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <= A HREF=3D"http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/http://www.suse.com/Suppo= rt/Doku/FAQ/> and the archiv at htt= p://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html> --===============1269505565444820994==--