[Tfug] Re: T30

[David Spitzer]

Ok I got the apt rpm  -- I double click on the rpm and a little bar pops up
for three milliseconds then disappears -- how do you use apt

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Quinn [mailto:ryanq at yournetplus.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 9:11 AM
To: Tucson Free Unix Group
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Re: T30

Personally I much prefer using apt and havent run into any problems like 
this yet.. If nothing else you should be able to upgrade up2date via apt.
http://apt.freshrpms.net/

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Ryan Quinn
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David Spitzer wrote:

>Ok I downloaded the latest up2date from redhat and when I run the commands
>in a terminal window it give me an error for both saying the other is a
>dependency to run. -- Can Redhat make the process and more complicated --
no
>wonder people are afraid to switch from Windows -- any ideas or insights on
>how to get the up2date updated :P
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris Mathis [mailto:chris at campus.azintl.edu] 
>Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 8:07 PM
>To: Tucson Free Unix Group
>Subject: RE: [Tfug] Re: T30
>
>the prism 2.5 driver should work properly for it built into the latest
>kernels i think...
>
>
>Chris
>
>On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 16:33, David Spitzer wrote:
>  
>
>>Harris Semiconductor Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset rev 01
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Harry McGregor [mailto:micros at osef.org] 
>>Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 4:06 PM
>>To: Tucson Free Unix Group
>>Subject: Re: [Tfug] Re: T30
>>
>>do an "lspci" and an "lspci -v" and an "lspci -n", and report them back
>>to the list.
>>
>>IBM has used Cisco internal cards, Lucent Internal, Prism2/2.5 based
>>internal cards, and Atheros based cards, and quite probably broadcom
>>based cards.  The broadcoms are SOL, but the Atheros 802.11a/b/g can be
>>made to work with very little binary glue (due to FCC regs), the others
>>should work quite easily.
>>
>>			Harry
>>
>>On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 15:56, Claude Rubinson wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 02:57:34PM -0700, David Spitzer wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Also has anyone got the built in wireless card to work in an IBM t30
>>>>laptop
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Short answer is that it depends on your card.  Figure out what type of
>>>card you have and you'll quickly figure out if it's supported.  One
>>>resource that you should be aware of is the linux-thinkpad.org mailing
>>>list.
>>>
>>>Claude
>>>
>>>p.s. If you're stuck with a proprietary card, chatter on the list has
>>>been that the NDIS wrapper does a pretty good job.
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