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Users / Minimum requirements for (pxe booting) MD ?

« on: July 10, 2008, 11:03:47 am »

Hi all

I am looking to buy an old notebook and to use it as digital picture frame and to listen to audio. Ideally it would be pxe booting. But what I am not sure of is what are the minimal RAM and Processor requirements.

Who knows or has tried?

Thanks
Roberto

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Users / Re: WOL not possible for hybrid?

« on: July 09, 2008, 10:54:22 pm »

i really feel one should first enable wol in the network settings under kde, but can not find anything.
i know for example that on suse linux you have to do additional changes
again: maybe it is not possible to wol a hybrid/core but only a MD
any ideas?
Roberto

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Users / Re: WOL not possible for hybrid?

« on: July 09, 2008, 10:32:58 pm »

no, it does not work what ever i trie.
so should it be possible to wol a hybrid/core anyway?
thanks
roberto

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Users / Re: WOL not possible for hybrid?

« on: July 09, 2008, 10:01:13 pm »

Hi tschak909

Inverted exactly 100% ? from for example 11:44:DD:55:66 i have to input 66:55:DD:44:11 ?
thanks
Roberto

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Users / WOL not possible for hybrid?

« on: July 09, 2008, 09:58:43 pm »

Hi all

I today tried to wol (wake on lane) my hybrid from my ipcop firewall with wake-on-lane and from a linux machine with etherwake, but it did not work. In the bios of the hybrid mb the boot rom is enabled and wake up from pci/pcie events is enabled as well. I tried with the mac of both nics. Its an Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus motherboard.

what could be the problem? is the problem that it is a hybrid? wol from my ipcop firewall otherwise works fine for other machines on the lan

Maybe i do have to modify something in the nic properties under kde desktop? i could not find any settings corresponding to wol.

thanks
Roberto

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Installation issues / Re: " Follow me " function with Wiimote - is it possible?

« on: July 09, 2008, 02:18:22 pm »

Thanks anyway tschak909.
cheers
Rboerto

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Installation issues / " Follow me " function with Wiimote - is it possible?

« on: July 09, 2008, 09:50:10 am »

Hi all

Could not find an anwser to this question in the forum.

Does the "follow me" function work with the Nintendo WiiMote? How? Or how could it be accomplished?

This would be a great functionality for the WiiMote since it also is such a great and cheap input device.
Thanks
Roberto

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Installation issues / Re: " failed to setup X " when md is moved to a tv with s-video connection

« on: July 08, 2008, 06:34:19 pm »

@pigdoc
I could not boot, so i reinstalled and i did not reach the av wizard

@colinjones
the page is very long, what do i have to search for exactly?

thanks
Roberto

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Installation issues / Re: " failed to setup X " when md is moved to a tv with s-video connection

« on: July 08, 2008, 08:06:18 am »

Thanks
That would be on the hybrid or (how) on the MD?
NB: the MD was running with UI2 medium when attached to a monitor via VGA
Roberto

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Installation issues / " failed to setup X " when md is moved to a tv with s-video connection

« on: July 07, 2008, 11:39:44 pm »

Hi all

I had succesfully installed a pxe booting MD on a pc connected to a pc monitor via vga.
When I connected it to a tv by a s-video cable it did hang up during the boot. So I deleted the MD on my hybrid rebooted and tried to reinstall this pxe booting mde (still connected by s-video to the tv). Unfortunately it now stops sayig " failed to setup X ". I am not 100% sure but I think the patch cable should be 100 MB/s in speed (but if it was 10MB/s, would it be the problem?)

Any ideas or pointer for me
I would really apreciate
Thanks and cheers
Roberto

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Installation issues / Re: Wireless bridge using Linksys WGA54G Game adapter

« on: July 07, 2008, 10:31:20 pm »

Hey, thanks for all that input ! I did not expect that much, I will look into this,but it will take time as I am not relly familiar with linux still

Will update this
Thanks and cheers
Roberto

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Installation issues / Re: Old notebooks - no nic, how to set it up , maybe eaven with (wirelss) pxe boot ?

« on: July 05, 2008, 09:56:24 pm »

Hi and thanks for the hints.

On this list http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/WLAN/Karten I have fount Netgear WG511T  pcmcia wireless adapter to be working from Ubuntu 7.04 on. And I have it at home! Together with a Netgear wgt624 v2 Wireless Router.
Looks good so far. But now, I guess I need the driver to make the adapter work? The problem is that the hd's are too small for an installation (my hd's must be 2 or 4 GB). Maybe ist possible to put the driver (how??) on a cd, boot from the cd so that the adapter is recognized and connect (to start with) without any wireless security to the wlan router?

What do you think?
thanks
Roberto

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Installation issues / Re: Old notebooks - no nic, how to set it up , maybe eaven with (wirelss) pxe boot ?

« on: July 05, 2008, 11:51:33 am »

Hey, I have found this usb ethernet card apparently working with ubuntu: http://www.dlink.co.uk/?go=gNTyP9CgrdFOIC4AStFCF834mptYKO9ZTdvhLPG3yV3oUYl7jqltbNlwaaFp6DQoHDrvzCRA+owIBd4=

Now if this is true, how to make it work for pxe??? Or will I have to install on HD? Cause I think the hd's will be to small for an installation

any ideas?
thanks
Roberto

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Installation issues / Re: Old notebooks - no nic, how to set it up , maybe eaven with (wirelss) pxe boot ?

« on: July 05, 2008, 11:02:26 am »

Thanks for your anwser pigdoc

I am not sure about your anwser. My problem is that these old notebooks do not have a network card onboard. So how do i connect to the lan??
some do have a usb port, some only card bus, all have a cd rom

I have found this list: http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Hardwaredatenbank/Verbindungen#Netzwerk
Where i find pcmcia / card bus network cards compatible with ubuntu, but is this the only bossibility (if at all) ? Cause non seems to be availabel in Switzerland

pigdoc, what ist a grub HDD boot?

Thanks
Roberto

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Installation issues / Old notebooks - no nic, how to set it up , maybe eaven with (wirelss) pxe boot ?

« on: July 04, 2008, 09:11:24 pm »

Hi all

I have  a couples of old notebooks without onboard nic - network cards.

The best I would like to achieve is to set them with wireless pxe boot (maybe I will then only be able to use them as picture frames, but its ok)
Else, I would like to set them up with cabled pxe boot
and last and at least as a cabled md

but unfortunately they all dont have an onboard network card
some do have a usb port, some only card bus, all have a cd rom

I have meanwhile found this list: http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Hardwaredatenbank/Verbindungen#Netzwerk
Where i find pcmcia / card bus network cards compatible with ubuntu, but is this the only bossibility (if at all) ? Cause non seems to be availabel in Switzerland

any ideas?

thanks and cheers
Roberto