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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers buncha questions from a newbie Post 39277 by Karma on Tuesday 12th of August 2003 03:12:20 PM
Old 08-12-2003
Re: buncha questions from a newbie
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Originally posted by init-5
1) The OS did not detect my Video Card, so I am still in the 640x480 mode, with 16 colors. My Display adapter is "NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go(Sony)", so when I selected the nVidia cards option in the installation of the device driver and then the installation program probed the card, it returned an error. So I had to make do with the generic display settings. What do I do to get a real crisp 1024x728 resolution with something like 32 bit colors or millions of colors?
New GeForce drivers have been a problem for many *nix users. i recommend searching them out on Google. (or sun's site.. or X archives, etc..)
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2) I have a DSL connection (ethernet) and also a Dial-up connection. Any leads as to how to set them up? How and where do I access my Ethernet card from? And how do I configure it? Any leads would be appreciated, and then I can figure out something.
Read a decent tutorial on the configuration of your ethernet devices - there are thosuands of them out there - try google.ca.
Assuming you're using a PCMCIA (or embedded) NON-win-modem, you can probably find some decent tutorials out there... as far as winmodems go, there aren't too many drivers out there, so you might be SOL, depending on how big your manufacturer is.
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ps:- please forgive my "windows" style of addressing certain terms such as "32 bit colors" and "download applications" since I am still to know what they are called in unix.
It's all the same to us. colours are colours, and applications == programs == binaries -- etc.
 

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lspcmcia

PCCARDCTL(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      PCCARDCTL(8)

NAME

       pccardctl - PCMCIA card control utility
       lspcmcia - display extended PCMCIA debugging information

SYNOPSIS

       pccardctl [-V] [-v ...] command [socket]
       lspcmcia [-V] [-v ...] [socket]

DESCRIPTION

       pccardctl is used to monitor and control the state of PCMCIA sockets.  If a socket number is specified, the command will be applied to just
       one socket; otherwise, all sockets will be affected.

       If pccardctl is executed by root, all commands are available.  If it is executed by an unpriviledged user, only the informational  commands
       are accessible.

       lspcmcia is an alias for pccardctl ls, provided for convenience.

COMMANDS

       status
	   Display the current socket status flags.

       config
	   Display  the socket configuration, including power settings, interrupt and I/O window settings, and configuration registers.  --not yet
	   implemented

       ident
	   Display card identification information, including product identification strings, manufacturer ID codes, and function ID  codes.   Not
	   yet implemented for cardbus cards. Use lspci instead.

       info
	   Much  like  the  ident  command, but its output is formatted as a series of Bourne-stype shell variable definitions for use in scripts.
	   Not yet implemented for cardbus cards.

       ls  Display extended debugging information about the PCMCIA sockets and devices present in the system.

       suspend
	   Shut down and then disable power for a socket.

       resume
	   Restore power to a socket, and re-configure for use.

       eject
	   Notify all client drivers that this card will be ejected, then cut power to the socket.

       insert
	   Notify all client drivers that this card has just been inserted.

OPTIONS

       -V     Show version information and exit.

       -v     Increase the verbosity of the ls command.  Giving this option twice increases verbosity further.

AUTHOR

       Daniel Ritz - daniel.ritz@gmx.ch
       based upon the original cardctl man page by
       David Hinds - dahinds@users.sourceforge.net

pcmciautils							    2005/10/22							      PCCARDCTL(8)
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