Laptops and Mandrake....

[Sek]

Alright, a little background info....I have a Toshiba 2065CDS laptop, and I'm getting the hang of Linux pretty quick, 2 things are tripping me up:

1. My display. Mandrake 7.0 will detect everything fine, but the text will be rough edged and hard to read unless I set my monitor to LCD 1024x768. If I do that, the display is perfect execpt everything is 3/4 off the screen since my display is a LCD 800x600. No matter what, if its set at 800x600 it looks like crap but is sized right, and 1024x768 looks perfect but is giant sized.... :mad:


2. My network card. Mandrake 8.0 detected it and installed drivers, but 8.0 wouldn't even look at my display settings, so it was back to 7.0 for me. In 7.0, it detects a PCMCIA network card is in there but it doesn't have a driver installed, and my manufacturer (its a Linksys EC2T) doesn't want to talk to you if you say "linux", they just point you to a dead FTP link that used to let you download some jerry-rigged third party pseudo driver.


Any help would be appricated...

[mrBen]

Check out this page (http://www.oopdreams.com/toshiba_2060cds/) which was linked from the Linux for laptops (http://www.linux-laptop.net) page. It's for the 2060, but I think it might help a little.

[Sek]

Thanks a lot, I fixed the display issue with the XF86Config on the "unoffical" Toshiba page provided on that site.


However does anyone know where I can get drivers for my network card? Thats the last hurdle between me and a perfectly running Linux system.


Thanks again.

[DMR]

As far as I can determine from a quick Google (http://www.google.com) search, the Linksys EC2T is an NE2000-compatible card. The source files needed to compile the ne2K driver (and instructions) can be found here (http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html).

Hope this helps.

[Sek]

The drivers there seem to be geared toward a PCI card, will that work on a PCMCIA card?

[Sek]

hmmm, I was messing around in netconfig and it has modules for both NE2000 and Tulip (which the Linksys EC2T seems based on) and the card won't initalize with either one. I's entirely possible I'm simply bungling up the process here but it doesn't seem like the drivers are compatible.

[Sek]

Sorry, this got buried and I want to move it up...

[Sek]

So guys, if I upgrade to Mandrake 8.0 (which detected my card before) will it fix my issue? Also, would upgrading over write the config file for my monitor?