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I got it working with the AT&T wireless lan card! I had to download the syslinux version of DSL-1.5 because the regular isolinux wouldn't load completely. The syslinux version loads with no burps and all of the drivers for athos load automatically. All I had to do was plug in the values in the wlan control panel. I also had to set the router to open system for now. I couldn't get it to work with wep or wap yet.
Quote (doobit @ Sep. 29 2005,07:50)
Quote (dare2dreamer @ Sep. 26 2005,15:04)
I got a toshiba 440 CDT here. Added 64 megs of ram, and am planning on converting it over to compact flash sometime soon.

For all the tech toys I play with, I keep coming back to it as the most reliable machine I've ever used. Only thing I had to do was add some modprobe info to bootlocal.sh to get the sound going.


What driver did you need to modprobe for the sound to work?
Thanks!

To get sound working on the Toshiba 440 CDT, you actually have to remove and reload the driver with options for the appropriate DMA, IRQ, etc. I messed around with the settings in bios and managed to get it working with these lines in my bootlocal.sh:

Code Sample

sudo rmmod ad1848
sudo rmmod opl3
sudo modprobe ad1848 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0
sudo modprobe opl3 io=0x388


It throws me one error on startup, which I believe comes from the old driver not working prior to bootlocal running, but it works like a champ.

For the record, I figured all of this out from a former HD install of DSL, where I apt-get updated the sndconfig tool and the newer version was able to spot the card. Once I had it working there, it was simply a matter of sussing out which files sndconfig tweaked in order to get everything working. After that, I tossed them in bootlocal and kissed my HD install goodbye forever.

Email if you need any other help tweaking this little beast. Definitely worth the trouble.
Quote (dare2dreamer @ Oct. 06 2005,01:48)
Once I had it working there, it was simply a matter of sussing out which files sndconfig tweaked in order to get everything working. After that, I tossed them in bootlocal and kissed my HD install goodbye forever.

Email if you need any other help tweaking this little beast. Definitely worth the trouble.

Thank you! Mine seems to be working fine now, excpet for the sound. I'll make those changes later and see how it works.

I was actually thinking about doing the hard drive install simply because the Windows 98 on it is so useless. I could just keep it on the hard drive  and write the bootlocal.sh and backup files to the same partition as  Windows, since DSL reads FAT32.

This computer is in like-new condition. Even the battery holds a full charge. With DSL working so well on it I can't imagine needing to buy a more expensive, or new machine.  The major computer makers should be freaking.
Quote (doobit @ Oct. 06 2005,09:01)
Quote (dare2dreamer @ Oct. 06 2005,01:48)
Once I had it working there, it was simply a matter of sussing out which files sndconfig tweaked in order to get everything working. After that, I tossed them in bootlocal and kissed my HD install goodbye forever.

Email if you need any other help tweaking this little beast. Definitely worth the trouble.

Thank you! Mine seems to be working fine now, excpet for the sound. I'll make those changes later and see how it works.

I was actually thinking about doing the hard drive install simply because the Windows 98 on it is so useless. I could just keep it on the hard drive  and write the bootlocal.sh and backup files to the same partition as  Windows, since DSL reads FAT32.

This computer is in like-new condition. Even the battery holds a full charge. With DSL working so well on it I can't imagine needing to buy a more expensive, or new machine.  The major computer makers should be freaking.

Nah too many Winblows users out there stuck to using their slow and boggy bloatware, thus they need more and more powerful hardware just to run it!

DSL is for the enlightened and the free!

Welcome to the Revolution!!!

Brian
AwPhuch

original here.