Laptops :: Gray Screen Freeze

Newbie here, trying to extend the useful life of an HP Omnibook 150Mhz, 32Meg Ram, 2 gig HD. Updated the Bios but won't boot from CD so downloaded the floppy boot and coppied the files to a Knoppix directory on C: Have booted up and will run through the auto detect of hardware but freezes on a gray screen with a bold x. Tried entering "dsl xmodule=vesa" at the boot prompt and "dsl xmodule=vga" but still stops at the same blank screen. Anyone have any ideas that will help get beyond this hang-up. Thanks in adavance.
KB

fb800x600 at boot always works for the correct video on my old laptop.

maybe look at the other boot options (F2?)

scour these forums. There is a TON of stuff in here...and many have successfully loaded DSL on these old laptops.

Good luck

Thanks Panama. That got me to the desktop. Now just need to get the Linksys PCMCIA wireless card working. I am "scouring" as we speak.
Thanks again,
KB

if you have it in at boot, it should work right off the bat.

Unless its a prism3 chipset. Never seen one of those work.

SaidinUnleashed,
It is a Linksys Wireless-B Model#WPC11 ver. 4. Reading elsewhere I've learned that with the gold stripe over the pins means it is a cardbus not a PCMCIA eventhough that's where it goes. Still trying to confirm the chipset. Either way it is not recognized on boot.
KB

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