Laptops :: PCMCIA help on a toshiba laptop

Hey, thanks for the advice. I will look at it tonight. Im am still running the live cd, I didnt want to install it till I got the bugs worked out.

I tried a knoppix 3.8 live cd, and it detected the pcmcia card fine, but it was slooooowwwwww! I even booted it using fluxbox, which was better, but still, the apps were just to heavy for this machine.
I think if I pick up a 128mb upgrade, I may be able to run the knoppix on it.

I'm going to try to get this fixed is dsl first though, Ill post here if it works or not. Thanks again!!

The contents of the main startup script in Knoppix and DSL (/etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig) are different. In my case, Knoppix fails to set up my CompactFlash card in its PCMCIA adaptor, where DSL succeeds.

LiveCD and HDinstall both have their benefits. In your case, it sounds like you intend to run DSL/Knoppix/whatever on a single specific computer - this is clearly a case for HDinstall.
I suggest you go right ahead and install both Knoppix plus DSL, as long as you have a minimum 4G hard drive. You can multiboot them.
Once installed to hard drive (and DMA enabled) DSL will load and run fast. And as long as you configure a swap partition, you won't even need a RAM upgrade.
Then you can try the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts tweak ... and if it doesn't work, no harm done. At this point, you could consider deleting the existing PCMCIA section in the startup script - it's around line 400, and paste the Knoppix variation to replace it.

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