Laptops :: Frugal on CF on laptop without CD



Hi all,

First time post (we all have to start somewhere ;)), so please be gentle.

I have an old laptop which has no CDROM, so I can not boot it with the LiveCD.  I am using a CF-IDE adapter and a 256Mb CF card as the harddisk for it, which I installed 'frugally' on a desktop which does have a CDROM.  As the laptop has a wireless card (which can be set up nicely using netcardconfig) I can not 'pre-configure' it on the desktop, and when I add the files from /etc/pcmcia, /etc/network, to filetool.lst the settings remain persistent, however, not at boot time.  After a reboot, I always have to log in locally and run the netcardconfig command to enable the network.  To me it seems that the restore is too late in the start up procedure (after it brings/tries to bring eth0 up).  What am I missing?

I followed the frugal installation guide to the letter (except I use hda1 and 2 instead of 8 and 9), but am now a bit stuck.

Thanks,

Q.
Depends on the wireless card itself,
and what netconfig tool you use to set it up,
to accurately tell you how-to persist thru reboots..

If you use the prism setup,
you'll find a file in /opt called myprism.sh
add that filename to your /home/dsl/filetool.lst,
and backup.

If you use the ndiswrapper setup,
you'll find a file in /opt called myndis.sh
backup the same as myprism.sh ..
remember to save your .inf and .sys drivers too.

If your card is autodetected, and you only need to
activate the netcardconfig via a dhcp connection,
you can add the iwconfig lines to your /opt/bootlocal.sh
file directly, which will execute upon bootup same as
running thru the netcardconfig routine..

Search the forums for iwconfig to see examples..

73
ke4nt
It's an autodetected card (WPC11 iirc), so I'll have a look into iwconfig.  I'm not using DHCP, and I noticed that upon booting it tries to request an IP, so I also reckon I have to add a 'nodhcp' parameter to lilo.  Can anyone tell me if it is ok to add it to the /etc/lilo.conf file and re-run lilo?  The parameters I specified at frugal installation time are not listed in that file, so I'm not sure if that will replace/append it to the existing list...

Thanks again,

Q.

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