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Maybe firmware or driver isnt loading on boot, if you give us some more output about you device we could give more feedback about the problem.
Like output for iwconfig, did you tried use the DSL panel to configure it?

Regards

You need the system DLS in a media that you can use to boot it, CD disk or pendrive, you can burn the iso image into an CD or you can install the system in an USB drive or pendrive there are several software in the net to set up a pendrive.

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If you could post some error output is the kind of information that can help others to help you, so far the info you gave don't help much.

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Greetings

This is one great distribution aimed to old hardware and I hope this will stay with the same philosophy. There is a lot good old hardware around the world not been used probably because people don't know what to do with it or what to system to install.
A lot changed and it does change fast in the computer and software universe, so much changed since DSL 4.4.10.
There is so much new things going on, new options to some old ones and I know software here must be small and fast.
There are some really light weight stuff available that would give a new punch to DSL.
About the window manager, well Fluxbox isn't that lightweight, check this link: http://incise.org/not-so-tiny-window-managers.html , DWM is another pretty small window manager and goes in the tilling family of WMs fairly used now days.
Also same thing about the xterm: http://www.calno.com/evilvte/
About bash, DSL is based on Debian i believe which is now using Dash smaller and faster.
Firefox is the second option browser in DSL but today the new ones are a lot bigger and not sure if any of it can fit in the 50mb, there are others today:
http://twotoasts.de/index.php/midori/
http://tkhtml.tcl.tk/hv3.html
http://surf.suckless.org/
http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
Dillo still the best small fast browser in my opinion.
Well the list of things I could think about just go on and on so to make it easy for John and anyone else developing here some links with list of some software that could be good addition:
https://harbhag.wordpress.com/2010/07/02/best-lightweight-applications-for-linux/
http://kmandla.wordpress.com/software/

He he, naming a WiFi chipset "AirForce One", my respect for Broardcom just went up some small ammount.

Anyway, I posted a description of this process a while ago:
http://damnsmalllinux.org/forums/index.php?topic=315.0

Try to follow that if you can.

Hello Penguins,

I have successfully installed DSL on my old Sony VAIO laptop. Now trying to get the WiFi PCMCIA card to work. I checked Control Panel > WLCARDCONFIG and get "no wireless network card found". But when I go to Control Panel > SYSTEM STATS > PCI... I do see "Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] rev 02" on the list. How to I config this?

PCMCIA
-Buffalo Air Station WLI-CB-G54HP (Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] rev 02).

LAPTOP
-Model: Sony VAIO PCG-Z505SX
-CPU: Mobile Pentium II 366Mhz
-RAM: 192 MB (maxed out)
-Cache: 256KB
-Video: NeoMagic MagicMedia 256AV (NM2200)
-HDD: 6.4 GB (noisy). Will be replacing with a CF (Compact Flash) soon.

Thanks in advance

I just did this with and old Sony VAIO that had no floppy or optical.

1.- Pull the HDD out and stick it in another laptop that has a CD/DVD drive.
2.- Follow this guide:
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/f/topic-3-26-18529-0.html

I followed this guide:
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/f/topic-3-26-18529-0.html

Install DSL to HDD on an old:

Model: Sony VAIO PCG-Z505SX
CPU: Mobile Pentium II 366Mhz
RAM: 192 MB (max)
Cache: 256KB
Video: NeoMagic MagicMedia 256AV (NM2200)
HDD: 6.4 GB (noisy). Will be replacing with a CF (Compact Flash) soon.

Now trying to get Wi-Fi PCMCIA card working Buffalo Air Station WLI-CB-G54HP (Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] rev 02).

Lots of 'em.   I like apps that do what they are supposed to and don't waste processing power.

Beaver is my editor of choice, and Nano in a shell, so it's great to see these retained in the new release candidate.     

Would like to see a gxine.dsl for GTK+.  I was able to install Xine.dsl through MyDSL, but this version of Xine has some trouble with fullscreen mode on my Celeron Mendicino machine, while gxine works well in Puppy, on the same machine.   It presumably would also do so (or better) in DSL, so a .dsl extension for that would be nice to see.

No matter what distro one uses, Flash for YouTube will soon be an issue since Adobe is ending Linux support and YouTube will inevitably update its requirements.  Luckily, I have become accustomed to downloading YT vids through KeepVid and such, and playing them back through Xine, or through the DOS DUGL Player which runs flawlessly in DOSEMU.  Perhaps a look at gnash is in order.   It would be nice to see a Linux substitute for Adobe.

Still wanting to script a program to do settings changes for jwm...

I wrote a a script that builds a submenu of that tray button menu on the fly at boot time, though it is not for general changes to the jwm configuration once jwm is started.

Also, another submenu on the tray button menu has items that bring up each of ~/.jwmrc* in in a text editor