Gray Screen FreezeForum: Laptops Topic: Gray Screen Freeze started by: krbrock60 Posted by krbrock60 on Jan. 08 2005,02:36
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 Posted by panama on Jan. 08 2005,05:01
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 Posted by krbrock60 on Jan. 08 2005,17:35
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 Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Jan. 08 2005,21:21
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. Posted by krbrock on Jan. 15 2005,03:23
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 Posted by MASSRADIUS on Jan. 16 2005,23:01
Krbrock,If you have any trouble with yours let me know...I got my Linksys wpc11 v4 wireless card working pretty easily. Posted by lostcity on Jan. 17 2005,02:51
Linksys changed the internal workings of their adapters without much warning. Some of the chipsets worked with linux and others don't.
Posted by krbrock60 on Feb. 05 2005,19:18
Quick update. Used "cardctl ident" and received RealTek Rtl 8139. Went to the RealTek website and found the linux drivers for the chip set. Downloaded and unzipped to a floppy. Went back to the Omnibook and ran "sudo cp /mnt/floppy/8139too.c /lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/"Message back was "CP cannot create regular file '/lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/8139too.c' :read only file system" I tried copying the file using the file manager and no luck. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, KRB Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Feb. 05 2005,20:00
well, that is the source code for the driver not the driver itself. you will need to compile it. Posted by krbrock60 on Feb. 05 2005,22:31
OK, did some more reading.Reviewing the Marcel Gagne book, tried the ./configure command and received a "no such file or directory" (I had changed to the /mnt/floppy directory). Reviewed the the readme text again and it states that you can use the included "makefile" included with the package. Ran that and recieved numerous errors: :MAKEFILE LINE 9: RTL_MEM_ACCESS: command not found : " LINE 15: NEW_INCLUDE_PATH: command not found : " LINE 21: MODCFLAGS: command not found : " LINE 25: all:: command not found : " LINE 27: 8139too:: command not found : " LINE 1: CC: command not found : " LINE 1: MODCFLAGS: command not found : " LINE 1: NEW_INCLUDE_PATH: command not found : " LINE 28: -I: command not found The documentation in the README file states to "remember to SPECIFY "NEW_INCLUDE_PATH" in Makefile according to your linux environment." Just not sure what form that should take in the command. I will keep looking for more specific instructions on compiling the source code. This is starting to remind me of my PASCAL days back in high school but it is a whole new world. Thanks again for the help. KRB Posted by krbrock60 on Feb. 26 2005,12:53
OK, now I understand that DSL does't come with a compiler so need to download a different distro on a different machine that I assume would use the same kernel. I did try to use ndiswrapper with the xp driver as suggested elsewhere but still no luck. This card worked under win98 and the power light is on using dsl so I should be able to get this thing working. MASSRADIUS, if you could provide some specific steps on what you did I would be forever in your debt.
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