AwPhuch
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Posted: Nov. 15 2004,20:21 |
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| Quote (daklander @ Nov. 15 2004,00:08) | Hi guys,
I gotta tell you, this DSL is just what I've been looking for.
The intention is to have it as the OS on a music player computer hooked to a stereo in my garage.
I have an old Packard Bell Multimedia 730 with a Cyrix266 in it. The thing came with 40mb of RAM and it's proprietay and really expensive so I stuck some other ram in there. It only reads the first 32mb so I'm at 64mb and that seems to be enough. The live cd runs fine, speedwise so I found the install and had a go at it.
This box has two small hard drives. The main drive, hda1 is at about 3gig and is running Windows ME. The second drive, hdb1 is the drive I installed DSL on and when Lilo came up I had it set to the hda1 MBR. Everything seemed to go as it was supposed to but upon reboot it just goes right into windows. When checking the drives from windows it shows only about 28mb of space taken on hdb1. Is that right? Does it make a difference if the file format is ntfs on hda1? I think it FAT32 but I won't be able to check until tomorrow. The drive hdb1 was FAT32 and still shows up so apparently DSL loads on a FAT partition? Or, is that the problem? I didn't see a format/partition feature anywhere, is there one? On a HD install should I set up a swap partition on the second HD? I had the live boot place a swap on the hda1 drive, maybe I should just leave it there?
Now, once I get this up and running what is my procedure for getting the AirLink wireless pci adapter (AWLH3025, 802.11g) recognized and funtioning? I didn't see anything about the Airlink during my searches, might have missed it...
At this point I'm not concerned with printers, or any other peripherals because of the intended use. If there's a way to remove the items I don't need, will it make the OS even quicker?
As I said, I'm running Windows ME now and it runs pretty well on the computer, probably because I've stripped it as lean as I know how, but I think if I can get this DSL up and running right I'll be really happy and have a faster, more stable computer with less chance of virus infections. As mentioned, I'll be streaming through the computer to a stereo receiver amp.
Any and all ideas, help or points to the right information will be greatly appreciated. |
NTFS on ME?? HOW? ?? I dont think it is ntfs bud, ME cant read that type of file partition.
It might not be proprietary ram, some older edo ram is classified as 4k refresh ram (you have to have the intel tx chipset for it to use 2k refresh EDO properly, otherwise it only sees 1/2 of the available ram present)
Is this your card?
Drivers
You may have to use Ndiswrapper to get working
| Quote | manufacturer's drivers are at: »www.airlinkplus.com/driver/wireless_do..
searching the web I found Xterasys ( »www.xterasys.com/xn2522g.htm ) sells the same card as the XN-2522G but turns out the drivers on their website are the same March 2004 version.
But I think I may just now have solved my problem. By googling TI wireless g, I stumbled accross a press release indicating that USRobotics cards used the TI chipset, so I went digging on their website and found this driver file "
USR11g_v6.0b14.exe" on the support page for the USR5416 card ( http://www.usr.com/support/product-template.a.. ). I ran the excecutable, and then forced a driver change so that my card is now a "US Robotics 802.11g Wireless Turbo Adapter", using driver USR11G.sys, ver 6.0.1.6 dated 6/28/2004. And amazingly -- it works -- DHCP worked first time. I even cycled my router and computer a couple of times to make sure it wasn't a fluke, and each time it reacquired an address automatically. Looks like problem solved. What would be really interesting to find out is whether my lowly Airlink card can actually handle the 125 MBps mode that the driver supports... I don't have a router to check that with. |
The guys says it uses the same chipset as the US Robotics 802.11g Wireless Turbo Adapter and that led to HERE for linux drivers
Their .dep package is HERE
Good luck bud!!
Brian
AwPhuch
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