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lap

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Posted: April 05 2006,17:22

I have a acer 3023 laptop with dsl 2.3 on a usb pendrive..

my problem is that my wireless pcmcia card:Netgear WG511T(atheros chipset) doesn't work.
it doesnt even show up in the cardmanager

is the problem with the pcmcia slot or the card?
it does work in other linux distros..

im a bit new to linux so i tell me if you need more info to understand
my probem..

help would be greatly appreciated..

mmullers

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Posted: April 10 2006,15:36

Hi,

Any luck yet? I'm running a Netgear MA511 and I had a heck of a time getting it to work. Works great now, as usual, now that I have figured out the problem (I've often been called the master of the obvious).

My Netgear worked with some older Linux distributions, then stopped working when I tried an upgrade to SuSe 9.2. After much Googling, I found that my particular laptop bios had an incompatibility with the 2.4 kernel, and I had to start inserting the boot cheatcode PCI=ASSIGN-BUSSES. This is the only way I can get it to work with DSL (and many other distributions). However, the Netgear works fine on the same laptop with distributions that use a 2.6 kernel.

You might check lspci and see if your card is even showing up; I guess from your post it isn't. If you need help with that, let me know.

By the way, I even had trouble using the same cheatcode when booting the DSL 2.3 CD, but after I created the DSL for my pen drive, I added it to the command line options during USB install. All works fine now.

Let me know if I can be of any help, I'm not an expert, but I've been a Unix user for a very long time, and a true Linux convert for over 3 years. I may have some small bit of wisdom I can impart to help you.

mmullers@yahoo.com

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Posted: April 12 2006,14:52

Hi mmullers,

I have a Sony Vaio PCG SR33 laptop and intend to use a PCMCIA wireless card with it once I have frugal installed DSL on it. At the moment I am still struggling with partitioning my drive.

I had to use a cheatcode "pci=off" in order to boot with DSL cd on this laptop. I am curious if you know anything about what this cheatcode means (since you mention about another similar cheatcode pci=Assign-Busses). While this cheatcode boots fine, I get a message somewhere while booting "modprobe: modprobe could not locate module block-major-2." I am wondering if this might cause a big problem in the my laptop's normal functioning. Would you know anything about this?