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NewDude

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Posted: Sep. 26 2008,02:19

Hey guys, have another question... if we can't figure DSL out and why it isn't seeing the PCMCIA bridge and I need to try another lite flavor of Linux, what others have good support with wireless. I have messed with Puppy linux, but DSL is way better, DSL is the best flavor. It beats out many "heavy flavors".... Puppy didn't do it for me.

Is there any besides puppy? I have tried GoblinX mini and it is cool, but never setup wireless with it, only wired network. Not sure if GoblinX has good support for wireless. DSL is cool to because Roberts and made it easy to do a poorman's install...

Thanks for the info...

NewDude

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Posted: Sep. 26 2008,03:39

"lspci" is:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems CPU to PCI bridge (rev a2)
00:04.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2160 [MagicGraph 128XD] (rev 01)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 02)
00:11.0 Communication controller: Toshiba America Info Systems FIR Port (rev 23)

cardctl ls and cardctl status report:

No PCMCIA drive in /proc/devices/

So... no drives are installed??? interesting....

What do you guys think?

NewDude

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Posted: Sep. 26 2008,03:40

Sorry... cardctl ls and cardctl status reports:

No PCMCIA drivers are installed in /proc/devices/

curaga

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Posted: Sep. 26 2008,10:51

From http://www.gweep.net/~sfoskett/linux/p3010-4.html#ss4.4

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Next, got into the hardware setup (hold down "ESC" on bootup and press F1 when instructed) and change the PCMCIA controller to "PCIC-Compatible".

Go to the BIOS, list all the PCMCIA options there for us, and then try each one. I've a feeling this is abyss.

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NewDude

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Posted: Sep. 26 2008,14:36

I got into the BIOS here are the 3 setting for PCMCIA
PCIC Compatible
CardBus/16bit
Auto-Selected

I just tried all three, still nothing.

The instruction link you sent, the guy that wrote this, his configuration is different than mine.

My configuration is: I have a 100mb FAT16 partition with DOS 6.21, I did a format c: /s to it to boot to...
copied the mscdex.exe to the partition and loaded the drivers for my PCMCIA cd-rom. Copied KNOPPIX Directory and BOOT directory off
a DSL 4.4.4 live cd to do the poorman's install.

I used the DSL boot floppy to boot 4.4.4 up but doing the DSL 2 so I could get a clean command line.
I used cfdisk, created my linux swap and linux partitions... rebooted, booted back into DSL 2 and did the mkswap /dev/hda2 and swapon /dev/hda2, then the dsl-hdinstall to hda3.

Everything went good, used grub as my boot manager and had grub do the hda1 for windows (DOS)...

This is the setup I have used in the past with this machine, never had a problem.

Should I used loadin.exe and use this guy's setup you sent?

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