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Posted: Oct. 04 2008,08:36 QUOTE
Oh. There's a specific module for it in kernel 2.6. I'm afraid we can't be of more help here. It might be possible to find a backport of it though. DSL uses kernel 2.4.31 currently.

Edit: Seems some people do have it working under 2.4 in i82365 compatible mode. The linux pcmcia howto:
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On some old pre-PCI systems using Cirrus controllers, including the NEC Versa M, the BIOS puts the controller in a special suspended state at system startup time. On these systems, the pcic_probe command will fail to find any known host controller. If this happens, edit rc.pcmcia and set PCIC to i82365, and PCIC_OPTS to ``wakeup=1''.
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The Cirrus PD6729 PCI controller has the fast_pci flag, which should be set if the PCI bus speed is greater than 25 MHz.


So find out your pci bus speed, and modprobe with wakeup=1 and if needed that fast_pci option.

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Posted: Oct. 04 2008,10:09 QUOTE
Well, tried both those options, it doesn't seem to want to load. In that howto, down a little farther at the System resource settings,  it has some IRQ excludes. One specifically for this laptop.

It says to edit /etc/pcmcia/config.opts and exclude irq 5, irq 9 On the Micron Millenia Transport. Also says that it might not be accurate and up to date.  :(

Thinking that might fix the problem I installed DSL back to the harddrive... Then tried to edit that file, but it says it's read only. Is that the file that it loads from, and if so how do I edit it?
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Posted: Oct. 04 2008,13:42 QUOTE
If you did a frugal install, that file is a symlink to /KNOPPIX/etc/pcmcia/config.opts. Remove the symlink, and copy the file instead - editable. To keep it around, add it to your backup (.filetool.lst)

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Posted: Oct. 04 2008,14:29 QUOTE
Mhmm, did that, doesn't seem to be working. Guess there isn't a whole lot that can be done at this point. Thanks for your help though.  :D
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