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Posted: Jan. 08 2005,02:36 QUOTE
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.
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Posted: Jan. 08 2005,05:01 QUOTE
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
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Posted: Jan. 08 2005,17:35 QUOTE
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,
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Posted: Jan. 08 2005,21:21 QUOTE
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.

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Posted: Jan. 15 2005,03:23 QUOTE
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.
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