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  • From: Robert Steinmetz <rob AT steinmetznet.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL3
  • Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 16:34:13 -0500

3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

Robert Steinmetz wrote:

What kind of card are your trying to get?


A PCMCIA (non-cardbus) network card *with* dongle.
Getting one with a dongle is the hard part. I
actually did buy one (at the local online auction) a couple of weeks ago, but the dongle was missing.

10baseT or will coax suffice?

Does the bare.i kernel have that capability?
No it doesn't.
Right. I'll probably do a custom kernel for that
(assuming it is worthwhile for a 2.2.16 kernel).

The capability may always be somewhat limited, as the 2.2.16 kernel may not compile more recent drivers like PrismII and Orinoco. If we could just get these 2 it would be amazing and cover many of the cards out there.

My earlier experiments suggest this one additional parameter will not add very much the the kernel.

I'm not sure that it will take just one additional
parameter. The BL3 kernel is so bare that I suspect
I will need to add one or two other parameters to get
it to work.

Is there anything we can do to get some wireless capability in BL3, even if its an alternate kernel?

an old notebook kernel should be a consideration there.

486 notebooks are the primary target for BL3. That's
why I want to put PCMCIA into the foundation.

If install the pcmcia package for Slack 7.1 do you think it will work?

No, 7.1 uses the wrong library. Hopefully, the PCMCIA package
from Slackware 4.0 will work. That will be my starting point
(although I will probably be using a card-database file from
a later Slackware).

I'll try it on my machine, just to see if it will work.
The card-database may require translation, there were some changes in how this was handled over the life of the pcmcia package.

640x480x8 which is common to old note books and to old video cards.

I've played around with the different Xvesa settings, and I can't see an actual improvement going from plain 640x480 to 640x480x8. I choose 640x480x12 for the menu because 12 is the lowest number that appeared to provide any benefit for Xvesa. If you are sure that Xvesa actually (not just theoretically) displays more colors
at 640x480x8 than it does at 640x480, please tell us.

I'll try to verify that. It looks like its 16 color on my notebook, not 256. I guess I need to do some testing.

--
Robert Steinmetz AIA
Principal
Steinmetz & Associates





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