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On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 7:46 PM,  <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:
> Message from Steven
>
>  > I checked the filesizes and md5sums for orinoco.o,
>  > orinoco_cs.o and hermes.o and they all tie up ok.
>
>  That's bad news.  I was hoping it was a module
>  mismatch (which would have been easy to fix).
>  So you've got the correct modules and you've got
>  the correct config.  The next issue is the kernel.
>  I assume you are using the default 2.2.26 kernel.
>  It is a slim kernel, with limited functionality.
>  It is possible that something needed by your card
>  is missing in that kernel.  I suggest you try the
>  BL3 big kernel.  If that fails, you should try a
>  2.4 kernel (perhaps from your Slackware installation)
>  with matching 2.4 modules.
>

Unfortunatly, I tried the big kernel but it didn't work, I got the
same messages. I then tried a 2.4.20 kernel and followed these
instructions:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/library.html

I installed these into BL3;

elflibs-9.0.3-i386-1.tgz
misc-libs.tgz
glibc-solibs-2.3.1-i386-3.tgz
kernel-modules-2.4.20-i486-7.tgz

And extracted the kernel from kernel-ide-2.4.20-i486-5.tgz, which I
put into my C:\baslin directory and renamed it vmlinuz24. I then ran

loadlin vmlinuz24 root=/dev/hda2 rw

(there are 2 partitons on the hard drive)

That booted up, but any pcmcia operations resulted in a crash similar
to what I had before with the normal Bl3 kernel, but with the
additional message saying "kernel not syncing".

ljones