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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Basiclinux 3.5 and wireless (ma401).
  • Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:57:49 +0000

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




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