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On Sun, 27 Apr 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Message from Steven
> ===================
> ljones wrote:
> > >  If that fails, you should try a  2.4 kernel
> > > (perhaps from your Slackware installation)
> > >  with matching 2.4 modules.
> > 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
>
> That could be OK (depending on the config used to
> compile that kernel).  I was thinking Sindi might
> have a suitable 2.4 kernel for you.  Where is Sindi
> anyway?  I thought she would jump in as soon as I
> mentioned 2.4

Sindi was off helping someone install DamnSmallLinux to hard drive to give 
people in a nonprofit to use for browsing, instead of a much larger GOS 
linux that wanted 256MB RAM.  He wanted something that looked like Windows 
but did not crash and get viruses.  I tried to demo BL3.5 but floppy 1 
would not boot on his drive, nor would my 1-floppy USB version.  (Nor did 
the PS/2 or USB ports work, but the CD-ROM and serial worked).
This was in exchange for getting my wireless bridge working again.

If Slackware 12 works with the MA401RA card, why not copy over the kernel 
and pcmcia modules from it to BL3 and try those, with the added lines in 
config for your card?

Web research found lots of people trying to use the card, and some 
succeeding.

> > 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".

Can you remind us of your error messages, and/or search for them online?
Most mistakes have been made before.

> Does your 2.4 kernel use three modules (hermes and
> two orinocos) or just one (orinoco)?  If it just uses
> one, did you change /etc/pcmcia/config to reflect this?

My 2.4.31 kernel uses three modules.  I hope he moved the # from the 
longer to the shorter line in config.  These modules worked with Linksys 
WPC11 ver 2.5 and 3, and DELL Truemobile non-cardbus cards. DSL linux 
(live CD) uses the same kernel version - if it works with the card, you 
can copy kernel and modules from there, or use mine if you want smaller 
ones from http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/2.4.31.  If the computer won't 
boot from CD, you can make a DSL boot floppy.

> Since the problem does not appear to be in the kernel
> module, the most likely cause is hardware.  Has your
> PCMCIA card worked for you with any other operating
> system?  Has the PCMCIA slot on your laptop worked
> with any other PCMCIA card?

Does it work with Slackware 12?
Sindi

> Cheers,
> Steven