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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Basiclinux 3.5 and wireless (ma401).
  • Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:36:12 +0000 (UTC)

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

Message from Steven
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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




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