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>  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?

Wouldn't that fail though, and if the pcmcia modules did work what
about others --
would they just fail or use too much memory?

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

Well I believe it was some sort of kernel "oops". The snag is that if
I were to put them
here I'd have to type them all out (hopefully with no mistakes, as it
is quite long!). I would
cut and paste but I've no way short of taking a photo of getting data
off the laptop right
now. It dosen't have a floppy drive; I have seen pcmcia floppy drives
for sale on ebay but
usually they are a) overpriced or b) compaq and compaq ones are from
what I have read
slightly different from "normal" pcmcia floppy drives; they're ment
for their laptops and
won't work with any other. I'll have to try to reproduce what I did to
get the messages(!).
They were similar to last time, eg;

Oops: 0002
CPU: 0
EIP : 0010[<c18246ee>]
EFLAGS: 00010246

Followed by a message about the kernel not syncing.

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>
>  > 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?

I'm really not sure :( . I use ndiswrapper on the newer laptop running
slackware 12 and it all seems
to run fine, no problems.

>
>  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.
>

x.x Wish I could alas the laptop I'm doing this on has no floppy drive, and no
usb (too old). Right now the only external media I have for it is a pcmcia 
cdrom
drive.
>
>  > 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?

Definately works with SW12 and ndiswrapper, no problems :) .

ljoens