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> Ok thanks for that, I tried the 2.4 kernel there and the modules.
> However apon loading BL3 still seems to be looking for modules in the
> old directory for the old kernel (2.2.26) even though it is running
> with the new!

Type uname -a and it will tell you which kernel you are using.
(Linux Basiclinux 2.4.31 in my case).
Are you booting from DOS with loadlin?

If it is 2.4.31 and you get something about 2.2.26, your new kernel is 
probably complaining that it is missing some modules for 2.4.31 and only 
finding them for 2.2.26.  (Probably the missing pcmcia modules that were 
not in my package -  see below).


> It would be good to have sound & external serial port support as the
> toshiba's "mouse" mounted on the right hand side of the screen can be
> a pain to use after a while, a normal serial mouse is much easier. The
> toshiba's mouse buttons are on the top of the laptop!

I thought you had no serial port except in an extender.

Try my larger smf kernel which does have sound support, with the ymf sound 
module.  If those work, I will modify another smaller kernel for you.

> BTW Let me clear one thing up, the laptop that runs SW12 that I own
> isn't the toshiba, its a completely different system, an IBM T22
> (700Mhz, 128MB ram). That's the one I tested the netgear pcmcia card
> out on and it worked with ndiswrapper on it.

So the card works.  Good.  How large is the hard disk?

> BTW where do I get the 2.4 versions of ds.o, i82365.o and
> pcmcia_core.o . I couldn't find them in the modules-pcmcia-431.tgz
> file. I also looked in  modules-pcmcia-wireless-431.tgz but couldn't
> find them.

I goofed.  Thanks for letting me know.

I just replaced modules-pcmcia-431.tgz with a different 
modules-pcmcia-min-431.tgz which contains those three modules, and I also 
deleted some stuff that should not be there.  I am still learning.

They were in the 'withcardbus' modules package (which contains all the 
pcmcia modules including cardbus) but you don't want the cardbus modules 
because they don't work with BL because yenta_socket refuses to compile 
and you need that instead of one of the BL modules (ds or i82365, I forget 
which).  Also cardbus cards don't fit into older laptops, even my 133MHz 
DELL.  (They do fit the 200MHz Gateway).  I left that package because it 
also contains other modules that someone might want.
Sindi


> ljones