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On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 8:46 PM,  <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:
>
>  > 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?
>

Yep, I'm booting from DOS right now with loadlin bzimagela.431 root=/dev/hda2 
rw


>  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.
>

Sorry, I neglected to mention the Toshiba laptop's second hand. It
came with some sort of "cradle" or "plugin device" which gives me 1
serial port, 1 parallel port and 1 vga port.


>  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.
>
>

Will do

>  > 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?

>From memory the IBM T22's laptop is ~8GB. The Toshiba's hard drive is
around 800MB. Right now
it has an ancient copy of windows 95 on it, which I'm going to wipe
once BL3 is all working ok. I might
possibly dual-boot it with freedos too.

>
>
>  > 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.
>
>

I'll give that new modules file a try :) .

ljones