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>  I got over 5000 hits on ma401ra with google/linux
>
>  Is it possible your card requires prism2 rather than orinoco?
>  Several people with your RA model think they need prism2, even though it
>  is supposed to be the non-RA model which uses that.  The company labelled
>  them all without the RA.

I'm not sure -- are the prism2 .o files in the same place as the
orinoco ones for BL?
>
>  Can you borrow some other wireless non-cardbus card and see if it works
>  for you?  Can you use this one with BL in another laptop computer?  You
>  can put the drivers on disk2 and insert them from there after editing
>  config, if you use the 2-floppy version of BL3.50.

:( unforunatly I don't have another one and I don't know anyone who
does. I bought the
netgear one off ebay just recently -- finding a non-cardbus one was quite 
hard!

>
>  Someone else had all sorts of problems in one particular laptop with all
>  the wireless pcmcia cards tested.  (Compaq Armada M700).
>  Maybe your computer is too old to do wireless?
>
>  What do you do after you:
>  boot
>  insert card
>  /etc/pcmcia/start
>
>
>  I would then:
>  ifconfig up
>  udhcpc  (if this works you have succeeded)
>

I get "debug, sending discover...." a few times. Eventually the green
light goes out and the system crashes.

>  or:
>  ifconfig eth0 192.168.2.5 (if router is in this series).
>  and ping the router to see if things work.
>
>  You could try to boot a DamnSmallLinux live CD from DOS using loadlin
>  after copying the kernel (vmlinuz or whatever they call it, look in /boot
>  or search for it) to your baslin directory, and see if DSL can handle your
>  card.  If it does not have your definition in /etc/pcmcia/config you can
>  add it.  DSL will run better for you in 32MB without the gui
>  boot: dsl 2                             (for runlevel 2, no gui)
>
>  Reboot to DOS and
>
>  cd /baslin
>  loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc1 ro
>
>  Sindi
>
>
>

I'll give DSL a try. If that won't boot or work, I guess my only
option left is to take the hard drive out and put SW on it.

 ljones