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On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> >  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?

I can't find prism modules any place.  Maybe that is the card name not the 
module name.  Sorry.  My cards are airo and orinoco.  The airo 340 works 
well but does not do encryption.  My Linksys WPC11 ver 2.5 works 1 inch 
from the wireless router but is useless with a weak signal, and should do 
WEP.  ver 3 also worked, but ver4 is cardbus.  What cards worked for other 
people with BL?  Steven has an airo 350 that does WEP encryption.

> >  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!

Can you run BL from 2 floppies on the computer with Slackware 12 and add 
the hermes, orinoco, orinoco_cs modules and the larger config after 
booting?  Or run DSL on that computer?

> >  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.

That is not good.  Check on the internet if your Libretto 50 worked with 
any specific wireless cards.

> >  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.

It might be easier to replace the wireless card with one that someone else 
reported working with the Libretto.

Slackware 10 wasted 64MB of RAM when we loaded it once with minimal files.
I doubt 12 will run in 32MB.  If DSL works and you cannot transfer the 
config and modules to BL3, you can install it to hard disk from the CD 
fairly simply.  Use a 64MB swap file as hda1.

Sindi

> ljones