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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Basiclinux 3.5 and wireless (ma401).
  • Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:35:57 +0000 (UTC)

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




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