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  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL2 wish list
  • Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:35:17 +0000 (UTC)

Ian wrote:

On 19 Aug 2009 at 15:06, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

Will there be a BL4 with kernel 2.4 and glibc 2.3.6 that works with
SW11
packages?

If so, what would other users like to have in it?

I no longer have a land line telephone. I connect to the Internet
using a USB wireless broadband modem, so if there was some way
of getting that to work in BL4, come the winter, when Im less busy,
Id give it another go. Otherwise, Im stuck with XP :(

Other solutions: Get a PCI wireless modem if you have a desktop.
Or a non-cardbus aero or orinoco PCMCIA wireless modem, from ebay.

Is your USB modem on the supported list?
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Devices/USB
These models all use one of only three drivers.

I can attempt to compile one of them for you for my 2.4.31 kernel
(with gcc 2.95.3 - it has to match).

The USB wireless card given to me appears to be dead.

Also, proper Cardbus support, obviously.

It is supposed to work with kernel 2.4. I tried all the suggestions I could find including booting with pci=biosirq. I think I have the latest PCMCIA drivers (2004). I know my hardware works (with XP and Ubuntu).
I would be putting BL on friends' laptops if it worked with cardbus wireless. I don't want to part with my small collection of non-cardbus models.

Has anyone used BL with onboard PCI wireless modem?

Puppy Linux supposedly has good wireless support (and even lucent modem). Why settle for XP when you have so many other choices, especially with the broadband speeds needed to install. Puppy may run from inside NTFS (it uncompresses itself from one or more large files every boot). Slitaz is up to date (no dialup modem at all). I much prefer BL, of course. It works (with framebuffer kernel) on two laptops where the other two won't run X at all.

Ian.


It should be possible to experiment with BL and USB wireless or onboard wireless on a friend's computer with floppy drive. Boot BL from CD, or copy it to USB flash drive, boot from a floppy with 2.4 kernel and USB storage built-in and chroot to the flash drive, or maybe mount it on /. David Moberg made a syslinux 1-floppy with USB storage support that I can use to run BL with his modules, chrooted to a USB storage device such as a camera with memory card, but he compiled with a different gcc. I would need to compile the wireless module needed with the same gcc. Now that we have glibc 2.3.6 that should be possible. So let me know what module your card uses. We now have a 2GB flash drive.

Sindi




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