Search Members Help

» Welcome Guest
[ Log In :: Register ]

Mini-ITX Boards Sale, Fanless BareBones Mini-ITX, Bootable 1G DSL USBs, 533MHz Fanless PC <-- SALE $200 each!
Get The Official Damn Small Linux Book. DSL Market , Great VPS hosting provided by Tektonic
Pages: (4) </ [1] 2 3 4 >/

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

reply to topic new topic new poll
Topic: PCMCIA Ethernet configuration for old laptop< Next Oldest | Next Newest >
landslidepurist Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 8
Joined: Sep. 2004
Posted: Jan. 28 2008,15:48 QUOTE

Hello everyone,

I've installed DSL on a very old P1 166mhz, 96mb RAM laptop and have put a PCMCIA ethernet card in (wired). DSL seems to recognise that it's there but doesn't configure it (i.e. the lights flash and the card manager seems to know it's there but it won't talk to my cable modem), so I can't get online.

Basically I haven't the faintest idea how to get it working as I'm very new to linux, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

By the way, the laptop is an Acer Extensa 390 and the card is a Micronet SP160TA, in case that helps.
Back to top
Profile PM 
curaga Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 2163
Joined: Feb. 2007
Posted: Jan. 28 2008,16:11 QUOTE

Try

cardctl ls

Does it see your card?


--------------
There's no such thing as life. Those mean little jocks invented it ;)
-
Windows is not a virus. A virus does something!
Back to top
Profile PM 
roberts Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 4983
Joined: Oct. 2003
Posted: Jan. 28 2008,16:19 QUOTE

It would appear that your pcmcia card is a cardbus style.
Many old laptops have difficulty with such.
Try adding the boot option pci=assign-busses

e.g.

dsl pci=assign-busses

plus any other boot options that you were using.
Back to top
Profile PM WEB 
landslidepurist Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 8
Joined: Sep. 2004
Posted: Jan. 28 2008,19:50 QUOTE

Thanks for replying so quickly.

curaga -

I got this:

Code Sample

Socket 0:

no card

Socket 1:

3.3v CardBus Card
function 0: [ready]


...which is assume is good news!

roberts - do you mean to do this when I log on, before the GUI starts? I'll give that a go...
Back to top
Profile PM 
roberts Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 4983
Joined: Oct. 2003
Posted: Jan. 28 2008,19:52 QUOTE

Enter at the very first boot: prompt on the initial DSL logo screen.
Back to top
Profile PM WEB 
19 replies since Jan. 28 2008,15:48 < Next Oldest | Next Newest >

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

Pages: (4) </ [1] 2 3 4 >/
reply to topic new topic new poll
Quick Reply: PCMCIA Ethernet configuration for old laptop

Do you wish to enable your signature for this post?
Do you wish to enable emoticons for this post?
Track this topic
View All Emoticons
View iB Code