[Gllug] ok debian now on laptop but no pcmcia still!

[Frank Scott]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 09:38:15AM -0000, James wrote:
> hi all managed to get debian up and running on my drive-less thinkpad (240)
> .
> Did an install set up on other comp with hd and then put it in laptop for
> setup-install.
> Still can't get pcmcia cards to work though, have tryed yet more driver
> disks but nothing will pick it up, even put in my prism wifi but still no
> go!
> Help if you can , I realy think i need an expert to look over it,on of my
> friends is a gentoo pro but he knows nothing of wifi and pcmcia so is you
> can advise,please do.
> 
Well I've just installed Debian Sarge on a TP 240X, but I can't be very
helpful to you since It just Worked (TM)

I used an external floppy drive from my old TP 770 firewall and an
Orinocco 11b card. I installed using 3 i386 floppy images from the new Debian
Sarge installer - boot.img, root.img and netdrivers.img. I selected the
2.6.8 kernel and it detected the 11b card. I then completed the install
using the wifi card.

I've got to get used to how slow a Celeron 300 is compared to my dual
Opteron. I've being compiling the 2.6.8 kernel for over eight hours now
and it's still going strong!

Frank

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