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Posted: Oct. 09 2006,13:30 QUOTE

I'm having a problem with my install od DSL on my toshiba. For some reason, it can't see my ethernet card. I used to have Win 2k on there and it saw the card fine, but with DSL it can't find it.

Then, when I removed the card and put it back in, DSL freezes!

Any idea what might be going on?
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Posted: Oct. 09 2006,19:34 QUOTE

'ethernet card' is...
PCMCIA card? What kind?
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Posted: Oct. 12 2006,14:32 QUOTE

Quote (jmlowe @ Oct. 09 2006,15:34)
'ethernet card' is...
PCMCIA card? What kind?

Yep. A Hawking PCMCIA card.
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Posted: Oct. 12 2006,16:20 QUOTE

How are you running DSL (liveCD, frugal, install to HD....)?

What boot parms, if any, do you use (noapci, frugal, home=xxx, etc...)?

Once DSL has started if you open a terminal and type: dmesg > bootMessages.txt
That should put your boot messages in a file called bootMessages.txt  You can then look through them to see if there are any error messages about your pcmcia card.  Post what you find and someone may be able to help.


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Posted: Oct. 13 2006,13:15 QUOTE

Quote (newOldUser @ Oct. 12 2006,12:20)
How are you running DSL (liveCD, frugal, install to HD....)?

What boot parms, if any, do you use (noapci, frugal, home=xxx, etc...)?

Once DSL has started if you open a terminal and type: dmesg > bootMessages.txt
That should put your boot messages in a file called bootMessages.txt  You can then look through them to see if there are any error messages about your pcmcia card.  Post what you find and someone may be able to help.

Thanks for the reply.

1. I fully installed it on the HD.

2. No extra boot parms, this was my first time trying DSL so I just went with the default

3. I'll try that and repost here. The problem is, I had no way to get on the internet to post these issues so I had to uninstall the OS and reinstall a diff. one. So getting that info's going to be a pain.  :p Oh, well. i would like it to work.

One other thing: I've tried a number of Linux OS' including DSL, Xandros, Knoppix and every one of them was noticeably slower than Win2K on this computer. Any idea why?
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