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filoktetes

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From: Skien, Norway

Registered: 2003-12-29

Posts: 287

Lowarch installation Floppies ready to be tested

I just uploaded floppies for Lowarch.
They are barely tested, since I don't have many opportunities to test them myself (only have one machine with working floppy drive).
The ftp install is also still untested, as far as I know. I'll be grateful to anyone who'd want to test it. I only have a wireless internet connection, and my wireless card isn't supported by either the cd or floppy installer, so I can't try it.

cr7

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Registered: 2006-11-28

Posts: 103

Re: Lowarch installation Floppies ready to be tested

Uhm... your site seems to be down :?

filoktetes

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From: Skien, Norway

Registered: 2003-12-29

Posts: 287

Re: Lowarch installation Floppies ready to be tested

Yes, it was down for a while, because the isp did something strange. It's up again now. I'm going to change the url to www.lowarch.org but I need to learn some redirecting skills for it to work

cr7

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Registered: 2006-11-28

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Re: Lowarch installation Floppies ready to be tested

And you should update the link in your signature

cr7

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Re: Lowarch installation Floppies ready to be tested

Just tried the floppy installation.
I can't configure properly my pcmcia ethernet card, because I need cardmgr which isn't included in the floppies, to all appearances :?

filoktetes

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From: Skien, Norway

Registered: 2003-12-29

Posts: 287

Re: Lowarch installation Floppies ready to be tested

cardmrg has been change to pccardctl, and that's included
But I also had problems configuring my pcmcia network card. But I never tried to configure it myself before, since I think udev takes care of it. I might try to make udev fit into the installer somehow.

cr7

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Registered: 2006-11-28

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Re: Lowarch installation Floppies ready to be tested

Thank you for the information, I tried pcmcia devices only with 2.4 kernels until now, I never tried a 2.6 kernel on this laptop, so I didn't know that cardmgr is now deprecated

EDIT:
I tried with pccardctl but it can't show me any pcmcia device.
"pccardctl ls" displays me nothing, albeit I load the pcmcia module with modprobe :?

Perhaps, the kernel in the floppies doesn't support my CardBus.
I'll try with the CD version

filoktetes

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From: Skien, Norway

Registered: 2003-12-29

Posts: 287

Re: Lowarch installation Floppies ready to be tested

You need to modprobe the driver for your pcmcia bus as well. It's probably (hopefully) one of these:

i82092.ko         
pd6729.ko         
tcic.ko
i82365.ko     
yenta_socket.ko

This is just a list of what's in the pcmcia driver directory, they might not all be pcmcia bus drivers. My old laptop uses the i82365.ko module.

cr7

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Registered: 2006-11-28

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Re: Lowarch installation Floppies ready to be tested

Uhm... It might be yenta. I'll try.

EDIT:
Now pccardctl recognizes the CardBus and displays me that there is a card on it. But the installer can't configure it. I know my card is managed by the 3c574_cs module, so I tried to do a "modprobe 3c574_cs", and after that it doesn't display anything, as if it's all OK.
But the card is always unknown for pccardctl, and obviously the installer too doesn't recognize it :?

The 3c574_cs module is included? Or not? :?:

filoktetes

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From: Skien, Norway

Registered: 2003-12-29

Posts: 287

Re: Lowarch installation Floppies ready to be tested

The driver is there. But 16 bit pcmcia cards seem to be tricky. I have one too that I can't get working. It works after install, though, but then udev sets  everything up.
I'll investigate this further, and let you know if I solve the problem. I'm planning to put udev into the installer, but it'll take a while before I come to that.

cr7

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Registered: 2006-11-28

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Re: Lowarch installation Floppies ready to be tested

Ok, I stay tuned