hello everyone ... my first post on the new forum ... (and i really miss all the great info that was on the old one!)
i have a compaq armada laptop from around 1997, with a floppy drive but no cd or usb. i was able to ssh an entire installed slitaz 1.0 filesystem from another laptop onto this one, and it actually works.
but the only wireless card which i have for this machine is a cisco aironet 350, and i cannot find a driver for it for any 2.6 kernel. i'd like to upgrade to a newer version of slitaz but need to connect to the internet to do that. can anyone help?
I see that the latest version of SliTaz cooking now has the airo_cs module available, which is the one i need to drive the Cisco Aironet 350 wireless card. But it still doesn't work.
I managed to install the regular version of SliTaz (2.6.30.6 kernel) on an ancient Toshiba 430-cdt, vintage around 1997, with 32 MB of RAM, and it's working slow but fine.
I have /etc/rcS.conf set up to load the airo_cs module at boot-up, which also automatically loads the airo module. But when i do
# ifconfig
the only result i get is the "lo" device. I use the same Aironet card successfully on a BasicLinux 3.5 system (kernel 2.2.26) on this same machine, and there it has the device name "eth0". But whether i try ifconfig with wlan0 or eth0, i get the same result:
error fetching interface information: device not found
Any idea what's wrong? If SliTaz has firmware available for this card, what is it called?
I tried to run lspci and for some reason it didn't work on this machine ... maybe not enough memory? (32 mb). I even tried tazpkg get-install pciutils --forced, but it didn't help.
Anyway, since i have BasicLinux (2.2.26 kernel) installed in another partition and it works fine with the aironet, i rebooted into that and did lsmod. There was a driver loaded called i82365. So i rebooted back into SliTaz and loaded that module, and sure enough, the screen was filled with messages identifying "eth0". I'm glad i was able to figure it out this way, because the name of that module would never have given me any clues.
So with a few ifconfig and iwconfig commands, i had the latest version of SliTaz up and running (albeit slowly on the openbox desktop) and on the internet in no time, on this ancient machine. It's a good thing that i enjoy using the command-line, because on this machine that is _much_ faster.