Linux setup 3 problems...

[macboy]

Guys.

Im back! Having installed knoppix, I then switched to mepis (http://www.mepis.org) Its a little cleaner and more streamlined

But I have 3 issues.

1. How do I set up a USB key so that when it gets inserted (hehehe) it mounts automagically?

2. Sound? What gives? I have onboard audio (IBM Thinkpad a22e) Which I think is either AC97 or 810i? I cant run sndconfig cause it cant find soundcore.o

3. Wireless card. I have a D-Link DWL 650+. Every time I plug it in the system locks up?? When I remove it, all it well?

I know I could trawl a million forums, but I love you geeks too much!!

Any ideas?

[Bostonmess]

3: Change MTU from 1500 to 1300?

http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/remark,9629213~mode=flat

[sagit]

1. you need to discover what usb port info it connects to and which /dev also. then set up mount points and the like

2. driver module compilation here

3. use knoppix to try to find out what info you can about the driver here. maybe try to locate a different driver.

google will be a good start point for your extensive research

[macboy]

3: Change MTU from 1500 to 1300?

http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/remark,9629213~mode=flat

I cant do this cause as soon as I plug the card in the system locks up

dmesg has this to say

PCMCIA: socket cf4c7c2c: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power

[urban_gorilla]

have you tried using hotplug package? (get rid of discover and discover1 if you can)
hotplug usually gets things like that pretty much right.

[wolfpac181]

What kernal did you use for this? I see there is the stable and experimental one.


Here's a good fix for it all..... Do the updates. I browsed through several mephis forums stating that doing the updates fixed most of the issues you put down.

1: automount scripts were not very well streamed in the distro
2: alsa had some weird conflict with AC97 sound
3: WiFi cards were an issue. Mephis cannot do 802.11G either. but the update will be good to do anyway.

:)

Looked into it a little more (and again).... just remove the acx_100.sta drivers before installing the dlink ones. and install the new ones from here (http://acx100.sourceforge.net/)


furthermore..... make sure it's not your PC slot on the mobo. try another PC card to see if it is the wireless card, or the card slot alone.

[macboy]

OK got the automount of the USB key workin

Will try and install the acx100 stuff next. Thanks for the pointers guys. Im sure I will have more questions commin soon!! :)

[macboy]

Another update, if anyone is interested!!

Got Sound working! (The only issue is Im not sure how, but I dont plan on fightin it!!)

With the wireless card, I read on a forum somewhere to check the card in a windows box. Checked with my boss (he has heaps of stuff running under XP) popped the card in. CRASH!!! Whoops sorry boss, hope that report didnt need to be done by COB :)

Off the the PC shop to buy a new wireless card

[Asmodeus]

just make sure its pretty well supported under linux before you get another, otherwsie, try gettig somethign else.

[macboy]

OK I bought a card supported via ndiswrapper (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/) but to install it I need the Kernal Source.

I got this and then unpacked it into /usr/src/linux-2.6.7

I still get an error when I try and do a make install??

root@0[ndiswrapper-0.12]# make install
make -C driver install
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/cronnie/ndiswrapper-0.12/driver'
Can't find kernel sources in /lib/modules/2.6.7/build;
give the path to kernel sources with KSRC=<path> argument to make
make[1]: *** [prereq_check] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/cronnie/ndiswrapper-0.12/driver'
make: *** [install] Error 2

I have checked the sim link too and all seems OK??

root@0[ndiswrapper-0.12]# ls -la /lib/modules/2.6.7/build
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Dec 1 13:16 /lib/modules/2.6.7/build ->
/usr/src/linux-2.6.7

I am soooo close on getting this all workin!!

[Asmodeus]

your softlink should point from /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/(actual kernel source directory here) for starters IIRC.

after that, did you have to decompress it into the source tree, or is it good to go anywhere, mainly since my drivers said to specifically not put it in teh source tree, but mines for a differetn model.