[ale] Toshiba 2105CDS and linux

[Gary S. Mackay]

Hi Chris,
	Thanks for the reply. Slack 7.1 was the closest to working. It would at least
say it was trying to load the xirc2ps_cs driver, but failed. None of the other
ones even tried. Where can I find info on this driver so I can figure out why
it won't load?

Thanks again,
Gary

Chris Ricker wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Gary S. Mackay wrote:
> 
> > Well, I've tried SuSe, Redhat 7, Slackware 7.1, Caldera 2.4, and TurboLinux 6
> > on my laptop and can not get it right. The bigest problems are the display and
> > the Xircom RE100BTX PCMCIA network adapter. I've been to linuxlaptops web site
> > but most of that is old. Has anyone had any success getting linux on one of
> > these laptops?
> 
> Your NIC is supported by the xirc2ps_cs driver that comes with pcmcia-cs.
> 
> Your display is probably supported too, since Toshiba usually uses sane
> chipsets.  If you know which chipset it is, you'll probably have better
> luck.  Keep in mind that XFree86 4.0 support for laptop chipsets is very
> shoddy, compared with 3.3.6, so you might have more success installing an
> older distribution that still uses 3.3.6; Debian 2.2 autodetected everything
> on my new laptop except the sound card (and the sound card's not Debian's
> fault, since only 2.4 kernels support it, but a quick kernel upgrade fixed
> that problem), but crashed and burned with Red Hat 7 betas' auto-detection
> b/c of the XFree86 4 issue.
> 
> >       I was hoping to use Caldera since it was the only distro to COMPLETELEY find
> > and configure everything on my desktop machine, sound, video, modem, I mean
> > everything. I was impressed. During the install on the laptop tho, the screen
> > blanks out as it (I presume) is trying to go into some sort of gui mode to
> > begin the install procedure.
> 
> At least with RH, there's also a text-mode install available.  You could try
> that if Caldera offers one (and if they don't, they need to.  Their GUI
> install is horribly broken on the machines I've tried it on).
> 
> later,
> chris
> 
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> Chris Ricker                                               kaboom at gatech.edu
>                                               chris.ricker at genetics.utah.edu
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