[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> Well, I decided to see if I could get ahead of the game in case some white 
> knight sent me a working 8390.o. Here's what I found.
> 
> The pcmcia disk has a file called pcmcia.rdz. This file is a gzipped ext2 
> filesystem. I copied it off, unzipped it, and mounted it via loopback. On this 
> filesystem there's a file modules.cgz. This is a gzipped cpio archive. In it, 
> among other things, is 8390.o!
> 
> So, when I get all the aforementioned errors resulting from not finding 
> /tmp/pcmcia/modules/net/8390.o, it's not because that file got dropped 
> somewhere, but somehow the boot floppy is not mounting these things where the 
> install script can find them.

nope, the problem is the nasty directory "net" that shouldn't be there.

> 
> Any additional insights very welcome. I'd really like to try mdk7 but if I can 
> make rh61 work and not this, I can't carry on too much longer. Eventually I 
> need to get some useful work done.

well see www.linux-mandrake.com/en/airlast.php3, i've just put a patched floppy
with the 8390.o in net directory as it should be. I'm not quite sure it's gonna
work, so please tell me there's still some pb


hope it helps, cu Pixel.

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