Hi Pixel- Thanks very much for this altered pcmcia image. Unfortunately the error message sequence I get for this one is just the same as before. So still no go. :( I'll probably noodle around with this some more tonight, mounting the image via loopback and peeking inside to see if I can fix this. I appreciate the help. Steve Salkin > [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.
