trouble detecting pcmcia devices
Hey guys,
I have an IBM Thinkpad 760 XL
2.1 gig HD
32 meg RAM
internal floppy,
pcmcia 24x CD-ROM
pcmcia Linksys 802.11b wireless nic card
I'm having trouble finding a distribution of Linux that will work on this hardware?
I tried Slackware, Fedora, Knoppix.. I was able to get the Knoppix boot floppy to work with the pcmcia boot floppies, but I didn't have enough hard drive space to install Knoppix to the hard drive..
so I kinda have a problem.
all I want is a GUI that I can put Firefox and email and something like Gaim on. Thats all I need basically.
but I can't seem to find anything that will detect my pcmcia devices that will boot from a floppy and install either from the pcmcia cd-rom or pcmcia nic card over the internet. I reciently tried that Amigo Linux, and didn't have much success with that either, because I can't find a slackware boot floppy that has pcmcia support on it. THey don't want to detect any of my devices for some reason, not the nic or the cd-rom, if I can get some distro to detect my pcmcia devices with a boot floppy, and then install from either the net or cd-rom I'll be fine, but I can't seem to find one..
any ideas? I even tried to install Gentoo on it using Knoppix, and again gentoo won't detect the pcmcia hardware on the laptop.
so I kinda have a problem..
thanks.
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