hello again. well i made an image of the trinux pcmcia.img bootdisk, and it seems to have the driver for my pcmcia card on it. (edit - haven't tried it but that's what it looks like, i am almost certain of it) its kernel is a BzImage though, and i notice that basiclinux has a Zimage kernel. I presume that there's no easy hack where i can just copy some files somewhere and expect it to all work...
so how do i get this module to work in basiclinux? as i say, i don't have the source for the kernel, but i could get it off the slackware site i am sure, and recompile (except that i tend to fail at recompiling) and i'd have to do it using the mandrake machine. the driver itself appears to be a file called xirc
somenumbers.tgz containing a file called xirc
somenumbers.o which seems very simple to me. Just not sure if it's at all compatible. if i recall, trinux uses a 1.3 kernel, rather than the 2.0 kernel that basiclinux uses.
oh well, am i on the right track? or any track? am i whistling in the dark? should i just give up and get a 'real' distro? what the hell do i think i'm doing anyway? for the answers to these and other questions, tune in next week, same bat time, same bat channel for more from calum's thrilling (but ambling) monologue about how little he knows about linux when it all comes down to it!
[edit] re: getting the kernel source,
what? i can't make sense of this! why don't they at least have a readme in there!? oh woe et c...
[edit]hey! looks like this 5MB thing is the kernel! how come the binary is 454kB then? i am confused... i certainly can't put 5MB on a floppy...
[ November 29, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]