knoppix-std config question, please help a noob

[jruppert]

I have to add a few lines to the etc/pcmcia/config file in order for my wireless adapter to work:

card "microsoft wireless notebook adapter mn-520 1.0.3"
adapter "microsoft", "wireless notebook adapter mn-520", "", "1.0.3"
bind "orinoco_cs"

whats the easiest way for me to do this and have it save so everytime i boot from the knoppix cd its good.

is a remaster of the iso the only way?

[garyng]

I have to add a few lines to the etc/pcmcia/config file in order for my wireless adapter to work:

card "microsoft wireless notebook adapter mn-520 1.0.3"
adapter "microsoft", "wireless notebook adapter mn-520", "", "1.0.3"
bind "orinoco_cs"

whats the easiest way for me to do this and have it save so everytime i boot from the knoppix cd its good.

is a remaster of the iso the only way?

send it to Klaus or better yet to the debian package maintainer(may be klaus would do that) as Klaus tends to use only standard stuff that can be apt-get, other than his own stuff.

[paradocs]

Hi jruppert,

There is a way of booting from a floppy.
You may place the script knoppix.sh on
the boot floppy and use it to modify your
root files.

Do you have a persistent home?
If you have a persistent home and you use KDE you
may also do some automatic configuring
by putting a script in /ramdisk/home/knoppix/.kde/Autostart

Besides the above two methods -- I have also made
additions to the file configs.tbz created by
Save KNOPPIX configuration on the K menu.

Best Wishes
paradocs

[jruppert]

Hi jruppert,

There is a way of booting from a floppy.
You may place the script knoppix.sh on
the boot floppy and use it to modify your
root files.

Do you have a persistent home?
If you have a persistent home and you use KDE you
may also do some automatic configuring
by putting a script in /ramdisk/home/knoppix/.kde/Autostart

Besides the above two methods -- I have also made
additions to the file configs.tbz created by
Save KNOPPIX configuration on the K menu.

Best Wishes
paradocs

thanks for the help, i am using a persistent home and would be open to do some configuring using a script, but could use some help. any pointers, or places i could read up on it?

thanks!!!

[paradocs]

Hi again,

Linux shell script are very cool.
You have terific and terrifying control of you system
when you have root privlidge. KNOPPIX
make you root by simply typing the two letters
su on it's own line in a shell.

Sorry if this is way to elementry for you --
I have no Idea of where to start. Here is a basic link:
Shell Scripts: .BAT Files on Steroids
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO.html


You might experiment with the following:
Copy the file you want to change a boot to /home/knoppix/
and make the changes, and change the name.

Use the cp command wiht the -fp options to copy this
file to update the original one. If this works form a
shell, the automate it by making a text file in the
directroy /home/knoppix/.kde/Autostart
( the file .kde is hidden -- change view to show it)

The first line of the script can be
#!/bin/bash
Then enter the command to copy the file.

Best Wishes,
paradocs

[jruppert]

awesome!!! thanks

[nlang]

I was wondering if anyone could help me figure my problem out. I editid the /etc/pcmcia/config file, to how jruppert had his, but I couldn't figure out how to activate my card (ie turn it on) then I desided I would reboot, and ran into the same problem I always have....and that's the computer freezes on boot when trying to load the wireless drivers...

any help is greatly appriciated

[nlang]

Ok more news...not good but making headway.

I've now gotten a little further, I have no error messages saying I configured something wrong.

but still

when I boot (with card in of course) or when I restart pcmcia, I get lights on, 1 beep, and a system freeze.

does anyone know how to make this not happen?

I think I'm supposed to be getting 2 beeps, but I just don't know what to do from here.

Nick

email: nick.lang@colostate.edu