I have just downloaded sisela-0.3. It boots perfectly on the old hardware I want to use. Only one problem - no ndiswrapper. Don't want to buy a new wireless card and the one I have is broadcom based.
Can anyone advise an easy way to add that to the CD version (the floppy would be better). I would like to avoid building from scratch, if possible. I am using a Zenwalk (Slack) system and would not like to fool around with Debian.
Help would be much appreciated.
Best Regards, Larry
Hi,
I used sisela to download over a nearby wireless like with Prism 2 cards a while ago. I was able to recompile 0.2 to add ftp and a few other things to busybox. I haven't tried to use ndiswrapper myself, but can tell you that if you can find a prism2 card, sisela on floppy works great.
After I recompiled it, it would no longer fit on a 1.4meg floppy so I put it on a 1.7meg formatted one. Worked very well. I could use almost the whole 1 gbyte hard disk for downloading linux ISOs one at a time.
I would download, store on HD, take the cheap laptop to work, ftp to a box with a ROM burner and finally burn whatever "new" linux distribution.
I still use a prism2 card with PCI adapter on an old e-machines pentium that now has a much bigger drive and both a CD and a DVD burner. I use either damnsmall linux or knoppix 3.4/3.6.
If your box can boot off USB, I would consider damnsmalllinux and boot either floppy->USB or directly USB if your bios supports it. Ndiswrapper is known by me to work on both distributions (both debian based).
I have used it with the linksys USB 802.11b adapter, but after a time that adapter seems to need rebooting? If I knew ARM7 better I would fix it in my copious spare time ;-)
good luck.
regards, john
On Wed, 31 May 2006, Larry Cohen wrote:
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On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 07:28:40PM +0100, Larry Cohen wrote:
I have just downloaded sisela-0.3. It boots perfectly on the old hardware I want to use. Only one problem - no ndiswrapper. Don't want to buy a new wireless card and the one I have is broadcom based.
If it's a 43xx chipset then you may be able to use the Linux driver from http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/, which would probably be much less hassle to build in than ndiswrapper.
Can anyone advise an easy way to add that to the CD version (the floppy would be better). I would like to avoid building from scratch, if possible.
You've got to build from source to add your own drivers. The kernel in the Sisela releases does not support module loading.
Anyway, if you have the option of CD booting there may be other, actively maintained CD distributions which would be better suited. Sisela was primarly intended as a solution which would fit on a floppy, with the CD version being an easy-to-add afterthought.
Martin
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