Trying to install using Koppix CD, system poweres down

From: stan (stanb_at_panix.com)
Date: 12/31/04

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    Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 12:39:17 -0500
To: Debian User List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>

    Someone please take pity on me, my day has been going downhill fast :-(

    I set out this morning on a quest to make my new wireless card work in My
    Compaq N410c. The machine dual boots Debian and FreeBSD 4 STABLE.

    I was unable to find any trace of driver support for my wireless card ( an
    AirLink+ AWLC3025). U did find a mention of it working using the
    ndiswrapper package. I played around a while on the Debian side of this
    machine, but could not get things working. More Googling lead to a success
    story using Knoppix.

    I booted Knoppix 3.7, and was able to get ndiswrapper to see the card. It
    even saw the base station!

    That's where my day started to go to (*&^)). I telneted into the base
    station to check a few things out, and after that I could not get the card
    to see the base station at all. The base station is a scrounged one form a
    test setup at work. What I really want the wireless working for is away
    from home, as I'm wired networking at home. The base station is a Cisco
    Aironet 340, anyone know how to set one of these back to factory defaults
    BTW?

    In any case, I decided to reinstall the Debian partition using the Knoppix CD
    (3/7) as an installer.

    Thats where my current frustration lies. It starts up OK, and goes to about
    78% of file copying, and the machine powers down! It has done this about 5
    times now (2 different CD's). I even tried the noacpi option at boot once.

    Anyone have any helpful ideas here, I'm pretty frustrated at this point in
    time! 

    -- 
"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety."
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