Thinkpad 760EL - DSL - Display and Cardbus issues...

wallydavid1_at_gmail.com
Date: 03/31/05 

Date: 30 Mar 2005 19:27:47 -0800

I was looking for a distro to use on an old Thinkpad 760EL and hit upon
DSL. I installed it onto the hard drive while it was hooked up to the
IDE channel w/o problems.

1)When I restarted it in the 760EL I was only able to get 640x480 w/4
bit color. But that is only after I shutdown X and run xsetup.sh. I
choose Xvesa because if I use Xfbdev, I get an XIO error. If I use
Xvesa and choose anything other than 640x480, I get nothing but various
degrees of garbled screen or colors. HELP!

2) I have a CompUSA Cardbus PCMCIA NIC. It reconizes that there is a
card there, as I see it mention Cardbus service starting during boot.
Also, when I open the Control Panel and go to Netcardconfig, it tells
me that eth0 is there. If I answer "Yes" to use DHCP broadcast it says
that DHCP broadcast from device eth0 operation failed. If I set up my
router to use static IP addresses and DSL to match, it does not
connect. I run ifconfig and get the following info:
Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addre:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0.

It seems to me that something is not working, but I don't know what.

Can anyone give me some advice?

Thanks
Wally
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