[ltp] At a Standstill with 770z

[Tino Keitel]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 06:52:30 +0100, Frank Fiene wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 24. März 2004 05:33, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> > Jon Flanders wrote:
> > > After several weeks of trying, I still have no sound or wireless
> > > with my 770z. I have even tried some commercial apps like linuxant
> > > without success.
> > >
> > > It appears that W98 will be the way to go for wireless and sound.
> > >
> > > I am trying Mandrake 10 at the moment. The pcmcia cards don't even
> > > beep on bootup. The D-Link card does get recognized as an RTL8180,
> > > not that it does me any good.
> > >
> > > It would certainly appear that Linux is not ready for prime time on
> > > this Thinkpad laptop at the moment. It should not be this hard.
> 
> What kind of pcmcia cards, have you disabled isa-pnp? IMO you need 
> isa-pnp for 16bit pcmcia cards.

Not isa-pnp, but just CONFIG_ISA in the kernel configuration. However,
I already heard about problems with the Linux driver for the RTL8180 (I
personally would avoid buying any RTL or DLink stuff).