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help with cd and pcmcia card
gearz
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So I have an extremely old laptop (made in the late 90s) and I just installed Vector LInux Light on it. Sadly, there is no wireless internet already in the laptop, so I'm thinking about getting a PCMCIA wireless adapter card (btw, any suggestions on what type to get would also be helpful) and I'm not sure if I would need to install the PCMCIA with a cd or if Vector will automatically recognize it or if I have to do something else? This is my first time with linux so I'm completely lost.
Also, my cd-rom drive doesn't seem to recognize when I put cds in, is there a solution to this?
Thanks!
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The pcmcia devices should e automatically recognized, the only question is if the wifi chipset is supported in the kernel of if you need to install drivers. if you can find a atheros based wifi card then it will be auto-recognized.
By default the cd-rom does not load all CDs, it requires additional packages to prompt the user when a disk is inserted, prompting you to mount it. I do not know the specifics of your distro so I do not know if that function is built in, but if it is not then you can try to mount the cdrom manually.0 -
Thanks for all the help, but how do i mount the cdrom manually? Also, how do I install the drivers necessary without an internet connection?0
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gearz wrote:Thanks for all the help, but how do i mount the cdrom manually? Also, how do I install the drivers necessary without an internet connection?
Usually is something like- mount /dev/cdrom
Or if your distro hasn't set this up:- mkdir /mnt/cdrom
- mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
Beware that you'll need to be root for this to work
Regards0
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