eLive cdrom and pcmcia issues

**hal** · 09-30-2005

hi everybody! i´me tryin out eLive, which is based on debian and everything is working fine but these two: 1. pcmcia doesnt work: it says "pcilib: Cannot open /sys/bus/pci/devices"; 2. there´s no cdrom inside /mnt .... :/

**bignate170** · 10-02-2005

Since it is a live cd I dunno how much you can do with the hardware support.... Maybe try the eLive forums..
http://edevelop.org/forum/elive
Consider yourself lucky that eLive works for you! I couldn't get it to work on my box!

**hal** · 10-02-2005

yes it´s a live cd but i installed it on my hard drive and works fine. cdrom´s issue is already solved but i´m still having problems with pcmcia.

why didn´t it work on your box? didn´t boot? didn´t recognize hardware?

**bignate170** · 10-02-2005

I think it didn't like my hardware... I have a shuttle SN25P and I just think that linux doesn't like the board... I have to do a little tweaking just to get sound working in linux...

It doesn't matter though... If I want to use enlightenment I can boot into FC4... There is a yum repo out that does a great job at maintaining update and such for the new enlightenment.

**psic** · 10-02-2005

Originally Posted by hal

yes it´s a live cd but i installed it on my hard drive and works fine. cdrom´s issue is already solved but i´m still having problems with pcmcia.

I tried elive and liked it alot, so I installed it to harddrive. But I soon found out that e17 is just too unstable and buggy for day-to-day use. After some playing around, I messed something up and it wouldn't let me log in at all. I went back to Kanotix and e16 (installed with apt-get). About the pcmcia, if it's a wireless device you're trying to get up and running, have you tried ndiswrapper?

**jnev** · 10-03-2005

i'm running elive 0.3 on my laptop (specs in sig), and it runs really nicely on it. tons of eye-candy and yet it runs faster than fluxbox did

i tried installing it on my desktop but it wouldn't recognize my sata hd's.

**JoeB** · 02-22-2006

They now have package "elive-0.4-sata" which, as they say ,"might" work

**Banach** · 03-04-2006

I got it to install onto my sata drive no problem (all I had to do was

Code:

 modprobe sata_nv

) I guess its just a choice of finding the right sata driver...

However when I reboot I get a kernel panic and notice that in the entire boot sequence up to the point

Code:

 VFS: cannot find /dev/sda2

it doesn't say anything about by sata hdd, only net, hda (cd drive). Any ideas on this?

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