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gadget89
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16. April 2008 @ 23:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i have a acer laptop and im running slax live! and it wont let me get online and it wont detect ANY devices besides the cd drive and the hdd PLEASE HELP!!!!
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OzMick
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17. April 2008 @ 01:41 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
If it isn't detecting ANY device, you're probably shit out of luck. If you can't even see your monitor, the only thing you can change to get a result are boot options. Ubuntu had that issue with a release of theirs, disabling bootsplash was the solution, maybe your issue is similar.

Maybe you should consider using a more heavily supported, full featured general purpose distro like Ubuntu, you can probably be 99.9% certain someone else using Ubuntu has the exact same laptop, has the exact same issues, and has posted a solution.
varnull
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17. April 2008 @ 11:41 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Now how do you mean "detect" any devices.. I found slax to be one of the better live distros with regards to hardware support.

lspci -v

list output from that please and we will see if you have drivers for your network device or not.
gadget89
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18. April 2008 @ 01:29 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
well my monitor works but stuff like my internet card and my wifi card and sound card are not working at all
gadget89
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18. April 2008 @ 01:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
list output?!
OzMick
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18. April 2008 @ 03:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Welcome to Linux. Wifi and winmodems are notorious for requiring work to get running, and some soundcards aren't much better. You'll need to identify what chipsets everything run and do a whole lot of Google searching to work out which drivers you need.

Running "lspci" should be able to at least give clues as to what your hardware is, and the Slax forums are probably a better place to be asking any specific problems.
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18. April 2008 @ 11:37 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
janrocks@debian:~$ lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 746 Host (rev 10)
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Unknown device 0746
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202 (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=02, sec-latency=32
Memory behind bridge: cdd00000-cfefffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: c9a00000-cdbfffff

00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 25)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
Flags: medium devsel
I/O ports at 0c00 [size=32]

00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (prog-if 80 [Master])
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Unknown device 5513
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 128
I/O ports at ff00 [size=16]

00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Unknown device 7001
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 169
Memory at cfffd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Unknown device 7001
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 177
Memory at cfffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Unknown device 7001
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 185
Memory at cffff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 90)
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Unknown device 8201
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 193
I/O ports at dc00 [size=256]
Memory at cfffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Expansion ROM at 30000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1370 [AudioPCI] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Unknown device 4942:4c4c
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 201
I/O ports at d800 [size=64]

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
Memory at ce000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at ca000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
Expansion ROM at cfef0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

janrocks@debian:~$

slax popcorn has better wireless capabilities, but live disks and laptops don't mix well.

This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 18. April 2008 @ 11:41

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varnull
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22. April 2008 @ 01:16 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Silence... well we try......
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