Knoppix & Hardware Damage?

[jsinbc]

Downloaded the latest version, burned the cd and booted my desktop (nice, very nice!) with no problems.

Used the cd to try to boot my old IBM i1410 Thinkpad. Everything's going OK until a prompt to the effect of "detected PCMIA" comes up & the boot appears to hang. After waiting quite a while with no changes I turned the machine off, removed the cd and attempted to reboot into windows.

Not to be! After many hours (reinstalls, reformats & even repartioning) turns out that the problem was the network card in the pcmia slot which windows 98 would no longer recognize (even though an xp based laptop would) and therefore could not be installed. Replacing the card with a new one (there goes $60) solved the problem.

The sequence of events suggests that somehow Knoppix hammered the card but I can't understand how that might happen.

Any suggestions?

[nick]

I've never heard of Knoppix damaging any hardware, but to get a more informed response, definitely repost your question at http://www.knoppix.net/forum/. If any one place is going to have all the information about Knoppix, they will.

[jsinbc]

I followed your suggestion ... thanks.

The post has had about 55 views but no replies. I did come across a thread about earlier versions damaging eeprom in specific circumstances.

I'm at a loss to explain this ... it's, at the very least, a disturbing coincidence. I'd give it another shot but don't want to run the risk of a repeat performance.

[judas]

Ive used knoppix on several machines and never had any hardware problems .. infact ive used quite a few live cds maybe 20 or so and i cant say ive had any hardware damage from any .......

[anony]

Hi

First backup all your data.
Reformat all partition and use restore CD from IBM to put the system back to "factory condition".

DO NOT CONNECT TO INTERNET.

Prepare the original W98 Driver for PCMCIA card. Re-install the broken card.

My guess: there is a worm / trojan / virus/ bios patch that disable the PCMCIA card detection.

The PCMCIA card is NOT broken because XP laptop recognize it.

What is the brand and type of your PCMCIA Network card?

[redchicken]

Sorry to hear of your problem. I have used knoppix on a variety of IBM machines, including the i1410 you mentioned, also the T41, A20p and X21, and X31. no problems on any of them (except of course that the winmodem doesn't work).

Perhaps your network card has just simply died. Try using a new network card. I have used a Netgear card (I think it is a FA510 something) on this thinkpad under knoppix. Or you might want to get a wireless card, I have a linksys one and it works fine with knoppix on my thinkpad.