Ok. Marking this as solved.

I compiled a custom kernel and then remastered the installation disk.

Oh, thanks for the response gapan.

It seems that I am the only Salix user with this problem, but a search reveals that it is a known issue. Unfortunately blacklisting is not an option for me because my hardware actually needs that module.

193 /home/ladi$ /sbin/lspci | grep SB
00:11.0 SATA ...

Hi guys,

I downloaded the 64-bit version of Salix-XFCE but I am unable to boot the CD.

I get the following error, which, after googling, seems to be an old, supposedly fixed kernel bug.
SP5100 TCO timer: mmio address 0xfec000f0 already in use Then the system hangs.

I booted into recovery mode ...

antmon wrote:OK! It's working. I didn't knew about modules and firmware. I got to keep reading.
Thanks for the help!
What do you recommend for reading about linux?

For wireless issues like the subject matter of this thread...
http://www.linuxwireless.org

Actually, I found (with Salix64) that the icon for the removable drive appears, but commoners cannot open it, only root can. The only way I could get this to work for regular users was to create a mount point and put an entry in fstab. If you are worried about security, fstab allows you to specify ...

In my experience, many phones have a mass storage mode.

However, you would be extemely lucky to get the device name right first time.
If you run:
dmesg | tail -10 immediately after plugging in the USB cable, it will give you an idea if the phone is recognised as a USB mass storage device, and you ...

Well, I think you should be able to just clear the Use static IPs and Use static DNS boxes in the WICD properties page.

But if that does not work, and since you know that the problem is fixed by running dhcpcd, you can just add dhcpcd to rc.local:
echo "dhcpcd eth0" >> /etc/rc.d/rc.local
I ...

Ok I got it working! :D

The easiest way to do this is not to use rc.inet1.conf at all, and use DHCP.
First, make sure the wireless NIC has been identified and that you have the relevant modules loaded.
# dmesg | grep rt2
Registered led device: rt2500usb-phy0::radio
Registered led device ...

Sorry I tried everything I can think of at the moment. I get the NIC up and it looks ok, but it refuses to use encryption, and seems to ignore the info in wpa_supplicant.conf.

Unrtunately you can't use iwpriv on this particular version of the kernel driver, and the latest Ralink utility will only ...

I have a DWL G122 (Rev B1) USB NIC which uses this chipset. It has not worked with wicd since at least Salix 13.1.x. I can't remember if 13.0.2 worked. I get a 'Bad Password' eror, and from much googling, it seems that the only way to get this to work is to manually edit /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1, /etc/rc ...