Installed ubuntu (arrrgh) and lost wireless & CD

[Ed Jabbour]

Two problems here.  I don't want to keep Ubuntu, but cannot replace it w/o a 
network and w/o a CD drive.

1.  Network:  IBM T30 and a Netgear PCMCIA card, Made in China v.3.  Took the 
driver off the Netgear CD (more on this below) , ran ndiswrapper and got 
nada.  Upon reinserting the card, dmesg|tail shows:
	17183869.344000 eth1: resetting device . . .
   	17183869.396000 eth1: uploading firmware
	17183869.480000 eth1: firmware version: 1.0.4.3
	17183869.480000 eth1" firmware upload complete
	17183870.480000 eth1: no 'reset complete' IRQ seen - retrying
	17183871:480000 eth1: no 'reset complete' IRQ seen - retrying
	17183871:480000 eth1: interface reset failure
	17183871:480000 eth1: prism54: Your card/socket may be faulty, or IRQ line 
		  	   too busy:(

The card works wo a hitch in Windoze 2K.

2.  CD drive:  This is very odd.  If I load a live CD of whatever sort, 
Gentoo, Knoppix, etc., it's recognized as a blank CD and won't mount.  If I 
insert the Netgear CD, it mounts and can be read.  Same for the Scrabble 
game CD, and same for the bootable IBM Windoze recovery disc, which also 
boots.  

Could these be problems w/ the  BIOS?  Any hints, pointers, guesses, greatly 
appreciated.  Think I'll install Gentoo - it's on this desktop.  It's a lot 
of work to maintain, but everything functions.  Oh no, wait!! I still have a 
Caldera 2.something around!  Maybe . . . . . .

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