Full install of 5.2 . Kernel 2.6.25.4.
P3 900 HZ
384 mb ram
6 gig IDE HD
Lan Works as Eth0. Connects up just fine.
Wireless= Dlink WNA 1330 PCMCIA b/g Cardbus (Atheros AR2413 802.11bg ) Gotta work on connecting this. Not showing up in Wicd Network Manager.
fdisk
Disk /dev/sda: 6007 MB, 6007357440 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 730 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x98490527

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 618 4964053+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 619 730 899640 82 Linux swap

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1988 Allegro-1 (rev 12)
00:0c.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev 03)
00:0c.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01)

dmesg
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ath5k_pci 0000:02:00.0: registered as 'phy0'
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: excluding 0x200-0x207 0x378-0x37f
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid'
ath5k phy0: Atheros AR5213A chip found (MAC: 0x78, PHY: 0x45)
ath5k phy0: RF2112A 2GHz radio found (0x56)
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: excluding 0x200-0x207 0x378-0x37f
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
Marking TSC unstable due to: TSC halts in idle.
EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
fuse init (API version 7.9)
Adding 899632k swap on /dev/sda3. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:899632k
eth0: link down
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (6144 buckets, 24576 max)
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1

dmesg | grep firmware turns up nothing

lsmod
processor 21600 2 thermal
snd_maestro3 13188 2
snd_ac97_codec 64928 1 snd_maestro3
ac97_bus 1152 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 34692 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_maestro3,snd_ac97_codec
i2c_piix4 5132 0
snd_timer 11144 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 4488 1 snd_pcm
i2c_core 9492 1 i2c_piix4
8139too 13952 0
mii 2944 1 8139too
intel_agp 15044 1
snd 25016 13 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_maestro3,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
agpgart 15668 1 intel_agp
soundcore 3016 1 snd
uhci_hcd 13836 0
evdev 5248 6
yenta_socket 14348 3
joydev 5952 0
rsrc_nonstatic 6528 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 17940 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
sg 17204 0

Been wrestling with a Zenwalk install for a few days on my IBM T23 which is
a dual boot Winows/Puppy Dingo. Finally decided if I am to learn the ins and outs of Zenwalk. I need a dedicated install on its own Hardrive. I have 3
Separate Quick Swap Caddies for this Amrel Laptop. One 100 gig, Win r2000 Pro/NimbleX 2008/Xubuntu 8.04. Another 20 gig Ubuntu 8.0/AntiX 2008. And this 6 gig that I wiped and installed Zenwalk 5.2. I knew 5.2 didn't
have the module for the Belkin F5D7010 PCMCIA Wireless G Card. What
lspci is showing is a Dlink WNA 1330 PCMCIA Wireless G with Atheros Chipset. I don't know why it won't pick it up either. Nimblex,AntiX,Ubuntu,Puppy Dingo, all connect with this card with little or no effort. Maybe someone can enlighten me because I have been jumping through hoops, making a honest effort to get Zenwalk up and running so I can learn something new for a change. I aint bitchin, just confused and tired
and a little lost at the moment. Time for a Smoke and a beer,Happy Trails.
Edit : Forgot to mention sound and Flash work fine

Update after a couple beers and some thinking. Opened Netpkg and used snapshot from http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... 6/snapshot

You might consider this unsafe but I just went ahead and told it to install Kernel 2.6.28.2 and grabbed my package and held my breath. Took a little while downloading and configuring kernel targz but in the end I was greeted by success. Not being one to be too optimistic. I closed down Net package (Noticed you have to drag the window around in 800X600 resolution) and told the computer to reboot and held my breath again. Takes awhile to boot but as soon as the loading bar starts to move, I hit F2 to see whats going on. I see modules being updated with 2.6.28.2 kernel which is cool. Log into user desktop and open Terminal and type " uname -r " and am greeted with Kernel 2.6.28.2. Yahoo.

Bandipat. I did a search for Zendo. And am intimidated by Missing or Updated dependencies labeled in red.
atk, cairomm, dbus, dbus-glib, directfb, fontconfig, freetype, gcc, glib2, glibmm, gtk+2, gtkmm, libnotify, libpng, libsigc++, pango, wget, xcb, xorg-libs, zpm

Before I install Zendo, I am going to quit while I am ahead and try to understand if these are just updates to existing Dependencies or are they missing dependencies.

Opened Wicd and told it to connect to my wireless router.
Unplugged Lan Cable.
checked wicd moniter at bottom taskbar and it showed connected to my router at 100% with Lan unplugged.
Opened Browser.
I now have Wireless working.

Couldn't have done it without your guys help. Thanks, I'm gonna get plastered now and celebrate. Happy Trails.

Today after doing some more research and experimenting, I now have a better understanding about my statement. I feel somewhat comfortable with Netpkg Manager enough and am Loading Zendo packages as I type this out. I now know that the dependencies concern I had was just a non issue. The adventure continues.

After installing Zendo I am quite pleased. It takes up less screen real estate then Netpkg on this 800X600 screen. That means I don't have to move the Window around to use it. Nice work Sparky and Bandipat. The Wiki provides good instructions http://wiki.zenwalk.org/index.php?title=HOWTO_use_Zendo.

For any other Questions that might need answering I found this page
http://manual.zenwalk.org/ to be most helpful. I have done about all the documentation on this install I care to do. Hopefully it will help another Amrel User switching over to Zenwalk.

As a side note, This particular Amrel Laptop touchscreen never worked, even with Amrels supplied driver from here http://www.amrel.com/rugged-computers/drivers.asp using Windows 2000. Could be A hardware problem on this particular laptop. Touchscreen doesn't work in Zenwalk either. I can live without it.
What does work
1. Sound
2. Display
3. Touchpad and mouse buttons. Including tapping the mousepad.
4. Battery Moniter if you enable its applet in top taskbar
5. Hardwired Lan
6. Dlink WNA 1330 Wireless b/g Cardbus with Atheros Chipset identified above, (you have to do a kernel upgrade as described in above posts).

All in all a very good operating system that will preform beautifully on this brand of Laptop. I highly recommend this operating System to any body that comes to this thread looking to install a operating system to a empty hardrive on one of these Laptops. It wasn't that difficult.