Juanito... I did that... thanks.
Thanks to you all for helping figure this out!
I have certainly learned something, I am going to have to go back through all this to write up a HOWTO at least to help solidify the process in my mind. I have run into similar situations before, and I really want to be able to use the methods that you senior guys helped me with.
Ulitimately, I would like to learn how to troubleshoot hardware/firmware/driver issues like that in the future. As I said I love to work with old hardware and make it useful again.
Ultimately, I would like to make a laptop for the kids, wife, father, mother.. all older hardware running tinycore!
Thanks again guys.
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