Thanks for the prompt support Elmar!
when you are in the busybox shell, run "dmesg". do you see additional infos about pcmcia?
With the same Plop Linux 4.2.2 installation media:
# dmesg | grep pcmcia
<5> pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 1
are you able to boot from cd or usb to test a few things?
This laptop does not have a CDROM drive. It does have a USB port but I havent tried to make a USB media to boot Plop Linux yet as I really hoped to get this machine to boot Plop Linux from the PCMCIA flash disk.
please try also the new 4.3.0-test2 version
Okay I will try it. Just so I know what to look for is something different in this test version that might yield a different result to anything I've tried with the 4.2.2 installation so far?