On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 06:10:27AM -0500, Brian Mays wrote: > Here is the information that I was able to get from the user: > > > > The interface xxx (xxx) seems to be a PCMCIA card. Is this > > > correct? > > > No, I wasn't asked that. However, I suspect that my case is pretty > > hard to take into account in an installation script, at least with the > > current way of handling network cards (my understanding of this is not > > the best admittedly, I'm a programmer of very little brain). > > > > These were the steps I took to install the system on a new, empty hd > > (after trying to get the boot floppies to work with a usb floppy): > > > > I made a small dos partition and shuttled over linux, drivers.tgz etc > > to that partition via diskettes. Loaded the kernel drivers from the > > dos partition. > > > > Next I installed the system via http by using the eepro card in the > > port replicator (although it's not really a replicator since there are > > no ports on the computer itself. But I digress). Sometime around this > > point I was asked if I wanted to remove the pcmcia drivers, since I > > wasn't using them, but I said no. > > > > The reason I used the eepro card (I don't normally use the replicator > > since it's large and in the way, the only badly designed part of the > > laptop) was that I couldn't get the wlan card to work with the boot > > floppies, there wasn't a driver for the orinoco_cs card that I could > > find and the wavelan driver didn't work (at least not immediatly, so I > > just went with what worked). > > > > Once I had the base system installed I upgraded the kernel to 2.4.18, > > as instructed by our sysadmin, and kompiled appropriate modules etc. > > > > Only after this did I start using the wlan and 3com pcmcia cards and > > ran into the glitch I mailed to the list about. > > > > I hope this helps, and thanks again, I've got my setup working > > smoooothly now. > > It looks like this could be a non-issue, and the installation scripts > are fine. What do you think?
The boot-floppies don't prevent the user from borking their installation after they have finished, nor should they. :) The lack of appropriate drivers sounds like a bug, however. Could you find out which pcmcia-modules package was in use? Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
