I did a network install via Linksys pcmcia card but I had to drop to shell, edit (/target?)/etc/pcmcia/network.opts manually and then (/target?)/etc/init.d/pcmcia (re?)start . (Sorry my memory is fuzzy... didn't take notes :( .)
At that point ifconfig told me eth0 was configured so I exited the shell (back to the install menu) and continued. I've also done an install on another machine to the dselect point (off the SGI/ORA/VA slink CD) and *then* configured the PCMCIA, and run apt-get dist-upgrade to get the rest from FTP. I'm still not clear if the debian PCMCIA net install was broken or if I didn't understand it right. On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 09:40:50AM -0500, Brian Button wrote: > > Gee, this sure seems like an FAQ, and I apologize for asking it > again. But I've been trying to install 2.2r3 via a network install for > two days now, and I haven't made any progress at all. > > I can't seem to get any of my linksys cards recognized at the point of > the install where you have to specify modules to load. I have both a > PCMPC200 V2 and an EC2T, the former of which uses the newer tulip > driver and the latter uses pcnet_cs. Both cards are recognized after > boot through cardctl ident, but no interface is ever defined for them, > and I can't seem to get past this. The error that gets printed during > the install says something about the specific module I'm loading being > busy, probably due to a bad IO address or IRQ. > > My best effort at making this work was to grab the newest tulip.c, > grab a bunch of deb packages, including the compiler, newest pcmcia_cs > source, kernel_headers, etc, and build tulip.o. I ran depmod -a, put > the proper stuff into /etc/pcmcia/config, and still couldn't get > anything to work. > > Are there different and better network cards to use for a laptop > install? Has anyone ever gotten a laptop network install to work, > either with either of these linksys cards, or *any* PCMCIA card??? > > I searched through the archives and found one person who said that > they were having similar problems at the same place in the install, > and they avoided it by initializing PCMCIA. How can this be done > during install? > > Sorry for asking so many questions, and I should probably just order > the CDs :( This has become something of a quest, though... > > Thanks in advance, and I promise to write up and post any success that > I have to share this information with future debian newbies :) > > bab > > -- > Brian Button [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Senior Consultant Object Mentor, Inc > St. Louis, MO http://www.objectmentor.com > > Extreme Programming in St. Louis - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xpstl > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
