I'm glad to hear Glen had better experience than I did. Glen and Brian, could you note which release you're installing? As I noted, my experience was with slink.
-- Tony On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 09:58:15AM -0700, Glen Mehn wrote: > before "configure device drivers" do "Alternate-- configure pcmcia" > > I've had good luck with just about every pcmcia card I've tried-- several > xircom's, netgearfa410x, several different 3com's... I think you just need to > add pcmcia support before you configure the network (and I think that I do it > before I config device drivers) > > glen > > > > 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] > > > > -- > Glen S Mehn > Lead Systems Administrator SquareTrade, Inc > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Building Trust in Transactions (sm) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
