AH-- I see. Slink is pretty darn old-- it's the ex-release version-- if you're doing a network install, why not try the latest boot disks-- from potato (2.2r3)
I think that the pcmcia stuff was somewhat borked even when slink was out-- I seem to remember having to jump through hoops, and ending up installing potato anyway, when it was unstable. try it ou t with the potato boot disks- you'll end up with a newer kernel, proper pcmcia modules, a less buggy install, etc. glen On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 12:26:28PM -0700, Tony Godshall wrote: > 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] > > -- Glen S Mehn Lead Systems Administrator SquareTrade, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Building Trust in Transactions (sm)
