Tell me again how old is the boot floppy?
I think your problem is that the pcmcia locks when it does it scan of pcmcia ports In the later updates, it has a certain port range that is off limits G On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, martin f krafft wrote: >Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 16:06:37 +0100 >From: martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: debian laptop <[email protected]> >Subject: installation procedure for pcmcia network install >Resent-From: [email protected] > >hi folks, >no, this by far isn't my first debian install, not even on a laptop, >and no, i am not stupid. but somehow i am perplexed by how debian >wants the installation on a laptop to work. > >i have this new latitude C800 sitting here, with a beautiful xircom >ethernet card. i used the 3.0.28-compact boot floppy set from woody, >and partitioned, installed driver modules and all that. now i want to >get the network up to be able to install from ftp. > >the pcmcia card is not plugged in, and i configure pcmcia support for >the controller only, not for serial or cdrom devices. it does not >complain. then i insert the card, it beeps, and the system freezes. if >i have the card in the slot while installing pcmcia, it freezes. what >gives? what am i doing wrong? > >
