On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:18:23AM -0800, larry a price wrote: > > The other one would be seen plugging into the cardbus only to vanish from > the sight of the operating system which would say: Where did the card go?
Lemme guess, this was the LinkSys being discovered as ne3 ? at the boot> prompt: boot -c disable cbb quit If that works, disable cbb (cardbus, but it should work as PCMCIA, since that's a PCMCIA card) permanently > Moral of the story. Beware pcmcia ethernet cards when installing netbsd. > So in order to return the laptop to a functional state I'm looking for an > OS, right now the leading contenders are in order. Or just read the man pages (ne(4) lists the "Where did the device go" message in the DIAGNOSTICS section) and search the mailing list archives ;) > 1. FreeBSD - Pros: wide support, likely to deal well with minority pcmcia > cards and such. Cons: safe and solid and boring Actually, I had to hack the card daemon data files to get my LinkSys card to work on FreeBSD, and I only figured out how to do that after several hours of searching. I got it to work on OpenBSD with an "intuitive guess" -> take out the middle man :) > 2. OpenBSD - pros: fanatical support locally, secure, strong crypto, > cons: smaller developer/user community, PCMCIA support unkown PCMCIA is there; I'm sending this email through a LinkSys PCMCIA card. OpenBSD is used mostly as a router or server, so a parallel port scanner, for example, is not supported because it is not deemed important. > AnyHoo, I'm confused and seeking input, if you have a suggestion as to > Operating Systems that's not on the list, my only criteria are: > Must be open source, should run python, Must be able to connect to the > network via the PCMCIA bus. Should allow me to learn about itself > relatively quickly and easily. Have you even tried OpenBSD? The last line is why I like OpenBSD. It is well documented. IMO, it is as simple/intuitive as *nix gets. It's really easier to learn when you have to do it yourself, is it not? I was using Debian, but wanted more control (in a way that would be portable to other *nix's) ... -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
