hmm well. I got kind disenchanted with *BSD when it wiped out my entire disk without asking or warning me, to make matters worse, it promptly crashed and rebooted right after wiping the entire disk (with 4 operating systems, and my entire backup of my mandrake system, with all my work on it...). Im not saying that I wont try *bsd, but Ill never put it on a disk with other OS's on it!
Jamie On Friday 09 November 2001 13:15, you wrote: > 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) ...
