At 11:01 AM 3/23/00 -0800, TMP Company wrote:
>I have an NEC 486/75 - 500mb HD - floppy only - 8mb ram - laptop with a
>3c589 lan card, I can't seem to get Red Hat or Slack Ware to find the card
>to do an FTP install from my server. I have not found a mini distro to
>install that supports that card. Tomsrtbt has support? but I couldn't get
>it going.
>From the Ethernet HowTo (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.html):
"3c589 / 3c589B
"Status: Semi-Supported, Driver Name: 3c589
"Many people have been using this PCMCIA card for quite some time now. Note
that support for it is not (at present) included in the default kernel
source tree. The "B" in the name means the same here as it does for the
3c509 case.
"There are drivers available on Donald's ftp site and in David Hinds PCMCIA
package. You will also need a supported PCMCIA controller chipset. See
PCMCIA Support for more info on PCMCIA drivers, chipsets, socket enablers, etc."
"Donald" in the above is Don Becker -- his site is
http://cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/ . The link to David Hinds' site
(elsewhere in the HowTo) is broken.
Sorry I can't help more, but perhaps this is enough to get you moving forward.
Oh ... tomsrtbt ... "I couldn't get it going" is just a bit too vague to
troubleshoot. If you want help with that part, you'll need to describe the
nature of the problem.
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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