Re: bootstrapping network (bcm) on Dell D800

2003-08-14 Thread Dr. Richard E. Hawkins
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:40:18AM -0400, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Dr. Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > I finally figureed out that the removable floppy (which works both as an > > external usb and internall) is treated as a scsi device, not /dev/fd0. > > So I tried moving

Re: bootstrapping network (bcm) on Dell D800

2003-08-14 Thread Dr. Richard E. Hawkins
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 08:48:20AM -0400, David Gilbert wrote: > > "Andre" == Andre Guibert de Bruet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andre> On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Dr. Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > Andre> Does this new toy have a 32-bit pci slot available? If so, pop > Andre> in a nic (temporarily)

Re: bootstrapping network (bcm) on Dell D800

2003-08-14 Thread Andre Guibert de Bruet
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Dr. Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > If I'm reading the recent messages correctly, the bcm driver won't work > unless updated to approximately July 17. > > I burned 5.1 iso's, and installed most of it successfully. How do I > bootstrap the network. I saw Bill Paul's references to

Re: bootstrapping network (bcm) on Dell D800

2003-08-14 Thread David Gilbert
> "Andre" == Andre Guibert de Bruet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre> I'm under the impression that pretty much all of the 8xx-series Andre> Latitudes have DB9 ports (Including C800, C820 and friends). That may entirely be, but many of my local UN*X friends have ended up with laptops from ma

Re: bootstrapping network (bcm) on Dell D800

2003-08-14 Thread David Gilbert
> "Richard" == Richard E Hawkins writes: Richard> I finally figureed out that the removable floppy (which works Richard> both as an external usb and internall) is treated as a scsi Richard> device, not /dev/fd0. So I tried moving the drivers from the Richard> up to date machine. No dice; th

Re: bootstrapping network (bcm) on Dell D800

2003-08-14 Thread Andre Guibert de Bruet
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Dr. Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 08:48:20AM -0400, David Gilbert wrote: > > I finally figureed out that the removable floppy (which works both as an > external usb and internall) is treated as a scsi device, not /dev/fd0. > So I tried moving the drivers

Re: bootstrapping network (bcm) on Dell D800

2003-08-07 Thread David Gilbert
> "Andre" == Andre Guibert de Bruet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre> On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Dr. Richard E. Hawkins wrote: >> If I'm reading the recent messages correctly, the bcm driver won't >> work unless updated to approximately July 17. >> >> I burned 5.1 iso's, and installed most of it s

bootstrapping network (bcm) on Dell D800

2003-08-07 Thread Dr. Richard E. Hawkins
If I'm reading the recent messages correctly, the bcm driver won't work unless updated to approximately July 17. I burned 5.1 iso's, and installed most of it successfully. How do I bootstrap the network. I saw Bill Paul's references to testing a patch prior to committing it. Is this something I

Re: bootstrapping network (bcm) on Dell D800

2003-08-06 Thread Andre Guibert de Bruet
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, David Gilbert wrote: > > "Andre" == Andre Guibert de Bruet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Andre> On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Dr. Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > >> If I'm reading the recent messages correctly, the bcm driver won't > >> work unless updated to approximately July 17.