freebsd 5.1 install floppies, device.hints, and missing ep driverentries

2003-08-04 Thread iLLfated
Lo all, I've been trying to install 5.1 on my 486/75 28M no cdrom drive laptop. 4.8 installs just fine and I nabbed the resource settings from my operational 3c589 pcmcia nic. When trying to install 5.1 it fails to find the nic. I checked device.hints and theres no entry for my driver

Freebsd 5.1 3c589-TP pcmcia issues.

2003-08-02 Thread iLLfated
Lo all, I've been trying to install 5.1 on my 486/75 28M no cdrom drive lappy unsuccessfully now for about 2 days (total time). Apparently debian, openbsd and freebsd 4.8 all find it and can play nice tho 5.1 can't seem to manage it. I recorded all the resource settings used in the operational

Minimum base and X footprint

2003-06-15 Thread iLLfated
Lo all, I recently obtained a 486/75 toshiba satellite laptop. It has a 300MB HD in it. I have debian installed on it currently with basic networking tools, nmap, netcat, dig, whois, traceroute, tcpdump, etc... I also have X, fluxbox Epic4, Links, ssh, vim and a few other progies. I was