Re: [TCLUG:18811] Debian PCMCIA net install

[Gabe Turner (officer) <dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu>]

 You should have 3 disks: driver-1.bin, driver-2.bin and driver-3.bin.  When
it asks youif you want to install drivers, you say yes and then tell it you want it to look in /dev/fd0.  It will then prompt for driver-1, then driver-2, then driver-3.  Then it will give you the screen that lets you load the drivers.

Gabe

> 
> In response to my question about installing Debian on a laptop:
> 
> On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Philip C Mendelsohn wrote:
> 
> > Yes, you install from rescue and root, then config PCMCIA services
> > first.  The, it will prompt you to load modules, and i found that it
> > sometimes is necessary to load the 3com driver before anyothers.  Also,
> > you may need to enter the shell on another console and add a route using
> > ifconfig.
> 
> OK, my head is bruised from banging it on my desk. Here's what I've done:
> 
> 1. boot rescue and load root floppies
> 2. partition, format, mount partitions, etc.
> 
> Now, if I try to "Configure PCMCIA Support" I get an error and loading the
> modules fails. So I decided to "Configure Device Driver Modules," but when I
> do, what looks like an error screen pops up for approx. 12 ns and I'm back
> to the installation main menu. Needless to say, I didn't have time to read
> the error message.
> 
> I wondered if it was complaining about not finding drivers. (I've never
> figured out when I should use the Driver-1.bin disk.) So I tried mounting
> Driver-1 manually, but I couldn't get that to work either.
> 
> I know for a fact that this PCMCIA NIC uses the standard TI chipset. It
> *should* work.
> 
> Any other hints?
> 
> -Tim
> 
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