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hi just few questions 1. can debian be installed without os3.x been installed first 2. why doesn't debian have more/currently for sale lan card support 3. how easy is it to make a driver for 3com pcmcia cards ref to : michael schmitz 15th feb: Start with an existing m68k PCMCIA ethernet driver, and compare that with its mainstream equivalent. Then apply similar changes to the 3c589 mainstream driver. IIRC the only supported PCMCIA card is a NE2000. Look at drivers/net/apne.c and compare with drivers/net/ne.c ... actually, do this comparison on a fairly old version of the kernel source, the two drivers have diverged sufficiently to make a simple diff hard to stomach. Of course, you can try to get drivers/net/pcmcia/3c589_cs.c to compile for m68k and work through the compile errors if you are so inclined. 4. does this mean u end up wi old kernel?.. 5. is there a walk through guild for doing this? can some1 pls write one! ( i do want to learn about linux, but this seems like a big thing for novices to do) 6. for someone thats only ever used latest versions of linux on intel machines( where every lan card in the universe seems 2b included) would there be anything else to consider b4 trying to get to grips wi 68k linux 7. sorry 2 evey1 that got mails from me, just clicked on reply to messages, sure the mails went to them not to 68k lists thx |