Re: Debian on a thinkpad i1540

[Jens Helweg <helweg@gmx.de>]

Carlos Hernandez wrote:

> I have an IBM thinkpad i-series 1540 with a Netgear FA410tx pcmcia card, I
> want to install debian from the net, but I didn't have success trying with
> debian 2.1, It didn't recognize the pcmcia card.  Any ideas?

Hi Carlos,

according to http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS
NetGear FA410TXC
is supported. I don't know if there's a difference in your card (TX) and the one

mentioned there (TXC).
I've never tried to install Debian from the net on a laptop. That requires to
run the whole pcmcia package (cardmgr) with some boot disk in order to
get the nework up and then be able to install it.
I think there's a way to do that ( I saw it somewhere - unfortunately I don't
remember
where) but it might be easier to just get the CD's.

Jens