PCMCIA NICs on woody
I had loaded the May 25th version of debian-woody from a CD image,
and got some conflict between the NIC and some other device
(which I expected, since I'd gotten a conflict between the NIC and
the PCMCIA devices under Win NT.) But I got it to where everything
would come up fine.
I later download all the disks of the July 4th version of debian-woody
and upgraded. The upgrade worked horribly, which I assume is
due to some hand edits I'd made (e.g. to /etc/pcmcia/network.opts).
Live 'n' learn.
So I reinstalled from scratch. However, I could never get the
PCMCIA support to load. Perhaps I needed to unplug the modem
and NIC cards from the PCMCIA slots while installing that support?
(Please let me know if that is now the case with woody, or if it is
just a bug in the latest woody.)
Anyway, since the new woody wouldn't work, and I'd
given the old woody CD away, I decided to go back to
potato.
There, the PCMCIA installed! Then, the NIC installed! Then
the install reported the same error it did in woody for the
PCMCIA support. However, it all seems to work anyway.
The whole point of this rhodomontade is that the installation
for laptops seems pretty tricky!!
Chris
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