Re: Best network card for network install?
I did a network install via Linksys pcmcia card but I had to
drop to shell, edit (/target?)/etc/pcmcia/network.opts
manually and then (/target?)/etc/init.d/pcmcia (re?)start .
(Sorry my memory is fuzzy... didn't take notes :( .)
At that point ifconfig told me eth0 was configured so I
exited the shell (back to the install menu) and continued.
I've also done an install on another machine to the dselect
point (off the SGI/ORA/VA slink CD) and *then* configured
the PCMCIA, and run apt-get dist-upgrade to get the rest
from FTP.
I'm still not clear if the debian PCMCIA net install was
broken or if I didn't understand it right.
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 09:40:50AM -0500, Brian Button wrote:
>
> Gee, this sure seems like an FAQ, and I apologize for asking it
> again. But I've been trying to install 2.2r3 via a network install for
> two days now, and I haven't made any progress at all.
>
> I can't seem to get any of my linksys cards recognized at the point of
> the install where you have to specify modules to load. I have both a
> PCMPC200 V2 and an EC2T, the former of which uses the newer tulip
> driver and the latter uses pcnet_cs. Both cards are recognized after
> boot through cardctl ident, but no interface is ever defined for them,
> and I can't seem to get past this. The error that gets printed during
> the install says something about the specific module I'm loading being
> busy, probably due to a bad IO address or IRQ.
>
> My best effort at making this work was to grab the newest tulip.c,
> grab a bunch of deb packages, including the compiler, newest pcmcia_cs
> source, kernel_headers, etc, and build tulip.o. I ran depmod -a, put
> the proper stuff into /etc/pcmcia/config, and still couldn't get
> anything to work.
>
> Are there different and better network cards to use for a laptop
> install? Has anyone ever gotten a laptop network install to work,
> either with either of these linksys cards, or *any* PCMCIA card???
>
> I searched through the archives and found one person who said that
> they were having similar problems at the same place in the install,
> and they avoided it by initializing PCMCIA. How can this be done
> during install?
>
> Sorry for asking so many questions, and I should probably just order
> the CDs :( This has become something of a quest, though...
>
> Thanks in advance, and I promise to write up and post any success that
> I have to share this information with future debian newbies :)
>
> bab
>
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