Re: [FIXED] Re: installation procedure for pcmcia network install

[Christoph Ulrich Scholler <scholler@fsmb.tu-darmstadt.de>]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 06:44:51PM +0100 or thereabouts, Goran Ristic wrote:
> > > [...]
> > >   exclude port 0x0800-0x08ff
> > > 
> > > in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts fixed that problem, and i am online. this
> > > is weird though. does anyone know why the latitude C800 has something
> > > in this port range, which dell doesn't document, and which the
> > > internet doesn't know about?
> > 
> > excluding those ports is something i learned the hard way as well.  it
> > is also necessary to do so on the dell inspiron 8000 models.
> 
> It isn't necessary on my I8100. Everything worked fine from the
> beginnig. - In fact, I do not know enough about the specific differences
> between those two models. (Even Dell's support seems to be uninformed
> about that -- at least here in Germany).

i was talking about the 8000 series, not the 8100.  on the 8000 series
it is certainly necessary.  i remember similar pcmcia questions asked on
this list back when the 8000 series was new (those good old times...).

regards,

uLI