laptop newbie pcmcia nightmare

[Ant Ken <antken@antken.co.uk>]

hi,

my goal is to get a fully working version of linux on my old pentium 75 
laptop it has no cdrom drive just floppy pcmcia and irda
i have managed to get debain onto the laptop but now i cannot get it to use 
the pcmcia network card (3com 3c589) to talk to the network Plus to make it 
worse i have lost the install screen.

my first question is this:
how do i get the system to see the 3com card?

second question:
i have a home network, with a router dns server etc ( overkill i know, but 
its fun! )
how do i configure the networking side of things?

third question:
how do i get the install screen back so i can tell it i want to down load 
debain from the web and install it?

thanks and i hope some one can help me!

antken



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