AW: Installing Woody using IBM EtherJet PCMCIA
> > Why not acquire a $5. Debian CD and install from it? It will be handy
> > to have in any case.
>
> Unfortunately, that wouldn't solve my problem.
>
> - There are no CDs available yet for woody. I have a cablemodem, so I
> don't mind downloading the entire distribution once or twice to get it
> installed.
Have a look at there: http://www.debian.org/CD/
You can find Images for Potato, Woody and Sid via HTTP, FTP, rsync and other
methods
> - I very, very highly doubt that the cs89x0_cs driver is included in the
> Debian distribution. (Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I
> haven't seen it...)
It the driver is really not included in the distribution (propetiary?), just
compile for yourself after installation as you did with your slackware.
> There is also the fact that I can't boot from CD on that machine, but I
> suppose that is rather unimportant...
You can also dowload boot floppys from the location above or create them
from your CDs.
> > When I load Debian 2.2 or 2.4 it asks about loading the drivers for
> > the PCMCIA cards and I forget if both or just the 2.4 does the
> > automagic thing and finds the right one.
>
> Yes, woody's floppy boot-up procedure does the same thing. It unpacks
> 'drivers.tgz' but the cs89x0_cs driver does not seem to be included
> there... so until I find out how to add the cs89x0_cs driver, I'm rather
> out of luck.
>
> graham
>
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