Re: Debian on a 486sx thru PCMCIA NIC
David,
I have exactly the same problem with my laptop. It is a compaq presario
1600, and pcmcia will not work during the installation process. Usually it
comes up after rebooting, but I never found out why.
Another quirk is that the "discover" package seems to interfere with
pcmcia on my laptop. When I have that installed to set up X, pcmcia will
only work through the hotplug facility. Removing discover solves this
problem.
Regards,
Arjen
On 1 Nov 2003, David Zelinsky wrote:
> "Dr. Fred M'Bogo" <dr.mbogo@hotpop.com> writes:
>
> > The way I usually bypass not having a cd on a laptop is that I
> > install the drivers, configure pcmcia, install the nic (usually from
> > the console) and then just configure the network. After that
> > everything works as usual.
>
> I've been trying to do just this, but after configuring the network,
> I'm told "Network is configured but not activated", so I can't
> continue with the network install. The pcmcia/ethernet is being
> recognized correctly. But eth0 is never brought up.
>
> This was with a manual network configuration; it did finally work with
> DHCP (after I figured out how to install a DHCP server on my desktop
> machine). I checked the numbers I was giving it several times, so I
> don't believe it was just a bad configuration. In fact, if I remember
> right, I did manage to bring the network up manually with ifconfig.
>
> Is this a bug in the installer? Or am I doing something wrong?
>
> David
>
>
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