Re: woody install, pcmcia panic
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 12:46:14PM -0400, Rob Ellis wrote:
> I'm trying to do a floppy + ftp install of woody on
> a Dell Latitude LT...
>
> I ran into some initial problems with getting the network
> setup working (had to go to the virtual terminal and
> do ifconfig/route by hand), but after that the install
> goes smoothly.
>
> When I reboot, however, the pcmcia setup causes a kernel panic.
> I can disable /etc/rc?.d/*pcmcia, and then the system
> boots ok, but of course then I don't have access to the
> pccard ethernet card I need to connect to the network.
>
> Since the pcmcia stuff works fine during the install, I think
> there must be some way to get the right driver (?) off the
> install floppies? But I don't know how...
>
Sorted this out with help from the archives.
Set PCIC=yenta_socket in /etc/default/pcmcia and commented
out the override to i82365 in /etc/init.d/pcmcia.
- Rob
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