RE: Installation via PCMCIA ethernet card
Get the drivers disk from 3Com and make the drivers as per their
instructions. Then run 3c589.exe, or something similar to that, from
there you can set the IRQ and the other setings of the card.
On 28-Feb-99 Liam Healy wrote:
> I am trying to install Debian 2.1 on a Dell Latitude XPi CD via the
> network. This computer has a new hard disk, so I partitioned the disk
> with cfdisk, then started to put Debian on the second partition,
> leaving the first partition for Windows NT. I went through the
> dbootstrap procedure of configuring the PCMCIA and the network.
> Everything worked: I could NFS mount to get base2_1.tgz, and I could
> ftp to a Debian mirror to get the packages. Then I stopped doing that
> and went through a painful Windows NT installation. I finally got
> winnt working, and went back to the Debian install. Now the network
> is totally unreachable - I even wiped out the Debian partition and
> started over, doing exactly the same thing in dbootstrap that I had
> done before. No luck: I can't ping the machine from outside, and I
> can't load anything in Debian.
>
> Is it possible that WinNT (with a Softex cardmanager) reconfigured
> something that gets saved in the Etherlink III PCMCIA card? I did
> change something in the BIOS, but it doesn't seem relevant (I disabled
> the IR port). Other than these two possibilities, I don't see how the
> WinNT setup could have affect Debian - or am I missing something?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
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E-Mail: Mark Ciciretti <mciciretti@dzn.com>
Date: 01-Mar-99
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