Re: pcmcia nic confuddelment.
On Wednesday 04 July 2001 20:30, Keith O'Connell wrote:
> I had two machines running Debian, not well, but working together and I
> was learning as I went. For all sorts or reasons I had to give my wife
> one of the desktop machines and she gave me her laptop.
>
> I partitioned a great chunk of it off and started to install potato from
> the cd set I have here. I got to the part about selecting the network
> card and got stuck. With the two desktops, I found the cards would work
> with "tulip", but I cannot get the nic in the laptop recognised by any
> of the options.
>
> What should I select as an option for a D-Link DE660 PCMCIA card
>
> I get the impression from other messages that laptops are trickier than
> desktops to set up with linux. Did I just change the gradient on my
> learning curve by taking the laptop on?
>
> Keith
PCMCIA network cards are dealt with differently than normal ones, because
they can be removed. Install the PCMCIA packages.
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