Re: pcmcia nic confuddelment.
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 07:30:43PM +0100, 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
Confusing part of PCMCIA NIC are that they are not configured in regular
NIC configuration but in PCMCIA configuration.
So unlike normal PC install, when you see PCMCIA configuration at the
second line of install menu, you need to jump into it before doing
normal top line thing.
> 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?
Yep. Took me a while.
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