From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 26 07:59:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA12302 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 07:59:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA12293 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 07:59:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id IAA21701; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 08:58:35 -0600 Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 08:58:35 -0600 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199604261458.IAA21701@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Tom Fischer Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing FreeBSD w/ 3com 3c589c PCMCIA Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc In-Reply-To: <3180D62D.41C67EA6@amak.rain.fr> References: <3180D62D.41C67EA6@amak.rain.fr> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'm attempting to install freebsd over a network (NFS install), > onto a toshiba laptop with a 3c589c PCMCIA card installed in > slot zero. Unfortunately, the 2.1R book disk doesn't work with the 3c589[C] model, which came out after 2.1R was released. It does work in -stable and -current, but that doesn't help you know. There are two solutions to the problem. 1) Use the Nomad-PC-CARD boot floppy to install FreeBSD. http://www.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/person/hosokawa/freebsd-pcmcia/ 2) Use the SNAP boot floppy to install FreeBSD. This will be on ftp.freebsd.org in the snap directory. Any of the newer SNAP will work fine. > Any hints, ideas, thrashings, etc. will be strongly appreciated. It should work fine once you get 2.1R installed and you upgrade to either -current or -stable. '-stable' is *safer* in that it's intended to be more stable, but -current has beta support for hot-swap PC-CARD support, which may or may not interest you. (There is support for other ethernet cards, modems, and the like.) Nate