From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 9 2:52:26 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7281E37B401 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 02:52:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.hccnet.nl (smtp.hccnet.nl [62.251.0.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FF7043F93 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 02:52:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from duiker@haggis.nl) Received: from zeus by smtp.hccnet.nl via fia148-72.dsl.hccnet.nl [62.251.72.148] with ESMTP for id h19AqKqP004302 (8.12.5/2.00); Sun, 9 Feb 2003 11:52:23 +0100 (MET) From: "Colin J. Raven" To: "BSD Questions" Subject: BSD on Tecra 8100 w/Docking Station Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 11:50:19 +0100 Message-ID: <001001c2d029$09aacbe0$1500000a@scrk.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings everyone!! I'd very much like to install FreeBSD on the above laptop. However, there is a problem in that it sits full time on a Toshiba Docking Station...in which sits the NIC. Although ('natch) there are PCMCIA slots, I've never bought a card, owing to the existence of the dock. I concede that may have been a mistake in hindsight, but now I have to (try and) work with what I've got. W2K recognizes the docking station NIC with nary a murmur and always has. BUT since buying this machine I have *never* got any Linux install to recognize the dock network card. I'm determined to install *a* 'nix on this machine, yet this seems to be *the* stumbling block no matter what. I've tried FreeBSD on a friend's machine and believe I just may be hooked! :-) I went on an orgy of reading to see if anyone solved this. To date I've read a whole lot of; "try this, it might work" ("it" didn't in every case!) and despite many weeks of trolling around I'm as stumped as when I began. Can anyone offer a definitive answer to this - *the* most important question of all?? I'd truly appreciate a solution to the issue.....somewhere, somehow.=20 Regards & TIA, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message