Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 15:24:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Ian Field <ifield@omnikron.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PAO Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980405152320.17571S-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199804042140.NAA13373@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Ian Field wrote: > Working with a new laptop (A Sharp 9020) piece of crap really, but I > thought I'd try installing 2.2.6-RELEASE on it anyway. I haven't used > FreeBSD on a laptop yet, and was hoping for a little more support in the > pcmcia dept. The card I need to configure is a standard 36589d (etherlink > III) which the kernel supports (supposedly) But to no avail, enabling > pccard didn't do a thing - do I need to make a pccard.conf entry? If so, > what? You need to rebuild a kernel with the pccard devices for that to work. Try manipulating the zp device. Make sure you disable the ze device though. > After playing with the base install for awhile, I decided I needed the > PAO... the file I dl'd was PAO-971211.tar.gz, meant for 2.2.5-RELEASE (will > that be a prob?) I tried pkg_add (failed with "no +CONTENTS") then "gz -dc > <file> | tar xvf -" and "make" (make failed with directory errors) I can't > find any install documentation on the PAO site... any clues? That isn't a package. Extract it manually and read the README. It walks you through the installation step-by-step. > Also, having problems with the machine's Cirrus Logic 754x vid > adapter and XFree86... can't seem to get it to start without freezing > (tried every config I could think of) run xf86config and select your video card type from the list -- it'll give you some sample modelines that should work. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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