From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 9 4: 3:38 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 73F3937B401 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 04:03:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from sunny.pacific.net.au (sunny.pacific.net.au [203.2.228.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 088D943FB1 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 04:03:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from allan@dib.name) Received: from wisma.pacific.net.au (wisma.pacific.net.au [210.23.129.72]) by sunny.pacific.net.au with ESMTP id h19C3VMr011345; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 23:03:31 +1100 (EST) Received: from dib.name (dyn11.mel2.homedsl.pacific.net.au [203.100.245.11]) by wisma.pacific.net.au with ESMTP id XAA00720; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 23:03:30 +1100 (EST) Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 23:03:29 +1100 Subject: Re: BSD on Tecra 8100 w/Docking Station Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG To: "Colin J. Raven" From: Allan Dib In-Reply-To: <001001c2d029$09aacbe0$1500000a@scrk.com> Message-Id: <80E5B301-3C26-11D7-A240-000393BCC13C@dib.name> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) 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 I hate to be a party pooper but I think you'll find that if Linux (which supports a larger range of hardware than FreeBSD) doesn't support your card then FreeBSD probably won't. In any case consult the freebsd "hardware notes". Your best bet is just to buy a cheopo PCMCIA NIC... -Allan. On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 09:50 PM, Colin J. Raven wrote: > 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. > > Regards & TIA, > -Colin > -- > Colin J. Raven > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message