Date: 01 Jul 2000 09:08:57 -0700 From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem for PCMCIA - Texas Instruments Message-ID: <m2d7kxrfxi.fsf@reader.ptw.com> In-Reply-To: "peter kok"'s message of "Sat, 01 Jul 2000 13:34:21 GMT" References: <20000701133421.979.qmail@hotmail.com>
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"peter kok" <aoypcc@hotmail.com> writes: > Hi > > I have dell notebook 3500 inspirion with texas instructments PCMCIA > card. I would like to install freebsd 4.0 by ftp. > > But I couldn't find any network device after booting up via floppy disk. > > How do I do? tks for your help I recently tried the same thing (not your specific card) and found that the general concensus is that laptops are prone to trouble with the pcmcia cards. If you have trouble there it is a very good chance that you will never get networking established using `sysinstall'. Thats the program used during installation, that helps you configure a network. What I did and what others have advised is to get a base install some other way. From cd (best) or from downloaded base install, put on a dos disk. Get the base system installed and running. Then begin the process of tracking down the trouble. There have been some additions to the code that finds pcmcia cards in the 4.0 snapshots since about 06/18 or so. You can get the snapshots at: ftp://releng4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/ The most recent being 2000701 (July 1). What you'll want are the files in the top directory: Everthing but `packages', which is a symlink to about 37,484 packages (just a guess.. he he). And XF86336@, which is also a symlink to lots of stuff. All the base X stuff. If you have dsl or a t-1 or something, it would make sense to get everthing under XF86* but you don't need any of it to install a base system. Once you have a base system running.... look at your boot messages and repost here with some better information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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