From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 24 17:47:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA08860 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:47:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA08855 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:47:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA04221; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:43:52 -0800 (PST) To: Tom Wadlow cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ethernet options on 2.2-GAMMA In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 24 Feb 1997 15:39:04 PST." Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:43:52 -0800 Message-ID: <4217.856835032@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > - The kernel boot messages place the zp0 (the Etherlink III) > device init messages just a few lines before the screen clears > to start the initialization. Try as I might, I am not fast enough > to read those lines to determine if it is successfully finding the > zp0 device in the fraction of a second it is visible. jkh points emphatically at the scroll-lock key and the "Usage" item in the very first sysinstall menu which documents its usage. :-) > - The Media selection option of the installation program does > not list zp0 as an option. It lists the SLIP, PPP and parallel > options, but not zp0. There seems to be no way to bypass this, > or check directly for the presense of the zp0 device. Then it didn't probe it - you can be fairly assured of that. > Any thoughts as to how to proceed? My thought is that a "hit space to Install over a SLIP or PLIP connection? Try a different PCCARD adaptor? :-) You might also try the PAO floppy - It's available from Tatsumi Hosokawa's home page (I don't have an exact URL, but it's an easy net search target) and has better support for PCCARD devices in general. Jordan