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To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
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Subject: Re: How to select media for PCMIA combo network card? 
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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 12:48:00 +0930
From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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> I got a new IBM ThinkPad 560 today, and I'm trying to get FreeBSD
> installed using the network card.  I'm completely ignorant about
> this stuff, as will soon become apparant.

It still isn't the greatest, believe me.

> The network card is a LinkSys PCMIA combo card (NE2000 compatible).
> I got it instead of the 3c589 because (a) Mike Smith raves about the
> NE2000 compatibles for laptops, (b) I couldn't find the Accton card
> that he recommends all the time, (c) it's listed as a supported card
> under PAO, and (d) I figured my first choice would be the wrong one,
> so I decided to start with the cheap card instead of the expensive
> one. :-)

Sounds pretty logical to me. 8)

> Next I tried the latest PAO boot floppy.  It did recognize the card
> and set it up with the ed0 driver, as expected.  I started the
> emergency holographic shell and was able to ifconfig the card and so
> forth.  So far so good.

Ok.  Note that this is bypassing the code in sysinstall that's meant to 
do that.

> So ... is there a way to select the media for this card?  I tried
> "link2" on the ifconfig line, and it didn't make any difference.
> For fun, I tried various combinations of "link1" and "link0" also.

There's no standard mechanism for selecting the media on an NE2000 
clone.  The Accton cards that I rave about do it automagically (you can 
swap between the two with impunity, and it Just Works).

Is there any sort of "DOS setup" program with the card?

mike