From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Mar 10 12:49:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA22756 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:49:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA22740 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:49:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA10894; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 13:49:27 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA27789; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 13:49:24 -0700 Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 13:49:24 -0700 Message-Id: <199803102049.NAA27789@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: John Polstra Cc: Nate Williams , mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Accton EN2216 PCMCIA In-Reply-To: <199803102046.MAA19872@austin.polstra.com> References: <199803102037.NAA27620@mt.sri.com> <199803102046.MAA19872@austin.polstra.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > How does the installation program know that ep0 is found? > > I don't know. Can't it just try to use the selected device at the > appropriate time? If it's not there, it will get an ENODEV or some > such thing. How does it know which device is there to use? There are *LOTS* of different ethernet cards supported in the GENERIC kernel. > > However, I don't know how much use it would be to fit it into > > sysinstall, instead of waiting for Son of Sysinstall. > > Well, if any kind of quick hack could be put in in the meantime, I > think it would be worthwhile. It's a major pain trying to install on > a system (like the ThinkPad 560) that doesn't have a CD-ROM drive. That's what lap-link cables and 3Com cards are for. :) :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message