Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 11:40:03 -0600 From: jake-freebsd <jake-freebsd@bonch.org> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: install problems on Dell CPi with 3com 3c589d Message-ID: <20040622174003.GB18608@luvewe.bonch.org>
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I apologize in advance for any information I may have left out of this e-mail. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE on a Dell Latitude CPi, but encountering some issues. This particular laptop has no CDROM drive, only floppy, so I'm trying to do a net install with a 3Com 3c589d PCMCIA card (which appears to be supported hardware in 4.10-RELEASE). The only problem is this card is not recognized by the install. I have some experience using the BSDs (mostly OpenBSD), though mostly on Sun gear. PC stuff is still a gray area for me. I've tried disabling what I can in the BIOS to prevent IRQ conflicts, and in the kernal config screen, no conflicts seem to appear. I get an option as soon as sysinstall starts to select the memory range pccard uses; I've tried all options with no success. I still can't select 'ethernet' or something similar as a network interface. Can anyone offer up any help and/or advice, and/or links to docs that will help (I've looked through freebsd-laptop)? Also, is there a method in FreeBSD to get the dmesg exported to the floppy drive somehow? I of course want to include the dmesg in this e-mail, but I'm a n00b so don't know exactly how ;) In OpenBSD I could do: 'mount -d msdos /dev/fd0a /mnt && dmesg > /mnt/dmesg.txt' anything similar in freebsd? Again I greatly appreciate any help provided, and I'll try to get any additional information requested. Thanks Jake
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