Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 20:59:58 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to select media for PCMIA combo network card? Message-ID: <199709170359.UAA06799@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Sep 1997 12:48:00 %2B0930." <199709170318.MAA00339@word.smith.net.au>
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> > 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. OK, but it shouldn't matter, should it? The reason I tried it manually is because I wanted to make sure it would work before committing to the FreeBSD installation. I didn't want it to wipe out the Windows 95 installation that came on the system if it was going to fail, since I might need Windows 95 temporarily in order to run the card setup software and make it work. > 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? Yes, there's a setup program that you're supposed to boot under DOS to install drivers for Windows 95. There's also a program for selecting the media. But it won't run because it's not finding the right drivers. I guess I have to do the Windows 95 setup for it first. I was trying to avoid that because it's a 12-step process that took them two pages to describe. It says on the box that the card "automatically senses media type and polarity" but that's obviously not quite 100% true. :-( John
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