Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:19:05 -0400 From: "Dr. Richard E. Hawkins" <hawk@slytherin.ds.psu.edu> To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> Cc: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> Subject: Re: bootstrapping network (bcm) on Dell D800 Message-ID: <20030806131905.GE5181@slytherin.ds.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <16176.63764.221018.47299@canoe.velocet.net> References: <20030805194530.GC5181@slytherin.ds.psu.edu> <20030805154926.B88927@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> <16176.63764.221018.47299@canoe.velocet.net>
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On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 08:48:20AM -0400, David Gilbert wrote: > >>>>> "Andre" == Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> writes: > Andre> On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Dr. Richard E. Hawkins wrote: <getting the drivers onto the D800> > Andre> Does this new toy have a 32-bit pci slot available? If so, pop > Andre> in a nic (temporarily), cvsup and/or grab the needed patches > Andre> and rebuild away! > > It has a mini-pci slot. You'd have a hard time getting an ethernet > card in there. Having just had a look at the patch, it's a little > large to be typing in by hand. > Here's the options I see for you: > 1) the D800 has a serial port (rare on today's laptops). Hook up a > modem or a null serial cable and network thusly to cvsup. > 2) the D800 has a pccard slot. Find someone with a wireless or > ethernet card. <etc> I finally figureed out that the removable floppy (which works both as an external usb and internall) is treated as a scsi device, not /dev/fd0. So I tried moving the drivers from the up to date machine. No dice; they depend on another changed function. So I borrowed a usb zip drive, and found that a bzip2'd source tree is only 83M. I've moved that, and have a new kernel compiling from a source tree updated this morning. Am I going to have to do anything else to get the bge device detected, or will it just kernel installation and reboot take care of this? thanks hawkhome | help
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