Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 15:35:52 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to select media for PCMIA combo network card? Message-ID: <199709170605.PAA00906@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Sep 1997 22:51:51 MST." <199709170551.WAA07278@austin.polstra.com>
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> > Gotcha. So much notebook stuff is W96-dependant that I tend to > > leave at least a minimal W95 partition on the disk. Call me a > > traitor. > > Ugh. Understand, this thing came pre-installed and there's no CDROM > drive (not to mention no W95 CDROM). There is a procedure for > writing a 29-disk set of floppies, though. :-( Yeah. That's "standard" apparently. You appear to think about as much of it as I do. 8) > Will fips work for W95? Yup, worked here just fine. > > > 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. > > > > Shit. What a mess. > > Yes, well of course I tried it and on step 11 it utterly failed to > do anything remotely resembling what the instructions said would > happen at that point, leaving the drivers half-installed. Even better. > Get this, though: I was at least able to run the card's diagnostics at > that point, and afterwards I booted up the PAO floppy again and did > the ifconfig. Now the thing _does_ respond to pings. OK. But once it's been powered down it doesn't talk anymore? > I am thinking that the easiest solution might be to buy a hub that has > a BNC connector on it to tie into my existing network, and then just > use the 10baseT interface on the card. There's no way I'm going to > put up with booting W95 just to set the media every time. The LinkSys > card plus a cheap hub is still probably less expensive than a 3c589. Probably. I'm kinda disgusted that they don't do automatic media selection; we all know it's possible. mike
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