Daniel Pittman wrote: > > On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, ari gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > > anyway, now im stuck. i dont know how to install the rest of the > > system. more specifically, i dont know how to get apt to understand > > that there's a PCMCIA card there just dying to connect to some ftp > > site with the files on it. > > > > any suggestions? is it possible? (im assuming so... ;) > > Right. You don't mention a few details about what exactly you have > installed so, if you have done bits already, ignore them. ;) > > The first thing to do is get the PCMCIA network card working. This > requires the PCMCIA packages installed. > > You need to have 'pcmcia-cs' and 'pcmcia-modules-<your kernel version>' > installed. > > If you built your own kernel from sources, grab the 'pcmcia-sources' > package and build the modules from that. I expect you didn't, but rather > used the pre-built kernel. So, grab the 'pcmcia-modules-2.2.17' (or > whatever) package. > > Once you have those installed, your 3COM card should be recognized by > DHCP, incidentally, will require a client package installed. I would > recommend the package 'dhclient', but others I know prefer 'dhcpcd' or > 'pump'. > > You should probably grab the package at the same time as you grab the > PCMCIA ones. Install them and edit the config and it should just > work(tm). >
Remember also that the isp may need you to provide a hostname with the dhcp request to authenticate your request. (Win98 does this automatically) With pump this is pump -h hostname. Mike
