Ken What laptop is this?
Nick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Heather Stern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <debian-laptop@lists.debian.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 6:23 PM Subject: Re: laptop newbie pcmcia nightmare > On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 04:35:34PM +0100, Ant Ken wrote: > > hi, > > > > my goal is to get a fully working version of linux on my old pentium 75 > > laptop it has no cdrom drive just floppy pcmcia and irda > > i have managed to get debain onto the laptop but now i cannot get it to use > > the pcmcia network card (3com 3c589) to talk to the network Plus to make it > > worse i have lost the install screen. > > > > my first question is this: > > how do i get the system to see the 3com card? > > First we need to know if it can spot the pcmcia bridge. lspci should probably > reveal it. Most bridges are quite frankly intel i82365 clones (though now > there are "flavors" even of that, your box is too old to worry about that) > but there are also TCIC. > > There are two unsupported bridges I know of too. One of them is found in the i > HP Omnibook 600. If you have that one I'm sorry to say you're out of luck. > > ...once you can convince it to spot that, then inserting cards should get you > two beeps - one for recognizing the card is present, a second for whether it > setup properly. Thus usual failures at this second stage go (high beep) (low) > meaning "yes there's a card" "no idea what it is/wrong driver picked though." > > So - do you get beeps when you insert the card? > > > second question: > > i have a home network, with a router dns server etc ( overkill i know, but > > its fun! ) > > how do i configure the networking side of things? > > There's considerable notes on this sort of thing in The Linux Documentation > Project (http://www.tldp.org/). You could start with the Linux Gazette though > if you hate reading through FAQ documents (http://www.linuxgazette.com). > > The file you're most likely to want to tweak for pcmcia-network cards is > /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. > > > third question: > > how do i get the install screen back so i can tell it i want to down load > > debain from the web and install it? > > You can do downloading without the big white install screen. The command > line form is apt-get. > > So for instance > apt-get install aptitude > > can install a nice console mode GUI where yyou can mark things, remove things, > read descriptions of cool stuff, etc. > > > thanks and i hope some one can help me! > > antken > > Let us know how the network gets going. Starting small and working towards > the rest one part at a time makes the road less daunting. > > > * Heather Stern * star@ many places... > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
