David, I have exactly the same problem with my laptop. It is a compaq presario 1600, and pcmcia will not work during the installation process. Usually it comes up after rebooting, but I never found out why.
Another quirk is that the "discover" package seems to interfere with pcmcia on my laptop. When I have that installed to set up X, pcmcia will only work through the hotplug facility. Removing discover solves this problem. Regards, Arjen On 1 Nov 2003, David Zelinsky wrote: > "Dr. Fred M'Bogo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The way I usually bypass not having a cd on a laptop is that I > > install the drivers, configure pcmcia, install the nic (usually from > > the console) and then just configure the network. After that > > everything works as usual. > > I've been trying to do just this, but after configuring the network, > I'm told "Network is configured but not activated", so I can't > continue with the network install. The pcmcia/ethernet is being > recognized correctly. But eth0 is never brought up. > > This was with a manual network configuration; it did finally work with > DHCP (after I figured out how to install a DHCP server on my desktop > machine). I checked the numbers I was giving it several times, so I > don't believe it was just a bad configuration. In fact, if I remember > right, I did manage to bring the network up manually with ifconfig. > > Is this a bug in the installer? Or am I doing something wrong? > > David > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
