I am trying to install Debian 2.1 on a Dell Latitude XPi CD via the network. This computer has a new hard disk, so I partitioned the disk with cfdisk, then started to put Debian on the second partition, leaving the first partition for Windows NT. I went through the dbootstrap procedure of configuring the PCMCIA and the network. Everything worked: I could NFS mount to get base2_1.tgz, and I could ftp to a Debian mirror to get the packages. Then I stopped doing that and went through a painful Windows NT installation. I finally got winnt working, and went back to the Debian install. Now the network is totally unreachable - I even wiped out the Debian partition and started over, doing exactly the same thing in dbootstrap that I had done before. No luck: I can't ping the machine from outside, and I can't load anything in Debian.
Is it possible that WinNT (with a Softex cardmanager) reconfigured something that gets saved in the Etherlink III PCMCIA card? I did change something in the BIOS, but it doesn't seem relevant (I disabled the IR port). Other than these two possibilities, I don't see how the WinNT setup could have affect Debian - or am I missing something? Thanks for any help.
