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Re: laptop install fails
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Williams)
Sat Aug 22 10:01:35 1998
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
From: "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 22 Aug 1998 01:55:02 EDT."
<199808220555.BAA03903@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 10:01:28 EDT
> I tried to re-install my laptop with the Athena 8.2 NetBSD
> distribution, but it fails, because it can't find my ethernet card. I
> heard some speculation about PCMCIA ethernet and sound cards causing
> losage, but I really don't know if that;s it. Is there some special
> install disk that I should try?
Ths installation fails, you mean? Does the Ethernet card show
up in the kernel messages at all? What kind of Ethernet card? Is the
PCMCIA controller detected ("pcic0 at isa0..." and "pcmcia{0,1} at
pcic0")? The most common lossage between PCMCIA devices and sound
cards is worked around in the install kernel, so that's less likely to
be an issue.
> trying to test an update (I don't know if this is still vaporware) is
The 7.7 to 8.2 update has progressed from vaporware to
highly-buggy-ware. Still not there yet, though.
- Nathan
