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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: installing FreeBSD w/ 3com 3c589c PCMCIA Date: 26 Apr 1996 15:49:36 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 38 Message-ID: <4lqrag$78j@helena.MT.net> References: <3180D62D.41C67EA6@amak.rain.fr> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <3180D62D.41C67EA6@amak.rain.fr>, Tom Fischer <tfischer@amak.rain.fr> wrote: >I'm attempting to install freebsd over a network (NFS install), >onto a toshiba laptop with a 3c589c PCMCIA card installed in This was also posted to the mailing lists, where I responded there. In any case, the problem is due to FreeBSD not support the 3C589[C] model (as oppposed to the 'B' model), which wasn't released when we did 2.1R. The driver has been patched since to support this card, but that doesn't help folks without a boot disk. There are two easy solutions: 1) Use the BSD-Nomad PC-CARD disk. See: http://www.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/person/hosokawa/freebsd-pcmcia/ 2) Use a boot disk from any of the newer installs. Since the install follows the same rules, you can use a newer boot floppy to install an older release. Once you get everything installed, it will require upgrading to either -current or -stable to get a driver that works with the 3C589C card, but that's pretty easy. (See the handbook) Also note that -current now has early-beta support for hot swappable PC-CARD support. I've been writing my own code plus re-writing and integrating the Nomad code mentioned above, and the first cut of this code now exists in -current. If you want to stay current with what's going on, join the 'freebsd-mobile' mailing list. Send email to majordomo@FreeBSD.org for instructions on how to join. Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. home #: (406) 443-7063 | A fly pole and a 4x4 Chevy truck = Heaven on Earth