[H-GEN] Redhat 5.2 Network install and PCMCIA. (fwd)

[Andrae Muys]

On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, David Wood wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Andrae Muys wrote:
> > My boss has bought a brand new Toshiba Notebook, specifically for the
> > purposes of running Linux on it.  A nice little beast, ~156MB of RAM, and
> > PCMCIA ethernet and SCSI.  Naturally,  having an almost direct ethernet
> > connection to the primary Australian sunsite mirror, I would like to do an
> > FTP install.
> 
> I have a Gateway laptop with the same kind of PCMCIA ethernet card
> (3C589).  I have never been able to get RH's PCMCIA support to work on
> RH 5.0 or 5.1.  I was hoping that they would fix it by 5.2.
> 
> There is a utility to check the cardmgr's status.  Called 'cardctl', it
> allows you to both sees status and control the cards and card manager. 
> You might want to see if it is included with the installation and see if
> you can poke around a bit more.
> 
> Alterantely, that leaves you with a non-networked install.  Some
> options:
> 
> - CD?  I guess it doesn't have one or you wouldn't have posted;

Actually it does, unfortunately I don't have a RedHat CD later then 4.2.
I've been doing ftp install's since then :).

If anyone has a 5.2 CD I could borrow, I would appreciate it.

> - Basic Debian install, put files onto HD (that's what we did, as I
> recall).

I haven't installed Debian for quite some time, neither have I
administrated a debian box before.  On a personal or test box I  would be
seriously considering it, but this box has to both work, and be fully
configured ASAP.

> Once up, I have had no problem at all with the PCMCIA support or the
> cardmgr utilties.  Hot-swapping cards works well.

That is good to know.

Andrae

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