Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 09:13:41 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Finlay Thompson <Finlay.Thompson@MCS.VUW.AC.NZ> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCMCIA NE2000 Support, Message-ID: <20000221091341.C57119@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <00022110320000.04633@delta.mcs.vuw.ac.nz> References: <00022110320000.04633@delta.mcs.vuw.ac.nz>
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On Monday, 21 February 2000 at 10:27:46 +1300, Finlay Thompson wrote: > Hi, > > I am attempting to install freeBSD onto a Thinkpad 365E, a relativly > old laptop from IBM. I am have an Accton EN2216 PCMCIA ethernet > card, but no CDRom. The idea is to boot from the floppy, > (successful) and then install through the net. The problem is that > I cant find out if there is a driver for the ethernet card. > > Can anyone tellme if there is a driver for > Accton EN2216 PCMCIA thernet card > > Note, it is a NE2000 clone, so any NE2000 driver should work. The newer versions of the ed driver support most NE2000 clones, including PCMCIA. The real issue is that you'll need to start pccardd for that to work, and I don't think the install disks support pccardd. I'll think about how you might go about doing this, but it won't be simple. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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