Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 23:32:29 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Finlay Thompson <Finlay.Thompson@MCS.VUW.AC.NZ>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCMCIA NE2000 Support, Message-ID: <20000220233229.C388@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <20000221091341.C57119@freebie.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 09:13:41AM %2B1030 References: <00022110320000.04633@delta.mcs.vuw.ac.nz> <20000221091341.C57119@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 09:13:41AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > 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. You could try the PAO boot floppies, http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/PAO/ -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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