Re: Installation with Linksys EC2T on PCMCI

[Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com>]

Today, Federico G. Schwindt wrote:

(but first, I wrote:)

: > I have a Linksys EC2T that I'm trying to use to install the current
: > snapshot with.  It's NE2000 compatible; FreeBSD/PAO uses the ed
: > driver to drive it and Linux has also run with it in the past though
: > I couldn't tell you what it used because I've more or less sworn
: > off Linux :-)
: 
:   Are you using 2.6 snap? Can you attach the full dmesg output?
:   Is this a generic kernel? Have you disabled any device?

Ahh, crap.  I thought I was being too smart.  I used floppyB instead
of floppy.  The bit about the generic kernel started the wheels
turning in my mind and now I'm working off floppy26.fs instead,
which happily found my card.

Sorry to waste your time.  FWIW, it was a 2.6 snap (the one on
ftp4), and I didn't disable any devices.

What originally threw me was the following paragraph and experience
with other OSs that require ``something else'' (such as PAO for
FreeBSD or the PCMCIA disks with a lot of Linuxen) to support
PCMCIA.  My sense of logic said ``well, floppy26 is full of SCSI
drivers, there's no way it's got PCMCIA on it''; but more importantly,
``the only thing that's on floppy26 that's NOT on floppyB26 is
SCSI.''

      floppyB26.fs    The i386 boot and installation floppy;
                      this removes all scsi drivers in floppy26.fs,
                      and replaces them with OTHERS; see below.

Anyway, thanks :-)

Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com>
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