[ltp] Slackware pcmcia nfs install?

[John Heim]

I'm a little fuzzy on doing a slackware install via a pcmcia network card. 
I have a 755ce. I loaded pcmcia support via the pcmcia.dsk image. That 
seemed to work. I'm not sure if I then still have to load network modules 
via the network diskette. I tried and it probed for a network card about 30 
different ways and didn't find my pcmcia network card.

Before I bought the pcmcia card I made sure it was in the list of supported 
cards. There's a second network diskette image on the slack CD. Would that 
be worth trying?

By the way, I gave up trying to get the serial port on my Thinkpad 755ce to 
work. I'm blind and I wanted to do a serial console install but no matter 
what I did the serial port wouldn't work.

So what I've been doing is to simultaneously install linux on a machine I'm 
building for my wife and then type exactly the same thing on the Thinkpad. 
Eventually I'm going to take the HD out of my wife's old machine and 
install it in the new one. But in the mean time, the new machine has an old 
1 Gb hard drive in it.

So I've got 4 machines running in my rec room. A linux machine with the 
slackware CD mounted and exported via nfs. Then I've got the new PC 
connected via a laplink cable to my windows machine. That way I can do a 
serial console install on the new PC. And then, of course, I've got the 
Thinkpad.

So far so good. I bot both machines to boot via the slack installation 
diskette. I got pcmcia support loaded. (According to my wife the screens 
say the same thing more or less.) But like I said, I cannot then get slack 
to recognize my network card.

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John G. Heim
WiscINFO Customer Service Coordinator
Division of Information Technology
jheim@doit.wisc.edu
608-262-9887


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