Subject: Re: Ftp install via Realport card ?
To: Florence HENRY <Florence.Henry@obspm.fr>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/18/2001 16:35:21
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 08:11:35PM +0200, Florence HENRY wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like (and I tried) to install NetBSD-1.5.1 beta 2 via ftp on my
> Dell laptop.
> I have a Realport Ethernet 10/100+modem 56 card (REM56G-100). 
> it is not cardbus one!
> I have downloaded the latest bootlap.fs.
> But after the boot, the installer says that nothing was detected for the
> network.
> dmesg says that the modem was recognized :
> 	com3 at pcmcia1 function 0 : serial device
> 	com3 : ns16550a, working fifo
> but nothing about the ethernet interface.
> 
> Reading the web page of a netbsd developper, I really have the feeling
> that my card should be supported
> (http://www.sprc.qut.edu.au/~mcgarry/netbsd/ethernet/)
> by the driver xi.

Well, it's supported in his version of the driver, which isn't in the NetBSD
tree yet (you can download the driver from his page). If you want to use it
you'll have to rebuild boot floppy (or I can do it for you monday).

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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