I bought a pair of 11mb/s pc cards and an ISA adapter, and have had some problems getting the thing set up on the old system I'm using as my firewall. The system is a 486 DX/66 with 64MB ram. I have aha 1542b scsi controller, two ne200 clone NIC cards, crappy VGA, etc. The system was originally slackware, with the kernel at 2.0.35. The BIOS is AMD, and I have the feeling it doesn't support PnP. This morning I built pcmcia-cs-3.1.15 and plugged in the card. When I did make install, the etc/install-etc script hung the system when it called ../cardmgr/probe. After hitting reset and waiting forever for it to check the disks, I grabbed the pcmcia-cs-3.1.18 and built that. This time I did chmod -x on cardmgr/probe before doing the make install, and things completed. I checked lsmod, and the i82365 and ds modules were loaded. Then I did some reading here, and saw a mention of isapnp and pnpdump, so of course I had to try them out. Pnpdump also hung the system dead. Until I get home to reboot, that's where things stand. My questions: 0) Is there a search facility for HyperNews? 1) Is anyone up and running with similarly antiquated HW/SW? 2) Can I set things up without running probe? 3) Should I pack the cards up and send them back? Thanks, -- ddj Dave Johnson ddj@brown.edu |
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