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Installing Debian via PCMCIA (on laptop)

Installing Debian via PCMCIA (on laptop)

Post by Adam Sulmic » Mon, 19 May 1997 04:00:00



anyone out there made an fresh install of debian on laptop
while using the pcmcia-cs package?

I have installed redhat on my laptop quite few time and it is extermely
easy, but I wanted to give debian a try, but it seems the the pcmcia
install is light years behind the one on redhat.

anyways:
1) in the debian 1.3 it says that there should be 'menu selection for
pcmcia device drivers' but I could not find there anything like that,
so where is it?

2) assume I install the base system and copy
pcmcia-cs_2.9.5-2.deb , pcmcia-modules-2.0.30_2.9.5-2.deb
onto the system, into the /root/deb dir. how i go about installing them?

i did try something like dpkg --install /root/deb/pcmcia-cs_2.9.5-2.deb
but the result of installing of it was not 'automatical detetion and
autoconfiguration of the cards' as per the instruction.txt notes.

Thus if someone can help me with it, please email me.

Thanks,
--
-Adam

 
 
 
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