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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:10669 comp.unix.bsd:13548 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!sgiblab!twg.com!news From: "David Herron" <david@twg.com> Subject: Re: Notebook (Re: BSD vs. Linux) In-Reply-To: Your message of 10 Mar 1994 04:47:16 GMT.<2lm8ok$ssr@news.nynexst.com> Message-ID: <1994Mar10.212035.24190@twg.com> Sensitivity: Personal To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl@nynexst.com> Encoding: 38 TEXT , 4 TEXT Sender: news@twg.com (USENET News System) Conversion: Allowed Organization: The Wollongong Group, Inc., Palo Alto, CA Conversion-With-Loss: Prohibited Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 21:20:20 GMT Lines: 43 >Arne H. Juul (arnej@pvv.unit.no) wrote: > >: Running Linux for its networking code seems somewhat odd to me. > >Have you tried to put your notebook on a network with a PCMCIA ethernet >card? > >H.J. Actually, yes I have. It was trivial. Kinda ... The big hurdle is the PCMCIA interface to begin with. Fortunately some people have written the beginnings of support for PCMCIA interfaces (for at least the Intel chip which is used in mine and many other notebooks) and this is available as a driver. The next hurdle is the driver to interface with that particular card. Again the particular card I have has a driver written for it by someone. (The DL650 which I found at Fry's in a box saying Linksys on the outside). Yes, without the kindness of others I'd've been stuck. THANK YOU!! Once I had the software in hand it was a (fairly) simple matter of plopping it into the kernel. This was the hardest step and if you haven't done kernel level work before you might find it difficult. I found that my past experience with BSD kernels prepared me for groping about the /usr/src/linux directory tree to find the right place to install the files when the place the directions told me to go turned out to not exist! So now I have Linux pl14 running on a Sager 800 (monochrome) and the DL650 ethernet controller. Works like a champ! Unfortunately I don't remember exactly where the files are. They're on one of the standard sites, perhaps sunsite? David <- David Herron <david@twg.com> (work) <david@davids.mmdf.com> (home) <- <- Real life involves many economies where the choices and gains <- are more than some visible exchange involving money.