[ale] Red Hat on old Laptop

[Robert Heaven]

I don't recall seeing "Laptop" as one of the options. But, I'll look
again.

On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 23:10, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Did you select the laptop setup during the install? I suspect the pcmcia
> stuff is not installed. Reboot from installation CD (or boot floppy) and
> "upgrade" and install the pcmcia card stuff. You can do it from a
> running installation, but the installer will work out all the
> dependencies for you.
> 
> On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 13:33, Robert Heaven wrote:
> > I was trying to load Red Hat 8.0 on an old Compaq Presario 1220 laptop
> > and everything works fine except the networking. During the install
> > process it doesn't ask for network info and after the install I try to
> > configure the 3COM 3C589D-TP PCMCIA card but it still won't work. Is
> > there something special about RH8.0 and old laptops I'm not doing right?
> > It is loading the pccard driver and 3C589 is a valid card type in the
> > network set up gui but it just won't talk to it. I know the card works
> > because I can load FreeBSD 4.7 and the card works perfectly. (just can't
> > get the touch pad mouse to work under bsd)
> > 
> > 
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