In message <199904010258.VAA05507@funhouse.com>, "John F. Woods" writes:
>(2) Later, I tried an ftp installation (having brought the laptop home
>    to where my build machine is).  Unfortunately, this isn't working
>    either:  the laptop has a 3COM EtherLink III PCMCIA card, which appears
>    to probe as "ep1", but when sysinst turns it on, it doesn't work;
>    the little light on the ethernet connector blinks and nothing
>    happens.  (Almost nothing; it seems to transmit an ARP
>    identification packet, but I don't know if it transmits anything
>    else, and it certainly does not appear to receive anything.  This
>    might be broken hardware, I'll swap it for something else
>    tomorrow...)

I've had trouble like this with lots of laptops, if/when they're not
sufficiently cold-booted.  :(

-s