On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 01:09:36PM -0500, Ric Messier wrote:
> Hi,
>         I've been having problems with getting NetBSD on my Compaq Armada
> laptop. If I do it standalone with my PCCard 3COM NIC (think it's a Vortex
> though the number seems to have been inherited from MegaHertz), the
> netcard isn't detected. At all. Anywhere. Same problem with OpenBSD and
> FreeBSD (though I seem to think I had it working with OpenBSD 2.6 or 2.7).

Are you using the laptop install floppy, or the standart one ?
Also you don't say which release you're trying to install.

>         If I try to install in the docking station, it detects two IDE
> buses (one in the dock and one in the laptop) and proceeds to bail into
> debug. Apparently, two IDE buses is not a reality in the NetBSD world?

I don't think the two IDE buses are the problem, but the 2 isa busses.
A special boot floppy can work around this.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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