Thanks for replying. Both

I am pretty new at this stuff so forgive me.

I have installed and then untarred the kern-laptop gz file, and replaced =
the /netbsd file.

Now when I boot up it does find a PCMCIA card but hangs at a prompt db>

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Lloyd [mailto:strawberry@toth.org.uk]
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 9:48 AM
To: Paul Doyle
Cc: netbsd-help@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: i386 PCMCIA - Howto


On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 05:38:26PM -0000, Paul Doyle wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I have installed netbsd i386, on an AST Ascentia Laptop.
> I have a 3COM 3c589 PCMCIA card.
>=20
> I want to be able to set it up, but I don't know where I can find =
netbsd specific info.  I don't even know whether the kernel supports it =
or not.

The kernel for the latest release of NetBSD (1.5.2) does support it.
If you look at the bootup output, using dmesg, you should see it listed =
as

ep0 at pcmcia0

or somesuch

> Can anyone give me a pointer for info, a howto or something that is =
well written.  All the ones I have looked at so far are either dead =
links [really annoying], or don't answer my question from a set up.

The NetBSD Networking documentation can be found at:
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/

> Please help so I don't have to go and install RedHat or something.  =
Netbsd looks small fast and cool.

It is!

 - Chris

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