Following myself up - this would appear to be something of a FAQ. Sorry.

I'm compiling a kernel with everything commented out (including lpt*), except
all that's required for the job the machine's intended for. Hopefully this
will correct things.

However - I've now much more certain that there's a definitive way of getting
these things working : perhaps this should be placed in the i386 FAQ (or
at least where the card is claimed to work in the supported hardware list) ?

Dan.


> Folks,
> 
> After a somewhat long evening of floppy disk swapping, I've managed to get
> the above Toshiba to the point where it boots into single-user mode. This
> involved building a custom kernel to avoid erroneous detection of a wss0 in
> the presence of a sb0, using the mini-root, and some judicious mounting, but
> that's another story.
> 
> The current problem lies in trying to boot the portable with a Network card.
> It comes with the 3Com Etherlink III, which is correctly identified by the
> kernel as 'ep1 : <bla>', after which its MAC address is printed out, and then
> ... nothing. No further messages are printed. Nada.
> 
> I've tried playing with the PCMCIA definitions in the kernel, but currently to
> no avail, so as I'm tired and I really need this portable to be working
> soon, (and nslookups are now failing on mail-index.netbsd.org), I was
> wondering if ...
> 
> ... some else has trodden this path before, and can point me to a solution?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Dan.
> 
>