Daniel Brown writes:
> 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.

Actually, that will make things far worse.

Your problem is likely the PCMCIA subsystem's trouble with allocating
interrupts and I/O ports. It is absolutely critical that the kernel
probe and allocate all other devices on your machine before probing
the PCMCIA or it will attempt to assign interrupt and I/O ports in use 
by other devices. This would be BAD.

> 
> 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, bu
t
> > 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 th
en
> > ... 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.
> > 
> >