On Dec 17, Alicia da Conceicao wrote
> [...]
> installing NetBSD on it.  Unfortunately my initial attempts to do so
> were not very successful.  The 1.32 install floppy can't even detect
> my 3Com 3C589 PCMCIA ethernet card, or my Adaptec 1460B PCMCIA scsi
> card, or the internal modem.

Did you try a -current snapshot ? There are several laptops where -current
runs, but not 1.3.2. 
Also, please look at the boot message and see if there's some kind of
cardbus/pcmcia bridge on the PCI bus ...

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