Subject: Network install error with combo pcmcia network cards
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Gabor Z. Papp <gzp@gmx.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/22/2001 00:05:55
Hope it is the right place to report my error.
If it is a list, please CC the answers.

I'm trying to install NetBSD 1.5-release on my DELL Latitude XPi
laptop. I would like to install the OS via network, so I use
a combo pcmcia card:

3Com 562D/563D EtherLink III
It is a 10base2/10baseT+Modem card.

Kernel recognize the card type, and also ep1 configured
during the install, but the install script always try to get
the network connection via the 10baseT connector, no matter
where is the net. At me it is on 10base2. I have found, at
Utility/Shell menu I can change it with ifconfig, but a
question before running ifconfig by the install script would
be more elegant, as OpenBSD ask for the media type before
ifconfig up.

For a newbie luser (me) it is hard to recognize what is the error
with his card since no reply from the network, and after
long hours of debug can realize that the media type was
wrong. :-)

Also would like to see proxy support in the ftp install. :-)