Re: bootstrapping network (bcm) on Dell D800

From: Dr. Richard E. Hawkins (hawk_at_slytherin.ds.psu.edu)
Date: 08/06/03

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To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca>

    On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 08:48:20AM -0400, David Gilbert wrote:
    > >>>>> "Andre" == Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> writes:

    > Andre> On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Dr. Richard E. Hawkins wrote:

    <getting the drivers onto the D800>

    > Andre> Does this new toy have a 32-bit pci slot available? If so, pop
    > Andre> in a nic (temporarily), cvsup and/or grab the needed patches
    > Andre> and rebuild away!
    >
    > It has a mini-pci slot. You'd have a hard time getting an ethernet
    > card in there. Having just had a look at the patch, it's a little
    > large to be typing in by hand.

    > Here's the options I see for you:

    > 1) the D800 has a serial port (rare on today's laptops). Hook up a
    > modem or a null serial cable and network thusly to cvsup.

    > 2) the D800 has a pccard slot. Find someone with a wireless or
    > ethernet card.

    <etc>

    I finally figureed out that the removable floppy (which works both as an
    external usb and internall) is treated as a scsi device, not /dev/fd0.
    So I tried moving the drivers from the up to date machine. No dice;
    they depend on another changed function.

    So I borrowed a usb zip drive, and found that a bzip2'd source tree is
    only 83M. I've moved that, and have a new kernel compiling from a
    source tree updated this morning. Am I going to have to do anything
    else to get the bge device detected, or will it just kernel installation
    and reboot take care of this?

    thanks

    hawk
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