On 24-Feb-99 George Bonser wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote: > >> >> On 24-Feb-99 Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: >> >> I got Debian installed (base only) bit my network card (PCMCIA) is not >> working. >> I will have to reinstall OpenLinux on the ThinkPad so the network card will >> work. > > No you don't. There is nothing in Debian that is preventing it from > working nor is there anything magic in OpenLinux that allows it to work. > Debian works just fine with pcmcia network cards, people use it every day.
I know that it should work, but there really is something special about the OpenLinux installer in this regard. I cannot install the rest of Debian from the laptop's mom if I cannot get the net card to work. My net connection is too slow. -- Andrew