On Wednesday 04 July 2001 20:30, Keith O'Connell wrote: > I had two machines running Debian, not well, but working together and I > was learning as I went. For all sorts or reasons I had to give my wife > one of the desktop machines and she gave me her laptop. > > I partitioned a great chunk of it off and started to install potato from > the cd set I have here. I got to the part about selecting the network > card and got stuck. With the two desktops, I found the cards would work > with "tulip", but I cannot get the nic in the laptop recognised by any > of the options. > > What should I select as an option for a D-Link DE660 PCMCIA card > > I get the impression from other messages that laptops are trickier than > desktops to set up with linux. Did I just change the gradient on my > learning curve by taking the laptop on? > > Keith
PCMCIA network cards are dealt with differently than normal ones, because they can be removed. Install the PCMCIA packages.
