Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3242 mails)

[Tony White <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jim,

This came straight to me, and I don't see it on the list - you might want 
to check that and post to the list if you need to (other ideas...).

I would try PLIP - the driver is on the modules disk, and all you need is a 
parallel laplink cable hooked up to another Linux box (which presumably you 
have, if doing a network install).

PLIP is intended for just this very problem.

Brgds,
Tony


At 16:33 21/09/2001 +0200, Jim Hatridge wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 September 2001 20:28, you wrote:
> > Hi Jim,
> >
> > Just boot from the boot (floppy) disk which comes in the 7.2 box (or make
> > one from an image file on CD1.  You will get a prompt <boot:> which after a
> > small delay, the standard boot will continue.  AS SOON AS this boot: prompt
> > appears, type the below mentioned parameters, and you should be OK.
> >
> > Brgds,
> > Tony
>
>
> HI Tony et al,
>
> Thanks that got me over that hump. I can now start the install. BUT my new
> and inproved problem is that the driver for my network card is not on the
> modules diskette.
>
> The deal is I don*t have a CD on this old laptop and the only NIC I have is a
> Realtek Pocket RTL8012. This thing plugs in to the printer port. I think that
> it's the "At-lan-tec / Realtek Pocket adaptor" that is listed on my main
> system's Yast. If not, I can always d/l the driver from the 'net. But the
> question now is how do I get the durn thing loaded? I mean how do I make a
> modules disk that the bootdisk software will read?
>
> Can anyone help? (Please?)
>
> TIA!
>
>
> --
> Jim Hatridge
>
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