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Installer does not find disk and 2nd network card

I am trying to install latest version on Dell 430 laptop. It has an internal network card that is detected by the 2nd one is not which is in the PCMCIA slot. Secondly i have compact flash based IDE HDD that is also not detected.

Note both FreeBSD 9.x and untangle are able to detect both items. I do have the zip file from the installer that i have attached.

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0 BarryG over 12 years ago

Hi, afaict, the PCMCIA controller is not being detected.

I used to use a PCI->PCMCIA adapter in Astaro 6.x with a WiFi NIC, but Astaro stopped supporting internal WiFi after that; perhaps they removed the PCMCIA drivers.

Do you know what chip the PCMCIA controller and the NIC use?
'lspci' would tell you on Linux (untangle), but I'm not sure about BSD.

Barry
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0 BarryG over 12 years ago

Hi, afaict, the PCMCIA controller is not being detected.

I used to use a PCI->PCMCIA adapter in Astaro 6.x with a WiFi NIC, but Astaro stopped supporting internal WiFi after that; perhaps they removed the PCMCIA drivers.

Do you know what chip the PCMCIA controller and the NIC use?
'lspci' would tell you on Linux (untangle), but I'm not sure about BSD.

Barry
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0 wahmed over 12 years ago in reply to BarryG

Thanks for all who replied.

I'll look at the ESXi option.  Did not even now that a free hypervisor existed from VMWare.  And yes i am using the "software" asg-9.103-5.1.iso. The laptop is dedicated as a firewall/router.

The PCMCIA card is SMC and appears as dc0 under FBSD 9.x.

One thing that i want to correct is that the latop is a Dell 420 with a PATA interface and probably that is why the HDD is not being detected.
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