On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 17:45, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 14:40, Joe Sprankle wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have just installed Mandrake 9.1 on a Toshiba Protege 7140 laptop. The > > laptop doesn't have a cdrom so I installed via a pcmcia cdrom. I only have > > one pcmcia slot so my pcmcia nic wasn't set up during inststall. > > Now installation is complete and for the life of me I can't seem to get > > this nic to configure via dhcp. I know my dhcp server is ok, I checked it > > with another box. I know the card is working because I can bring it up via > > ifconfig and ping the dhcp sever. > > In the past with other distros I could simply edit the > > /etc/pcmcia/network.opts script and viola. No so here. If I run > > /etc/pcmcia/network start eth0 it doesn't show any error nor do anything. > > I tried using the Mandrake Control Center and no matter what I try, the > > wizzard, or even doing a static ip in expert mode I get "not connected" > > Any ideas? > > Joe > > > > Couple of questions. > > 1. if you do cardctl Does it find your card correctly. > 2. When you insert the card do you here the beep beep not a beep bonk? > 3. Besides /etc/sysconfig/netweork-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 you also should > have /etc/sysconfig/network in place. > > HOSTNAME=[your host name here] > NETWORKING=yes > > is how network should look > > and > > DEVICE=eth1 oops this should have been DEVICE=eth0 > BOOTPROTO=dhcp > ONBOOT=yes > > is how ifcfg-eth0 should look. > > now for the most important file /etc/syconfig/pcmcia. This one has bit > me a couple of times. > > PCMCIA=yes > PCIC=yenta_socket > PCIC_OPTS=do_scan=0 > CORE_OPTS= > CARDMGR_OPTS=-f > > is mine the first two lines are the most important. Odds on if you > didn't have a pcmcia card in there during boot it says pcmcia=no. The > last 3 lines are ones that AFAIK are unique to my card here. Yours may > need to be just blank, But it does work on both my wireless and on my > wired cards. > > James > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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