Good point on the text. Sorry, didn't realize it was going out HTML. As to the network initialization, I'm not sure. It appears to get kicked up by etc/rc.d/init.d/network This calls /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia So I'm assuming you're probably right. It isn't calling etc/pcmcia/network.opts 1 weird thing, I have a ifcfg-eth0 in the directory (which was written there by the latest Dell driver for my net card). Also, despite my being able to recompile a PCMCIA kernal I'm pretty new with Linux, so a "loopback" to me while I know what it is in theory I'm a little confused by. Also, the changes to pcmcia/network.opts would be what? I'm booting directly to X. Not much of a typist and on this foreign keyboard (I'm in France) it pays to be point and click. =} Any help greatly appreciated, Daryl. ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Duggan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 3:16 PM Subject: RE: Eth0/XServer/PCMCIA issues =}, but I can see the Internet now! > Hi Daryl, > > First, I ask you to not post in html as many mail readers in use on this > list do not handle it well, thanks. (You will also probably get more > responses :-)) > > Now on to your issues. How is your network being initialized? My guess > is that it is not using /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. You are correct in > assuming the failure to initialize eth0 comes from pcmcia not being > running at the time. I suggest using the normal process (I am unfamiliar > with RedHat's setup tools as I'm not running that distro) to setup the > loopback interface (IP 127.0.0.1) and using your favorite text editor to > make the necessary alterations to /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. > > As to the X problem, are you booting to X or to a text console? > > Tim > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Daryl Manning [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 7:41 AM > > > > OK, have *finally* got Red Hat to recognize the 3c575 card by > > downloading new drivers from Dell and then recompiling the PCMCIA > > module to 3.wahtever.9. Using a Dell Inspiron 3700 laptop with a > > 3CCFE575CT-D 3Com575 PCMCIA card. > > > > *Now* I can get the Internet going, but only *this* way. > > > > On boot up, I still get the eth0 initialization failure (I assume > > because PCMCIA services aren't loaded) > > > > I manually go into Linuxconf and hit accept on the preselected > > settings (which were correctly set up from boot up). This > > reinitializes the network restart. > > After this, I am unable to launch things in the Desktop XServer (Gnome > > or KDE) and when I log out I get what I can only describe as a Grey > > Screen of Death. > > I switch to the Ctrl-Alt-F1 virtual console and log in again either as > > root or user. > > Then kill the running XServer or use a user account). Restart XServer > > with StartX. > > This then gives me continued Internet access on the box and other > > machines can get to me by IP address. > > > > Obviously, this is kludgy. All I want to be able to do is make sure > > the damn thing has network access when it boots up. Can someone give > > me an idea of what I'm doing wrong here? I looked at the startup > > scripts and couldn't figure it out, so I'd appreciate any help. > > > > Thanks, > > Daryl. > > > > > > _____________________ > > Daryl Manning > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >
