Tim Duggan wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daryl Manning [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> >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).
>
> Interesting, the RedHat init seems to be significantly different from
> mine (I don't have a /etc/sysconfig/ directory). What is ifcfg-eth0, a
> script or config file?
This file contains the eth0 configuration if you only use one NIC (as
in the case of a desktop). For notebooks it is ignored. For this to happen
you must substitute the file
/usr/src/pcmcia-cs-3.x.x/etc/network
for
/etc/pcmcia/network
This will cause the network.opts file to be searched instead of the
ifcfg-eth0 file for the default configuration. I expect this happens
automatically when you install a new version of the pcmcia-cs-... software.
However it is not there in a fresh standard RH install.
As I understand it, if you want to use the pcmcia nic and have plug and play,
you need to set this up after doing the RH install.
It could be that if you run the RH network config tool, it might mess
up your setup. I set it up my system manually to avoid this problem.
> Have a look through the PCMCIA Howto and check
> the laptop page to see if anyone has had similiar problems (the howto
> should be here
> html version http://hyper.stanford.edu/HyperNews/get/pcmcia/home.html
> or standard format ftp://hyper.stanford.edu/pub/pcmcia/doc
> the laptop page is http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
> ).
>
> >Also, the changes to pcmcia/network.opts would be what?
>
> The lines I edited are (yours will probably be different depending on
> your network or if you are using a flavor of dhcp where your address is
> assigned at boot). Again check the howto for more info.
>
> # Host's IP address, netmask, network address, broadcast address
> IPADDR="192.168.0.101"
> NETMASK="255.255.255.0"
> NETWORK="192.168.0.0"
> BROADCAST="192.168.0.255"
> # Gateway address for static routing
> GATEWAY="192.168.0.100"
>
> Good luck,
> Tim
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