Gateway setting for a PCMCIA network card
Hello everyone
I have a little problem b/c my network card does not get set up
correctly by Debian. It appears that cardservices takes care of everything
*but* it does this without reading my /etc/network/interfaces file. Nothing
strage here, I assume CS is not using ifup/down (which refers to the file
above) but is instead fetching suff from /etc/hosts and so on.
Be as it may, I end up without a default route, and I have to type in
manually route add gw default <ipaddress> to get things working, at which
point everything seems ok. Now, of course I have no problem patching the
system manually at bootup, given it is my laptop - but it would be nicer if
I could fix the thing outright.... geek pride calls =)
If I insert stuff in /etc/network/interfaces ifup gives errors (b/c the
card was alrady set up), and nothing is accomplished. as things are now,
interfaces configures only the loopback device.
It is probably a simple pointer after all, but I am new to Debian (and I
love it!) so I am looking into receiving some insight from the experts.
Federico
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Muad'Dib of Caladan (Federico L. Lucifredi)- flucifredi@acm.org,
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