Re: Gateway setting for a PCMCIA network card
HAve you tried using PUMP?
Its a simply of having it automaticaly detect and setup your network
setting at boot up
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Federico Lucifredi wrote:
> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 19:21:46 -0400
> From: Federico Lucifredi <flucifredi@acm.org>
> To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Gateway setting for a PCMCIA network card
> Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
>
> 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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