Re: Gateway setting for a PCMCIA network card

["Jeff Coppock" <jcoppock@nortelnetworks.com>]

Federico,

The pcmcia card uses the files in /etc/pcmcia/ directory.  For the interface config, it uses /etc/pcmcia/network.opts.  Add you config info to this file as such:

# Network adapter configuration
#
# Automatically generated during the Debian installation
#
# The address format is "scheme,socket,instance,hwaddr".
#
case "$ADDRESS" in
*,*,*,*)
	# Transceiver selection, for some cards -- see 'man ifport'
	IF_PORT=""
	# Use /sbin/pump for BOOTP/DHCP? [y/n]
	PUMP="n"
	;;
*,*.*.*)
	# Transceiver selection, for some cards -- see 'man ifport'
	IF_PORT=""
	IPADDR="1.1.1.10"
	GATEWAY="1.1.1.1"
	NETWORK="1.1.1.0"
	NETMASK="255.255.255.0"
	DOMAIN="home.com"
	SEARCH="home.com"
	DNSSRVS="2.2.2.2 2.2.2.3"
	;;
esac




On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 07:21:46PM -0400, Federico Lucifredi wrote:
> 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