Re: PCMCIA: networking with a Xircom 10MBit-Card
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Bernard Reißberg wrote:
> I have another problem with my IBM Thinkpad 600. The network isn't
> working as it should do. The network-device is not set up after
> booting the machine. Only if I configure it with ifconfig it will be
> shown if I make ifconfig without parameters. If I remove my
> PCMCIA-card und insert it again, the eth0-device is not set up again
> automatically as it should do. I've tried it with the 2.2.17 and with
> the 2.4.0test5. All network-configuration-files are edited correctly.
> Have somebody a hint for me?
Have you put the network info in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts? That is where
it should go for a PCMCIA ethernet card. The normal place for this stuff,
i.e. /etc/network/interfaces is for built-in ethernet adapters.
HTH
Hugh
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