RE: Re[2]: Debian installation problems
I just want to thank Glen for asking that question on how to configure your
network card
on PCMCIA, cos I've just got mine to work - DHCP et al. I am, for once, a
very happy bunny!
If you get hassles with network setting up, forget about configuring
/etc/networks/interfaces
cos it will only mess things up. By editing out /etc/pcmcia/network.opts,
it happily runs!
-----Original Message-----
From: Glen S Mehn [mailto:glen@squaretrade.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 10:05 PM
To: Søren Neigaard
Cc: Guillaume; Jeff Coppock; debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
Subject: RE: Re[2]: Debian installation problems
Can you send the results of :
ls -al /etc/pcmcia #, and
cat /etc/pcmcia/network.opts
-----Original Message-----
From: Søren Neigaard [mailto:neigaard@e-box.dk]
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 10:12 AM
To: Glen Mehn
Cc: Guillaume; Jeff Coppock; debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re[2]: Debian installation problems
Tuesday, October 09, 2001, 6:45:06 PM, Glen wrote:
GM> look in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. You should see something similar to:
GM> auto eth0
GM> iface eth0 inet static
GM> address x.x.x.x
GM> netmask 255.255.255.0
GM> network x.x.x.x
GM> broadcast x.x.x.x
GM> gateway x.x.x.x
GM> that's where you'll configure your networking info. After you do that,
then run (as root)
Everything looks alright to me. I have my IP and all.
GM> /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart
Still dosn't work :( Do you think we are looking the wrong place?
Maybe it's more low-level? Can I be sure it uses the xirc2ps driver?
GM> On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 06:35:27PM +0200, S?ren Neigaard wrote:
>> Monday, October 08, 2001, 9:42:40 AM, Guillaume wrote:
>>
>> G> Ok so you have PCMCIA-CS installed, and when you
>> G> type "ifconfig eth0" it does not find the interface.
>> I get:
>>
>> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:A4:B8:5C:61
>> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
>> RX packets:65 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>> TX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>> Collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>> Interrop:11 Base address:0x400
>>
>> Is that ok?
>>
>> G> yes, type "modprobe -l"
>> G> thufir:/home/silk# modprobe -l
>> G> /lib/modules/2.4.9/kernel/drivers/char/pcmcia/serial_cs.o
>> G> /lib/modules/2.4.9/kernel/drivers/net/dummy.o
>> G> /lib/modules/2.4.9/kernel/drivers/net/pcmcia/3c574_cs.o
>> G> thufir:/home/silk#
>> G> for me it's 3c_574 which is my 3com ethernet card driver.
>> G> actually it's the 589 (written on the card, so on your probably
>> G> too..) but the kernel uses the same driver for either ones.
>> I get a lot of "/lib/modules/2.2.19pre17/pcmcia/*", but nothing about
>> drivers. Is that good or bad?
>>
>> I have the "/lib/modules/2.2.19pre17/pcmcia/xirc2ps_cs.o" which should
>> be my card.
>>
>> Do I still have to recompile the kernel?
>>
>> I will give this a go in debian-users too :)
>>
>> >> If mine aren't there, how do I add
>> >> it, and should I remove the others (how is this done)? The driver we
>> >> are talking about, I guess that is the xurc2ps right? Do I need more
>> >> info on my card than that, do I need to pass it some parameters?
>>
>> G> Parameters, proably not. Look on the hardware how-to OR Google to
>> G> make sure your card is supported. It's gonna take you some time...
>>
>> G> No you don't have to remove the others from the kernel
>>
>> G> As the last resort, and if your drivers ARE supported by the kernel,
>> G> I advise you to download the 2.4.9 debian kernel source, decompress
>> G> it in /usr/src/kernel-2.4.9/. then you read the README and you
recompile
>> G> your kernel. The README files tells you evrything you need to know,
>> G> and way more. In fact you basically need to do (from memory.. : make
>> G> menuconfig (choose your card there) make dep, make modules, edit
lilo.conf)
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Med venlig hilsen/Best regards,
Søren Neigaard mailto:neigaard@e-box.dk
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