Re: Tecra 8100 networking

[Eric Richardson <eric.richardson@milagrosoft.com>]

Bradley Alexander wrote:
> I just recently reinstalled Woody on my T8100. The first time, I
> installed using a port replicator. After install, when I booted the
> machine on the port replicator, it would find the interface and assign
> the IP address. When I was using the PCMCIA NIC (a Xircom RealPort 16),
> I had to manually start restart pcmcia.
>
> After the rebuild (which I did using the PCMCIA NIC), the box comes up
> normally when using PCMCIA, but when on the port replicator, I have to
> do ifcfg eth0 to get the NIC in the replicator up and running. How can I
> get either nic up and running automagically?
>
> Thanks,

This may be too obvious but have you checked the file -

# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)

auto lo eth0
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp

It should have a entry for each device desired.

Eric