Re: your mail
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 01:47:55PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
> OK, that obviously wasn't necessary - I probably did it myself long ago. I've
> used etherconf to reconfigure my network without any damage - but without fixing
> things.
No, because ifupdown is not what controls the pcmcia sockets. you want to
let cardmgr do the work, including calling ifup for configuration of the
interface.
> I changed that and things have changed, but they're still not right.
>
> If I do "ifdown eth0", the firewall is torn down. If I do "ifup eth0" the
> firewall is rebuilt. This is good. But if I remove/replace the pcmcia card,
> ifup/ifdown don't appear to be run. The script as I have it (taken from a
> reinstall, so not my fault :-) ) contains:
...
> It seems I'd picked up a version of pcmcia-cs from sid in one of my experiments,
> but even having downgraded this to 3.1.33-6 it does _not_ seem to invoke
> ifup/ifdown (all that seems different is the use of hotplug in sid). I _did_
> reset DHCP="y" when I recreated the network.opts file.
Of cource, you do realise that when using /e/n/interfaces with pcmcia, you
dont want to change the default network.opts at all, right?
Mike.
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