Re: Debian on a 486sx thru PCMCIA NIC
Am 2003-11-01 23:29:08, schrieb David Zelinsky:
>"Dr. Fred M'Bogo" <dr.mbogo@hotpop.com> writes:
>
>> The way I usually bypass not having a cd on a laptop is that I
>> install the drivers, configure pcmcia, install the nic (usually from
>> the console) and then just configure the network. After that
>> everything works as usual.
>
>I've been trying to do just this, but after configuring the network,
>I'm told "Network is configured but not activated", so I can't
>continue with the network install. The pcmcia/ethernet is being
>recognized correctly. But eth0 is never brought up.
Do you have adder the route ???
route add eth0 ...
It is not set automaticly...
>This was with a manual network configuration; it did finally work with
>DHCP (after I figured out how to install a DHCP server on my desktop
>machine). I checked the numbers I was giving it several times, so I
>don't believe it was just a bad configuration. In fact, if I remember
>right, I did manage to bring the network up manually with ifconfig.
>
>Is this a bug in the installer? Or am I doing something wrong?
It is a bug, because route does not work automaticly...
>David
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