Re: Network on bootup

[Bjoern Schmidt <bj-schmidt@uni-paderborn.de>]

harry_b@mm.st wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I run sid on my aged Panasonic Toughbook which has Xircom PCMCIA network 
> card.
>
> Somehow I can not get the network card boot up properly so the interface 
> is available after booting the machine.
> When I login as root and do:
>
> # /etc/init.d/networking stop; /etc/init.d/networking start
>
> everything is available as it should be.
>
> My /etc/network/interfaces looks like this:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
>                address 192.168.1.250
>                netmask 255.255.255.0
>                broadcast 192.168.1.255
>                gateway 192.168.1.1
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Any ideas out there how to get it boot up properly?

sure. edit /etc/pcmcia/network.opts to configure pcmcia-cards.


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Greetings
Bjoern Schmidt