Re: Laptop woes - Network Cfg.
"Ryan King" <rking@duke-energy.com> writes:
| I can't seem to do anything without running to you guys! You already
| helped me through two problems (both my fault, of course), and here I am
| again!
|
| I promise that as soon as I get going and am connected, I'll quit using you
| all as a crutch. Yeesh..
|
| Regardless: I'm having trouble figuring out how my system should be set up
| to connect a network: I have an IBM Thinkpad 755C, and a USRobotics
| XJEM3336 w/10Mbs LAN Adpt, and am trying to hook up to a LAN. (If this card
| won't work, I could try couple different ones... there are several laying
| around here)
You're not some doppleganger (sp?) in an "Evil" dimension are you? :)
In addition to having the same laptop, we have an identical
Ethernet/Modem card as well.
Anyway, that card works perfectly in my 755C. Both as a network card
and as a modem card. I think I've even done both simultaneously,
which, I've heard, is problematic with a lot of these combo cards.
| How can I get my Boxlet to recognize the interface? Once I've got it
| going, how will I be able to test it?
I'd start by pinging 127.0.0.1. That tells you that the network
software is installed. Next try pinging what you're actual IP is
supposed to be. Then, perhaps, pinging any gateway you have. Then try
to telnet to a different machine.
| When I installed Debian on my desktop, it was a breeze and a half, all I
| had to do was tell it to use the driver that was listed, and from then on I
| was pinging all kinds of hosts. Matter of fact, I don't think I had a
| single net-related problem with that PC.
It's a bit more complicated with PCMCIA because you need some type of
PCMCIA card manager to get installed first. It, in turn, does the
subsequent initialization of the, in this case, network adapter.
| Now then, all this PCMCIA stuff has thrown me for a bit of a loop.
It gets a bit confusing, but you did install the pcmcia packages
right? That includes pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules-<kernel version>.
If so it's pretty easy. First, read the FAQ in /usr/doc/pcmcia-cs. The
file name is FAQ.Debian.gz. Basically it boils down to making sure the
file /etc/pcmcia/network.opts file contains the proper information for
your machine. Mine looks like (I replaced the non-relevant numbers
with "x"):
----------------------------------------------------------------
# Network adapter configuration
#
# Automatically generated during the Debian Installation
#
case "$ADDRESS" in
*,*,*,*)
IF_PORT="auto"
# Use BOOTP [y/n]
BOOTP="n"
IPADDR="xxx.xxx.xx.xxx"
NETMASK="255.255.255.0"
NETWORK="xxx.xxx.xx.0"
BROADCAST="xxx.xxx.xx.255"
GATEWAY="xxx.xxx.xx.1"
DOMAIN="cs.sandia.gov"
DNS_1="xxx.xxx.xx.2"
;;
esac
----------------------------------------------------------------
It says that it's automatically generated from a Debian script, but I
can't for the life of me remember what that script was called. It
might be run automatically when you install the pcmcia-cs package? Or
you might try reinstalling network support, e.g., netbase and netstd,
and see if it catches the fact that you're running PCMCIA? Personally,
I'd just install pcmcia-modules-<kernel version> and then pcmcia-cs
and if that doesn't run a configuration script to set networking up
I'd do it manually.
Gary
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