On Sat, 2002-04-13 at 16:10, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: Hi > On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 01:41:47PM +0200, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am running debian 2.2.20 sid on a laptop and I am haveing trouble with > > the pcmcia card. It starts after the nettwork and couses the pc to boot > > without getting an address from dhcp. > > I need to run /etc/init.d/networking restart everytime I have booted up. > > How can I get the pcmcia card to start erlier in the boot? > > > > /ernst > > Hi ernst, > > I use debian on a laptop as well. My guess is, your ethernet card is a > pcmcia card. Now, you probably have configured eth0 in > /etc/network/interfaces. My advice is: don't. Configure your network in > the pcmcia configuration. That way, eth0 will be configured when pcmcia > starts. > > So, first you should remove the part about eth0 in > /etc/network/interfaces. Yes, that was it, then I got rid of the error in boot, no eth0 found. > > Next, you should configure the pcmcia networking options to use dhcp. I > don't use dhcp myself, so what follows is an (educated) guess: > In /etc/pcmcia there should be a file network.opts. In there, > there is probably a line saying > > DHCP="n" > > Change the n to y. Restart pcmcia. That's it. The problem was that i did not have the entry DHCP apt all. thanks! /ernst > > HTH, > Matijs. > > -- > Note that I use Debian version 3.0 > Linux mus 2.4.17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:30:15 CET 2002 i686 unknown > > Matijs van Zuijlen > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
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