Re: 2 pcmcia ethernet cards?
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 03:06:20PM -0700, Stephen A. Witt wrote:
> What is the control that you want here? It sounds like you just really
> want to be able to control which card is eth0 and which one is eth1
> [which, of course, is pretty important :)].
>
Yes - I want to know/control which is eth1 and eth0, since firewall,
dhcp, etc scripts use this notation to configure behavior
>
> None of the above is applicable to PCMCIA Ethernet cards. These cards are
> controlled by the cardmgr stuff and configured in
> /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. You have the ability to specify the
> configuration of the cards by a few criteria in that file. It seems like
> you could use a scheme like configuring the Ethernet card in PCMCIA slot 0
> to be eth0, and slot 1 to be eth1 (or something like this). I have
> something like this set up on a laptop for a normal PCMCIA Ethernet card
> and a PCMCIA wireless 802.11 card. I was able to add a section to the case
> statement in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts to select network configurations (IP
> addresses/masks and such) based upon which card was installed, what slot
> it was installed in, etc. I think there is some good documentation in the
> PCMCIA HOWTO about configuring this, I know I found info on the web
> somewhere when I added the wireless card to my laptop.
>
> Hope this helps...
PCMCIA HOWTO looks like where I need to go, thanks.
aloha,
dave
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