Re: PCMCIA NIC -was "do I need to re-install from scratch?"

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Thursday 24 July 2003 17:19, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> On Thursday 24 July 2003 18:14, Richard Lyons wrote:
> > Can anyone advise me?  I installed Woody from CD on a laptop
> > without an internet connection.  Now, when I plug in the NIC
> > (PCcard), I cannot get any connection - when I try
> > # ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.7 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
> > I get
> > SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> > eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> > SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
> > eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
[...]
> In /etc/pcmcia should be some file called network.options or
> similar. That's where PCMCIA/PCCard network config goes.

ok, found /etc/pcmcia/network which seems to be a shell script (I 
assume run by startup scripts) which appears to use 
/etc/pcmcia/network.opts for setup info.  So I edited the 
network.opts file to include obvious things.  But I'm no better off.  
Googling around has only served to confuse me further.  Has anyone 
any networking-for-morons advice?  

And what is tap0?  netstat -r shows a default or preconfigured routing 
to a non-existent address via tap0.