Re: how to set up NIC
On Monday 28 July 2003 15:17, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:38:08PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote:
> > I am attempting to install debian on a Thinkpad570 (Woody from
> > CDs, using bf24). I have plugged in a PCMCIA network interface.
> > How do I configure it?
>
> This might be of some help...
>
> http://ursine.ca/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Laptop-HOWTO.html
> http://ursine.ca/doc/HOWTO/en-html/PCMCIA-HOWTO.html
> http://ursine.ca/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Net-HOWTO/index.html
Useful links, thanks. I had, in fact meanwhile found the Net-HOWTO,
and am trying to use its guidance. It tells me that, for Debian, I
need to put the Interface Config/Routing commands in
/etc/init.d/network and the Server Initialization in /etc/rc2.d/*.
It does not tell me what to write in those locations.
I have tried starting the network manually thus:
# ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
but I get error messages:
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
which suggests there is not much point in continuing with trying to
write the configuration files from scratch.
However, inserting the card shows immediately:
cs: cb_alloc(bus 7): vendor 0x10ec, device 0x8139
so I suppose the device is identified, and lsmod shows (inter alia):
ds 6624 2
i82365 22416 2
pcmcia_core 41408 0 [ds i82365]
which may or may not be what it should say, but at least these are the
modules I am told to expect.
I now do not know how to proceed. Perhaps it is not possible to
connect this laptop to the LAN for some reason that I know nothing
of. Perhaps I need to install the Debian base system differently.
Perhaps I need to configure something that is already installed. I
don't even understand how to identify where the problem lies.
Any ideas out there?
--
richard
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