How to activate PCMCIA ethernet card in ThinkPad?
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I have a Lenovo ThinkPad R61 which has a built-in ethernet card,
designated eth0, which command "lspci" identifies as follows:
Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
While this card works, by comparison with my desktops it seems sluggish.
I would consequently like to try a D-Link PC ethernet card which I had
been using with older laptops and which was much faster. However, I do
not know how to activate it.
The R61 knows it is there, as command "pccardctl ident 0" returns the
following:
product info: "D-Link", "DMF-560TXD DirectPort PC Card", "", ""
manfid: 0x0143, 0xc0ab
function: 0 (multifunction)
(This card, by the way is both a 10/100 Mb LAN [RJ-45] and a 56K
FAX/modem V.90 [RJ-11]. My interest now is to activate the LAN part.)
I would like this card to be eth1; so I added an eth1 entry in file
/etc/network/interfaces. This file now has three entries, as follows:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
address 127.0.0.1
netmask 255.0.0.0
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
allow-hotplug eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
Running "ifdown eth0" will close etho, but "ifup eth1" returns error
messages: "No such device".
Obviously I am missing something, but I have been unable to discover
what. I would be very appreciative if some one could tell me.
Regards, Ken Heard, Toronto, Canada
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