RE: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Auto load of a NIC module and problems with persistent IP address on NIC

[John R. <jro...@wi...>]

My bad - both NIC's are wireless - I should have mentioned that.

All the WI-FI drivers have been compiled and load fine (used the 1.0.4 tree
to build in my own drivers/etc and build a new ISO image) - got that working
at least :)

So - if the PCMCIA card (WIFI PCMCIA card in an ISA socket bridge card used
to allow the desktop (this is not a laptop) to work in the ISA slot) is to
get an IP address at startup - what config file do I need to change if it's
not /etc/sysconfig/nic/ifcfg-xxx?

Is it the /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts file where I would apply the IP/mask/etc
for this wireless NIC?  Or does the pcmcia startup script use a similar
ifcfg-xxx method for applying NIC info at startup?

Thanks for the reply,

-John

-----Original Message-----
From: dev...@li...
[mailto:dev...@li...] On Behalf Of
Emmanuel ESCARABAJAL
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 3:36 PM
To: dev...@li...
Subject: Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Auto load of a NIC module and problems
with persistent IP address on NIC

HI,

> 
> 1) I have a PCMCIA NIC which is part of a ISA-2-PCMCIA bridge/socket card.
> DL sees the card and the modules all load nicely.  

I Don't understand what you mean by part of ISA-2PCMCIA ...

> 
> My question is this - does the IP address (and netmask, etc) get set 
> in the "normal" /etc/sysconfig/nic/ifcfg-eth0 deal?  Or is it part of 
> the

No, it doesn't ... unless serious hacks for the pcmcia, hotplug & network
scripts as it is pcmcia services which start network conf in case of a
pcmcia nic, not the /etc/init.d/network.

Some guys at SuSE have worked on it and it works fine (8.2 & 9.0, maybe
before?) ... unless you start to play with wi-fi nics for which you have to
compile the driver ...

> /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts stuff?  The card doesn't seem to retain it's 
> IP address correctly when I place the info in ifcfg-eth0.

In /etc/pcmcia/network.opts unless you use a wi-fi nic ...

Hope it helped

Cy

MaNU



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