RE: [Trinux-talk] Another laptop question

[Matthew F. <mf...@ci...>]

> It never gives me the chance to configure the NIC.
> 
> Any ideas....thanks again for your time. I really want to use this tool and
> sure hope we can work through this.
> 

Oops, sorry. I still have some work to do :) You've got a few options,
basically all this stuff is stored on  /tux/config on the boot floppy
which is a DOS filesytem so you can either change the network config using
a windows text editor or mount the floppy within trinux using mount -t
vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt

So in /mnt/tux/config you'll probably see the following network-related
config values:

gateway - your default router/gateway
eth0 - contains IP and netmask (separated by a space)
dns - your dns server

You can either edit these files, replacing them with your correct values
or if you delete the gateway file the netcfg script will prompt you like
its supposed to. In that case if you issue a savecfg command it should
prompt you for your boot floppy so the settings get permantently saved.

Thanks for you patience, although my guess is we still may run into
hardware problems with the NIC. You might want to research it on
deja.com/usenet/ or RedHat's intel hardware compatbility list to find out
if is a fully-supported card or not.

-mdf