[Trinux-talk] Having trouble configuring a 2nd card...

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Hi all!
I'm new to the Trinux thing and need a bit of help.  I apologize if this is
documented and I just didn't see it.  But I've spent the better part of
today reading the Trinux website and almost all of the posts for 2001 (Thats
about 180).  

I have a p166 that is currently functioning as a GW running a full dist of
Debian.  I would like to change this to just a simple single floppy dist.
For several reasons I've picked Trinux, but I won't go into them here.
Unless u really want me to, then reply and I'll provide them.

I can't seem to get my 3Com 3c509 (10BaseT ISA) card to configure w/ an
address and netmask on boot.  It would appear that it is reconized by the
kernel because after it's booted, I can ifconfig it w/ an address and NM.
Forwarding and stuff doesn't work yet, but I don't think I'm quite there.  I
need to get the 2nd card working first.  Dmesg isn't alot of help.  There
are no messages that talk about assigning an address to either card, yet
3c950 works (cause it boots - there are messages of pkg's that it's loading
over the net).  And there are messgages that seem to show that the 3c509 is
working.  There doesn't seem to be any error messages.  /var/log/messages
either.  Here is the config that I'm running.

Hardware:
P166MMX Award Bios
80Meg's of ram.
3C950 PCI 10/100 card (This seems to configure fine as eth0)
3C509 ISA 10Meg card (For the private net on eth1)

So I've read through the http://trinux.sourceforge.net site.  And I've read
what I believe to be all relative parts of the Linux Ether-Howto.

My syslinux.cfg:
display license
prompt 1
default network
timeout 30
label network
  kernel bzimage
  append vga=4 initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/ram0 pkg=network
console=/dev/ttyS1 ether=9,0xe800,eth0 ether=10,0x300,eth1

(The info that I got for the ether commands came from an ifconfig while
Debian was running)

Addtionally, messages that I get on boot are:
Looking for eth0
Bringing down eth0
Found static network config
config eth0
config eth1

Oh yea, I almost forgot.  I do have a /tux/config/eth1 file that says:
 192.168.10.1 255.255.255.0

I was thinking that that would be enough.  Do I have to write a script to
assign the address I want?

I hope I provided enough info.  I also hope that there is not something
glaringly stupid that I missed.  Thanx for your help and time!


Earl Potter