[Trinux-talk] Loading pcmcia NIC from IDE drive

[Karl S. <ksi...@ya...>]

o.k., there's got to be an easier way to do what I'm
trying. I have a laptop with a 3com pcmcia NIC in it.
It has an NTFS partition that I'm using to load
packages (C:/trinux).

The pcmcia boot disk works great with no tweaking. It
loads the modules fine and I've been able to both
assign a static IP to the NIC as well as use dhcp.

Using the IDE boot disk sees the NTFS partition fine
and loads packages without problem. I tried putting
the pcmcia-bin, -coremods, and -3com files in bootpkg,
but they wouldn't load. I moved them up to just the
c:/trinux dir, added them to the end of config/pkglist
and they load fine. I should say they extract fine. 

In order to load the modules I added the following to
the /init/last script:

insmod pcmcia_bin
insmod pcmcia_coremods
insmod pcmcia_3com
cardmgr

This actually works, but the NIC never receives an IP
addr. By tweaking /etc/pcmcia/network.opts I can
assign it one, but the changes don't keep from boot to
boot. I'm sure I'm taking the long way around the
mountain. Can anyone point me to the short-cut?

Thanks. BTW, This distrib is saving my life. I have a
company issued laptop with one flat partition. Tech
support is scared of linux and won't let me modify
anything. I teach security as part of my job and need
things like dsniff, hping2, nmap and netcat. If I can
get this NIC issue ironed out, I won't have to lug two
laptops from city to city.

Thanks again,

K.

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