Re: [Trinux-talk] Loading pcmcia NIC from IDE drive

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

Thanks Bill. Unfortunately, I had tried that with no
luck. If I leave the defaults (no eth0, gateway, host,
etc. in tux/config) I don't even get a dhcp address.
If I put those files there they make no difference.
After booting I end up with a live interface (ifconfig
-a shows eth0), but there's no ip associated with it. 

Could it be that by doing the insmod as part of the
/tux/init/last script, that the interface becomes
active too late in the boot cycle to read that config
info?

I've gotten around the problem temporarily by adding:

ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.111

to that 'last' script. This works, but I'd like to
have the option for dhcp. Is anyone else loading the
pcmcia modules from an IDE drive?

Thanks for the help.

K.


--- Bill Burdick <bi...@ap...> wrote:
> To get an ip address at boot, make a file in
> tux/config/ with the same
> name as your interface (like eth0) and put the ip
> and netmask on a
> single line in the file (like "10.1.0.1
> 255.255.255.0").  I would advise
> making sure the file ends in a newline (sorry if
> that's obvious).
> 
> On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 15:03, Karl Sigler wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> -- 
> 	Bill Burdick
> 	Bi...@ap...
> 
> 
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