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

[Bill B. <bi...@ap...>]

Sounds to me like you might want to do the insmods in tux/init/prenet.


On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 16:01, Karl Sigler wrote:
> 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.

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