[Trinux-talk] 05sept02.iso w/o DHCP, card recognized; no eth0

[William S. <ws...@xs...>]

I have DL'd the latest iso image of 5sept02, but
before using it I went in and made a few changes
to remove dhcp and use a static connection.

In directory: trinux/tux/config

1. In file eth0 I deleted dhcp and added ip and netmask info.
2. Created 2 additional files "gateway" and "dns" and inserted
   appropriate info in each.

On booting the cdrom,everything seemed to have loaded
up OK except networking. My rtl8139 based cardbus card
appears to be connected and recognized, but no
eth0 is generated (ifconfig eth0 shows nothing).
Is there a way to manually bring it up?
("ifconfig etho ... up")

Some questions:

Have I setup the files in trinux/tux/config correctly
to use a static connection?

Are the realtek cardbus cards supported?

Other than using dmesg output what are other
ways to get meaningful output to diagnose how
the system is loading/installing?

Can I remove modules and packages that I do not
need. I am thinking in terms of those that
relate to networ cards I do not use (3com, etc)

Thank you,

-- 
Bill
Amsterdam, NL