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

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

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.

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	Bi...@ap...

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.
> 
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> 	Bill Burdick
> 	Bi...@ap...
> 
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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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	Bi...@ap...