Hello,
I have a laptop with docking station. The laptop has a PCMCIA
wireless card; the docking station has its own ethernet port/card.
When I boot up w/o the docking station, the wireless card is
recognized as eth0 and the network comes up properly.
When I boot up with the docking station, the docking station ethernet
gets eth0, PCMCIA gets eth1 and Debian tries to bring up the network
via eth0. Unless I connect with a ethernet cord, networking fails.
Following suggestions from the recent "DHCP Question" thread, I added the
hardware address to the eth0 section of my /etc/network/interfaces file:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
hwaddress ether 00:50:8B:46:28:6F
Now, when the laptop is docked, PCMCIA comes up as eth0, but
networking doesn't work. During boot, dhclient runs and fails
(DHCPDISCOVER, DHCPDISCOVER, ..., No DHCPOFFERS received). I tried
running dhclient after the machine was fully booted... it again fails.
PCMCIA card flashes its LED to indicate that it has been initialized,
but it is not connected to a network.
I use a DSL wireless router for networking.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Many thanks,
Jason
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