On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 04:39:59PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > I've recently installed debian testing on my wife's old p-120 laptop, > and I've got a few questions about some laptop specific issues. > > 1) PCMCIA cards. We have a linksys ethernet card that is recognized as > an NE2000 compatible ethernet card. When I did the install, the only way > I could get it to be recognized for the network installation was as eth0 > -- not as a PC card.
I don't understand what you mean ... any ethernet card will show up as eth0, eth1, etc. > When I boot, the init scripts try to setup the network /before/ the card > is loaded. If I'm not on the network at the time, it's not a problem; if > I am, it means that eth0 goes unbound, and I have to do an 'ifdown eth0 > && ifup eth0' to get my connection. Probably you have an eth0 stanza in your /etc/network/interfaces file. Try commenting it out. I think the pcmcia stuff will set up your interface automagically (but I no longer have a laptop to verify this). HTH, -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Profanity is the one language all programmers know best. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
