On 27 Jul, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > In a wild fit of Debian advocacy, I persuaded a colleague at work to > partition the hard disk on his portable and install Debian. > > Installation was a breeze...it put the PCMCIA stuff in and booted nicely > with beeps and so on. But it had lost all the IP info and ifconfig eth0 got
Two high beeps, or a high followed by a low? In case you don't know, the former is good, the latter means no go with your card. > no such device errors. > > This is a real embarrassment. I have modprobed made sure the xirc2ps_cs You shouldn't be embarrassed -- unless of course you claimed that Debian would automatically detect and work with all his hardware. :-) Let him know that the reason Windows is so easy to install is that it's always *pre*-installed -- Windows intallation can be much more of a headache than Linux, believe me. > module is loaded but no joy...I cannot configure a network. No such device > type messages. Interface not recognised. > > Is there some obvious mistake I've made? For example, is the PCMCIA card > called eth0? Or is there somewhere to find error messages? To find out whether the card is eth0 (and which driver it's using), cat /var/run/stab. For error messages, check /var/log/kern.log and /var/log/daemon.log. If there's an entry in /var/run/stab (as an ethX), then ifconfig -a should show it. (If you can get that far, then you *should* be able to set it up as any other ethernet device, of course.)
