Hello
> > Are people actually setting /etc/pcmcia/network.opts? Or are is SAS or
> > ifconfig being used? If the latter two are used then I believe this
> > will configure /etc/network/*. This will cause an issue with PCMCIA.
> >
> > There is a script to configure a PCMCIA ethernet card. For the life of
> > me I cannot recall what it is but a:
> > man -k pcmcia should make it obvious.
>
> I used SAS to configure my PCMCIA network adapter - didn't realize that
> pcmcia could configure network settings also.
Yeah, took me a while to figure out what I needed to do. First port of
call was SAS, then I realised that it was all bad on reboot. Rang up a
friend who couldn't shed much light on the matter except that the init
scripts in Debian must be that way for a reason.
> 'man -k pcmcia' produces the following output on my system - could you
> enlighten me as to how this makes things obvious?
Sure...
> pcnetconfig (8) - Interactively configure the PCMCIA network cards for
> Debian
This is the buffer. It'll ask you things like whether you want a
static and if so what the ip address will be, what the subnet is, etc.
> Thanks!
No problem. Hope it helps.
Matt
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