Re: swapping network cards

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 01:41:26 +0000
Justin Dieters <enderak@gci.net> wrote:

>
> Perhaps there is something I'm missing. I've tried binding the devices
> to the MAC address, but then it just complains that MAC addresses don't
> match. I've got the appropriate aliases for eth0 and eth1 in
> /etc/modules.conf.
>
> I'm hoping someone out there knows what my be the problem or what I am
> doing wrong.
>

Try not having any set up for eth0/eth1 in modules.conf or in your normal network config location (/etc/network/interfaces for debian, etc.) The PCMCIA system should take care of that for you - including identifying the card and loading modules for it. If it can't identify your card (Belkin NICs for example) you can edit the PCMCIA cardbase to load modules for it. Debian keeps files in /etc/pcmcia to set up network options for PCMCIA NICs. Dunno about RedHat, but it is probably similar. This is where you'd set up whether or not to use DHCP, and if you do whether to use pump or the ISC DHCP client, etc.

RedHat may have GUI tools to configure this or keep the files in different places. But I'm very confident that PCMCIA NICs are handled by the PCMCIA subsystem in any distribution. You shouldn't have anything in your normal network config or modules for your PCMCIA cards. This could be where your system is getting confused.

Aside from that, card manager should detect cards being inserted & ejected. My laptop will assign eth0 to the first card inserted, and eth1 to the second. I have a wired NIC card and a WI-FI card too, and I can use either or both with no problems.

Cheers,

James
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Received on Thu Jul 15 18:35:14 2004