Re: swapping network cards

Thanks James, your suggestions helped immensely. I finally got around
to playing with them today, and finally got it working this evening
after about 4 hours, a pcmcia_cs upgrade, and a wonky network switch. :)

What ended up working (after discovering the wired switch was not
talking to the ipcop box properly) is that I set up the wireless card
first, editing /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts to add an entry for my network
card, based on the first two bytes of the MAC address. Then I did the
same for the wired card in network.opts, and used NAMEIF="eth1" to force
it to be renamed to eth1. I don't know if it is really needed - I don't
think so.

My only real concern is that iwconfig keeps saying that my encryption
key is 'off' even though I have it specified in the opts files. If i
comment it out, I have verified that the connection does not work, so
apparently it is configured. Some sort of bug, perhaps.

Anyway, thanks again. I learned a lot about how PCMCIA actually is
handled on linux, so that's a plus, I guess :)

Justin

James Zuelow wrote:
> 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 Sat Jul 24 00:21:49 2004