So, to check, how will the eth1 interface be brought up? Do I have to do it manually with 'ifup eth1' or another command, or is there some way to have this down a) whenever the machine boots b) whenever the card is inserted into its slot?
take care.
chris.
At 07:19 PM Tuesday 1/7/2003, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
"chris" == chris horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: chris> hello. there's a colleague at work here with a sony vaio chris> and two network interfaces. one is the built in nic that chris> requires a dongle to use, and the other is a pcmcia network chris> card. the problem is that apparently the network is being chris> initialized before the pcmcia devices are. judging by the chris> scripts in /etc/init.d/, everything is in order - but in chris> practice eth1 (the pcmcia card) is not initialized before chris> it tries to get set up with the config in chris> /etc/network/interfaces. what's the matter here? is this chris> a configuration error on my part, or debian's?nope, nothing wrong unless you a have done something really non standard. pcmcia cards are bought up by the pcmcia subsystems, the other network cards are bought up by the network scripts (which run earlier). so, if you are setting up the pcmcia card via /etc/network/interfaces do not use the 'auto' keyword for eth1. that should take care of it unless you did something else to the standard installation. cheers! shyamal -- to unsubscribe, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". trouble? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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