HAve you tried using PUMP?
Its a simply of having it automaticaly detect and setup your network setting at boot up On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Federico Lucifredi wrote: > Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 19:21:46 -0400 > From: Federico Lucifredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > Subject: Gateway setting for a PCMCIA network card > Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > > Hello everyone > I have a little problem b/c my network card does not get set up > correctly by Debian. It appears that cardservices takes care of everything > *but* it does this without reading my /etc/network/interfaces file. Nothing > strage here, I assume CS is not using ifup/down (which refers to the file > above) but is instead fetching suff from /etc/hosts and so on. > Be as it may, I end up without a default route, and I have to type in > manually route add gw default <ipaddress> to get things working, at which > point everything seems ok. Now, of course I have no problem patching the > system manually at bootup, given it is my laptop - but it would be nicer if > I could fix the thing outright.... geek pride calls =) > > If I insert stuff in /etc/network/interfaces ifup gives errors (b/c the > card was alrady set up), and nothing is accomplished. as things are now, > interfaces configures only the loopback device. > > It is probably a simple pointer after all, but I am new to Debian (and I > love it!) so I am looking into receiving some insight from the experts. > > Federico > > _________________________________________ > -- "'Problem' is a bleak word for challenge" - Richard Fish > > Muad'Dib of Caladan (Federico L. Lucifredi)- [EMAIL PROTECTED], > http://www.lucifredi.com > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
