On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 10:07:06PM +0100, Luis Mendes wrote: > > 1) Does the fact that both devices are in the same card affects in any > way the ease of installation under woody or is it advisable to get > separate cards for the two functions? >
Like Jeremy, I too have a Xircom RealPort combo card. It works fine, and I would expect other combo cards would work well too (assuming they're supported by pcmcia-cs). The only one little trick I need to use is that I have to turn the ethernet port off (ifconfig eth0 down) before using the modem to connect by phone. This is because eth0 gets loaded automatically when the card is inserted, and sets up the default gateway. But you can't have two default gateways, so when you use the modem, ppp0 gets loaded, but doesn't have a gateway connecting to it, so you effectively can't use it at the same time. I figure there must be some way to set up the routing tables so that eth0 and ppp0 can both run at the same time, but I've never really needed them both at the same, so I haven't worried about it any further. I just switch off eth0 manually before using ppp0. I use a simple script called modon to do this: $ cat modon #!/bin/sh ifconfig eth0 down pon provider Drew -- PGP public key available at http://people.debian.org/~dparsons/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A
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