On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 03:06:20PM -0700, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > What is the control that you want here? It sounds like you just really > want to be able to control which card is eth0 and which one is eth1 > [which, of course, is pretty important :)]. > Yes - I want to know/control which is eth1 and eth0, since firewall, dhcp, etc scripts use this notation to configure behavior > > None of the above is applicable to PCMCIA Ethernet cards. These cards are > controlled by the cardmgr stuff and configured in > /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. You have the ability to specify the > configuration of the cards by a few criteria in that file. It seems like > you could use a scheme like configuring the Ethernet card in PCMCIA slot 0 > to be eth0, and slot 1 to be eth1 (or something like this). I have > something like this set up on a laptop for a normal PCMCIA Ethernet card > and a PCMCIA wireless 802.11 card. I was able to add a section to the case > statement in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts to select network configurations (IP > addresses/masks and such) based upon which card was installed, what slot > it was installed in, etc. I think there is some good documentation in the > PCMCIA HOWTO about configuring this, I know I found info on the web > somewhere when I added the wireless card to my laptop. > > Hope this helps...
PCMCIA HOWTO looks like where I need to go, thanks. aloha, dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
