On Monday 28 July 2003 15:17, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:38:08PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > I am attempting to install debian on a Thinkpad570 (Woody from > > CDs, using bf24). I have plugged in a PCMCIA network interface. > > How do I configure it? > > This might be of some help... > > http://ursine.ca/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Laptop-HOWTO.html > http://ursine.ca/doc/HOWTO/en-html/PCMCIA-HOWTO.html > http://ursine.ca/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Net-HOWTO/index.html
Useful links, thanks. I had, in fact meanwhile found the Net-HOWTO, and am trying to use its guidance. It tells me that, for Debian, I need to put the Interface Config/Routing commands in /etc/init.d/network and the Server Initialization in /etc/rc2.d/*. It does not tell me what to write in those locations. I have tried starting the network manually thus: # ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up but I get error messages: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device which suggests there is not much point in continuing with trying to write the configuration files from scratch. However, inserting the card shows immediately: cs: cb_alloc(bus 7): vendor 0x10ec, device 0x8139 so I suppose the device is identified, and lsmod shows (inter alia): ds 6624 2 i82365 22416 2 pcmcia_core 41408 0 [ds i82365] which may or may not be what it should say, but at least these are the modules I am told to expect. I now do not know how to proceed. Perhaps it is not possible to connect this laptop to the LAN for some reason that I know nothing of. Perhaps I need to install the Debian base system differently. Perhaps I need to configure something that is already installed. I don't even understand how to identify where the problem lies. Any ideas out there? -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
