On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 02:33:10PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > lewiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've just got a 3C589 PCCARD NIC going. However, I'm using the BNC > > (10Base2) connector so I need to specify ``media 10base2/BNC'' in > > rc.conf. However, if I do this DHCP doesn't seem to work. Is there any > > way that I can combine media 10base2/BNC and DHCP into pccard_ifconfig? > > Sure; just specify your own script, using pccard.conf. > Instead of the default pccard_ether, you can do a specialized script > that sets the medium before invoking dhclient.
Thanks for this tip, it was most helpful. After reading around a bit in
/etc/pccard_ether I found that there was an optional execution of
/etc/start_if.{if} and /etc/stop_if.{if} so I now have ifconfig ep0
media 10Base2/BNC in start_if.ep0.
Thanks again,
-lewiz.
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