Re: persistent interface

2004-06-11 Thread Ross Burton
On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 03:23, Jim McCloskey wrote: > The problem, though, is that at boot-time, the system always tries to > bring up eth0 (which corresponds to the built-in NIC). But of course > it can't typically, because the ethernet port is not usually connected > to anything. So the boot proces

Re: persistent interface

2004-06-11 Thread Jim McCloskey
* Ross Burton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: |> Do you have discover installed? I found that discover likes |> bringing up any interfaces it finds on boot. Thanks a lot for the suggestion. `Discover' is not on the system, however. Back to the drawing-board Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: persistent interface

2004-06-11 Thread Arjen Verweij
Yeah, so install it? Or can't you install programs on that systems? apt-get install discover as root. Jim McCloskey wrote: * Ross Burton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: |> Do you have discover installed? I found that discover likes |> bringing up any interfaces it finds on boot. Thanks a lot for th

Re: Re: persistent interface

2004-06-11 Thread Jim McCloskey
Arjen Verweij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> Yeah, so install it? Or can't you install programs on that systems? |> |> apt-get install discover |> |> as root. Oh I could install it OK, but Ross' suggestion was that the presence of discover on the system might be *the source* of the problem I de

Re: persistent interface

2004-06-11 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 June 2004 20:08, Jim McCloskey wrote: > I've since tried putting: > >install eth0 /bin/true > > in /etc/modprobe.conf, but that didn't solve the problem either, You should never directly edit /etc/modprobe.conf (2.5 & 2.6 kernels) or

Re: persistent interface

2004-06-11 Thread Arjen Verweij
Oh duh. I completely misread Ross' post. nm me :) Jim McCloskey wrote: Arjen Verweij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> Yeah, so install it? Or can't you install programs on that systems? |> |> apt-get install discover |> |> as root. Oh I could install it OK, but Ross' suggestion was that the presenc

Re: persistent interface

2004-06-11 Thread Jim McCloskey
* Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: |> On Friday 11 June 2004 20:08, Jim McCloskey wrote: |> > I've since tried putting: |> > |> >install eth0 /bin/true |> > |> > in /etc/modprobe.conf, but that didn't solve the problem either, |> |> You should never directly edit /e

Re: WLAN-Card on Sarge

2004-06-11 Thread Jim McCloskey
Alexander May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> When inserting the card sarge loaded also the hermes and orinoco modules |> but no device (eth1) was assigned. I believe that the file /etc/pcmcia/network.opts has a final stanza which is supposed to use the Debian network interfaces file /etc/network

Re: WLAN-Card on Sarge

2004-06-11 Thread Bill Moseley
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 05:48:53PM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > iface eth1 inet dhcp > mapping hotplug > script echo Ok, now I'm confused. In the pcmcia-cs package there's the cardmgr program that, if I understand correctly, reads /etc/pcmcia/config* files on startup. Then when a card is inse

Re: persistent interface

2004-06-11 Thread Ross Burton
On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 03:23, Jim McCloskey wrote: > The problem, though, is that at boot-time, the system always tries to > bring up eth0 (which corresponds to the built-in NIC). But of course > it can't typically, because the ethernet port is not usually connected > to anything. So the boot proces

Re: persistent interface

2004-06-11 Thread Jim McCloskey
* Ross Burton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: |> Do you have discover installed? I found that discover likes |> bringing up any interfaces it finds on boot. Thanks a lot for the suggestion. `Discover' is not on the system, however. Back to the drawing-board Jim

Re: persistent interface

2004-06-11 Thread Arjen Verweij
Yeah, so install it? Or can't you install programs on that systems? apt-get install discover as root. Jim McCloskey wrote: * Ross Burton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: |> Do you have discover installed? I found that discover likes |> bringing up any interfaces it finds on boot. Thanks a lo

Re: Re: persistent interface

2004-06-11 Thread Jim McCloskey
Arjen Verweij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> Yeah, so install it? Or can't you install programs on that systems? |> |> apt-get install discover |> |> as root. Oh I could install it OK, but Ross' suggestion was that the presence of discover on the system might be *the source* of the problem I de

Re: persistent interface

2004-06-11 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 June 2004 20:08, Jim McCloskey wrote: > I've since tried putting: > >install eth0 /bin/true > > in /etc/modprobe.conf, but that didn't solve the problem either, You should never directly edit /etc/modprobe.conf (2.5 & 2.6 kernels) or

Re: persistent interface

2004-06-11 Thread Arjen Verweij
Oh duh. I completely misread Ross' post. nm me :) Jim McCloskey wrote: Arjen Verweij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> Yeah, so install it? Or can't you install programs on that systems? |> |> apt-get install discover |> |> as root. Oh I could install it OK, but Ross' suggestion was that the

Re: persistent interface

2004-06-11 Thread Jim McCloskey
* Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: |> On Friday 11 June 2004 20:08, Jim McCloskey wrote: |> > I've since tried putting: |> > |> >install eth0 /bin/true |> > |> > in /etc/modprobe.conf, but that didn't solve the problem either, |> |> You should never directly edit /e

Re: WLAN-Card on Sarge

2004-06-11 Thread Jim McCloskey
Alexander May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> When inserting the card sarge loaded also the hermes and orinoco modules |> but no device (eth1) was assigned. I believe that the file /etc/pcmcia/network.opts has a final stanza which is supposed to use the Debian network interfaces file /etc/network

Re: WLAN-Card on Sarge

2004-06-11 Thread Bill Moseley
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 05:48:53PM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > iface eth1 inet dhcp > mapping hotplug > script echo Ok, now I'm confused. In the pcmcia-cs package there's the cardmgr program that, if I understand correctly, reads /etc/pcmcia/config* files on startup. Then when a card is inse