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Subject: Re: [SLE] PCMCIA Card and SuSE 8.0
From: dids <richard () diddyland ! com>
Date: 2002-05-04 10:35:43
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Well I have an orinoco-silver wireless
I read the info in the unofficial suse faq and got it going
however I am using the USE_SUSE_NETWORK_SETUP=yes
which is different to the faq
Have you had you pc-card working in a previous installation of linux/suse ?
You need to make sure that /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia has the correct options for
you, I have to exclude certain interrupts in
PCMCIA_PCIC_OPTS="irq_list=10,11,12,13" for my setup.
I have set the PCMCIA_SYSTEM to "kernel" the default.
Then I had to go into /etc/pcmcia and I think yast set network.opts to the
following ...
( I think yast may have done this for me )
USE_SUSE_NETWORK_SETUP=yes \
\
# !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! \
\
case "$ADDRESS" in \
*,*,*,*) \
INFO="Sample private network setup" \
# Transceiver selection, for some cards -- see 'man ifport' \
IF_PORT="" \
# Use BOOTP (via /sbin/bootpc, or /sbin/pump)? [y/n] \
BOOTP="n" \
# Use DHCP (via /sbin/dhcpcd, /sbin/dhclient, or /sbin/pump)? [y/n] \
DHCP="n" \
# If you need to explicitly specify a hostname for DHCP requests \
DHCP_HOSTNAME="" \
# Host's IP address, netmask, network address, broadcast address \
IPADDR="" \
NETMASK="255.255.255.0" \
NETWORK="192.168.0.2" \
BROADCAST="192.168.0.255" \
# Gateway address for static routing \
GATEWAY="192.168.0.98" \
# Things to add to /etc/resolv.conf for this interface \
DOMAIN="diddyland.top" \
SEARCH="" \
DNS_1="192.168.0.98" \
DNS_2="" \
DNS_3="" \
# NFS mounts, should be listed in /etc/fstab \
MOUNTS="" \
# If you need to override the interface's MTU... \
MTU="" \
# For IPX interfaces, the frame type and network number \
IPX_FRAME="" \
IPX_NETNUM="" \
# Extra stuff to do after setting up the interface \
start_fn () { return; } \
# Extra stuff to do before shutting down the interface \
stop_fn () { return; } \
# Card eject policy options
As Im using wireless I also had to edit the wireless.opts file
and also the wlan_ng.conf file as described in the faq.
you may need to look at /var/log/messages to see what the pc-card is doing
dids
On Saturday 04 May 2002 08:31, Brian W. Carver wrote:
> Is everyone else's laptop cruising the internet on 8.0 just fine and
> it's only my PCMCIA card that I can't get working? Can someone point me
> to a list that might be able to address this problem?
>
> The PCMCIA HOWTO at:
> http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.3 says
>
> "If you get ``Network is unreachable'' messages when you try to access
> the network, then the routing information specified in
> /etc/pcmcia/network.opts is incorrect. This exact message is an
> absolutely foolproof indication of a routing error. On the other hand,
> mis-configured cards will usually fail silently."
>
> I'm getting this message and so I checked my network.opts.
>
> It has an early section like this:
>
> # !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!!
>
> USE_SUSE_NETWORK_SETUP=yes
>
> # !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!!
>
> and then gives a sample setup file.
>
> So, it looks like SuSE is doing something "NEW" here and I wondered if
> anyone knows if I can just set that to "no" and try to figure out what
> options to select in network.opts the old way. Below is the transcript
> of my woes just getting this laptop on the internal network, which still
> hasn't happened.
>
> The SuSE page describing the new system doesn't really make sense to me,
> but one thing I noticed is that I don't even have a
> /etc/sysconfig/network/routes file. I tried reading about the routes
> file to see if I could create one, but I don't understand what goes in
> that first column called "Destination". I'm probably just going to
> hopelessly ruin the setup if I keep blindly trying things. Anyone with
> some decent advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Brian W. Carver wrote:
> > Still can't get PCMCIA network card to do anything on 8.0, but I did
> > manage to get some new errors, so here's an update. (Please help!)
> >
> > ifup eth0 still says "No configuration found for eth0"
> > but since I have a file called ifcfg-eth-pcmcia-0 I thought I'd try
> > instead "ifup eth-pcmcia-0" to see what would happen. When I did that I
> > got: "ifup: Could not get a valid interface name: -> skipped"
> >
> > It's a DLINK DFE 650 card and works fine in Windoze.
> >
> > Also on start-up my xconsole has these two lines:
> >
> > cardmgr[546]: config error, file 'config.add_kernel' line 322: unknown
> > device: 8139too
> >
> > and
> >
> > ifup: No configuration found for eth-pcmcia-1 eth0
> >
> > which made me think to try
> > "ifup eth-pcmcia-0 eth0"
> > and then it finally said
> > Starting DHCP Client Daemon on eth0... . . . . . . . no IP address
> > yet...backgrounding.
> >
> > I've waited a few minutes and pinging the server still gets me:
> > "Network is unreachable"
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Brian W. Carver wrote:
> > > When I do ifup eth0 it says "No configuration found for eth0".
> > >
> > > Which file is it missing?
> > >
> > > In /etc/sysconfig/network I have:
> > >
> > > config
> > > dhcp
> > > ifcfg-eth-pcmcia-0
> > > ifcfg-lo
> > > ifcfg.template
> > > providers (dir)
> > > scripts (dir)
> > > wireless
> > >
> > > The one that looks promising to me is ifcfg-eth-pcmcia-0. Here's what
> > > it says:
> > >
> > > BOOTPROTO="dhcp"
> > > DHCLIENT_SET_DOWN_LINK="yes"
> > > STARTMODE="hotplug"
> > > UNIQUE=" "
> > > device="eth-pcmcia-0"
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Mads Martin Jørgensen wrote:
> > > > * Brian Carver <bwcarver@earthlink.net> [May 01. 2002 10:37]:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I may have to call/e-mail SuSE on this, but before I tried that I
> > > > > thought I'd ask here. I've installed 8.0 on a Sony PCG-F370 laptop
> > > > > with not much trouble. The problem is that it doesn't seem to like
> > > > > my D-Link PCMCIA network card, and so I can't get the laptop on the
> > > > > internet (via my home lan). The laptop connects fine when in
> > > > > Windoze 98, so hardware issues are mostly ruled out.
> > > > >
> > > > > After boot-up ifconfig shows that only the local loopback 127.0.0.1
> > > > > is up and eth0 isn't even listed. If I do 'ifconfig eth0 up' then
> > > > > it will
> > > >
> > > > Have you read how we redesigned network setup? (Try ifup eth0 instead
> > > > of using ifconfig)
> > > >
> > > > http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/mmj_network80.html
> > > >
> > > > There's also
> > > >
> > > > http://sdb.suse.de/cgi-bin/sdbsearch_en.cgi?stichwort=80+pcmcia
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