On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Patrick Wolf wrote:

Hi everybody,

Sorry for this trivial qustion but I am quite new in the linux world although I worked on Unix some time ago. I have SuSe 6.3 installed on a Gateway Solo 9300 laptop. I try desperately to configure the PCMCIA card to be able to connect to a LAN at work. All the desktops there are connected together with a DHCP address. What I thought of is select dhcpclient in YaSt. I then typed in the IP address and the subnetwork mask related to it. But the card remains speechless. When it comes to choose the type of the card in the YaSt installation box, it is not there although at boot time, the cardmanager seems to recognize it as it displays the model (3Com 3CXFE575CT). Can anyone of you help me? Thank you very much. Cheers, Patrick Wolf My experience is with SuSE 6.2 and 6.4, so I hope this is correct for 6.3... Yast is not used to configure PCMCIA adapters. Skip over the network configuration in YAST, telling it you have no NIC's installed. Make sure you have the pcmcia rpm installed. Edit /etc/pcmcia/network.opts - change the value of the DHCP parameter to 'y' and save the file. execute 'cardctl ident' and note the slot number that the card is inserted in. execute 'cardctl eject #' (use the correct slot number) execute 'cardctl insert #'.

wait a few moments and execute 'ifconfig eth0'. On my laptop, the DHCP negotiation seldom takes more than 5-10 seconds. -- Rick Green "I have the heart of a little child, and the brain of a genius. ... and I keep them in a jar under my bed"