Okay, Just for anyone reading the Archives, I had to actually manually change /etc/pcmcia/network and I think /etc/pcmcia/network.opts to properly show that the card should use DHCP. I had to leave the boot order (or else everything broke) the way it was originally. After that /etc/pcmcia/network start 1, will now bring up my PCMCIA card. This is automatically called from the startup script so I don't need to do any manual tweaking. I am not sure what I would do with a Static IP but then I don't have to worry now do I? ;-). Thanks for all the help, it lead me in the right directions (made me actually read the two scripts that were involved). On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Anders Johansson wrote:
Just a note: the rcnetwork script won't have any effect on devices that uses dhcp. That could be the reason 'starting the network' doesn't do anything. rcdhclient start, however, should work, provided the pcmcia handler is started. If not, check /etc/rc.config and make sure that IFCONFIG_1 is set to "dhcpclient"
Anders
On Monday 27 August 2001 22.19, Anthony Moulen wrote:
Thanks,
I will give this a try. I don't think this is the problem though as trying to start the network through the SuSE tools while the system is already in run level 5 doesn't work. For some reason the tools do not detect this device and automatically kill that entry in the configuration. In other words, it would be one thing if the configuration was there and simply needed to be started, but the problem is that the configuration isn't even there. But maybe I missed something. I will move around the configuration files and see what happens. This was the problem on RedHat way back when, and something I totally forgot to consider.
Anthony