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Re: Pcmcia network card startup



On Thu, 01 May 2003 14:16:56 +1000
Russell Shaw <rjshaw@iprimus.com.au> wrote:

> Hi,
> I've installed and used the pcmcia-cs package on debian.
> 
> When i plug a 3com 3c589c pcmcia NIC in, then the card
> is detected and started, but to get it to appear as eth0
> in "ifconfig", i need to do /etc/init.d/networking restart.
> Is there a standard way of making this happen automatically?

Yes. man interfaces.

In /etc/network/interfaces make a stanza for eth0, but do *not* make it
auto.

The reason is that networking runs before PCMCIA in the startup sequence.

The PCMCIA scripts check /etc/network/interfaces and use what's there.

Kevin



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