[Rule-list] network.opts

[Joe Sprankle]

Marco,
I'm sorry the original post was a little vauge (must be monday) :-)
Toshiba Protege 7140, nic, smc 8040tx
I have been using it with Slackware for quite a while, I've also used Debian
on it. The redhat is seeing the card and loading the pc_net module(I believe
that was the name of the module, laptops at home). My only problem is
getting the machine to use dhcp to configure it's connection. I've found it
common amongst many distros that /etc/pcmcia/network.opts is where you can
configure either to use dhcp, or whatever static adress you need to use.
Redhat doesn't have this file. The /etc/pcmcia directory exists but doesn't
contain network.opts. I'm sure I'm missing something somewhere and I have
done research but to no avail.
thank you,
joe

-----Original Message-----
From: rule-list-admin at mail.freesoftware.fsf.org
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Fioretti
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 1:02 PM
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Subject: Re: [Rule-list] network.opts


On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 10:52:21 at 10:52:21AM -0700, Joe Sprankle wrote:
> I've been silently reading this list for some time now, I love the
project.
> I paln on in the future getting a local Goodwill computer store to start
> loading rule on pc's they currently sell with no os, they get tons of
> donations from corporations that wipe the hd clean. I don't have any spare
> time as of present but I will someday.....
>
> I want to load rule on a couple old laptops. I have ran RedHat on my main
> laptop and uninstalled it because I couldn't find out how to get a pcmcia
> nic card configured. Every distro I've used has contained a
> /etc/pcmcia/network.opts file for this config, I couldn't find an answer,
> tried google,#redhat room on irc, and couldn't get an answer.
>
> I know this a little off subject but I really don't want to load these
> laptops in I can't get the networking working.
>

Joe,

first of all, thanks for your comments on the project. I hope that you
are able soon to use RULE as you wish.

About your laptops:

The question is not off topic, but we need more info, particularly
brand and version of both the laptops and the PCMCIA network adapters.

For example, are you sure that the adapters you have can be used under
Linux?

Have you checked the laptop and networking howtos for specific
informations on those models? And what kind of problems did you have
exactly with past installs?

	Ciao,
		Marco Fioretti
		RULE project leader

--
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system,
there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless,
that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to
consume.
						Noam Chomsky

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