[BL] 3COM PCMCIA, BL3.5

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Fri Apr 4 15:40:35 EDT 2008


The Card Services warning was because the card wasn't seated all the way 
in the socket, that is fixed now :). Unfortunately, after creating 
urandom, udhcpc still fails to get an address. I tried manually entering 
one with ifconfig but still no luck. No lights on the card, or on the 
router.

Steven wrote:
> Message from Steven
> ===================
>   
>> I tried to get an address from the router 
>>     
>
> Have you tried setting the address manually?
> --------------------------
> ifconfig eth0 xxx.xx.xxx.x
> --------------------------
> Substitute the real address numbers for the x's
>
>   
>> by running /udhcpc/ and it couldn't find //dev/urandom/ 
>>     
>
> That's simply solved by adding /dev/urandom:
> ------------------------
> mknod /dev/urandom c 1 9
> ------------------------
>
> Note:  if you set the address manually, then you 
> don't don't use udhcpc.  They are two alternate 
> ways of establishing your address on the network.
>
>   
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