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  • Subject: Re: [BL] 3COM PCMCIA, BL3.5
  • Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 14:01:15 +0000 (UTC)

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

I can confirm the router as working. The address I used was 192.168.1.87. The

Have you also tested the PCMCIA card and the network cable with other software? We have had dead cards and bad cables.

The BL pcmcia setup is less automated than Slackware. I installed the SW81 pcmcia package in BL2 and it has scripts network, serial, memory, wireless, parport, scsi, ide.

In BL3 you need to start things manually (ifconfig or dhcp for networking, pppsetup then insmod slhc and ppp for serial) even though cardmgr tries to use the (nonexistent) scripts after inserting card-specific modules. The serial script calls for 'telinit', which we don't even have, and it may be making symlinks to devices (not needed if you specify the modem port with pppsetup).

Sometimes I can only get a different card to work by rebooting - is there a better way?

Busybox udhcpc appears to create /usr/share/udhcpc/default.script, which is probably what is replacing my resolv.conf (created with pppsetup) with the IP number of the router. You can specify which script to use instead of default with -s. How do I rewrite this script to not change my resolv.conf, or maybe to just add the router's IP address at the beginning? Will udhcpc keep replacing this script with the default if I change it?

If I try to share a modem connection by hooking up two computers via wireless or wired router, I lose my DNS resolving capability using the default script if I run dhcp, because the router is NOT plugged into a DSL modem or cable modem and therefore the router's IP number is not a DNS server.

I tried to establish a direct wireless connection between two computers (one was a mac) but that did not work, I needed a wireless router.

One solution is to know the IP number of the router and assign numbers manually.

other address on the network is 192.168.1.73. The address I used is within the DHCP range of addresses, and I'm not sure if this makes a difference. Running ifconfig before and after assigning it an IP showed the device eth0. After assigning the IP it displayed eth0 as having the IP. pinging the other machine resulted in nothing (100% packet loss) as I would expect, since best I can tell the router isn't seeing anything connected to it.

When I run cardmgr, it executes "./network start" at the end. My /etc/pcmcia/network file is empty. It just shows "#!/bin/sh" at the top and that's it. Is there supposed to be information in this file?

Sindi




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