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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: Nils Turner <nils AT chara-array.org>
  • Cc: sm-users AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Users] network problems on a pcmcia network card
  • Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:23:56 -0800

Quoting Nils Turner <nils AT chara-array.org>:
> I have installed sourcemage 0.9.3 on a Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop. The
> laptop does not have on-board ethernet, so I get the ethernet through a
> PCMCIA card (Netgear FA410TX, under Red Hat 7.1 it uses the pcnet_cs
> module), getting its network settings through DHCP. When the computer
> starts, ``ifconfig'' only shows lo. When I run ``telinit run network
> status'', the computer replies back:
>
> network: dhcpcd is not running
> eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
>
> Running ``netconf'' shows the device. Running ``dhcpcd eth0'' exits
> without error, but doesn't help in getting the network going.
>
> What am I missing here?
<snip>

Do you have the pcmcia-cs package installed? Do you have the pcnet_cs module
loaded or compiled into your kernel? Does netconf know to load the pcnet_cs
module for eth0 (or that it's statically built into the kernel)?

-sandalle

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