From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 18 7:29:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (pogo.caustic.org [208.44.193.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71D0A37B401 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 07:29:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.0/ignatz) with ESMTP id f6IETfH27776; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 07:29:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 07:29:41 -0700 (PDT) From: "f.johan.beisser" To: khayman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pccard NIC initialization order In-Reply-To: <3B558F79.FBF3E5A5@carolina.rr.com> Message-ID: X-Ignore: This statement isn't supposed to be read by you MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, khayman wrote: > Hello all, > > I just finished building 4.3-stable on an IBM Stinkpad 600x. After a > few snafus, its up and running. Then i learned that my Cardbus nic > wasn't supported so I threw in a 10-base pcmcia nic. The new (or old as > the case may be) nic works fine, it just initializes after I'm presented > with a login prompt and does not get a dhcp address. ok. what's the line in your /etc/rc.conf for this card? > If I run dhclient (which I dont really know how to do properly) I get an > address fine but get all sorts of IPv6 errors (not supported) output to > the screen for the duration of the system's uptime. try to run 'dhclient ', that should help stop those errors. read the man page for dhclient. > Can someone point me in the right direction (or blatantly tell me if you > feel like it), on how to initialize the card earlier so that it gets an > address without having to run dhclient? Or let me know the proper usage > of running dhclient? well, the DHCP option on the card's interface just runs dhclient anyway. it's the same effect. make sure that you have pccard_enable set to yes, and pccard_ifconfig="DHCP" aswell. that should solve most of your problems. > My rc.conf file has the interface defined as dhcp. which interface? -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "which then led me to realize leading my life by the motto 'i'm not as bad as jan' would still let me get away with A LOT" --- j. leah williams, University of Chicago, 19 Jan, 2001 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message