Laptop with PCcard ethernet: how to set up?

Dan Pelleg daniel+bsd at pelleg.org
Sun Mar 30 05:15:11 PST 2003


Paul Hoffman <phoffman at proper.com> writes:

> I have a laptop with an Ethernet PCcard which comes up as "ep0". I want to
> use DHCP on it. My rc.conf has:
> 
> 
> pccard_enable="YES"
> pccard_ifconfig="YES"
> ifconfig_ep0="DHCP"
> 
> The card comes up fine, but it doesn't get ifconfig'd. Do I need to add
> something else to rc.conf?
> 

1. You don't need the ifconfig_ep0 line.

2. Change the pccard_ifconfig value to either "DHCP" or something like
"inet 192.168.1.1/24".

-- 

  Dan Pelleg


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