Subj : Slackware Question
To   : Sniper
From : Angus Mcleod
Date : Fri Jun 03 2005 07:45 am

  Re: Slackware Question
  By: Sniper to Angus Mcleod on Fri Jun 03 2005 03:48:00

 > I recently purchased a new pcmcia card for my laptop, had some
 > problems finding a driver for the thing...  Anyway, I got the
 > thing working, sort of, but I don't know where the main
 > configuration files are for the NIC's.  This thing comes up
 > as an ath0 device, and I want to set it to look for DHCP...
 > What I currently have to do is run ifconfig ath0 <ipaddress>.
 > and run routed to make it work... I could put this all in
 > rc.local, and let it be done, but I know there's a file
 > somewhere... I just can't seem to find it.

ath0?  Do you mean eth0?

Ok, the interfaces are brought up in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 which is pretty 
straigntforward.

In earlier versions it set up a series of variables (NETMASK, IP, etc) at 
the top and then later on, called /sbin/ifconfig with the variables as 
arguments.  You only needed to change the variable assignments at the top 
to reconfigure your interface.

As of 10.x, there is now an additional file called /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf 
that contains the variable-setting statements for multiple interfaces 
(eth0 thru eth3).  Edit /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf and change the parameters 
for the interface.  When you reboot, it should come up fine, but until the 
next reboot you will have to take down the interface manually, and restart 
it manually as well.

Or you could also su up to root and run /sbin/netconfig instead....


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