Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jun 1999 11:56:10 +0200 | From | Eivind Tagseth <> | Subject | Re: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel |
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* Mark Harrison (markh@usai.asiainfo.com) [990604 09:18]: > Another problem: Many laptops use PCMCIA network cards. So, > the "standard" installation programs from SuSE & Redhat don't > handle network configuration very well on laptops. > > I installed cardmgr, etc., manually. But then, the cardmgr does > not initialize until *after* the other network operations > (ifconfig, etc.) have run and failed. Fiddling with the > Redhat system utilities did not accomplish anything (except > for somehow removing support for 127.0.0.1).
This is because of the order in which RedHat starts the different services. At least on RedHat 5.2 and 6.0, if you look in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/ you'll see that the network services are started before the pcmcia services. Making RedHat start pcmcia before networking seems to solve the problem.
Eivind
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