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SubjectRe: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel
* 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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