eth0 before pcmcia

[Scot L. Harris]

On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 21:34, Price Technology wrote:
> I almost said "cart before the horse"
> 
> I remember some discussion about this, but it's been eons and I don't
> recall the solution, if there was one.
> 
> In the process of booting, Fedora tries to connect to the network before
> initializing pcmcia.  Since I have a pc card NIC, this doesn't work very
> well.  The NIC does ultimately get an IP and I'm on the network without
> any intervention on my part, it's just the long pause and the error as
> it times out during the boot sequence.
> 
> Is there any way I can rearrange thing where pcmcia starts first, then
> the network, or can I hard code something that will at least shorten the
> timeout and / or eliminate the error message ??
> 
> Any tips or pointers to docs would be much helpful.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Joebewan

In the network config set it to NOT start the card on boot.  When pcmcia
is started the card will magically (and unexpectedly) get started
anyway.

:)


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Scot L. Harris <webid at cfl.rr.com>