eth0 before pcmcia

Price Technology pricetech at charter.net
Thu Aug 5 02:12:40 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 20:59, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> 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.
> 
I like magic.  I'll give that a try.  Thanks

Joebewan






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