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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