network / PCMCIA

[Peter Draksler]

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 13:36, Mike Westkamper wrote:
> I installed FC1 on an older laptop. Took some doing but finally made it
> work. I had one remaining problem; the network parts tried to initialize but
> the PCMCIA part had not initialized so it wouldn't bring up eth0. I could do
> so manually after boot time. I tried to make it automatic on boot by
> swapping S10network and S24pcmcia in rc5.d
> 
> Obviously that was not the thing to do since now the PCMCIA NIC is not
> found. Everything else works.
> 
> I obviously don't know enough about what I am doing and could use some help.
> First, I now know those references are links not files and my moving things
> about has changed things in unanticipated ways. Here are my two requests...
> 
> How do I restore the init stuff to its original form?
> What would the be the "proper" method to get the PCMCIA NIC and the network
> initialization to work so as to automate the connection on startup?
> 
> Any help is sincerely appreciated.
> 
> Mike

Mike,

I think you were on the right track but the following message has the
'proper', or at least a working, solution:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-January/msg04851.html

To get back to your original state just swapping S10network and
S24pcmcia in rc5.d back.

Hope that helps,

Peter


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Peter Draksler
Software Analyst
CIS, McMaster University