FC2 Dell latitude cpx laptop

[Scot L. Harris]

On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 22:33, Norman Gaywood wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:12:58PM -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 20:45, William Hooper wrote:
> > > > First issue was the startup order for the pcmcia services.  Needed to
> > > > put those before the network startup since I only have network access
> > > > via the pcmcia slots on this machine.
> > > 
> > > Didn't have this problem with my CPx.  Just don't have the NIC set to
> > > start on boot and you won't get any errors.
> > > 
> > Does that keep things like nptd from failing also?  Would think network
> > services are needed for that at least.
> 
> So make sure that pcmcia comes up before ntpd.
> 
> I think the trick is to set the network device not to start on boot. So
> the network start will not try to start it.
> 
> However, when pcmcia starts up, it will detect the network card and
> start the device anyway. It does not know that this a "start on boot".
> 
> The "start on boot" option is more accurately described as "start device
> when network service is started".
> 

AH! I did not know that.  Will try that out asap.

Thanks for the pointers.

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