On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 20:11, Keld J�rn Simonsen wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 02:05:01PM -0400, Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Friday 04 July 2003 12:13 pm, Keld J�rn Simonsen wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > I think the pcmcia is placed wrongly in the boot sequence. > > > It should be placed before any services that use pcmcia, such as > > > networking, but it is not. It is now S11pcmcia but should probably be > > > something like S06pcmcia - this is mdk9.1 > > > > > Wasn't there a discussion about this for 9.1. I believe that the pcmcia > > module brings up the network automatically, so it is okay if the network > > tries to start on an internal nic first. If it cannot, it will skip and go > > later. Mr. Sparenberg pointed this out to me about a month ago when I > > noticed the same behavior in 9.1. > > That may be. It does work, but it generates an error message, which is not so > easy to understand, given that this reasoning mentioned above is not > general knowledge amongst ordinary users.
For a system with only a PCMCIA NIC, you should set ONBOOT=no in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 . This is the real bug, this should be the default setting for PCMCIA NICs. That way the network service just does nothing to it on boot, and the pcmcia service brings it up as it should. -- adamw
