On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 10:42:45PM +0100, Adam Williamson wrote: > 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.
I see, would that be something that should be corrected for 9.2, for all the pcmcia NICs? best regards keld
