On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 22:03, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 05:04, Frederic Lepied wrote: > > James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 21:12, Joseph Wang wrote: > > > > My orinico wireless PCMCIA card will not start up with 7.06-3mdk. It > > > > gets to initializing eth0 > > > > and then hangs. Moving the S11pcmcia link to S08pcmcia so that pcmcia > > > > is initialized before network > > > > allows the card to work, but I get an error message about ifplugd when > > > > it gets to the network > > > > initialization script. > > > > > > > > I believe that it worked as of 7.06-1mdk and am positive that it worked > > > > with 7.04-3mdk > > > > > > If you use pcmcia network cards you can do > > > > > > # chkconfig --level 2345 network off > > > # chkconfig --level 2345 internet off > > > > > > and you won't get the errors and your ethernet connection gets started > > > correctly by pcmcia.... least it works for me. > > > > Can you check that you have the last versions of ifplugd, hotplug and > > initscripts and if the problem continues, send me the logs and your > > exact config. > > I did at the time I wrote this and I'm in the process of upgrading now > to todays' stuff. The last upgrade broke me badly, and I'm just now > getting back to a working system. (Seems that as time goes on I got > slower and slower until kdm dropped the ball completely.) The "problem" > was that network and internet got started before pcmcia and If pcmcia is > moved to start before them, then ifplugd complains that an instance of > it is already running. I'll send the info ASAP.
Frederic gave me the real reason for this problem in private email. Since lots of people seem to be having it, here it is: Since the pcmcia service starts pcmcia network adapters, there's no reason for them to be started by the network service. Hence /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-ethX entries for PCMCIA network cards should *NOT* have ONBOOT= set to YES. Set it to NO instead (ONBOOT=NO). This will stop network from trying to bring up the interface; pcmcia will do it instead, and this ought to solve the problems. -- adamw
