On 7 Jun, someone wrote: > Hello Laurent, > Hi, > i read your Mail abaout the failed initialisation of PCMCIA Network. > I have the same Problem. On boot my initialisation failed. If the > system is up, my interface eth0 is up too. > But i can�t ping to any other machine. There are only error if i want > to ping my other computers. > Do you have any idea how to sole this problem? > Maybe your routing is misconfigured. What do you get as a result of running netstat -r? What I'm saying is that the reason you get a failure when initialising eth0 is that eth0 is a pcmcia card. The card gets initialised after the network interface. I think it should be the other way around. I fail to see why the default setup feels that network components need to be initalised before hardware components. I'm pretty sure it comes from legacy Unix configurations where Unix used to be installed on big servers that never moved. When the kernel booted, all hardware was configured so you could start configuring network interfaces very quickly. But with these laptops and PCMCIA cards and whatever, this reasoning doesn't apply anymore. I don't know if it's too late but for 7.1, I suggest initialising this type of hardware (PCMCIA or any other device that needs to load modules into the kernel) before trying to configure any networking stuff. L -- Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, U|Force - Java Center and we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
