On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 20:47, Greg Meyer wrote: > Anybody know why the initscripts for 9.1 load the network interface before the > pcmcia interface. This seems kind of dumb to me, since the ethernet card I > have is a pcmcia card. It does not look like there is any funstional > problem, since the network seems to work, I just hate seeing the error come > up on boot. Anybody else notice this?
Greg I had this discussion with the developers during the runnup to 9.1. The conclusion was that with more and more laptops having onboard network cards doing it the other way around was causing more problems than it solved. The network init script is for pci/isa (if you have isa still) cards whereas pcmcia et al handle the pcmcia ones. The solution is chkconfig network off If you use (like I do) only pcmcia nics on your laptop. Since pcmcia starts the network on it's own when it sees a nic you are good to go. But since so many laptops have internal pci nics and of course some still use desktops ... they have to default to both of them starting, that way for those who don't read the init screen they see their box working and are happy. James
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