On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 01:25, Bill Mullen wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Robert Fisher wrote: > > > I have just installed 9.2 onto an IBM ThinkPad 390E laptop with 256Mb > > ram. > > > > It worked fine with 9.1 but now the NIC, although recognised at > > intallation does not start by itself. > > > > It is a Xircom CEM56 Ethernet/Modem and gets detected fine except after > > a cold start I get a message - "Device eth0 does not seem to be present" > > Check the order that the "pcmcia" and "network" services are started (by > looking at the SXXpcmcia and SYYnetwork links in the /etc/rc5.d/ dir, if > we can assume that you boot to run level 5). If XX > YY, then the system > is trying to bring up the network before the pcmcia devices have been > initialized. If this is what's going on, rename one of the links so that > YY is a higher number than XX. > > HTH!
Since I never use a pci based nic on my laptop (it doesn't have and builtin nic) I just did chkconfig network off There is no need to run the pci based network start if you are using a pcmcia type nic (wired or wireless.) James
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