Jay Nugent wrote: > Greetings, > > On Wed, 1 May 2002, Net Llama! wrote: > > >>I've got a Redhat based laptop that doesn't want to have its PCMCIA NIC >>come up at eth0 at bootup. Its a static IP on an internal network. I can >>always bring it up with "ipfup eth0" manually, but it won't come up on its >>own. I've got "ONBOOT=YES" in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 >>and the network service is started upon bootup for runlevels 3 and 5 (it >>boots into 5 by default). So, i'm utterly stumped at why it won't >>cooperate. I've also got eth0 aliased to the tulip module (the correct >>module for the NIC) in /etc/modules.conf. Anyone have suggestions or >>ideas? > > > I believe you must start all the PCMCIA crap/drivers first before you > will be able to start eth0. See what your startup order in in rc3.d or > rc4.d (whichever applies to your runlevel) and see that PCMCIA is started > *before* Network.
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