Another nice trick with PCMCIA services is when you get it running, if you
watch the boot process it fails the eth? and yet later when it starts the
PCMCIA services it will then kick on the nic and boot up nicely. If you
like me and this "failed" bothers you, go into /etc/rc.d and take a look
around. You'll notice several files like rc1.d, rc2.d etc. If your booting
init 3 "ex: dos prompt" then go into the rc3.d dir, if your booting straight
into the GUI mode "ex: Gnome or KDE" then go into the rc6.d dir. Then list
the files. Notice their all symbolic links to other files, but these are
the links run to startup the services. Usually there numbered like
S10network and S45pcmcia The numbers I gave are examples. Anyway, rename
the numbers to the opposite ends...ex. from above do the following (after
looking to find a free number, as their usually numbered in increments of 5
or 10.
as root type : mv S45pcmcia S11pcmcia
then type mv S10network S46network
What this does is boots them in the correct order. No failed messages
again.
The above procedures has caused me no problems, though I admit I am fairly
new to Linux. If anyone does have problems please let me know and post to
the list so others can know as well.
Laterz,
Pyro
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 3:02 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] PCMCIA
Hello,
Check to make sure that the PCMCIA service on the laptop is actually
set
to run. I've installed 7.02 on my laptop too and the pcmcia services didn't
start until i entered setup and selected PCMCIA service.
Jero
Ty Morton writes:
> Hello just have a simple question to ask. I just installed 7.02 on
> my laptop Dell i7.5k
> it has a 3com PCMCIA 3ccfem556 combo card. during the install process it
> picked up the card just fine. I even installed a network printer and
printed
> a test page. After I rebooted the nic failed to start. I noticed the
pcmcia
> did not start and I can't get the service to start. Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Ty Morton
> Tech Connect, Inc.
> Tulsa, OK
> Phone: 918-747-4846
> Fax: 918-747-5159
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