On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a 3com Ethernet card on a dell 5000e laptop. I got the card
> configured correctly (or so I think) because I can get to the net and
> everything in my network. However when I first boot into Linux it fails to
> bring up eth0. Once the system is up all I do is type in ifup eth0 and I am
> back working. Any suggestions?
>
> Thomas Stewart
> Iowa Network Services
> 515 830-0661
I had a similar problem with a different PCMCIA ethernet card. As far
as I could tell, the problems is the eth0 initialization is earlier in the boot
up process than is the PCMCIA services.
If this is the case, then there really isn't anything to worry about.
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