I'm in the process of hammering out a new installation and a whole lot of new issues are cropping up at once: 1) Switching from RH to SuSE 6, 2) Installing on a laptop, implying 2a) learning PCMCIA stuff and 2b) learning APM stuff. It's in regard to item 2) that I write. I was having system lockups every time I resumed from a suspend-to-RAM operation and among the things I read was a note that this is often a case of the PCMCIA having been compiled _not_ to use APM. I went to the PCMCIA website and grabbed the latest version of the PCMCIA utilities (3.0.9) and compiled/installed them -- for use with a supported Ethernet device. Now at bootup time, I see a very interesting phenomenon: when the PCMCIA subsystem is initialized, the networking fails, claiming that no such interface as eth0 exists. As near as I can tell from the bootup messages, this occurs between the 'pcmcia start' and the 'network start'. However, if I change my default runlevel from 2 to 1, boot, and then issue 'init 2' as root, everything works the way it did before I changed the PCMCIA stuff. Bearing in mind that I don't yet fully understand the "SuSE way" of configuring and booting -- and that I also don't fully understand the Linux PCMCIA utilities -- does anyone have any idea what I might need to change to fix this problem? If any system files or such are needed, I can certainly send them along but I don't want to guess and fill this message with useless information while risking leaving out what is actually needed. Feel free to email me at the address in my sig or reply via the list if you think this is something others would benefit from. Thanks, Jim -- who knows RedHat but isn't running it anymore... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.swcp.com/~jimhill/ "If you really want the lowdown on iguana sex, it ain't very interesting." --- Beth Kantrowitz - To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archive at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
