Try putting a 'sleep 5' after the pcmcia start and dhcpcd--.
The pcmcia is probably just taking a long time, so that it is still running after your piece runs. If you just pause in rc.custom after the pcmcia start, it should solve it. -Tom On Fri, 3 May 2002, Pete Scott wrote: > Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 11:21:22 +0000 > From: Pete Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [tomsrtbt] init HUP and static IP > > At 17:26 02/05/2002, you wrote: > > > > > ifconfig eth0 1234.1234.1234.1234 up > > > > route add default eth0 > > > > route add default gw 2345.2345.2345.2345 > > > > > > But where's best to put that. Before or after the call to dhcpcd-- in >rc.custom.gz? > > > As an 'else' to the 'if dhcpcd got an address, set it, else'. > > Did this but still got an address of 1.1.1.1. > > Discovered it worked fine on other machines that don't have a PCMCIA network cards. > > It seems that /etc/pcmcia/network is setting up the network and not rc.custom.gz I >suppose because there > isn't a network interface at that point. I've looked at /etc/pcmcia/network and >can't see how/where the > network interface gets setup up when dhcpcd-- doesn't set an address. > > Am I going to have to edit /etc/pcmcia/network and rebuild to get this to work on >PCMCIA networked > laptops? Or is there another way? > > > Or as a new if, before this if, that sets it. I should do this in the default... > > That would be cool. > > Thanks for your help. > > Pete > >
