Re: getting pcmcia cards to load before networking
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 04:43:03PM -0500, Nicholas Imfeld wrote:
> I cannot get dhcp to work when my computer first boots. After the boot
> sequence completes I do init.d/networking restart and it starts right up.
> It doesn't work on startup because pcmcia cardmgr starts up after networking
> starts up. Therefore when the network starts my network card isn't
> recognized yet (no eth0 device). Does anyone know how to modify the startup
> sequence so that pcmcia interfaces are loaded before the networking
> interfaces. Thanks
You can probably change the boot sequence, but that would not solve
the problem when you insert the card later in the game.
The fix I use is to put all the necessary network restarts in
/etc/pcmcia/network.opts, inside the start_fn() function (empty by default).
Alex Y.
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