Re: getting pcmcia cards to load before networking
* Nicholas Imfeld <nimfeld@aaainc.com> [020315 01:25]:
> 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
Do you have your eth0 pcmcia interface in /etc/network/interfaces? If
so, remove it from that, and let pcmcia stuff do all the work (edit
/etc/pcmcia/network.opts to meet your needs).
Cheers,
--
David
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