hi elimar... * Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de> [2004-01-05 15:49 +0100]: > > I' ve succesfully set up a SMC2835W wireless card to work with the > kernel driver from http://prism54.org. > > The bounded eth1 doesn't com up during boot. I have to start the > interface by hand. Hotplug is needed to load firmware to the RAM of > the wireless chip. In the hotplug package there is a firmware.agent > who has to do that job. > [...] > This is while booting the rcS.d scripts. Hotplug recognized the > prism54 module again and loads the firmware while running 2nd time > out of the rc(runlevel).d scripts. But this is to late, because > /etc/init.d/networking starts before! well, you might put the link for the networking-script from rcS into your active runlevel(s), somewhere behind hotplug, like S12networking in /etc/rc2.d/. you might use update-rc.d for that. ok, this is just nasty. otherwise you might hack on /etc/init.d/hotplug and perhaps disable the checks for rcS. good luck, sebastian -- ::: .O. ::: ..O ::: OOO ::: lynx -source http://www.kodeaffe.de/shensche.pub | gpg --import
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