RE: SiS900 Ethernet Problems
One thing you can do is pick one of the runlevels
2 through 5, and make one of them a networkless
option by removing the relevant Snn* script from
the relevent rcN.d directory.
Then be sure to configure lilo to give you a
boot prompt, so that you can enter "linux 2"
for example to get to that run-level for
booting away from the network. Then it won't
even try configuring the network.
RedHat actually does this, making runlevel 2
(or 3?) a network-less gui-less multi-user boot, and
5 a network-ful gui-ful multi-user boot.
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Janssen [mailto:maniac@maniac.nl]
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 8:40 AM
To: Franz Keferb?ck
Cc: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: SiS900 Ethernet Problems
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 02:03:14PM +0200, Franz Keferb?ck wrote:
> XAIPETE!
>
> I have an IPC Top H Notebook with the "famous" SiS chipset which is in
several new laptops (gericom, ipc, ...). I had no problems installing Debian
on it, but since I updated to woody i have a big problem with my SiS900
network device! The hardware is found by the kernel without any problem, but
when the System "Configures the network devices" the whole boot-process
stops for about a minute and the kernel says "Media Link Off". Then
everything goes on as it should - but ONE minute delay on a laptop is a very
long time (its being booted and halted several times a day!).
> This brehavior is new to me, but it appears with kernel 2.2.19pre as well
as 2.4.3!
> Can anybody help me solve the problem and "speed up" my boot-time???
It happens to me on my laptop as well.... I just don't boot very often
because I
only use suspend and resume :)
A thing that does work for me is pressing CTRL-C during this delay. It
usually
skips immediately.
ANother way to solve this is to only boot with a network cable attached.
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