Re: Network startup on IBM Thinkpad

["Tony Wasson" <ajwasson@inficad.com>]

> , ds, iThanks to all who responded with info to my question regarding
> the correct drive for a Linksys PC-Card 10/100 NIC for IBM Thinkpad. As
> best as I have figured out from the various responses coupled with
> online sources, the correct driver is the axnet_cs driver.
<SNIP>
> So, my question: how can I get the pccard to be probed at startup and
> properly configured? This isn't a trivial point for me, since my user
> accounts are actually served on my home lan via nis, but nis cannot
> start up because it canot bind to the ypserver because the network isn't
> fully up...

IANAG (I am not a guru) but... try this:

Edit the file /etc/modules
and make sure the module you want loaded is mentioned
(add axnet_cs)

Also, how do you get into Linux? I have seen some odd problems when doing
warm starts from Windows.

Tony Wasson