[ale] Why eth0 delayed?

Steven Rice stevenrice at marnuke.penguinpowered.com
Thu Nov 11 12:21:16 EST 1999


Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> 
> It turns out that on closer inspection PCMCIA services startup IS coming
> AFTER eth0 initialization at boot time.  I suppose your suggestion is valid,
> but is it normal for PCMCIA services to NOT detect an already-inserted card
> when it starts?  If at all possible, I would like for the laptop to become
> fully operational (networking included) with no additional human
> intervention.
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mandrake [mailto:mandrake at mandrake.net]
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 4:55 PM
> To: Jeff Hubbs
> Cc: ale at ale.org
> > PCMCIA services are trying to start AFTER eth0, how can I change the
> order?

in the /etc/../rc2.d (or rc3.d) dirs you will notice  S##PCMCIA and
S##NETWORK
or  K##PCMCIA and K##NETWORK.  You want the number of S##PCMCIA lower
then S##NETWORK  like  S03pcmcia and S05network or K40PCMCIA and
K42NETWORK






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