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> HOWEVER: > > After rebooting the laptop without the pcmcia network card inserted, and then > inserting it watching on a root tty.....well as I suspected this mimmicks the > pcmcia network card issues that plagued the 8.x releases and I think got > fixed shortly before 9.1 was released. The scripts are clearly hanging. As I > recall there was much discussion of this in the past. SO this must just be a > case of deja-vu !! > AFAIK, no PCMCIA cards can accurately tell you the status of the cable. If you aren't connected, pop the card out, if you are, pop it in, otherwise you will see things like this. If we can't tell if we are connected, we have to try dhcp, which may result in a long timeout if not connected => get a card that has support for this, most onboard NICs in new laptops do. > Thanks for the attention. > > Bob Finch > > p.s. .... The fix for me was script in rc.local to take care of this. Prolly > going to have to that again. No big deal just wanted to get this "on the > record". > It would then also be useful to have the output of 'ifstatus -v <interface>' for each card, in different states (ie plugged in, not pluggged in). And you might also want to show us what you have in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0, especially MII_UNSUPPORTED or whatever it is (aka the "network hotplugging" checkbox in drakconnect in expert mode). My cooker box with a RTL-8139 never has problems like this ;-) but then again it is always connected, and ifplugd does work well with it. Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/GC2NrJK6UGDSBKcRAj6aAJ0bjts72HfVnuG2YDEtvccZ5rjX1QCgihcK ouLDkoJgdSjNADpI86AJyTE= =I9zZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ****************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. ******************************************************************
