On Saturday 14 June 2003 12:19 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 20:47, Greg Meyer wrote: > > Anybody know why the initscripts for 9.1 load the network interface > > before the pcmcia interface. This seems kind of dumb to me, since the > > ethernet card I have is a pcmcia card. It does not look like there is > > any funstional problem, since the network seems to work, I just hate > > seeing the error come up on boot. Anybody else notice this? > > Greg > > I had this discussion with the developers during the runnup to 9.1. > The conclusion was that with more and more laptops having onboard > network cards doing it the other way around was causing more problems > than it solved. The network init script is for pci/isa (if you have isa > still) cards whereas pcmcia et al handle the pcmcia ones. The solution > is > > chkconfig network off > > If you use (like I do) only pcmcia nics on your laptop. Since pcmcia > starts the network on it's own when it sees a nic you are good to go. > But since so many laptops have internal pci nics and of course some > still use desktops ... they have to default to both of them starting, > that way for those who don't read the init screen they see their box > working and are happy. > I got it now, thanks for the clarity. It makes sense when you explain it, especially since I didn't have any problem getting on the network. essentially your saying that you don't have to start the network because the initialization of the pccard does that anyway. Cool.
-- Greg
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