PCMCIA Network Cards

[rchrismon]

Folks:

I'm still trying to solve an irritating issue. I have RH 7.3 on my laptop with a Netgear PCMCIA network card. The Linux boot process tries to start eth0 and mount my SMB drives BEFORE it initiates the PCMCIA slots. As a consequence, obviously, mount can't find the two computers with the SMB drives. So, I have to manually run mount every time I start up the computer. Granted, this isn't all that big a deal but it's inconvenient and I believe it can be made to work. The first thing that comes to my mind is to move up initiating the PCMCIA cards in the boot process. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to do that. Further, I have no idea whether that even makes sense (are there dependencies that prevent initiating the PCMCIA slots earlier?).

Does anybody know what to do about this?

Thanks.

Randy