On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 08:38, Ken Foskey wrote: ARRRGGGGHHHH! Bloody thing didn't work on boot this morning!
I changed it back to the original, shut the machine down. Restart: during boot it reports that the eth0 config has failed, but when I log in it is OK. I give up. Back to a nice simple dos machine, no networks, no nothing except getting some work done! Just kidding. But it is frustrating. Any ideas gratefully received. Alan > > > > I think I have fixed this. In the startup directories (/etc/rc.d/rc5.d/ > > > > in my case) the original files were: > > > > > > > > S10network > > > > S24pcmcia > > > > > > > > I changed S24 to S07 so that the pcmcia stuff is executed before the > > > > network stuff. > > > > > > > > > > What distro & release is this? Have you raised a bug report. > > > This is ugly. > > > > RH8 on a Compaq Armada. It has been a very frustrating experience. I > > have never done bug reports - is this the kind of thing that should be > > reported? > > This is definitely something to be reported. > > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/ > > I did a very quick search and turned up nothing on this. > > If we don't report these bug they never get fixed. Think about the > other people trying to work this out, with you bugzilla explaining the > work around this is five minutes work. > > -- > Thanks > KenF > OpenOffice.org developer > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- ------------------------------------------------------ Alan L Tyree [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~alant Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 405 084 990 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug