network / PCMCIA

[Roger Beever]

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 18:36, Mike Westkamper wrote:
> I installed FC1 on an older laptop. Took some doing but finally made it
> work. I had one remaining problem; the network parts tried to initialize but
> the PCMCIA part had not initialized so it wouldn't bring up eth0. I could do
> so manually after boot time. I tried to make it automatic on boot by
> swapping S10network and S24pcmcia in rc5.d
> 
> Obviously that was not the thing to do since now the PCMCIA NIC is not
> found. Everything else works.
It worked for me. Although I can't remember the exact dir it was in (but was form 
post on this list that I got the info from
You did rename the nic to something else then rename the pcmcia to the
lower number and then renamed the nic to the higher number other wise
you would have overwritten the file. but I would have thought you would
have received a warning. sorry somone had to ask ;-)
> I obviously don't know enough about what I am doing and could use some help.
> First, I now know those references are links not files and my moving things
> about has changed things in unanticipated ways. Here are my two requests...
> 
> How do I restore the init stuff to its original form?
> What would the be the "proper" method to get the PCMCIA NIC and the network
> initialization to work so as to automate the connection on startup?
> 
> Any help is sincerely appreciated.
> 
> Mike
> 
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