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Subject: Re: 3com 3ccfe574bt pcmcia init problems
From: lgavel@ns.sympatico.ca (Luke C Gavel)
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 19:37:37 -0300 (ADT)
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Paul Giroux wrote:
> Sorry if this has been brought up before:
>
> Just installed RH 6.2 on a Tochiba 4100xDVD laptop, installation went fine,
> did a lot of searching on the web for various gotchas beforehand. All
> works well, X, sound except pcmcia.
>
> The pcmcia card is not recognized/not initialized on boot up. If you
> remove it and re-insert it, the machine seems happy, beeps twice, the LEDS
> light up, it gets an ip address and all is well.
>
> Looked all over prior to posting this, what have I missed? Thanks.
I believe it may be because RH6.2 likes to start network services
before the pcmcia services. If you look in
/etc/rc.d/rc3.d,rc5.d/ you'll see what I mean. There are two
start-up scripts for every runlevel called:
/etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S10network
/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S10network #you only need to worry about this
/etc/rc.d/rc4.d/S10network
/etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S10network #and this
and;
/etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S45pcmcia
/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S45pcmcia
/etc/rc.d/rc4.d/S45pcmcia
/etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S45pcmcia
Order of Execution: Order of Execution:
`10' gets started `45' gets started
before `45' after `10'
__________________ ______________________
\ /
S10network vs. S45pcmcia
^ ^
| |
+--------------+
^
|
S = 'Start Service'
Essentially you need to change `S10network' to `SXXnetwork' where
'XX' is greater than '45' so that it will get executed after
`S45pcmcia'. Please `cp -p S10network s10network' first just in
case this doesn't work and then `rm S10network ; cp -p s10network
SXXnetwork' to try this out. `Single quotes were only used for
emphasis within these paragraphs'.
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