On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 17:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In /etc/network/interfaces, if you have "auto eth0" comment it out. > > Then restart networking: > > /etc/init.d/networking restart > > Then try restarting PCMCIA: > > /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart > > The idea is that pcmcia should bring up eth0. > > In a normal startup, networking is run before pcmcia. If you have "auto" > in interfaces, networking will try to bring up and configure eth0. The > problem is that since pcmcia hasn't run, eth0 doesn't yet exist -- the > modules haven't been loaded.
That did it - pretty much. It took killall cardmrg to get pcmcia to stop. Restart said it was busy. There's only one PCMCIA card in this machine. I don't know what it was busy doing... Thanks much for a very clear explanation. It does bring up a question, though. In the boot process, init runs ntpdate - after the networking script runs, but before pcmcia. Seems to me a lot of possible troubles could be avoided by simply starting pcmcia before networking. No? -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
