How can I get my PCMCIA network card to work at boot time in Fedora C2?

dhinds@sonic.net wrote in message news:<Rgsvc.14706$Fo4.200260@typhoon.sonic.net>...
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> Please define how you "manually start the network device", precisely.
>
> -- Dave


Here is how I "manually start the network device":

1. Open a terminal
2. Become su
3. /usr/bin/system-control-network
4. select "eth0"
5. click on the "Activate" button

dhinds@sonic.net wrote in message news:<Afsvc.14705$Fo4.200312@typhoon.sonic.net>...
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> > "/etc/modules.conf" contains:
> > alias eth0 3c589_cs
> > alias usb-controller usb-uhci
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> Remove the "alias eth0 3c589_cs" line.
>
> -- Dave


I removed "alias eth0 3c589_cs" from "/etc/modules.conf"
This did not make any difference.
I did a hard reboot.
Still the PCMCIA network card does not work at boot time.
Again, I manually started it and it works.

Do you have any other suggestions?

luther wrote:

> I did a hard reboot.
> Still the PCMCIA network card does not work at boot time.
> Again, I manually started it and it works.
>
> Do you have any other suggestions?

What does "ifconfig eth0" say after you reboot?
What is in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0?


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In comp.os.linux.portable S. K. Leung <sklsolar@yahoo.com> wrote:

> The problem is pcmcia starts after network at bootup. Without going
> into more technical tricks, you can overcome the problem by inserting
> this line into "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" file

> "service network restart"

> before any call for network services in this file.

> It should work.

Well, you should NOT need to do this. The PCMCIA subsystem should
initialize the network when an appropriate card is configured; there
is no need for the PCMCIA subsystem to start up before the network
subsystem. Since a PCMCIA card can be inserted at any time, its setup
should clearly not depend on ordering of startup scripts at boot time
when the card may not even be there.

-- Dave