On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 13:36, 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. > > 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 Mike, I think you were on the right track but the following message has the 'proper', or at least a working, solution: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-January/msg04851.html To get back to your original state just swapping S10network and S24pcmcia in rc5.d back. Hope that helps, Peter -- Peter Draksler Software Analyst CIS, McMaster University
