On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 14:44, Jean-Rene Cormier wrote: > Hi, I have a laptop with an Intel Pro Wireless mini-PCI card and I > installed the IPW2100 driver and I can do a modprobe ipw2100 and it > loads the module and the firmware but when I boot the laptop the module > gets loaded automatically but it can't find the firmware. After Fedora > is done booting I can do an rmmod ipw2100 and then a modprobe ipw2100 > and the module will load and it will find and load the firmware. I asked > on the IPW2100-devel list and someone suggested to me that maybe it was > because the modules gets loaded before fedora starts hotplugging. I just > looked at the init scripts and hotplug seems to start in the rc.sysinit > so obviously it should start before networking. Is there a way I could > make sure hotplugging gets started earlier than the networking in the > boot process? Anybody had a similar problem? > > Jean-Rene Cormier Another person on the list answered a similar question for me a couple of days ago. In your network config for the card turn off the start at boot option. Was not intuitive but it works for me. I can boot up and the card and network get started. -- Scot L. Harris <webid@xxxxxxxxxx>
