On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 07:37, Christopher K. Johnson wrote: > Shu Hung (Koala) wrote: > > >After I install Fedora Core 2 onto my laptop, Sharp PC-FJ120R, I found > >that the Fedora failed to detect the PCMCIA ethernet card. On the boot > >process, it show the error message "pcnet_cs device eth0 does not seem > >to be present". > > > >I am using Sharp PC-FJ120R with a Kingsoft PCMCIA ethernet card. I > >though it is because Fedora lack the driver of the ethernet card. But my > >friend said that the machine works well with Redhat 7.0...... > > > >Any suggestions? > > > > > > > > > Comment out the pcnet_cs entry in /etc/modprobe.conf, and set ONBOOT=no > in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0, and reboot. Actually an > 'rmmod pcnet_cs' and 'service pcmcia restart' should work in lieu of > rebooting. > > The problem is your ethernet pcmcia card driver module is being loaded > before pcmcia is started and the card controller module is loaded. This > fails to work of course, and the later starting of pcmcia fails because > the controller module conflicts with the already loaded card driver. > The two changes above remedy the order things start in, and you will > find that the ethernet interface does get started automatically at boot, > because once pcmcia is started the card is detected and the interface > for it is started. > > Chris <rant> And I still maintain that this is a bug in the system that needs to be fixed. There are to many questions about this problem. And setting an interface to ONBOOT=no and still have it start at boot is not the expected behavior. </rant> Sorry about that rant. :) -- Scot L. Harris <webid@xxxxxxxxxx>
