On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 21:34, Price Technology wrote: > I almost said "cart before the horse" > > I remember some discussion about this, but it's been eons and I don't > recall the solution, if there was one. > > In the process of booting, Fedora tries to connect to the network before > initializing pcmcia. Since I have a pc card NIC, this doesn't work very > well. The NIC does ultimately get an IP and I'm on the network without > any intervention on my part, it's just the long pause and the error as > it times out during the boot sequence. > > Is there any way I can rearrange thing where pcmcia starts first, then > the network, or can I hard code something that will at least shorten the > timeout and / or eliminate the error message ?? > > Any tips or pointers to docs would be much helpful. > > Thanks > > Joebewan In the network config set it to NOT start the card on boot. When pcmcia is started the card will magically (and unexpectedly) get started anyway. :) -- Scot L. Harris <webid@xxxxxxxxxx>
