[19625] in Athena Bugs
Re: Linux-Athena: PCMCIA starts in wrong place
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Wed Aug 15 18:55:00 2001
To: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 15 Aug 2001 18:55:01 -0400
In-Reply-To: Camilla R Fox's message of "Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:08:13 -0400"
Message-ID: <sjmwv453pdm.fsf@rcn.ihtfp.org>
True.
FTR, pcmcia should happen _AFTER_ network, because you need
the loopback device to initialize before pcmcia cards. It's
ok for eth0 to be delayed (I don't know why wvlan0 fails).
I moved pcmcia to start at priority '11' and that seems to work
best for me.
-derek
Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > The PCMCIA startup script is in the "wrong place" in the boot
> > sequence. This is a Red Hat bug, but perhaps we can fix it
> > locally. In particular, pcmcia should be started much sooner
> > in the boot sequence so that the network can come up before
> > other packages decide to startup. Otherwise, laptops can
> > hang during bootup.
>
> This has been reported before; see bugs[18586] and the previous messages
> in that thread.
>
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