[2957] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Please poind on SIPB IS Linux Athena Installer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Sep 8 11:31:34 2000
Message-Id: <200009081531.LAA01250@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Sep 2000 05:23:26 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 11:31:26 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> One of the problems is the known one: redhat's init scripts start
> network before they try to start pcmcia devices.
This is an oversimplification of the bug. I've had the stock Red Hat
setup work just fine with a PC card; the initialization of eth0 gets
deferred until the pcmcia startup runs. The bug is that this doesn't
seem to work in all cases; when I switched to a Wavelan card (which
shows up as wvlan0 instead of eth0), the pcmcia startup would fail to
initialize the wvlan0 device. Moving the pcmcia startup before the
network startup works around the problem, but that doesn't mean it
fixes the bug.
