Howto Load PCMCIA before 'Bringing up network'

I have this laptop that when booting up shows "Bringing up network
interface" before it has loaded the PCMCIA driver.

The network card is a xircom PCMCIA card.

Well the problem is that I can not see the eth0 device or any xircom device.

I don't know but I think the problen is in the order. First PCMCIA manager
should be loaded and then xircom driver and then the network interface. How
do I fix the order of these things?


Thanks

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I don't know if you can change the order of the services, but you should be
able to change the card's startup mode to hotplug instead of on boot.
That's what I did with my Netgear wireless card.
Zane



agron wrote:

>
> I have this laptop that when booting up shows "Bringing up network
> interface" before it has loaded the PCMCIA driver.
>
> The network card is a xircom PCMCIA card.
>
> Well the problem is that I can not see the eth0 device or any xircom
> device.
>
> I don't know but I think the problen is in the order. First PCMCIA manager
> should be loaded and then xircom driver and then the network interface.
> How do I fix the order of these things?
>
>
> Thanks
>

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On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 16:37:50 GMT, agron <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> I have this laptop that when booting up shows "Bringing up network
> interface" before it has loaded the PCMCIA driver.
>
> The network card is a xircom PCMCIA card.
>
> Well the problem is that I can not see the eth0 device or any xircom device.
>
> I don't know but I think the problen is in the order. First PCMCIA manager
> should be loaded and then xircom driver and then the network interface. How
> do I fix the order of these things?

You do NOT need to worry about networking coming up before pcmcia, because
hotplug should bring up those devices automatically when pcmcia comes up
(assuming you configured pcmcia correctly). In fact SuSE includes a boot
message when it brings up networking not to worry about hotplug devices.

It sounds like you do not have pcmcia properly configured for your device.
Some devices work better with pcmcia-external instead of kernel pcmcia. I
routinely boot my laptop with either a wireless (static IP) or wired
(dhcp) pc card nic, and both work fine automatically. But it is a little
easier because they are different interfaces (wlan0 or eth0).

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agron wrote:

>
> I have this laptop that when booting up shows "Bringing up network
> interface" before it has loaded the PCMCIA driver.
>
> The network card is a xircom PCMCIA card.
>
> Well the problem is that I can not see the eth0 device or any xircom
> device.
>
> I don't know but I think the problen is in the order. First PCMCIA
> manager should be loaded and then xircom driver and then the network
> interface. How do I fix the order of these things?
>
>
> Thanks
>

Rename your S??pcmcia script to a lower start sequence. Example for RH
if network is S10network. You will have to find a 'place' for the
pcmcia between other 'S0?'.

# mv /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S15pcmcia /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S06pcmcia

May not matter, but you won't get the failed error.
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