[TriLUG] PCMCIA Problem

[Steven Blanchard]

I have not upgraded to 7.3 yet, but all versions or redhat that I have 
worked on previous started networking before it started cardmanager 
services, so I would get a delaying eth0 initilization, but once the 
card services were up, the card would come on automatically. Have you 
tried to use cardctl ( i believe that is the command, i have not had 
linux on a laptop for a bit ) to to a software insert? if that works a 
quick fix might be to do a cardctl insert in your boot up scripts. That 
would not solve the real problem, but it might be a useful alternative.

~steven

Ken Mink wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>   I have a problem that has been bugging me for a while. I've tried my
> best and now I'm going to turn to the collective knowledge that is
> TriLUG.
>   I have a HP Pavilion ze1110 laptop. I've got RH7.3 on it. The one
> thing that is driving me nuts is that it won't start up the pcmcia nic
> during the boot process. I have pcmcia services going and ifcfg-eth0 is
> set for onboot. Once the OS is up, all I have to do to get networking
> active is pop the card out and re-insert it. Once it's back in, it gets
> initialized and the dhcp request succeeds.
>   When I pop it out the first time, there is no indication in the logs,
> that cardmgr thought it was there in the first place. Why isn't cardmgr
> finding the card during its startup?
>   I've baffled and annoyed, so any help will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ken