network vs. pcmcia init sequence

[Dijital]

I have installed rh9 on a Dell cpx p3 500 mhz with a pcmcia network card. Happily o) everything has installed well, and outside of some tweaking for performance, I am quite happy with the out of box performance.

I am having a issue on boot. I've seen a number of posts about it all over, but very few solutions...

The eth0 initialization fails - this is logical as it is at s10, and the pcmcia does not initialize until s24. What that means, other than you cant put the buggy before the horse, I have no idea.

if some one could walk me through the changes needed to correct this oversight, I'd appreciate it. I'd prefer not to have to reinstall the whole OS; I'm hoping to move beyond that style of troubleshooting. Thanks in advance!!!

-Jim Connors-
-True-Blue Linux Convert-

 

[clonny2]

If you restart networking you will be ok, or you can edit the run-levels for pcmcia.


Change pcmcia to start before networking.

1: Remove pcmcia from startup run levels.
chkconfig --del pcmcia

2: Edit the pcmcia start script to run before
network.
vi /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia
change the 24 in the #chkconfig to be 8 (before 10)
3: Re-add pcmcia
chkconfig --add pcmcia



>---------------------------------------Lawrence Feldman
SR. QA. Engineer SNAP Appliance
lfeldman@snapappliance.com

 

[Dijital]

Lawrence,

Thanks very much for the steps! Thats exactly what I was looking for! It worked like a charm. No more nasty "failed" errors...

Much appreciated!

-JimConnors

 

[Dijital]

As a follow up, I wanted to detail exactly what I had to do to fix this problem, just in case others have the same issue in the future:

1 - Opened Terminal and ran su to gain root access.

2 - with root access I entered (without the quotes):

"/sbin/chkconfig --del pcmcia"
then
"gedit /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia"

I had to try editing the #chkconfig line twice. I should have gone with my first instinct, but when changing the 24 to 8 you need to make sure to change it to 08, otherwise it doesnt seem to want to take affect.

I saved the changes.

then, back in the terminal:

"/sbin/chkconfig --add pcmcia"

halt and restart, and you should be good to go!

Things that other noobs may want to know:

1 - in the starting priority, (RedHat 9's default is listed

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/ref-guide/s1-boot-init-shutdown-process.html

here. Section 1.2.4 has a detailed list of the init order. ) there can be multiple processes started at the same order point. For example, I placed PCMCIA at 08 instead of 24, while IPCHAINS was already at 08. This may seem like a "duh" to most, but to me it was an "aha...".

2 - I'm not sure why (again, me = noob) but I had to run all my commands with absolute paths from the /. Even ifconfig; /sbin/ifconfig was the only way I could get it to run. At least I'll learn where all the files are! )

Again, I'd like to thank Lawrence for the help.

-Jim

 

[scienzia]

For the 2 - :

It is because you didn't login as root, but you made su , so the PATH is not root's but the user's that logged
(user's PATH don't include /sbin/)
The PATH is where the binaries are searched if they are not in the local directory.