[ltp] TP770ED and RedHat 6.0

[AGML (Hellix)]

> > > On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, AGML (Hellix) wrote:
> > > > 2) Whenever I start Linux, I get the following message:
> "Delaying Eth0
> > > > initialization.   [FAILED]". Any idea as why it occurs?
> > >
> > > It does this when you have a PCMCIA network card because
> networking starts
> > > before PCMCIA. So, it delays initializing the card until that code is
> > > loaded later. Sorry, but I cannot help on the other two
> items. Sound and X
> > > are still not working on my 750P.
> > >
>
> You'll need to change the order of startup putting the pcmcia
> before network:
>
> go to /etc/rc.d/init.d/rc3.d
> type "ls -la | more"
>
> you'll see a lot of links like this  S10network -> ../init.d/network
>
> the "S" means Start, the number is the sequence and the name is
> the service.
>
> just type "ln -s  ../init.d/pcmcia Sxxpcmcia"  where: xx is a
> number lower than
> the number where network starts.
>
> in the case above it should be "ln -s  ../init.d/pcmcia S09pcmcia"
>
> after that, remove the older link that refers to pcmcia start - use "rm
> Syypcmcia" where yy is the old number.
>
> reboot the machine and you will see that the pcmcia will start before the
> network and the message "Failed" goes away...

Dear Eduardo,

Thanks a lot for that, I have just tried and it works great. Just for the
record, it's /etc/rc.d/rc3.d and not /etc/rc.d/init.d/rc3.d.

Anyway, thanks again, Alan.

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