Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3863 mails)

["Ken Schneider" <suselist@xxxxxxxx>]

> 
> Marek,
> misunderstanding perhaps depends by my "italian accent" too...:-))
> With only one interface dhcp I've already tryed. In the last mail with
> my poor 
> english I've written that I've tried with only one pcmcia interface
> static 
> too, but without lucky. The only way to get it working is with a NO
> PCMCIA 
> interface, static or dhcp. In other words, the interface have to be 
> independent from hotplug. The problem is that I must configure it
> manually.
> Thanks again
> Stefano
> 

Check that /etc/init.d/network is starting -after- /etc/init.d/hotplug.


<snip>

# /etc/init.d/network
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:       network
# Required-Start: $local_fs
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start:  2 3 5
# Default-Stop:
# Description:    Configure the network interfaces and set up routing
### END INIT INFO

</snip>

Add hotplug at the end of the # Required-Start: $local_fs line.

This all sounds like the network is trying to start before the card is
recognized and modules loaded for it.

Ken