Bug 56010
Summary: | wrong order of init scripts | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Dr. Tilmann Bubeck <tilmann> |
Component: | kernel-pcmcia-cs | Assignee: | Dave Jones <davej> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.2 | CC: | pfrields |
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Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Last Closed: | 2004-11-25 08:14:41 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Dr. Tilmann Bubeck
2001-11-10 15:31:23 UTC
This is really not a bug. Nothing in the boot sequence should depend on PCMCIA devices being configured first, as there is no reason to expect a PCMCIA device to even be present at boot time. Moving the script doesn't even solve the problem. Because cards are only powered up once the PCMCIA initialization script runs, it may take several seconds for cards to be initialized and identified, the correct drivers loaded, network interfaces to autonegotiate link speed, etc. So running other scripts that assume a working network will give unpredictable results. -- Dave Hinds First of all, this bug report is quite old and corresponds to RH 7.2. At least in 8.0 they fixed the thing by moving PCMCIA to #24 which solves all the mentioned problems (except "@" in syslog). But Dave is also right, the cardmgr, and drivers need some time, so that is is not guaranteed, that you get a working pcmcia network when ending /etc/init.d/pcmcia. I solved this problem by inserting a "sleep" at the end of /etc/init.d/pcmcia to give the system some time to initialize. Dave, you say, that nothing in the boot sequence should depend on pcmcia. Well, how do you suggest to initialize a system with a NIC in pcmcia? What would you change? Till |