[GLLUG] Debian 2.4 Bootup Issues

[troettger@attbi.com]

I had the same issue with mandrake 9.0 on my Gateway 
laptop.  Network would load before the pcmcia card did.  
I fixed it by changing the load order of the pcmcia to 
before the network.  I am at work and not in front of my 
linux box at the moment so I can't tell you the exact 
folders but I think they are /etc/rc.d, /etc/rc1.d and 
the like.  I went through each directory and renamed the 
pcmcia driver that was something like S90pcmcia and did 
a mv S90pcmcia to S87pcmcia (whatever number is just 
before your network).  For instance if your network is 
S89network and pcmcia is S90pcmcia you would do a mv 
S90pcmcia S88pcmcia.  This worked for me, although 
someone else might have a better solution.
> When booting my laptop into a 2.2.18 kernel, I have to:
> # /etc/init.d/networking stop && /etc/init.d/networking start
> because, presumably, the networking tries to initialize before PCMCIA does.
> Over the weekend I downloaded a 2.4.19 kernel-image and it's 
> kernel-pcmcia-modules. After hours of playing, I have figured out that I 
> have to:
> # modprobe i823xxx (to load the pcmcia driver)
> # /etc/init.d/pcmcia stop && /etc/init.d/pcmcia start
> # /etc/init.d/networking stop && /etc/init.d/networking start
> 
> So I have a few questions for you Debian wizards:
> 1. Why isn't the i823xxx.o module for the pcmcia loading at boot?
> 2. Why is the networking being initialized before pcmcia?
> 3. How do I fix this, the right way?
> 
> Extra Question 4:
> On a completely different note, I did a lot of reading up on modules over 
> the weekend in trying to fix this problem and learned that Debian is 
> configured to depmod -a on every boot. While booting I can see this occur, 
> and it takes a long time. Isn't this overkill? You should only have to do 
> that after loading new modules, which presumably, most people don't do very 
> often after getting their PCs setup right. Shoot, if I get this working I'm 
> not liable to do that for a LONG time. :) Couldn't we all save a lot of 
> time booting by turning this off?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Brian Hoort
> 
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