On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 10:04:45AM -0500, Erik V. Anderson wrote: > I have an old IBM Thinkpad 380 laptop that I am trying to build up to use as my > firewall. I have successfully installed Debian Potato, but am running into a > slight problem. On startup, it appears that it's trying to start the > networking services before the PCMCIA services. Naturally, this won't work. > In order to get the NIC's to pick up their correct address, I have to do a > networking restart. Then things work fine. > > Any ideas on how to switch the startup order of these You could mangle the links in /etc/init.d to change the order, but in reality the networking scripts should be managing non-pcmcia interfaces and the pcmcia interfaces should be configured via the scripts in /etc/pcmcia (when it detects eth0 via a pcmcia card it's supposed to run ifup eth0) > > Thanks! > -Erik > > > -- > Erik Anderson - erik at andersonfam.org -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://techmonkeys.org/~poptix GPG public key 0x01938203