For Sam, et al., Here's a funny question. Why should it matter if the ETH0 fails or any other HW item which isn't connected or ready? The boot goes on. ta dah! This is very common especially on laptops which usually don't have everything hooked up every time you boot. My pcmcia net adaptor card doesn't get fully attached and talk to the router here at home until after the boot has completed. The link blinks only, maybe, once and is not connected until long after I've logged in. Networks and the connections are notoriously slow at first. If your system isn't always up, it takes awhile for the ISP and the router to get all the ducks in a row. As another example, the C: drive on my laptop - winc, takes awhile as well as the cd-rw drive on the USB connection. The boot is sometimes pretty fast and passes these by, but they are there by the time I log in. What type of problem is actually occuring due to the delay or failure of the connection? Is your ETHO card a 'winmodem'? Thanks, Tim Sinks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott J Julian" <Scott_J_Julian at comcast.net> To: "TC LUG" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 10:46 AM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Order of Execution > I got sick of having eth0 and my firewire fail every time on first boot > with mdk 9.2 so i tried redhat 9, now JUST eth0 fails every first boot > and ALWAYS works every second boot, weird On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 23:39, > Sam MacDonald wrote: > > Can I tell Linux to start PCMCIA before ETH0 ? > > > > I just don't like seeing ETH0 fail every time I restart my laptop. > > It's more of an annoyance then anything else, just wondering. > > > > Sam. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list