Debian Boot Order - PCMCIA and Network Interfaces...

[phead]

My wireless notebook card is a PCMCIA card. It's configured with ndiswrapper and the config is in /etc/network/interfaces. When debian boots it tries (and fails) to Itialize network interfaces. I few seconds later it intailizes PCMCIA services and loads the ndiswrapper driver. Should I change the boot order for my devices If so, how

[Vergil83]

You will need to change the name of the script

The /etc/init.d directory contains the scripts executed by init at boot time and when the init state (or "runlevel") is changed (see init().

The two-digit number mm is used to determine the order in which to run the scripts: low-numbered links have their scripts run first. For example, the K20 scripts will be executed before the K30 scripts. This is used when a certain service must be started before another. For example, the name server bind might need to be started before the news server inn so that inn can set up its access lists. In this case, the script that starts bind would have a lower number than the script that starts inn so that it runs first:
/etc/rc2.d/S17bind
/etc/rc2.d/S70inn

http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html

[phead]

thx , i also have one more quick question | how would you change it so you don't need a password to shut down from the login screen?

[Vergil83]

if depends on if you are using gdm or kdm

if gdm run, gdm setup

if kdm i think it is in the control center