|I have Fermilab Redhead 5.2.1 installed on my laptop.
|I have an ethernet card installed.
|When the network wire is not plugged into my laptop (such as when I am
|away on a trip), many problems occur.
|Start-up takes very much longer, hanging for several minutes on things
|like sendmail, etc.
|most programs such as X and emacs do not work.
|The computer will just hang doing nothing when I run emacs.
|Starting X will take several minutes.
|X also does not work properly after it has started.
|When the network wire is plugged in, everything is just fine and fast.
|This never happened before when I used non-Fermilab linux.
|Can anyone tell me how this can be connected?
|Bill Ng
I assume that ``ethernet card'' means ``PCMCIA network interface card (nic).''
The problems are all caused by the disconnected wire with networking running.
There are ways to handle the situation. I did them once for Prem Singh;
then he wiped the root partition on his laptop. The simpliest method is
to leave networking off by default and using the pcmcia cardctl scheme,
eject and insert commands to enable and turn on networking as needed.
Randolph J. Herber, herber@dcdrjh.fnal.gov, +1 630 840 2966, CD/CDFTF PK-149F,
Mail Stop 318, Fermilab, Kirk & Pine Rds., PO Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510-0500,
USA. (Speaking for myself and not for US, US DOE, FNAL nor URA.) (Product,
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