controlling the wait time on boot up
 

Is there a setting that allows me to increase the amount of time the system waits on boot up before moving on to next item.

I am having a problem when the system initializes the PCMCIA devices. I get the OK but it does it so fast that my wireless card only powers on every other boot. I always have to turn on and off the laptop twice in order to get the wireless card to come on...


your help would be greatly appreciated
thank you

An odd request, but I like it.

Just assumming you are absolutely sure it's a wait thing....

You could always edit your pcmcia startup file.

I have no idea what distro you are using, so you might look in /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia

Simply add something like /usr/bin/sleep 5

You want to do that after the header, but before the bulk of the code.

thank you for the quick reply,

I am running Mandrake 10.0
The reason I believe to be a problem with timing is because the times it connects, during boot up, it sits there for 2 to 3 seconds, the lights come on on the wireless card and the boot up process continues. The other times, gets to that same point, stays there less than 1 sec and move on. The lights never come on.

I will give it a try...

thank you