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Old 02-21-2006, 12:57 AM   #1
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How to enable Cardbus detection at boot?


Hi,

In my newly installed Slackware 10.1 system, on going through the install and selecting what services to run on startup, I did not enable CardBus detections so now my onboard (Broadcom) WiFi card does not get detected.

Any pointers on how to go about reconfiguring devices/processes enabled on boot would be appreciated.

(Apologies for the newbie question; 10 yrs ago I was a real Linux fan, but I've only just decided again to see if I can Live without Windoze, so I'm very much on the rusty side...)
 
Old 02-21-2006, 02:45 AM   #2
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Well, this would probably be better suited to the Slackware board, but no matter.

To set processes to start with the system in Slackware, you make it's corresponding rc.* file executable.

To have PCMCIA services startup with the system, you will want to do the following as root:

Code:
chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia
After it has been set to executable, you can give it the start parameter:

Code:
/etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia start
To be sure it is working properly.
 
Old 02-21-2006, 03:28 AM   #3
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Thank you MS3FGX - and apologies for posting in the wrong forum.

I'm guessing then that this applies to most/all of the rc.xxx files, and this is what gets set during the initial installation?

Thanks again.
 
Old 02-21-2006, 03:56 AM   #4
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Yes, that is all there is to Slackware's startup system. You simply make the rc.* files executable to enable them, or you remove the executable bit to disable them.

Alternately, you can enable/disable startup daemons from pkgtool. Starting pkgtool and going to "Setup" will bring you the list of the setup scripts that ran when you installed the system, and you can chose any of those to be run again. One of those is the "Services" script, which is what asked you which services to start with the machine during the install.
 
  


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