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Ok, some things I've learned in the past few hours.....
under /etc/rc.d/rcX.d the X represents runlevels, and consequently orders of
execution.
under ./rcX.d, the files are names [S/K]Xalpha e.g. "S80sendmail"
S or K = start or kill respectively and following protocol, the number is
the order of execution
so for
/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S80sendmail
you have
in runlevel3, for start services, at position 80, run sendmail
(apparently the numbering scheme is arbitrary, you could as easily used
S8sendmail, or S8000sendmail, provided all required services were already
started. Think old BASIC numbering scheme 10, 20, 30 was only for purposes of
convenience, it could have been 1, 2, 3, and so on)
ethernet will apparently not start without the loopback adapter in place either
as a module or as part of the kernel (I'm unsure, but that's where things seem
to be pointing)
I'm also pretty sure lo = loopback
I don't have it compiled into the kernel
I'm hosed
more cool stuff
/sbin/init = IT, period, the shit, da bomb, whatever you want to name it, init
is it, don't screw with init. Got it?
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/lo/ seems to be the core of this whole networking thing.
Unfortunately, mine are all 0 length.. something seems to be amiss.
still not sure...
and after all of this is said and done, I still cannot get my PCMCIA NIC to
function. Are all of my conclusions correct? I haven't recompiled the kernel
yet to include the loopback adapter, but I'm about to do a make menuconfig just
to be sure I *don't* have it built in, and am not barking up the wrong tree, but
I figured I'd send this first to get reactions.
Many Thanks to Kyle....
Vale
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