Slow startup times

**kuser123** · 08-15-2004, 02:37 PM

You will get a list of network driver modules with (as root):
modprobe -l | grep "drivers/net"
In your system the sis900 module is the network driver.

**sharlila** · 08-16-2004, 10:55 AM

thanks,

I don't know how I missed that, cause I did remember something
like 'sis900', I probably need to increase the font size.
But anyways, I've checked the '/etc/modules' file and 'sis900'
appears there so that is not the problem

**kuser123** · 08-17-2004, 11:33 AM

Hmmm... sorry, I don't really know what else it could be. Maybe your harddrive or your filesystem is defect?? Try to make a file system check. You have to boot with the CD to be able to check your root file system.

**sharlila** · 08-21-2004, 10:11 AM

well, it just seems unlikely to be true, since it happens only
in these programs (kde apps) and not others.

**CrashedAgain** · 08-21-2004, 02:56 PM

Originally Posted by kuser123

Your interfaces file looks good. But it is enough to have one "auto..." line. So you can simplify the file:
"auto lo eth0 eth1" The second "auto..." can be then deleted. But this is only for cosmetic...
I don't know much about WinModems but it can be that eth0 is a WinModem.
If eth1 is still not working by default on startup you may have the problem that your network card driver is not loaded on startup. So add the name of the needed driver module to /etc/modules

Not going to be much help but /dev/eth0 is not your winmodem. My winmodem is not detected until I install a driver (I use ltmodem...but you can't just use the .deb pkg, post if you want a howto) then it is /dev/modem which is a link to /dev/ttyLT0.

Try going to /usr/bin & starting the executeable file directly, see if it starts any faster. Might give an indication where the problem is.