Re: Bug#28383: Ejecting PCMCIA cards at suspend time

[Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca>]

On Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 05:36:53PM +0200, sam@debian.org wrote:

> On my Toshiba laptop, as on many others, using "apm -s" with PCMCIA cards
> inserted will cause the machine to freeze. It would be great if apmd was
> setup so that a card "ejection" took place (using cardctl) if cardmgr is
> running at this time (using a wrapper script for example to check at this
> time if cardmgr is up).

Yes, that would be useful.  You can add scripts to do it in
/etc/apm/suspend.d and resume.d.  I think these scripts would be better
included in the PCMCIA packages than the apmd package, though.

Does anyone have any comments on this?

Thanks,

Avery