Re: boot: network configured before PCMCIA loaded
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 06:43:52PM +0000, Rob Bradford wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 06:08:17PM +0100, Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) wrote:
> > Unfortunately, the network is brought up before the PCMCIA cards
> > are loaded, so the eth1 device is not there yet[1] and I'm left
> > with bringing the network up manually each time. Couldn't the network
> > setup be moved a bit later in the boot process, so it happens after
> > the PCMCIA card loading?
>
> I think the pcmcia-cs package should provide scripts to automatically bring up
> and lower the interface on insertion/removal.
Yes, it does and it should work. But should we do it.
This is not my favourite way to get network configured on sarge. That
was good when I was running potato.
Thomas convinced me to use hotplug, ifupdown, and ... to do this.
Thus network section of "Debian Reference" was rewritten by Thomas.
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-gateway.en.html
Osamu
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