Hi folks. I'm running Debian Woody on a PCG-F450 Sony VAIO laptop, using kernel 2.4.18. I've successfully migrated from the pcmcia-cs based system used in the stock 2.2 kernel to the hotplug based system used in 2.4... well, almost. The D-Link network card in question is a tulip, and when hotplugged it works great. That is, if the computer is running and I stick it in, everything is properly configured. No problems there. However, when I boot the system and happen to have the card already in the slot, eth0 doesn't come up. I'm forced to disconnect it and reconnect it. It seems to me that /etc/init.d/hotplug ought to be dealing with this -- manually invoking /sbin/hotplug net doesn't seem to do anything at all. From the various pieces of documentation, I think this is refered to as "the coldplugging problem" or variously "... issue" but not being a master of kernel-fu I'm not totally sure if this qualifies as such. Obviously, this isn't the biggest deal in the world -- I can just eject the card and put it back in -- but it is an affront to my desire for order in our entropic universe and it will remain so, bothering me like an unscratchable itch until I (or one of you) am able to fix it. Any help is thus greatly appreciated. Thanks are offered in advance with more thanks expos facto to anyone who responds... Alexander Poquet
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