Re: Pcmcia network card startup

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw@iprimus.com.au>]

Roberto Sanchez wrote:
>  --- Russell Shaw <rjshaw@iprimus.com.au> escribió: > Hi,
>
> > I've installed and used the pcmcia-cs package on debian.
> >
> > When i plug a 3com 3c589c pcmcia NIC in, then the card
> > is detected and started, but to get it to appear as eth0
> > in "ifconfig", i need to do /etc/init.d/networking restart.
> > Is there a standard way of making this happen automatically?
>
>
> $ apt-cache search hotplug
> fxload - Firmware download to EZ-USB devices
> hotplug - Linux Hotplug Scripts
> murasaki - another HotPlug Agent
> pcmcia-cs - PCMCIA Card Services for Linux.

Hi,
I'm already using pcmcia-cs from testing.

> hotplug-utils - Linux Hotplug utility programs
>
>
> I believe some of these programs will allow you to do what you want, but YMMV. 
> I am not totally sure sice I don't use my laptop's PCMCIA.
>
> -Roberto Sanchez