Re: PCMCIA WLAN Card not active after boot

[Mariano Kamp <mkamp@gmx.de>]

Schaymal,

  thanks that does seem to do the trick ...

Cheers,
Mariano

On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 16:08, Shyamal Prasad wrote: 
>     "mkamp" == mkamp  <mkamp@gmx.de> writes:
> 
>     mkamp>   When booting the wlan card is not recognized and so
>     mkamp> dhcpclient doesn't get any address during boot. A cardctl
>     mkamp> eject; cardctl insert does "solve" the problem.
> 
> If you have the 'auto' stanza in /etc/network/interfaces for the card
> device (e.g. 'auto eth0') then you will see this happen. In that case,
> take out the auto stanza. 
> 
> For PCMCIA NICs you must let the PCMCIA startup script bring up the
> card and not the networking script. The latter processes the auto
> stanza, and it also runs *before* the PCMCIA script which is why you
> can't use 'auto.'
> 
> Cheers!
> Shyamal
>