Re: Laptop booting

[Joerg Thoennes <Joerg.Thoennes@macd.com>]

Bill Marcum wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 02:17:21PM +0100, bennyhat@c.dk wrote:
>
> > Hi all! 
> > I have 2 problems!
> >
> > First problem: 
> >
> > When I start my debian laptop, I boot the modules first and the 
> > daemons afterwards. As usual. 
> > But, in order for my /etc/init.d/networking script to find my eth0 
> > nic, which is a PCMCIA card, cardmgr has to be started. And since my
> > networking script is started before my cardmgr-daemon, It will not 
> > find my eth0, which makes  it necessary for my to login as root and 
> > do '/etc/init.d/networking restart', for enabling my eth0 nick.
>
> Remove the line "auto eth0" from /etc/network/interfaces.

The network configuration for the pcmcia-cs package is done in the file
/etc/pcmcia/network.opts.  Look at the predefined environment variables 
here. If the cardmgr enables eth0, it also calls

	/etc/pcmcia/network start eth0

And if eth0 is disabled (unplugging the CARD, closing laptop etc.), it calls

	/etc/pcmcia/network stop eth0

For kernel 2.6, you should use hotplug for managing the PCMCIA cards 
(CardBus) and the hotplug system will do a

	ifup eth0=hotplug

or

	ifdown eth0

So in this case, you should configure a logical interface "hotplug" in 
the /etc/network/interfaces.

If you need more advise, just ask.

Cheers, Jörg



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