Re: Configuring pcmcia cards at boot-up

[Udo Klein <udo-michael.klein@kcl.ac.uk>]

Dave,

thanks for your suggestion, I've tried it but it wouldn't work either.

I then did some more howto reading, and then tried reconfiguring the 
/etc/pcmcia/network.opts file, and voila, both pcmcia ethernet cards are 
configured correctly at boot up.

For those who might find this useful, the relevant parts of the file 
/etc/pcmcia/network.opts looks like this:

case "$ADDRESS" in
*,0,*,*)
	...
	DHCP="y"
	...
	;;
*,1,*,*)
	...
	DHCP="n"
	...
	IPADDR="192.168.0.1"
	...
	;;
esac

This basically says: configure card in socket 0 by DHCP, and the card in 
socket 1 by assigning it the indicated IP, network, gateway, etc. 
addresses.

Udo

Dave Thayer wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 08:10:54AM +0000, Udo Klein wrote:
>
> > Antonio,
> >
> > adding "auto eth0" to /etc/network/interfaces doesn't work for PCMCIA 
> > cards. I've already tried. In fact, it actually says so in 
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-gateway.en.html#s-trigger-auto
> > It says there: "Never list PCMCIA interfaces in auto stanzas. The PCMCIA 
> > cardmgr is started later in the boot sequence than when 
> > /etc/rcS.d/S40networking runs."
> >
> > But surely, there must be a way of configuring two PCMCIA cards during 
> > boot up...
>
>
> I'm not using my laptop at the moment, so I don't have the exact script
> handy, but I have to do something similar to get my wireless card to behave.
>
> I made an init script containing (IIRC) ``cardctl eject && cardctl insert''
> or something similar and gave it a fairly late priority (S90 or so) so that
> it gets called after the networking and pcmcia initscripts have run.
>
> HTH
>
> dt