Re: PCMCIA cards in laptops: do they need to be mounted/unmounted when installed/removed?

[Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk>]

Ken Heard wrote:
> PCMCIA cards in laptops: do they need to be mounted/unmounted when
> installed/removed like floppies, CF cards, etc.?
>   

No need to mount/umount a PCMCIA wireless network card. When I remove my 
running RT2500 card in Etch, dmesg shows

   pccard: card ejected from slot 0
   ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:00.0 disabled

When I reinsert it:

   pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0
   ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, 
low) -> IRQ 11
   rt2500 1.1.0 CVS 2005/07/10 http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
   PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64

and my wireless connection is restored automagically.

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Chris.