[gentoo-dev] PCMCIA scripts

[gentoo-dev] PCMCIA scripts

[Saverio Vigni]

Hi i've just installed Gentoo on my laptop to replace a RedHat 7.3.

everything went smooth but the PCMCIA initialization, well at boot time 
my pcmcia ethernet is not initialized and i have to unplug it and plug 
it again so that an hotplug event is generated and everything is 
initialized (net.eth0 is called and the interface created).

This was an annoying thing so i added the line: "cardctl insert" in the 
pcmcia script so that every time i boot the card is correctly 
initialized and the eth0 interface is created (and i can start samba :))

I don't know if there is something more elegant than this, but i suggest 
thinking about add this command to the pcmcia rc script so that the 
cards are enabled at boot time.

Saverio Vigni
www.hor-net.com


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Re: [gentoo-dev] PCMCIA scripts

[Chad Huneycutt]

On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 17:23, Saverio Vigni wrote:
> Hi i've just installed Gentoo on my laptop to replace a RedHat 7.3.
> 
> everything went smooth but the PCMCIA initialization, well at boot time 
> my pcmcia ethernet is not initialized and i have to unplug it and plug 
> it again so that an hotplug event is generated and everything is 
> initialized (net.eth0 is called and the interface created).
> 
> This was an annoying thing so i added the line: "cardctl insert" in the 
> pcmcia script so that every time i boot the card is correctly 
> initialized and the eth0 interface is created (and i can start samba :))

Are you using just pcmcia-cs, or are you using hotplug stuff as well?  I
don't have a problem with cardmgr not detecting my card on startup with
just pcmcia-cs.  Try checking your logs and see if something else (a
race condition?) is causing cargmgr to fail bringing your card up at
boot time.   If not, start a bug on bugs.gentoo.org, and I'll look into
it.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] PCMCIA scripts

[Saverio Vigni]

Chad Huneycutt wrote:

>
>Are you using just pcmcia-cs, or are you using hotplug stuff as well?  I
>don't have a problem with cardmgr not detecting my card on startup with
>just pcmcia-cs.  Try checking your logs and see if something else (a
>race condition?) is causing cargmgr to fail bringing your card up at
>boot time.   If not, start a bug on bugs.gentoo.org, and I'll look into
>it.
>
>  
>
tried both, with hotplug and without, the system behaves the same way.

I'm unsure if this is actually a bug or a configuration error on my 
side... but anyway i'll post the logs.

Saverio Vigni
www.hor-net.com



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Re: [gentoo-dev] PCMCIA scripts

[Saverio Vigni]

Saverio Vigni wrote:

> Chad Huneycutt wrote:
>
>>
>> Are you using just pcmcia-cs, or are you using hotplug stuff as well?  I
>> don't have a problem with cardmgr not detecting my card on startup with
>> just pcmcia-cs.  Try checking your logs and see if something else (a
>> race condition?) is causing cargmgr to fail bringing your card up at
>> boot time.   If not, start a bug on bugs.gentoo.org, and I'll look into
>> it.
>>
>>  
>>
> tried both, with hotplug and without, the system behaves the same way.
>
> I'm unsure if this is actually a bug or a configuration error on my 
> side... but anyway i'll post the logs.


i don't know what happened but while i was playing around trying to 
understand what was going on i unmerged pcmcia-cs, unmerged hotplug, re 
emerged everything and now it all works...
Sorry i can't help, but there's something strange going on here...anyway 
everything works now

Saverio Vigni
www.hor-net.com





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