PCMCIA/Cardbus and hotplug only

robpatriot · Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 10:00 am Post subject: PCMCIA/Cardbus and hotplug only

This topic is more of a discussion about network startup scripts than a help request although it's still a work in progress.

I am running my gentoo box with with the latest hotplug, baselayout, and a 2.6.5 kernel. I am also using ubers amazing wireless scripts found here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=122435. However I am intentionally not using the pcmcia package because I am hoping it is not necessary....

With my setup I have an internal ethernet card (eth0) and a pcmcia wireless card (eth1). I'm loading pcmcia_core, yenta_socket, and ds (in modules.autoload) and then starting hotplug. It all seems to work beautifully for card insertion and removal. However during startup something odd happens before hotplug has been started. At some point, for a reason I can't figure out, the machine stops net.eth0 and net.eth1. Whilst stopping eth0, eth1 starts up (I am guessing because the eth0 script has a "use" dependancy on hotplug which spots my pcmcia card) but then it gets to the eth1 script and stops it again. I was wondering why this happens and if anyone has any ideas...

Cheers in advance...

Rob.

brodo · Guru Joined: 15 Apr 2003 Posts: 319

Is it a 16-bit PCMCIA card, or a 32-bit CardBus network card? e.g. what does cardctl status say? If it's 16-bit you need "cardmgr" which is started by /etc/init.d/pcmcia running -- I'm working on removing cardmgr, but you'll probably have to wait for 2.7. for that... If it's 32-bit, /etc/init.d/pcmcia shouldn't be needed

robpatriot · Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 10:09 am Post subject:

Its a 32 bit card. The whole system does in fact work fine (I am not running pcmcia-cs or have any of those packages emerged). I am just trying to work out if I can get the card to come up when the machine is turned on with the card already inserted. Do you have this working for you?

Thanks,

R.

nukem996 · l33t Joined: 13 Nov 2003 Posts: 776

Hey I tried your script but I still cannt use any of the iw* tools or connect to wireless networks. I have it setup so my ethernet card is on eth0 and my WiFi card is eth1. Any adeas?

Thanks

nuke

UberLord · Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 11:37 am Post subject:

I'll give this whirl after my lappy finishes an upgrade - which won't be today! (needs ~20 packages and 2 are gcc and glibc!)
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robpatriot · Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 11:40 am Post subject:

As before uber, you're a star. Any input you have would be greatfully accepted.

Good luck on getting glibc and gcc to upgrade without problems :wink:

UberLord · Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 3:13 pm Post subject:

I cannot get hotplug to start my pcmcia card whatever I do.

I need pcmcia-cs apparently.
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