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Date:      Sat, 01 Jan 2005 09:25:44 -0800
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        Alex Povolotsky <tarkhil@webmail.sub.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pccardd in 5.3 
Message-ID:  <20050101172544.9BB655D04@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Jan 2005 13:32:28 %2B0300." <20050101133228.663d0ef9@localhost> 

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> Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 13:32:28 +0300
> From: Alex Povolotsky <tarkhil@webmail.sub.ru>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
> 
> On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 11:38:30 -0500
> John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> > Is your network card already working?  (That is, does it probe and attach when 
> > you plug it in?)  If so, you don't need to use pccardd.  FreeBSD 5.x uses a 
> > completely different driver for all of the pccard stuff that supports most 
> > laptops.  Only some older non-cardbus laptops need the OLDCARD stuff that 
> > uses pccardd IIRC.
> 
> Okay, thanks; but how can I automatically run ifconfig when I attach a card?

This is now handled by devd. See /etc/devd.conf for the attach and
detach. Basically, it calls pccard_ether to startx the device and that
does most of the work. Added, custom setup comes from start_if.int, just
as is done in V4.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634



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