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Date:      Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:46:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Mikko Tyolajarvi <mikko@dynas.se>
To:        mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fa_select startup
Message-ID:  <200106212146.f5LLkti61187@explorer.rsa.com>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.30.0106211828420.20233-100000@spice.eahd.or.ug>; from patrick@eahd.or.ug on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 06:31:12PM %2B0300 <20010621102505.D63569@peorth.iteration.net>

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>On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 06:31:12PM +0300, Patrick scribbled:
>| On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 Craig.Burlingame@nokia.com wrote:
>| > Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the various sources on how to get
>| > the NetGear FA410TXC card to work.  I have now successfully loaded FreeBSD
>| > v4.3 onto a Toshiba Tecra8000 with the NetGear card.  The only issues I now
>| > face, is how, and where, to automate the running of fa_select so that it is
>| > executed before the start of the network services (but after pccard starts).
>| <snip>
>| 
>| What about just putting a line in /etc/rc.local (the same line you would
>| type at the prompt to start it as root).

>The best way would be like this:

>card "Lucent Technologies" "WaveLAN/IEEE"
>	config  0x1 "wi" ?
>	insert  /etc/pccard_ether $device start
>	insert  sh /etc/setup_wi
>	remove  /etc/pccard_ether $device stop
>	remove  /sbin/ifconfig $device delete

>/etc/setup_wi is a shell script that does whatever setup
>I wish to do to the card.

Better yet, put the code in /etc/start_if.<interface> and it should
work out of the box.

Hmm... dang.  Requires -STABLE, does not seem to be supported by
/etc/pccard_ether in -RELEASE.

>Of course, I am lazy, but you can do the same thing for
>remove, before the $device stop.  Such as shutting down your
>VPN and things like that.

Guess what?  There is a matching stop_if.<interface> as well :)

  $.02,
  /Mikko
-- 
 Mikko Työläjärvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurity.com
 RSA Security

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