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Date:      Mon, 23 Aug 2004 12:48:16 +0200
From:      "mark rowlands" <mark.rowlands@mypost.se>
To:        "FreeBSD questions" <fquest@ccstores.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: laptop pccard ethernet
Message-ID:  <4789E43478F3994BB8D967C73FD9C6880C2BAC@exchsrv1>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of FreeBSD questions
> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 8:23 AM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: laptop pccard ethernet
>=20
> I have a laptop with fbsd 4.10.

Good

> it seems that altho it boots and recognises the PCMCIA ethernet
> card, that it never successfully executes the ifconfig for
> IP number and gateway.

bad

> I have to enter these two commands manually _after_ it completes
> booting, and all ethernet activities are fine after that.

tiresome

> is it possible that during the booting sequence the PC card
> recognition is too late in the process?=20

yes
> Are the rc.conf command
> line entries "order specific". (I always thought that they are noa)t.

no
=20
> Any tips would be appreciated
>=20
> Jim
> --

1) posting your rc.conf, and card details and the relevant bits of dmesg
would help.

But long time since I ran 4.x on my laptop but istr

man pccardd

will tell you about the -z flag

which will delay daemonizing  pccard until it has probed
and attatched to your card=20
and a quick snoop around /etc/defaults/rc.conf=20
would tell you about pccard_ifconfig=3D"NO"
which I think you either need to set to "DHCP"
or something like=20
pccard_ifconfig=3D"inet 192.168.12.100 netmask 255.255.255.0"



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