From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed May 16 10:13:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD1B737B423 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 10:13:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oberman@ptavv.es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f4GHDGc08332; Wed, 16 May 2001 10:13:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200105161713.f4GHDGc08332@ptavv.es.net> To: Jamie Bowden Cc: Gareth Williams , Jacob Rhoden , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Toshiba Tecra 550CDT - PCCARD In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 16 May 2001 09:54:05 PDT." Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 10:13:16 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 09:54:05 -0700 (PDT) > From: Jamie Bowden > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG > > On Wed, 16 May 2001, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > :> Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 08:13:37 +0200 (CEST) > :> From: Gareth Williams > :> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG > :> > :> > :> This may sound a bit silly, but have you copied pccard.conf from > :> /etc/defaults to /etc? > : > :And this may sound a bit silly, but why would anyone EVER want to copy > :any file from /etc/defaults to /etc? > > Copy it to /etc and remove all the but the bits you want to change. When > you next upgrade, your system specific changes get left alone. Yes, this makes sense, I suppose, although it seem rather convoluted to me. Copy the file, delete what stays the same (probably all but 1-20 lines of over 1800) and then edit what's left so that it is all different from the original. With XEmacs or emacs, I'd open both the file in /etc and /etc/defaults and do some minimal copying between buffers. If is was stuck with vi, I'd probably cut and paste between windows to create /etc/pccard.conf. But whatever works for you. But simply copying /etc/defaults/pccard.conf to /etc/pccard.conf makes no sense to me at all. It means that things will not be updated when you cvsup. It means that you have two copies of the file, one of which will be subject to bit rot. And it does not fix anything. FWIW, the pccard.conf on my laptop is one line, "irq 7 9", at this time although I think I need to tweak the memory entry just a bit. 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message