Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 15:15:32 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: hosokawa@jp.freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Well, I finally bought a test laptop and decided to jump in... Message-ID: <14284.869782532@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Jul 1997 12:37:35 MDT." <199707241837.MAA20779@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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> > Now I'm up with 2.2.2 and the pccard support has, of course, > > disappeared > > Huh? 2.2 has had pccard support since it's inception. Did you try > using it? I should have been more explicit: The 2.2.2 support which is added by the PAO distribution disappeared when I left the boot-pao floppy, and the pccard support currently in 2.2.2 does _not_ support my ethernet card. > > of /etc/*pccard* and getting them updated, but after a few false > > starts and the insertion of a 10 second sleep into the file which > > starts pccardd so that it can have my ethernet device configured > > _before_ the other ifconfig stuff is run, it's working. Yay. > > Huh? This shouldn't be necessary. Like it or not, it is. rc.pccard runs pccardd in the background, and the rest of the startup *races* pccardd in its configuration of the cards. Before I added the sleep, my system would not come up properly on the net using my pre-existing ifconfig_ed0 entries (and I see no reason whatsoever why it shouldn't be able to do so - even if you expected the "insertion" behavior to bring up the interface later, it wouldn't be soon enough for things like ntpdate which run out of /etc/rc.netstart). > > Conclusions: This is harder than it needs to be and it really should > > be better integrated with the system - I understand that some of this > > stuff is "experimental", but where better to test and develop it than > > in FreeBSD's CVS repository? > > Certainly *NOT* in the repository. Read old email, or give me or Poul a > call and we can discuss things. I'll be happy to. Doing so now. :) Jordan
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