Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:44:47 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@freebsd.org> Cc: Nick Hibma <n_hibma@qubesoft.com>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc usbd.conf Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010191040150.99445-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <20001019082542.A902@pavilion.net>
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On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 07:09:51PM -0700, Nick Hibma wrote:
> >
> > On a related note, I checked the code and it seems that this actually
> > might work.
> >
> > I'll have to test it and unfortunately my laptops kernel is severely out
> > of date.
> >
> > If anyone is at BSDCon that could try out the following lines to replace
> > the ethernet entry in /etc/usbd.conf be my guest. If it works, I'll
> > commit it.
> >
> > # The entry for the cue, kue and aue ethernet interface drivers.
> > device "USB ethernet"
> > devname "[ack]ue[0-9]+"
> > attach "dhclient -pf /var/run/dhclient.${DEVNAME}.pid ${DEVNAME}"
> > detach "kill `cat /var/run/dhclient.${DEVNAME}.pid`"
>
> Or try:
>
> device "USB ethernet"
> devname "[ack]ue[0-9]+"
> insert "/etc/pccard_ether ${DEVNAME} start"
> remove "/etc/pccard_ether ${DEVNAME} stop"
>
> And if it works rename /etc/pccard_ether to /etc/somethingelse_ether
> Joe
That would be even better. Maybe a more generic "hotplug_ether" (or
whatever) and some new rc.conf options that work more generically with
pccard, USB, possibly IEEE-1394 in the future, and whatever other
come-and-go schemes we might come across is in order?
-- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net
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