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From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
To: Josef Karthauser <joe@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc usbd.conf
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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?


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