From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jul 26 10:24:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA08644 for current-outgoing; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 10:24:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from byako.lovett.com (root@byako.lovett.com [193.195.45.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA08629 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 10:23:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ade by byako.lovett.com with esmtp (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0wsAYx-0004mt-00; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 18:23:27 +0100 To: Nate Williams cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pccard and -current; a long way to go. :-( Organization: Demon Internet Ltd. Reply-To: ade@demon.net In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 25 Jul 1997 20:26:50 MDT." <199707260226.UAA27372@rocky.mt.sri.com> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 18:23:27 +0100 From: Ade Lovett Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Nate Williams writes: > >No it's not, you don't understand the startup code. You're trying to >use the 'stock' if_ed0 lines to configure thing, and it doesn't work >that way. Not quite. For instance, I'm using the 'proper' pccard_ifconfig lines to bring up my GCS2220 ethernet card, yet by the time pccardd has fired up the interface, the rest opf /etc/rc* has brought up exim, my local caching-only nameserver, amd, xntpd etc.., some of which will occasionally fail to 'do the right thing', since at the time they're started up, I only have a loopback interface defined, with ed0 still nowhere in the land of the living (since pccardd hasn't finished doing its thing). I would imagine that most of these problems could be sorted out with an optional flag to pccardd saying "I already have my card in the laptop, it's an ethernet card, and I don't want the rest of /etc/rc* to bring up network-related daemons until pccard-ed0 (or whatever) is up and running". -aDe -- Ade Lovett, Demon Internet Ltd.