From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Aug 30 18:16:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA01630 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 18:16:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from davinci.isds.duke.edu (davinci.isds.duke.edu [152.3.22.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA01625 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 18:16:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sto@stat.Duke.EDU) Received: from cayenne.isds.duke.edu (cayenne.isds.duke.edu [152.3.22.11]) by davinci.isds.duke.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA09414 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 21:15:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from sto@localhost) by cayenne.isds.duke.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA22584; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 21:15:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 21:15:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199808310115.VAA22584@cayenne.isds.duke.edu> From: "Sean O'Connell" To: FreeBSD mobile Subject: /etc/pccard_ether reprise X-Mailer: VM 6.33 under Emacs 19.34.2 X-Organization: Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi All- As several people have pointed out to me, the correct use of the pccard_ifconfig line is: pccard_ifconfg="inet 111.222.333.444 netmask 255.255.255.0" Based on my reading of the manpage and prior experience with FreeBSD on desktops and PAO, that you still needed an ifconfig_${interface} entry in rc.conf. This blinded me to what was going on (reading pccard_ether the wrong way). I think this makes more sense (ie, letting pccardd pick up the interface of the day and any link/media type flags and letting pccard_ifconfig do the nitty gritty). May I suggest a minor change to the manpage for rc.conf to better elaborate on the proper usage of this. pccard_ifconfig (str) List of ethernet devices (e.g. ed0 ed1 ep0 ...) which should be dynamically ifconfig'd on insertion or boot. Maybe something like: pccard_ifconfig (str) IP set up for a dynamically attached iterface (e.g. "inet 127.0.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0"). The relevant entry in /etc/ppcard.conf yields the interface and any adapter specific flags. Thanks S -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean O'Connell Email: sean@stat.Duke.EDU Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences Phone: (919) 684-5419 Duke University Fax: (919) 684-8594 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message