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Date:      Thu, 19 Oct 2000 19:28:38 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>, Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.ORG>, Nick Hibma <n_hibma@qubesoft.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc usbd.conf 
Message-ID:  <200010200128.TAA30242@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Oct 2000 17:36:18 PDT." <20001019173618.A6083@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> 
References:  <20001019173618.A6083@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010191040150.99445-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> <200010192148.PAA28957@harmony.village.org> 

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In message <20001019173618.A6083@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Brooks Davis writes:
: It seems to me that we we're rapidly approching the day when we need to
: merge the relevent code from /etc/pccard_ether and /etc/rc.network(6).
: This will be especialy true with NEWCARD where "ifconfig -l" will
: include your PC Card/CardBus NIC which may result in it being configured
: via rc.network in some situations.  This is already annoying with things
: like an which sometimes the an driver which sometimes attaches as a PC
: Card and sometimes as a PCI or ISA card.

Unless the card is there when the machine boot, it won't be in the
list of devices available.  That's not going to change with NEWCARD.
If it isn't there at boot, it can't be configured until you insert the
card.

Warner


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