rescan pcmcia bus and add wireless card as eth 1 1

[theEclipse]

so,

I have no problem getting my wireless card connected to a base station and browsing the web. However, this only works when I have the card inserted in my pcmcia slot when the computer is booting.

I have tried restarting pcmcia and hotplug services and my card doesnt get registered as eth1 like it normally does.

As far as I can tell, there is something that I could do to get this done, but I sure cant figure it out.....

I am running Ubuntu Linux (Breezy Badger) and using a Netgear wireless card (natively supported by breezy).

Robert Carpenter
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[pansophic]

Try this:

Edit /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth1 (may have additional configuration information after this)
Check the "startmode" line. If it doesn't exist, add it.

STARTMODE=auto

or

STARTMODE=hotplug

or

STARTMODE=ifplugd

One of those should work out for you. If you set ifplugd, you should set an ifplugd priority as well.

IFPLUGD_PRIORITY='20'


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[theEclipse]

Nope, none of those seem to work.

I dont have to run a program to rescan the pcmcia bus ?



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[pansophic]

You can try running /sbin/cardctl with the reset or insert options.

Are you telling me that when you run /sbin/cardctl with the ident option that it doesn't identify the card if it isn't installed before the pcmcia daemon is inserted into the kernel?


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[theEclipse]

Ooh...sorry I forgot to get back to you on this. I did more and more research online and as it turns out the pcmcia software is working, but on my laptop ( Gateway 400vx ) the insert and remove events dont fire the same on this model as on all other laptops in the world. Gateway is annoying.

Robert Carpenter
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[pansophic]

I'm at least glad to hear that you were able to find the problem. Even if it didn't get solved.

Did you find a way to run the scripts that normally fire for those events? At least then you could manually force the scripts to run.


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[theEclipse]

No. What it amounts to is that the events dont fire, and the cardbus can not be restarted....ever (short of restarting the computer). Its annoying. When a card is removed the bus shuts down and nobody has figured out how to make linux restart it. I wish I were a skilled reverse engineer.

Robert Carpenter
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