Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Jan 2004 17:14:32 +0100 | From | martin f krafft <> | Subject | Re: kernel 2.6: can't get 3c575/PCMCIA working - other PCMCIA card work |
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also sprach Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> [2004.01.11.1602 +0100]: > > Cause the driver gets loaded whether cardmgr is started or not. But in > > any case, cardmgr does not configure the interface. > > cardmgr doesn't play a part when you've inserted a cardbus card - it > doesn't even know that a card has been inserted into the slot.
So with 'PCMCIA' you didn't mean the user-space programs.
> The hotplug scripts are then supposed to load the driver as > necessary (using /etc/modules.conf) which creates a network > interface. This then causes the hotplug scripts to be invoked > again, this time for the new network interface, which should > configure it.
Nifty. I will RTFM and hopefully find my way around in this versatile complexity.
Cheers,
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