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On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 11:43:15PM +0800, Jiele wrote: > Hi, everyone, > I need some hints on how to let hotplug manage my pcmcia wireless card. Have you read my "Debian Reference"? There Thomas gives good guide. http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-gateway.en.html#s-net-trigger > Until now, I have been using pcmcia-cs package to manage my Linksys > pcmcia wireless card. It works great. I use the driver provided by kernel > (2.6.4). For pcmcia-cs package, I only use its utilities (e.g. cardmgr, > scripts, ...), not the its driver. But since I need hotplug to manage my usb > stuff (memory key, mouse), I would love to have hotplug to manage my > wireless card too! Is this cardbus card? http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-gateway.en.html#s-trigger-pcmcia > If I boot my machine without starting pcmcia-cs service, I won't be able > to "ifup eth1" (eth0 is the built-in ethernet card), even though all the > driver modules are loaded. It complains "No such device". Plug in and out > the card, I expect to see some log message by hotplug system at > /var/log/message, but nothing at all! Now if I run "cardmgr", eth1 will be > automatically up. This gives me some confidence that the drivers are fine. > > Here is my question: > > 1) Is it possible to get rid of pcmcia-cs package, and let hotplug to manage > my card? All the drivers are provided by kernel. If cardbus, yes. http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-kernel.en.html#s-kernel-pcmcia > 2) I suppose kernel will send hotplug system some message when the card is > plugged in and out. Is it true? If so, how to get that? FYI, when I plug in > and out my usb mouse, hotplug gets called, and related message is logged > into /var/log/message. Which version are you running? unstable?
