On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 12:42 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > I don't think getting really accurate card names is all that important, > very few people will have two pcmcia network cards. So calling it > "PCMCIA network card N" is probably fine, or whatever it does now.
Yeah, that was merely a side thing. Right now it uses generic names, i.e. "Ethernet or Fast Ethernet" and "Wireless ethernet (802.11x)", but no mention of PCMCIA what I've seen. > Whether their interface is turned on by pcmcia or by some other method > (usb hotplug?), the key thing is that these card should not get auto > entries. Actually, this is only about PCMCIA/Cardbus cards. USB interfaces and such should get auto entries, as they are not brought up by hotplug by default anymore. > A /etc/network/devhotplug or something could list them. Perhaps devnoauto would be more accurate. > Is modifying pcmcia-cs to deal with this going to be problimatic, Ideally the network script should only do this if it is invoked from withing debian-installer. Perhaps put a special network script in the udeb, or add the code with some kind of check so that it is not activated on a real Debian system. Shouldn't be too problematic really. > and is there another way to do it besides including cardctl? cardctl is only needed to determine the names, sorry about mixing things up :) > Something in /proc? I know that so far we have managed to use > pcmcia-cs without changing its init scripts. I've looked, but I haven't found anything. I would have suggested that first if I had. -- Pelle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
