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From: "Chad M. Huneycutt" <chadh@×××××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] pcmcia-cs Instructions
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 11:14:09
Message-Id: 3C9770FD.90704@cc.gatech.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] pcmcia-cs Instructions by Chad Huneycutt
1 Chad Huneycutt wrote:
2 > Vitaly Kushneriuk wrote:
3 >
4 >> On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 14:55, Craig M. Reece wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> Does this mean that we should leave net.eth0 out of the rc-update
7 >>> process
8 >>> and just use pcmcia? Do things that depend on net still work then? Do
9 >>> you
10 >>> know if this will work with wireless cards as well?
11 >>
12 >>
13 >> That might not be cleanest/best way to do it, but that's what I use:
14 >> 1) in net.eth0 I renamed "start" to "up", and "Stop" to "down" and added
15 >> new start() that just calls up and stop() that just calls down, and
16 >> opts="start stop restart up down".
17 >> 2)I replaced content of the /etc/pcmcia/network with the following:
18 >> -----------------------------------
19 >> #! /bin/sh
20 >> #
21 >>
22 >> action=$1
23 >> device=$2
24 >>
25 >> case "${action:?}" in
26 >> "start" | "resume" )
27 >> /etc/init.d/net.$2 up
28 >> ;;
29 >> "stop")
30 >> /sbin/ifconfig $2 down
31 >> ;;
32 >> esac
33 >> -----------------------------------
34 >
35 >
36 >
37 > Say... That's pretty good. Until I can get the powers that be to
38 > provide --quiet init scripts, I think I will use that.
39
40 Well, it wasn't really necessary to do the up and down stuff. I just
41 directly call /etc/init.d/net.eth? start. I thought I tried that and it
42 failed, but I must have had a typo somewhere. I am providing this new
43 /etc/pcmcia/network in pcmcia-cs-3.1.33-r2
44
45
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