Re: Trivial hack for pccardd(8)

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 21:18 -0800, richard childers wrote:
> 
> [ ... ] it came to my attention that a lot of my services didn't
> boot right because when they came up, the pccardd(8) was still
> initializing the PCMCIA card, and the network was not yet up.
> 
> The pccardd script (rc.pccard?) and the network script
> (rc.network) are only a few lines apart in /etc/rc. The fix was
> to test dmesg output for devices associated with a PCMCIA bus,
> and if any were detected, to assume it was  laptop and sleep a
> few extra seconds while pccardd(8) did its stuff (actually, about
> 30 seconds, although I coul d get by with 15 seconds, maybe).

You might want to have a look at the pccardd(8) manpage, especially
the -z option.  Or ask the mailing lists' archive for how often
Kevin Oberman *strongly* suggested an appropriate pccardd_flags
entry ...


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