Re: pccardd in 5.3

"Kevin Oberman" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 13:32:28 +0300
> From: Alex Povolotsky <[email protected]>
> Sender: [email protected]
> 
> On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 11:38:30 -0500
> John Baldwin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Is your network card already working?  (That is, does it probe and attach when 
> > you plug it in?)  If so, you don't need to use pccardd.  FreeBSD 5.x uses a 
> > completely different driver for all of the pccard stuff that supports most 
> > laptops.  Only some older non-cardbus laptops need the OLDCARD stuff that 
> > uses pccardd IIRC.
> 
> Okay, thanks; but how can I automatically run ifconfig when I attach a card?

This is now handled by devd. See /etc/devd.conf for the attach and
detach. Basically, it calls pccard_ether to startx the device and that
does most of the work. Added, custom setup comes from start_if.int, just
as is done in V4.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: [email protected]			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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