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From: Joe LaVigne 
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: PCMCIA Card Services
Date: 1 Mar 2007 04:28:02 GMT
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On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:19:58 +0000, SINNER wrote:

> * Joe LaVigne wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:
>> Is there a card manager in Ubuntu, or available for it?
> 
>> My problem:  I don't always have the wireless card installed when I boot
>> the machine.  I'd like to be able to pop it in and start the card without
>> a reboot.
> 
>> Any ideas?
> 
> pcmcia-cs ?
> 
> Description: PCMCIA Card Services for Linux
>  This package provides the PCMCIA card manager daemon that can respond
>  to card insertion and removal events, loading and unloading drivers
>  on demand. PCMCIA cards are commonly used in laptops to provide
>  expanded capabilities such as network connections, modems, increased
>  memory, etc.
>  .
>  To use PCMCIA you need to have kernel modules available to support
>  it. These are included in the stock Debian 2.6 kernel
>  packages. However, if you have a 2.4 kernel, you need to have a
>  kernel-pcmcia-modules- package installed as well. There are
>  also pcmcia-modules- packages which include the stand-alone
>  kernel modules supplied by pcmcia-cs, but their use is deprecated.
>  .
>  It is strongly recommended that you have the hotplug package
>  installed in conjuction with pcmcia-cs. hotplug is the standard way
>  to configure PCMCIA network interfaces, and is required to be able to
>  use Cardbus (32-bit) cards. Furthermore, the wireless-tools package
>  is required by many wireless network adapters.
>

PCMCIA-CS is no longer in use on Edgy.  I did find pccardctrl, which was
able to power the card on, but I couldn't get it to actually work until I
rebooted.

I ran 'pccardctrl insert', which brought up the lights, and it still
wasn't in the Gnome Network Manager.  So, I did a '/etc/init.d/dbus
restart', which restarted all the network services (after about 10 minutes
of waiting for everything to come back).  But still, no wireless
available.  Rebooted and it was there.

Not a huge deal, just mildly annoying...
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