hotplug network agent / apmd bug...

The apm-script included in apmd-3.0final does the following on resume:

cardctl resume/insert
service networking start

Unfortunately, if one of your pcmcia cards is a PCI-merged networking card such as the 3c575_cb, hotplug does the following upon seeing the card resumed...

if networking is started, configure the new interface

Thus, because apmd reenables pcmcia before networking, a pcmcia network adapter won't be configured by hotplug.

One easy sollution, is that if the pcmcia network adapter is always in the system, you can enable ONBOOT for the interface, and thus the networking script will enable it for you. In my case (frequently switching between LAN and WAN cards), that isn't an option.

Anyhow, if one of the two projects could fix this it would be much appreciated. I'd submit a patch, but I'm not sure which project should be patched.

Thanks, Ryan Mack

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Hmm, I've not hacked apmd stuff in ages, but as I recall it didn't ship with any configuration-specific support in its scripts -- stuff like "cardctl" and "service" commands. Are you positive those aren't distro bugs?

In general it'd make more sense to start networking first, I suspect..

- Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Mack" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 10:15 PM
Subject: [BUG] hotplug network agent / apmd bug...

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The apm-script included in apmd-3.0final does the following on resume:

cardctl resume/insert
service networking start

Unfortunately, if one of your pcmcia cards is a PCI-merged networking card such as the 3c575_cb, hotplug does the following upon seeing the card resumed...

if networking is started, configure the new interface

Thus, because apmd reenables pcmcia before networking, a pcmcia network adapter won't be configured by hotplug.

One easy sollution, is that if the pcmcia network adapter is always in the system, you can enable ONBOOT for the interface, and thus the networking script will enable it for you. In my case (frequently switching between LAN and WAN cards), that isn't an option.

Anyhow, if one of the two projects could fix this it would be much appreciated. I'd submit a patch, but I'm not sure which project should be patched.

Thanks, Ryan Mack

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