[LUG] PCMCIA config

[Julian Hall <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

With the Cardbus requiring special attention during boot, I've been
looking at ways to issue the three commands I need for two purposes:

a) to make the settings survive a reboot.
b) to initialise the settings during the PCMCIA setup so that the card
is active before the system goes looking for any remote shares, Samba
for instance.

Thanks to Alex I have the first part nailed.  Adding the three lines to
/etc/rc.d/rc.local makes the card kick in during the login process.
That is a MAJOR step so I'm happy with that.  The downside is that way
before that, the system has failed to load all the remote Samba shares.
The way I see it (and I'm sure you'll correct me if I am wrong :) ) is 
this, either:

a) tell the system not to look for shares on boot and just mount them
"on demand" - does that mean the "noauto" option?
b) add a file called (for example) cardbus.opts into /etc/pcmcia and get
the system to execute it during PCMCIA setup.  If I go down that route, 
how would I tell the system to execute the instructions in cardbus.opts 
at the relevant time?

Advice on either would be great :)

Kind regards,

Julian


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