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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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