If you add a script into /etc/init.d/ and symlink accordingly into
/etc/rc2.d, then automating cardmgr is a doddle. The only reason I can
see why you might not want to run cardmgr from familiar is because it
means that you must have flash mounted, and since jffs2 stores the
filesystem tables in ram, it eats a fairly large chink of ram.
I've tried out the debian cardmge packages, and they're not up to
scratch for use on the iPAQ really. What would probably be best would be
to convert the pcmcia ipkg into a .deb and add it to the intimate debian
feed. There's a howto on the intimate site for converting packages.
How would you feel about doing this?
Jim / Tangent
Chris Bayley wrote:
>OK, brilliant, thanks James.
>
>Now then : should then I change my installation to run cardmgr each
>start ? should that become part of the std initmate distro ?
>
>The best way to make these changes isn't clear to me just yet...
>
>Thanks,
>Chris
>
>Also for information sake my familar cardmanager was in /boot/sbin/ and
>my fstab had /boot = /dev/mtdblock/2 which had to be changed to /1
>
>On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 23:55, James Conner wrote:
>
>
>>Chris,
>>
>> PCMCIA cards are only detected on initial bootup. For historical
>>reasons, cardmgr is not run inside intimate by default. (There was no
>>dual sleeve around at the time, and loosing your root filesystem is
>>usually pretty fatal)
>>
>>Try the following.
>>
>>mount /boot
>>/boot/usr/sbin/cardmgr -c /boot/etc/pcmcia
>>
>>This will get pcmcia, and hence your network card up and running, and
>>then ifup/down should work.
>>
>>Jim / Tangent
>>
>>
>>
Received on Wed Jun 12 00:54:42 2002
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