[RndTbl] *BSD and PCMCIA networking
Glen Ditchfield
gjditchfield at acm.org
Thu Dec 12 13:28:54 CST 2002
Just for the heck of it, I installed NetBSD 1.6 on an old laptop.
(12MB RAM - not even enough to run Red Hat 6.2's installer!)
I've configured it to network through a PCMCIA ethernet card, using
DHCP, and it seems to work fine after booting.
But then, if I eject the card and reinsert it, the network breaks.
Ping gives the message "sendto: no route to host". I can fix this by
manually restarting the DHCP client.
I'd like this done automatically. I've looked around, but I don't
see any way to configure what happens during card ejection and insertion
events. Am I missing something?
Do the other BSD variants handle PCMCIA differently?
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