PCMCIA Wireless Best Practice
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I have a couple systems that are connected to the internet and also
connected to a private network that is wireless. These systems act as
firewalls and gateways and mailservers. Enough background here is the
problem (maybe).
I think I might be doing something wrong although I can get things
working ok, but any network restart shuts down my wireless network
pcmcia cards on these systems and I have to reboot to bring them back
up. Just default install doesn't work so, I have a specific process to
bring the cards on line:
1. set up the cards with system-config-network and then disable them at
boot
2. move the run order of pcmcia init script (s24) beyond the network
init script (s10)
3. reboot the system
This causes a couple of delays with some of the daemons between s10 and
s24 (like named) but at least it works.
The problem with this working solution is that if I (or any app) does a
service network restart, the pcmcia card no longer responds (although
the light on the card does stay on). I've tried doing the sequence of:
service network stop
service pcmcia stop
service network start
service pcmcia start
to mimic what happens when the system boots. But this does not work and
I would really just like to have service network restart work anyway.
So I was waiting on a rainy day to figure out what is wrong and what
would be the best way to fix it. And I have read through the
documentation of pcmcia-cs and it states that I may need to edit
/etc/pcmcia/network.opts file so that network init works correctly. So
my question is:
what is the best configuration of this wireless card, on a system that
has a NIC as well?
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