On my freshly (re)built Gentoo 1.2 system on a Dell Inspiron 7000 (Mobile PII 366) I'm seeing all sorts of inconsistencies when swapping NICS on the pcmcia bus. Hotplug and pcmcia are BOTH enabled. (only way I could get it to work, not sure if its the "right way") Inserting the card, USUALLY works, by usually I mean the module for it loads (3c59x in my case) and dhcp gets an address. In some instances I don't get the pcmcia beep and nothing seems to happen, like cardmgr never saw the insertion.. The problem is with removal, After removing in many cases the interface does NOT get shutdown, because of this reinserting this nic or any other will no longer initialize becuase the system says "net.eth0" is already started. I have to manually run /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart to get things behaving again. kernel is 2.4.19-gentoo-r9, pcmcia is 3.2.1 hotplug is the latest non-masked release as of this bugreport. the nics in question are a 3com 3ccf575bt (3c59x driver), and a Lucent Orinoco silver (orinoco_cs driver) Removing of the pc-card nic results in the pcmcia "beep", insertion in many cases is SILENT (some cases work, some don't) I see warnings on the logs regarding /etc/init.d/net.eth0 is already started. the solution as I see it is to alter the behavior of the "restart" funtion in the init scripts, to restart a STARTED device OR start a stopped device. This way I'd just set the net.agent file in hotplug to "RESTART" the device instead of jsut starting. But I guess you guys are thinking of things I'm not(dependancies), so there should be a cleaner solution...
No one asked this person what version of hotplug they were using. Version of hotplug please?
dave, this still an issue?
Closing bug as we've not got any responses. Please reopen this bug if this problem still persists.
