Copied from email to chadh: ----------------------------- I'm running kernel 2.4.18 and pcmcia-cs 3.1.33, and I'm *not* using the kernel PCMCIA stuff, I am using the standalone pcmcia-cs drivers. Modules pcmcia_core, i82365, and ds are in my modules.autoload file. The file /etc/pcmcia/network.opts is set for DHCP, as is /etc/conf.d/net. Basically, upon boot, everything's great, and PCMCIA services start and everything works. I can insert my Orinoco wireless card (which works, correct config in /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts) and the modules for the card (orinoco_cs and orinoco) auto-load and dhcpcd gets an IP address and the interface comes up. The problem occurs when I try and eject the card. If I issue a "cardctl eject" to try a "friendly" PCMCIA swap, I get: ioctl(): Device or resource busy In /var/log/messages at the time of issuing the command, I get: May 22 11:58:27 crusoe cardmgr[5807]: executing: './network check eth0' May 22 11:58:27 crusoe cardmgr[5807]: + ./network: /var/run/stab: No such file or directory May 22 11:58:27 crusoe cardmgr[5807]: + usage: ./network [action] [device name] May 22 11:58:27 crusoe cardmgr[5807]: + actions: start check stop suspend resume May 22 11:58:27 crusoe cardmgr[5807]: check cmd exited with status 1 May 22 11:58:27 crusoe cardmgr[5807]: exiting If I manually ifdown the interface, rmmod the modules, and remove the card I can insert the same card or another (say, my 3c575) and pcmcia-cs correctly autoloads the right modules, but it doesn't get an IP address again. I have to run dhcpcd for this to occur. From the above excerpt of the /var/log/messages file, it seems that the /etc/pcmcia/network script can't access the /var/run/stab file. If I insert a card and manually check for this file, it's not there, although the pcmcia start scripts seem to feed the correct argument when loading cardmgr. ------------------------------ chadh requested this in his reply email: ------------------------------ Try to do a /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop before the cardctl eject and see if that works. I believe that since /var/run/stab is not there, the network script is not getting called correctly, which leaves your network up. That is why you have to manually bring it down (cardctl cannot rm the modules b/c dhcpcd is still using them). -------------------------------------- Results of request: -------------------------------------- Same response. Identical entries in /var/log/messages about /var/run/stab not being accessable, and /etc/pcmcia/network check stops with error 1 status.
I resolved this problem by commenting out the line: CARDMGR_OPTS="-f" from /etc/conf.d/pcmcia Don't know if this will introduce any other problems, though...
This is a bug from cardmgr which has already been reported (check https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? func=detail&aid=552720&group_id=2405&atid=102405 ) This has been fixed in the last beta version (however this version gave me a Segmentation Fault).
I'm gonna close out this bug cause it is a known bug when using the "-f" flag with cardmgr and has been fixed in pcmcia-cs 3.1.34 and I released pcmcia-cs- 3.1.34-r8 to Portage which will fix this problem and any other problem associated with it.
