Subject: Re: pcmcia cards vs. power management
To: Johan Danielsson <joda@pdc.kth.se>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/17/2003 11:19:38
In message <xofk7eyx95r.fsf@blubb.pdc.kth.se>, Johan Danielsson writes:
>Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com> writes:
>
>> It would, I think, be good if all attached pcmcia cards were
>> detached at suspend time, and at resume time if all inserted cards
>> were reattached.
>
>This makes you lose all state in the card (like addresses, WEP keys).
>

Yes, but that's easily solved by what I'm doing anyway:  restarting 
dhclient in /etc/apm/resume.  (I have to do that, because often enough 
when I resume I'm in a different location.)


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