In message <20011121192323.B2512@celos.net>, Mark White writes:
>Is there any way to reset PCMCIA ethernet devices (simulate
>having them removed and replaced) from software?
>
>I have a (very elderly) Toshiba laptop, with a D-Link
>DE-660+ pcmcia ethernet card (ne0).  It's running a (very
>slightly modified) 1.5.2 system.  After it's been in suspend
>mode, the network card needs to be reset before it will work
>again; until that it produces 'device timeout' errors.  It'd
>be convenient to be able to do this from a script...
>
I assume you've tried ifconfig down/up?

Does it work if the card is ifconfig'ed down before the suspend, and 
ifconfig'ed up after resume?  If so, you can write some /etc/apm 
scripts to automate that.

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