pcmcia question on gentoo

[Collins Richey]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 08:35:20 -0800 "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> On 11/27/03 08:06, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> >    This will only apply to those who are using wireless pcmcia. I have
> >    gentoo
> > running on my laptop, also 2 pcmcia cards. one is my xircom which runs
> > flawlessly. I have added a dwl-650, bottm of the line. The system
> > reconizeses it just fine, but since I do not have a wireless station to
> > bradcast to to it, I can not check it for operations. Now I have created a
> > net.wlan0 from net.eth0 and rc-updated init. & set the iface_wlan0=:dhcp". I
> > may not, most like not, have this setup properly. If someone has done this
> > for gentoo or knows where some really good docs are, can not really find
> > what it takes there, I would appreciate it.
> > 

I believe your setup is correct.  You can search the gentoo-user archives at
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user, since this has had some discussion
in the past.

> >    Also my floppy drive does not seem to want to work, it appears that
> >    devfsd has
> > failed to reconize it or set it up. The system sees the drive ok. I can go
> > back to cd install and it works fine there.  

check /etc/devfsd.conf?

On the new install of gentoo,
> > have they setup the system to read /boot and at system login removed it from
> > mounted status?
> 
> I can't really answer any of the other questions (my use of gentoo was 
> about 4 days worth, several months ago), but i do know that not mounting 
> /boot is a normal thing, and isn't anything to be concerned about.
> 

Exactly.  Gentoo does not mount /boot at boot time.  If you prefer to have it
mounted, remove 'noauto' from the /etc/fstab entry.

Personally, I never create a separate /boot partition.  YMMV.

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Collins Richey - Denver Area
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