Re: Adding and removing a pc card

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_usa.net)
Date: 07/22/04 

Date: 22 Jul 2004 16:00:51 GMT

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 11:00:25 -0400, Peter Browry staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
> I recently bought a [PCMCIA] card for my laptop to provide USB 2.0
> support (it is a D-Link USB 2.0 2-Port Cardbus Adapter ).
>
> If I plug it in and then boot, the card works fine. But if I remove
> it without first turning off the computer, linux stucks and I need to
> reboot my box. I use Mandrake 9.0.

Use the cardctl utility. "cardctl eject" will tell the kernel modules
that a PCMCIA card is about to be ejected, then cut power to the socket
the PCMCIA card's in. I have never needed to use cardctl with PCMCIA
storage devices (CF and SmartMedia PCMCIA adapters) but I've had to use
it with PCMCIA Ethernet cards. HTH, 

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