Re: Adding and removing a pc card

From: Peter Browry (pbrowry_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/22/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 14:50:40 -0400

On 07/22/04 12:00, Dances With Crows wrote:<br>
> 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,

Thanks for the quick reply. I checked the man pages and it seems to be the
correct answer.

The problem is that I tried to use the command above several times
and each time the computer stucks and I have to reboot it (??)

Any guess why this happens?

Thank you,

-Peter

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