[Ndiswrapper-general] solution when pcmcia card fails to auto "power on" on boot

[Henrik H. K. <hen...@ho...>]

Hi !

When i boot Mandrake 9.2 on my notebook the pcmcia slot (with WPC54G card) 
fails to get powered on automatically. The solution (which I hope might help 
others) is to insert the following code in /etc/modules.conf instead of the 
code the README says:

alias eth1 ndiswrapper
pre-install ndiswrapper cardctl insert && sleep 3
post-install ndiswrapper /usr/local/bin/loaddriver 14e4 4320  
/usr/local/share/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5.sys 
/usr/local/share/ndiswrapper/lsbcmnds.inf && ifup eth1

The "cardctl insert" forces cardmgr to power on the pcmcia slot. The card 
needs a couple of secs. to get configured so we make it sleep for 3 secs. && 
ifup eth1 has been appended to the last command to bring the interface up.

These small changes makes the ndiswrapper work perfectly on my system. 
Before I made this change I had physically to unplug and insert the card 
after the system was booted and loading ndiswrapper manualy.

/Henrik

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