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I have a couple systems that are connected to the internet and also connected to a private network that is wireless. These systems act as firewalls and gateways and mailservers. Enough background here is the problem (maybe).
I think I might be doing something wrong although I can get things working ok, but any network restart shuts down my wireless network pcmcia cards on these systems and I have to reboot to bring them back up. Just default install doesn't work so, I have a specific process to bring the cards on line:
1. set up the cards with system-config-network and then disable them at boot 2. move the run order of pcmcia init script (s24) beyond the network init script (s10) 3. reboot the system
This causes a couple of delays with some of the daemons between s10 and s24 (like named) but at least it works.
The problem with this working solution is that if I (or any app) does a service network restart, the pcmcia card no longer responds (although the light on the card does stay on). I've tried doing the sequence of:
service network stop service pcmcia stop service network start service pcmcia start
to mimic what happens when the system boots. But this does not work and I would really just like to have service network restart work anyway.
So I was waiting on a rainy day to figure out what is wrong and what would be the best way to fix it. And I have read through the documentation of pcmcia-cs and it states that I may need to edit /etc/pcmcia/network.opts file so that network init works correctly. So my question is:
what is the best configuration of this wireless card, on a system that has a NIC as well?
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