[FC2] PCMCIA network cards starting on boot

[William Hooper]

Scot L. Harris said:
> On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 15:11, William Hooper wrote:
>> Scot L. Harris said:
>>
>>> Sounds like this has been a problem for awhile now.  So far there are
>>>  workarounds for this but not a solution IMHO.
>>
>> Setting "ONBOOT=no" isn't a workaround, it is the correct
>> configuration.
>>
>> -- William Hooper
>
> I call that a workaround.  It is counter intuitive to set something NOT to
> run on boot and yet have it run on boot.
[snip]

The network subsystem isn't responsible for starting PCMCIA network cards, otherwise hot plugging cards wouldn't work.  It may be counter-intuitive, but it is not a bug.  Feel free to file it in bugzilla, but I see a number of them complaining about it marked "NOTABUG".

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William Hooper