Re: Strange PCMCIA/Ethernet <-> pppd interactions

[Federico Di Gregorio <fog@debian.org>]

On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 03:59:29PM -0400, Brian Mays wrote:
> > Running:
> >
> >       ifconfig eth0 down
> >
> > solves the problem, but finding a transparent solution would be nicer.
> 
> Is the network connection busy when you are ejecting your PCMCIA network
> card?  Do you have any NFS mounted filesystems?  Have you tried shutting
> down your Ethernet card by running
> 
>         cardctl eject
> 
> as root before physically ejecting your card?

I *don't* eject the card... I don't want to do that. If I eject the
card all goes fine.

Ciao,
Federico

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