[wellylug] pcmcia network cards

[Cliff Pratt]

Matt wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 07:45, Bill Christiansen wrote:
> 
>>My dongle was getting a bit worn on my Xircom card so I picked up a
>>DSE XH7912 card off Trademe for $12.50 to try (actually I notice the
>>new ones are currently on clearance for only $23). Anyway it works
>>great, uses the realtek 8139cp 8139too drivers from the kernel and
>>activates earlier on boot than my Xircom card did, so it passes the
>>"syncronising clock to ntp server" line instead of giving a temporary
>>dns failure like my Xircom card does. If anyone would like a Xircom
>>IIps card with a slightly worn dongle let me know.
> 
> 
> Don't you control what services come up and when through your init
 > scripts?
> Hardware shouldn't have any control over this.
>
I'd say that 99% of people just use the init scripts as 
installed and work around the odd peculiarity of them.

Cheers,

Cliff