tlug: PCMCIA and DHCPcd

["Manuel M. T. Chakravarty" <chak@example.com>]

Hi!

Does anybody use DHCPcd via an PCMCIA Ethernet card (in a
system with SysV-ish init scripts)?  I have some problems
setting such a configuration up.  The reason for these
problems are a combination of (1) the PCMCIA scripts are not 
DHCP-aware (they only support BOOTP) and (2) network
interfaces are started before PCMCIA's `cardmgr'.

In other words, usually the interface for a PCMCIA Ethernet
card is set up by `cardmgr' (when it detects the card), but
I don't see any possibility to tell it (in
`/etc/pcmcia/network.opts') that it should use DHCP.  On the
other hand, the `standard' network scripts (which can handle
DHCP) are executed before `cardmgr' and so don't find the
device `eth0' when they are executed during boot time.

I guess, the Right Thing is for `cardmgr' to call the dhcpcd 
daemon, because even when the standard scripts would find
`eth0' during booting, I would not get a network connection
when I insert the PCMCIA card after the machine is booted.

Does anybody have any ideas about this?

Thanks,

Manuel

P.S.: I don't like to use DHCP, but we are short of
      IP-addresses...
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