On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 06:42:57PM +0100, Ronald Klop
wrote:> Hello,
>
> I'm running 6.0-STABLE and see that the option removable_interfaces is
not
> used in any config script.
>
> /etc# grep -r removable_interfaces *
> defaults/rc.conf:removable_interfaces="" # Removable
network
> interfaces for /etc/pccard_ether.
>
> What is is the use of it now?
None. I failed to remove it from /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
> I can't find any use of pccard_ifconfig also. But there is no reference
of
> the removal of these settings in UPDATING.
pccard_ifconfig is now also gone. ifconfig_DEFAULT can be used int it's
place if you really need that functionality. It is preferred to set
ifconfig_<ifn> instead in most cases.
> Where can I find the latest docs for the best way to config a pccard
> network card?
In general, you should treat it just like any other interface. For
wireless cards, the following article is a good summary of new features.
http://www.freebsdmall.com/~loader/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/wireless/article.html
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