Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 08-05-2008 Deployment Manual page 532

26.1 Controlling PCMCIA Cards Using
Card management is normally handled by udev and hotplug without requiring any user
interaction at all. The command pccardctl offers manual control of the card in case
the automated process does not work flawlessly.
The following is a list of the most important pccardctl commands. All commands
must be executed as root:
pccardctl insert
If the card has not been detected automatically, notify the client drivers that the
card has just been inserted.
pccardctl eject
Eject the card manually and notify the client drivers that it will be ejected. Cut
power to the socket. This option is especially useful if you noticed problems with
suspend and resume as described in
PCMCIA"
pccardctl suspend
Shut down and disable power for a socket, but do not eject the card (unbind the
appropriate modules).
pccardctl resume
Bring up power for the socket and restore the configuration from before the
suspend event.
For further information, refer to the manual page of pccardctl.
26.2 PCMCIA in Detail
The following sections outlines what happens in your Linux system when a PCMCIA
device is plugged into your machine. Components interact with each other and many
requirements need to be met to support a PCMCIA device.
The following is a very rough outline of the PCMCIA initialization process in Linux:
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pccardctl
(page 522).
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