Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 08-05-2008 Deployment Manual page 538

26.3.2 General Suspend Issues with PCMCIA
Whenever suspending your system (suspend to disk, suspend to RAM, or standby), do
not plug or unplug any hardware items while the system is in suspend mode. Otherwise,
the system might not resume properly.
To automatically eject PCMCIA cards on suspend, proceed as follows:
1 Log in as root.
2 Open the file /etc/powersave/sleep.
3 Set the following variables:
4 Save the file to apply your settings.
If additional modules need to be ejected on suspend, proceed as above and add the
module names to the following variables:
UNLOAD_MODULES_BEFORE_SUSPEND2DISK=""
UNLOAD_MODULES_BEFORE_SUSPEND2RAM=""
UNLOAD_MODULES_BEFORE_STANDBY=""
For general information about the powersave daemon, refer to
powersave Package"
26.3.3 For More Information
Find the latest up-to-date information about PCMCIA in /usr/share/doc/
packages/pcmciautils/README.SuSE. For a comprehensive overview of
PCMCIA hardware and its fields of use, turn to the official PCMCIA Web site
(http://www.pcmcia.org/pccard.htm). To check whether a certain card or
device is generally supported by Linux, refer to the Linux PCMCIA/CF/CardBus Card
Survey at http://tuxmobil.org/pcmcia_linux.html.
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SUSPEND2DISK_EJECT_PCMCIA="yes"
SUSPEND2RAM_EJECT_PCMCIA="yes"
STANDBY_EJECT_PCMCIA="yes"
(page 549).
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