[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#386894: Pcmcia wireless lan broken - /dev/shm/network not created

[lars.doelle at on-line.de]

Package: initscripts
Distribution: unstable

Hi,

perhaps related to the bug #386347, something different happend,
also related to /dev/shm.

- /etc/network/run is a link to /dev/shm/network
- /etc/network/ifstate is a link to run/ifstate

Now the /dev/shm/network directory is not longer
created, making the links dangling ends.

As a result, the pcmcia wireless lan cannot longer be started,
as ifup does not function anymore under this circumstances.

As a workaround, i can create /dev/shm/network manually and
reinsert the card, to trigger the setup mechanism. But this only
works until the next reboot.

I'm not able to track down the issue further. Not even sure how
the missing /dev/shm/network/ifstate file finally gets created
automagically. The whole mechanism appears to be very obscure,
as a result i cannot even locate the right package safely.

Potentially other packages like udev, ifupdown, pcmciautils, wireless-tools
might also be candidates of the bug report, but i concluded that initscripts
might be the most suiting address.

-lars