couple of problems fixed

i managed to fix a couple of problems recently, and i figured i should record how i did it since i know this wasn't the first time i had to figure either of them out. my cisco 678 had been so reliable that i hadn't needed to log into it for years. i only needed to do it now to get the settings to put on the new modem, but it had been so long i forgot how to get minicom to connect. i finally figured out that i need to turn off both hardware and software flow control. i don't think any of the other settings is as critical, and defaultish settings (8n1) should work. another problem that i had once again was with getting my laptop to start the wireless interface when i plug in the card. i fixed the broken ld dependencies in pccardctl and pcmcia-socket-startup, but it still responded with 'eth0: no such interface'. i randomly tried running pcmcia-socket-startup manually, and that did it. according to the docs, this should run from the the pcmcia_socket.agent hotplug script whenever a new socket is registered with the pcmcia module. so i'm not sure why it didn't work automatically, but at least i can connect.