Bug 47529

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Description of problem:
With PCI/ISA network cards, you can control if you want the device
activated (via ifup) at boot time.  This was also true with PCMCIA cards
with all Red Hat versions through 7.0.

Now with 7.1, PCMCIA cards are always "ifup'd" at boot time.  This lack of
control, feature removal, and behavior change is annoying on many levels.  

Real world example:
My laptop gets plugged into many different networks.   Those networks may
or may not being using DHCP, those networks are often using the "same"
private RFC1918 address space.  I don't want my ethernet card coming up
automatically and potentially causing the network grief.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Turn on laptop that has PCMCIA ethernet
2.  The card will be "ifup'd" during the boot up process
	

Additional info:

Previously PCI, ISA, and PCMCIA ethernet devices all respected the value
"ONBOOT" in a /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX file.  This was a
good thing.   

Now PCMCIA ethernet devices ignore "ONBOOT".

The logical thing to do would be to restore PCMCIA's respect for that
option, because as much as possible ethernet devices should be configured 
and treated the same regardless of how they are attached. 

One other related question remains, and that is what should happen when you
insert the card after the system has booted?  

For the ultimate in control, you could seperate and configure "boot time"
and 
"after boot  you insert card" each independently.  I would argue against
this.
I think both cases should be treated the same.