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jjc53
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 Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 3:44 am Post subject: can someone tell me how to create a script? |
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My ethernet card is really finicky. The only way I can get it to work is to force the link speed to half duplex using
| Code: | mii-tool etho -F 10BaseT-HD
/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart |
However, once I reboot, that setting is lost, and then I had to wait for the bringing eth0 up to timeout at boot. Right now, my fix is I removed the net.eth0 from the runlevels, and manually type the code (only as root) above when i need network access.
Is there anyway I can create a script with these two commands that I can insert in the runlevels at boot time? I hope this isn't a stupid question, but I am new to unix. I just finished compiling gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.5 kernel. If there is a way, can you explain how to do it.
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teknomage1
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| Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 4:06 am Post subject: |
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Save this snippet as /etc/init.d/eth0tweak
| Code: | #!/sbin/runscript
depend() {
provide eth0tweak
}
start() {
mii-tool etho -F 10BaseT-HD
}
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Don't forget to do 'chmod + x /etc/init.d/eth0tweak' and edit the depend portion of /etc/init.d/net.eth0 to look like this
| Code: | depend() {
need eth0tweak
use hotplug pcmcia
} |
and execute 'rc-update add eth0tweak default' and it should work. What this is doing is telling the init system to run the mii-tool command before it's allowed to bring up eth0. |
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pjp
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| Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 4:42 am Post subject: |
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Moved from Installing Gentoo.
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jjc53
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| Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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thank you for this code. what is the purpose of the hotplug pcmcia line? i do not think i have pcmcia support becuase i have no pcmcia cards. will that effect any of the code?
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ynef
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| Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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| jjc53 wrote: | thank you for this code. what is the purpose of the hotplug pcmcia line? i do not think i have pcmcia support becuase i have no pcmcia cards. will that effect any of the code?
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What he means is that you should add the line that says "need eth0tweak" to the depend() portion of net.eth0
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jjc53
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| Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, I see now. I thought that he was talking about the same depend function. So that hotplug pcmcia is already in the net.eth0 depend function.
Thanks a lot both of you...that's a big help
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jjc53
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| Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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I tried what you said and it worked. Thanks again.
However when I ran rc-update it said:
| Code: | | Cannot add provide 'eth0tweak', as a service with the same name exis |
It doesn't seem to affect anything, but do you know what that means? |
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