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pioto
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 Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 4:04 am Post subject: pcmciautils, udev, and network cards on boot |
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Hello, helpful forum goers.
I know similar issues have been raised on this forum before, but I haven't found a good solution that doesn't involve "use hotplug instead of udev". Basically, I am using pcmciautils and udev, and I want to let udev properly start my network cards on boot when they're plugged in.
I have yenta_socket in my /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, so udev will see and does properly load my modules for my network cards (they show up in lsmod, and I see some output in dmesg). However, the card doesn't actually get started properly until I eject and re-insert it. From then on, everything works wonderfully. Am I missing something obvious here? Is the udev support still inadequate? For the moment, I'm trying a hack that'll just do pccardctl eject;pccardctl insert at the end of my boot runlevel, but that doesn't seem very reasonable.
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GoofballJM1
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| Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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I have never heard that before. From what I understand, udev depends on coldplug & hotplug. emerge coldplug, hotplug, and pcmciautils and add them to your boot level using rc-update.
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pioto
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| GoofballJM1 wrote: | | From what I understand, udev depends on coldplug & hotplug. |
Not so, udev depends only on hotplug-base, which just provides a stub /sbin/hotplug which could be used to execute any legacy hotplug scripts installed by programs. Normally, on a pure-udev system, it is never used. Coldplug isn't necessary, you can just add the basic modules to your /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 file, which I believe I was recommended to do by some documentation or another.
Additionally, pcmciautils has a 'udev' USE flag which causes it to NOT use hotplug at all, but just use a pure-udev system. |
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GoofballJM1
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| Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 4:05 am Post subject: |
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| pioto wrote: | | GoofballJM1 wrote: | | From what I understand, udev depends on coldplug & hotplug. |
Not so, udev depends only on hotplug-base, which just provides a stub /sbin/hotplug which could be used to execute any legacy hotplug scripts installed by programs. Normally, on a pure-udev system, it is never used. Coldplug isn't necessary, you can just add the basic modules to your /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 file, which I believe I was recommended to do by some documentation or another.
Additionally, pcmciautils has a 'udev' USE flag which causes it to NOT use hotplug at all, but just use a pure-udev system. |
You're right about the hotplug base, I forgot about that. I like using coldplug just so I don't have to manually enter in my modules into /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. It was too much of a hassle for me.
I have gentoo running on a fairly old laptop(P2 333), and when coldplug runs, it occasionally locks up when scanning for PCI devices. I switched out network cards and it never came up again.
As for your problem with your PCMCIA card, I had a similar problem at a previous job a couple of years ago. It was with an orinoco pcmcia wireless card and a certain model of Dell computer, loaded with 98SE. The only way the problem went away was switching to a different card. It happened to about 6 machines of the same make and model with the same card. It very well could be some weird compaitibility issue.
Conclusion, try a different network card and see how that works.
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pioto
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| GoofballJM1 wrote: | As for your problem with your PCMCIA card, I had a similar problem at a previous job a couple of years ago. It was with an orinoco pcmcia wireless card and a certain model of Dell computer, loaded with 98SE. The only way the problem went away was switching to a different card. It happened to about 6 machines of the same make and model with the same card. It very well could be some weird compaitibility issue.
Conclusion, try a different network card and see how that works. |
This is the case with 2 different network cards, an Orinoco-based 802.11b card, and a NE2000-compatable ethernet / modem combo card. The thing is, simply removing and then re-inserting the cards makes them work fine once booting is over. I just want to get it to work properly with the cards in from the get-go.
This isn't a hotplug-related thing, or the cards wouldn't work when they're re-inserted later. |
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