Is the driver being loaded before the card is coming up?
On Sat, 7 May 2005 11:28:19 -0700
Chuck Hast <wchast@gmail.com> wrote:
> Folks,
> I have asked about this before, and have poked and poked at it, what is
> at issue is that the eth0 port is not getting set up, the machine is a toshiba
> laptop, I think that the eth0 parameters are being sent to it either too soon
> (it is a pcmcia nic card) or it is getting partially setup but again possibly
> too soon.
>
> My fix has been to log in and root after the machine has finished booting
> do a ifdown eth0 and then do a ifup eth0.
>
> If I just fo a ifup eth0 it tells me that the device is already configured.
>
> When I watch the startup screen go by I see it attempt to configure eth0
> it fails and defers it then it does so again, it detects the card speed (10
> mb) but does not appear to load in the ip, mask, gw etc.
>
> I am trying to figure out where to go in and try make it do that a bit later.
> I can see possible places in the rc.d files, but even though I poke at the
> run sequences I still can not get the thing to load in the proper configur-
> ation beyond the fact that the card is there, but just needs to be pulled
> down and then up.
>
> --
> Chuck Hast
> To paraphrase my flight instructor;
> "the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
> out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
> and twisted metal."
>
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