I previously reported two problems with 2.5.71 and my laptop.
One problem was my synaptics touchpad mouse wasn't operating correctly.
That problem has been fixed. Thanks.
The other problem was getting my pcmcia ethernet card up and operational.
The change in the yenta module for the latest bk version of 72 allows it
to be autoloaded by my RedHat 8.0 system as previously done. However,
there is another problem. Although all the required modules get loaded --
pcmcia core, yenta socket, ds, crc32, tulip -- for some reason the dhcp
client doesn't get brought up to acquire an address for the interface. It
may be a problem with the RedHat scripts since running the dhclient
software manually does its magic. It is a change in behaviour so I am
reporting it here also.
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Russell King wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 06:07:05AM -0600, Thomas Molina wrote:
> > The other problem was getting my pcmcia ethernet card up and operational.
> > The change in the yenta module for the latest bk version of 72 allows it
> > to be autoloaded by my RedHat 8.0 system as previously done. However,
> > there is another problem. Although all the required modules get loaded --
> > pcmcia core, yenta socket, ds, crc32, tulip -- for some reason the dhcp
> > client doesn't get brought up to acquire an address for the interface. It
> > may be a problem with the RedHat scripts since running the dhclient
> > software manually does its magic. It is a change in behaviour so I am
> > reporting it here also.
>
> Can you check whether 2.5.73 fixes it for you? If not, please re-report
> the problem.
The problem persisits in the latest bk pull of 2.5.73. All the modules
get autoloaded, but, for some reason, the dhcp client doesn't get called.
I apologize for not having a better report. I will look into it as I have
time.
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Russell King wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 06:07:05AM -0600, Thomas Molina wrote:
> > > The other problem was getting my pcmcia ethernet card up and operational.
> > > The change in the yenta module for the latest bk version of 72 allows it
> > > to be autoloaded by my RedHat 8.0 system as previously done. However,
> > > there is another problem. Although all the required modules get loaded --
> > > pcmcia core, yenta socket, ds, crc32, tulip -- for some reason the dhcp
> > > client doesn't get brought up to acquire an address for the interface. It
> > > may be a problem with the RedHat scripts since running the dhclient
> > > software manually does its magic. It is a change in behaviour so I am
> > > reporting it here also.
> >
> > Can you check whether 2.5.73 fixes it for you? If not, please re-report
> > the problem.
Here is some additional info. I am including /var/log/messages output
from the 0607 version of the kernel which works, and the 0629 (today)
version of the kernel which doesn't. Note the differences in the output
from /etc/hotplug/net.agent. I will attempt to look into why this is
happening.
First, the working version from June 7:
Jun 29 12:16:02 lap /etc/hotplug/pci.agent: Setup tulip for PCI slot
02:00.0
Jun 29 12:16:02 lap kernel: Linux Tulip driver version 1.1.13 (May 11,
2002)
Jun 29 12:16:02 lap kernel: PCI: Enabling device 02:00.0 (0000 -> 0003)
Jun 29 12:16:02 lap kernel: eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0x1800,
00:E0:98:8E:C0:94, IRQ 9.
Jun 29 12:16:02 lap /etc/hotplug/net.agent: Bad NET invocation: $INTERFACE
is not set
Jun 29 12:16:02 lap /etc/hotplug/net.agent: invoke ifup eth0
Jun 29 12:16:11 lap dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port
67
Jun 29 12:16:11 lap dhclient: DHCPACK from 24.35.32.1
Jun 29 12:16:11 lap dhclient: bound to 24.35.32.166 -- renewal in 494444
seconds.
Now, the non-working version from June 29:
Linux Tulip driver version 1.1.13 (May 11, 2002)
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 -> 0003)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0x1800, 00:E0:98:8E:C0:94, IRQ 9.
Jun 29 12:25:00 lap /etc/hotplug/pci.agent: Setup tulip for PCI slot
0000:02:00.0
Jun 29 12:25:00 lap kernel: Linux Tulip driver version 1.1.13 (May 11,
2002)
Jun 29 12:25:00 lap kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 ->
0003)
Jun 29 12:25:00 lap kernel: eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0x1800,
00:E0:98:8E:C0:94, IRQ 9.
Jun 29 12:25:00 lap /etc/hotplug/net.agent: NET add event not supported