On 11/28/05, Brian Henning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greeting, > > I am trying to get my USB2 external 200 gig ext2fs formated hard drive > to mount in Gentoo. > > I have tried emerging coldplug and rebooting and i am able to > successfully mount the drive as /dev/sda1, but the coldplug causes my > network card to not work (can't even ping). > emerge coldplug > rc-update add coldplug default
Well, the one 'dangerous' thing that the coldplug rc script does is to extract /lib/firmware.tar.bz2 if it exists. If the tarball exists on your system (it should not), this could potentially overwrite some firmware file required for your network adapter. Other than that, some dmesg output would be helpful. Also, if the driver for your network card is configured as a module, try reloading it and see what you get from dmesg. > Could someone give me some advice on a different approach to mounting > this device or give me a suggestion to fix my networking issue? FYI, coldplug is probably not necessary. It's main use is to run the /etc/hotplug/*.rc scripts at bootup for hot-pluggable devices connected before the hotplug agent is setup correctly. If you connect or power on the USB drive after the system is booted, coldplug has no effect. Please > email me directly as, I do not receive emails from the list. I have cc'd you and the list. Please only reply to the list. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
