Here is my dmesg without coldplug running. I have also posted the results of my lsmod. One other thing to note, I am not able to load these modules.
modprobe usb-uhci modprobe usb-ohci modprobe scsi_mod modprobe sd_mod Module Size Used by usb_storage 32768 0 snd_seq_midi 6560 0 snd_opl3_synth 13188 0 snd_seq_instr 6912 1 snd_opl3_synth snd_seq_midi_emul 6528 1 snd_opl3_synth snd_ainstr_fm 2176 1 snd_opl3_synth snd_pcm_oss 47008 0 snd_mixer_oss 16384 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_seq_dummy 2948 0 snd_seq_oss 31104 0 snd_seq_midi_event 5760 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_oss snd_seq 45584 9 snd_seq_midi,snd_opl3_synth,snd_seq_instr,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_es1938 17956 0 snd_pcm 75528 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_es1938 snd_page_alloc 7556 1 snd_pcm snd_opl3_lib 8832 2 snd_opl3_synth,snd_es1938 snd_timer 19844 3 snd_seq,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib snd_hwdep 7072 1 snd_opl3_lib gameport 3712 1 snd_es1938 snd_mpu401_uart 5888 1 snd_es1938 snd_rawmidi 19360 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 7052 7 snd_seq_midi,snd_opl3_synth,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi snd 46212 15 snd_opl3_synth,snd_seq_instr,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_es1938,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device usbcore 99192 2 usb_storage eepro100 26384 0 mii 3968 1 eepro100 Linux version 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.5-r1, ssp-3.3.2-3, pie-8.7.7.1)) #1 Sat Oct 1 17:38:42 CDT 2005 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000017ff0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000017ff0000 - 0000000017ff8000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 0000000017ff8000 - 0000000018000000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 383MB LOWMEM available. On node 0 totalpages: 98288 DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 Normal zone: 94192 pages, LIFO batch:16 HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 DMI 2.3 present. ACPI: RSDP (v000 AMI ) @ 0x000fabb0 ACPI: RSDT (v001 AMIINT 0x00000010 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x17ff0000 ACPI: FADT (v001 AMIINT 0x00000010 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x17ff0030 ACPI: DSDT (v001 AMD75X IRONGATE 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x00000000 Allocating PCI resources starting at 18000000 (gap: 18000000:e7ff0000) Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/hda3 Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic" mapped APIC to ffffd000 (01302000) Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes) Detected 707.400 MHz processor. Using tsc for high-res timesource Speakup v-2.00 CVS: Wed Mar 2 20:22:02 EST 2005 : initialized Speakup: loading module "speakup_n" request_module: runaway loop modprobe speakup_n Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Memory: 383132k/393152k available (2841k kernel code, 9388k reserved, 1022k data, 192k init, 0k highmem) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay loop... 1384.44 BogoMIPS (lpj=692224) Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Couldn't initialize miscdevice /dev/synth. CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: After all inits, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000020 00000000 00000000 00000000 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: AMD Duron(tm) Processor stepping 01 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. ACPI: setting ELCR to 0008 (from 0e20) checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd Freeing initrd memory: 1581k freed NET: Registered protocol family 16 PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb71, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050211 ACPI-1138: *** Error: Method execution failed [\MCTH] (Node d7fee480), AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT ACPI-1138: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0._INI] (Node d7feed40), AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: Power Resource [URP1] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [URP2] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [FDDP] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [LPTP] (off) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay pnp: PnP ACPI init pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices SCSI subsystem initialized PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing ** PCI interrupts are no longer routed automatically. If this ** causes a device to stop working, it is probably because the ** driver failed to call pci_enable_device(). As a temporary ** workaround, the "pci=routeirq" argument restores the old ** behavior. If this argument makes the device work again, ** please email the output of "lspci" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** so I can fix the driver. Machine check exception polling timer started. apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac) apm: overridden by ACPI. inotify device minor=63 devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) devfs: boot_options: 0x0 Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED]). SGI XFS with large block numbers, no debug enabled Initializing Cryptographic API Real Time Clock Driver v1.12 Non-volatile memory driver v1.2 vesafb: NVidia Corporation, NV11 Board, Chip Rev B2 (OEM: NVidia) vesafb: VBE version: 3.0 vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:c4a0 vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00cc4e5, set palette = c00cc56a vesafb: pmi: ports = b4c3 b503 ba03 c003 c103 c403 c503 c603 c703 c803 c903 cc03 ce03 cf03 d003 d103 d203 d303 d403 d503 da03 ff03 vesafb: hardware supports DCC2 transfers vesafb: monitor limits: vf = 160 Hz, hf = 92 kHz, clk = 190 MHz vesafb: scrolling: redraw Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30 vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd8000000, mapped to 0xd8880000, using 600k, total 32768k fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI: Sleep Button (FF) [SLPF] ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (30 C) serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 input: ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1 io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize loop: loaded (max 8 devices) Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx AMD7409: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1 AMD7409: chipset revision 7 AMD7409: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later AMD7409: 0000:00:07.1 (rev 07) UDMA66 controller ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: MAXTOR 6L020J1, ATA DISK drive hdb: WDC WD800JB-00JJA0, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... hdc: LITE-ON LTR-16102B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Probing IDE interface ide2... Probing IDE interface ide3... Probing IDE interface ide4... Probing IDE interface ide5... hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 40132503 sectors (20547 MB) w/1819KiB Cache, CHS=39813/16/63, UDMA(66) hda: cache flushes supported /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 hdb: max request size: 128KiB hdb: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(66) hdb: cache flushes supported /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 st: Version 20041025, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256 NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384) NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 powernow-k8: Processor cpuid 631 not supported ACPI wakeup devices: PCI0 UAR1 USB ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5) RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed Unmounting old root Trying to free ramdisk memory ... okay Freeing unused kernel memory: 192k freed Adding 249976k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11 PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:09.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:04:AC:25:4A:78, IRQ 11. Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around. Board assembly 698523-001, Physical connectors present: RJ45 Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1. General self-test: passed. Serial sub-system self-test: passed. Internal registers self-test: passed. ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x24c9f043). Receiver lock-up workaround activated. usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 10 PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0c.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 On 11/29/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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