On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 02:48, Richard Tango-Lowy wrote:
> Frederic,
>
> Thanks for the debug work. I commented out the lines you suggested and
> it fixed the DHCP problem I've been having since beta1.
Hi Rich
Glad it solved your pbm ;)
Although it's not a proper fix and I'm sure this portion of code works
for some people.
Hopefully one of the many talented developers at MandrakeSoft will pick
it up and solve it properly ;)
> check_link_down() in network-functions is
>
> check_link_down ()
> {
> if [ -x /sbin/mii-tool ]; then
> LC_ALL=C ip link show $1 2>/dev/null| grep -q UP || ip link set
> $1 up >/dev/null 2>&1
>
> # wait for link to come up
> sleep 5
> mii-tool >/dev/null 2>&1 || return 1
>
> for (( try=0; try<10; try++ ))
> do
> sleep 1
> if LC_ALL=C mii-tool $LINK $1 2>&1 | grep -vqs "no link";
> then
> return 1
> fi
> done
> fi
> return 0
> }
>
> For some reason, (to state the obvious,) it's always failing.
>
> Rich
>
> On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 06:53, Frederic Soulier wrote:
> Hi
>
> I installed LM9.0 yesterday on a box with 1 NIC (eth0). I selected
> Dynamic IP Address at boot. At the 1st reboot after install eth0 would
> not come up:
>
> msg displayed:
> Determining IP information for eth0... failed; no link present. Check
> cable?
>
> That surprised me as it has always been working with previous version
> and it actually worked fine 2h before on 8.2. I checked the cable by
> plugging it to my laptop, no pbm.
>
> After investigation I found out that the following code in /sbin/ifup
> that calls the check_link_down in
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions is the culprit...
>
> I commented it out and it's all ok now.
>
> if [ -n "$DYNCONFIG" ]; then
> echo -n $"Determining IP information for ${DEVICE}..."
>
> # !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> # FRED: Check with MandrakeSoft was's wrong! Very Important
> # !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> # if check_link_down ${DEVICE}; then
> # echo $" failed; no link present. Check cable?"
> # ip link set ${DEVICE} down >/dev/null 2>&1
> # exit 1
> # fi
>
> if $DHCP_CLIENT $DHCP_ARGS ; then
> echo $" done."
> else
> echo $" failed."
> exit 1
> fi
>
>
> So what's wrong?
>
> /Fred
>
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