On Wed, 05 May 2010 23:04:50 +0200 Sam Geeraerts <[email protected]> wrote:
> Federico Bruni schreef: > > Hi all, > > > > I have the following problem: > > > > when I start the system network interfaces are all down (except for > > lo). I'm not using any network manager. > > > > I used rcconf to disable /etc/init.d/networking, in order to avoid > > waste of time at startup (because interfaces are down so DHCP makes > > several tries in vain). > > I had a quick look at this. The wifi chip is switched on by > /etc/init.d/yeeloong-base. The boot sequence starts with runlevel S > (including networking), followed by runlevel 2 (including > yeeloong-base). So it tries to bring up the network while it is still > unavailable. Then we should probably change the network script to depend on the yeeloong init script, and remove the yeeloong scripts dependency on $remote_fs. > This is my unconfirmed suspicion. If this is true then you should be > able to get it working by linking /etc/init.d/yeeloong-base in > /etc/rcS.d/ before networking. Which makes me wonder why its not linked in earlier in rcS. its in at 20 for all other runlevels (networking is at 26). > > Two weird things: > > * if /etc/init.d/networking is enabled at startup the above > > procedure does not work, so I can't get wireless connection working > > See suggestion above. > > > * if /etc/init.d/networking is disabled I get an error message at > > startup: "Starting NFS common utilities: statd failed!" > > Sounds like the NFS init script could use some more checks. Because > NFS is only useful with a network connection this is also nothing to > worry about. nfs depends on networking via portmap (according to its init block). kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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