I'm picking this thread up in progress, don't think I saw the original post. However I gather that the problem is with using a wireless PCMCIA card for the outside interface.
First problem... The order in modules.conf won't change anything. What gets loaded there are the modules for your regular NIC and the card services for your pcmcia adapter. The wireless card is irrelevant to this file. So the NIC gets eth0 because it's the only one seen so far. Later in the boot, the card services detects your wireless card and configures it. It gets eth1 as I gather you are seeing. In spite of changes to the rest of the LEAF configuration, you can't get an IP on boot. Likely dhclient is running before the card services occurs. I would try increasing the RCDLINKS value in dhclient until it starts after the card has been found. But this won't solve the eth0/eth1 problem. Is this a 'stein distro? I did this with Eiger way back, using breezecom cards. I swapped the eth0/eth1 references in the configs and it is working fine on several boxes (yes, this could be considered a kludgy way of solving the problem, but it did solve it!). However, when playing with Bering I noted that it *may* be easier to handle this problem with the config of this distro... But I haven't tried it yet (on my list, but too far down!!). I will say that the wireless support on Bering is fine from what I've used it for (internal interface), so you might have a look to see if it will do what you need, if you haven't already. All the LEAF variants have their own strengths and weaknesses... You need to find the one that works best for *your* requirements. Hope I've actually addressed your problem without seeing the original post! Brock > Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 15:08:42 -0500 > From: Homer Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [leaf-user] EthX assignments > Organization: Homer's Hut > > --=.Wkz55n6U.FL+hS > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > On Thu, 30 May 2002 09:23:01 -0700 Ray Olszewski > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote.... > > Begin Quote: > > > > > From other recent reports on the list, a problem with wireless > > interfaces > > *seems* to be the amount of time they take to initialize. > This leads > > to > > your DHCP client trying to get a lease via the wireless > interface before > > it completes the initialization process. Of course, later the > > initialization is complete, so you can get a lease > successfully from the > > command line. > > That coincides with what I'm seeing... > > > I *think* the proposed solution was simply to put a delay into the > > init > > sequence somewhere ... but you'd do better to check the > list archive for > > > > the details than to rely on my memory. > > I wonder if I couldn't just run /etc/init.d/dhclient > again at the end.. Be easier than a delay I think.. Have to > look and see if there's an rc.local to play with... Thanks! > > > As to the interface order ... the usual approach (at least when the > > two > > NICs use different modules, as would surely be the case here) is to > > reverse the order in which the modules load (that is, > change their order > > in /etc/modules). Since you don't say (at least not in the > body of your > > message) what you've tried, I don't know if this suggestion > is helpful > > or is something you tried already. > > Sorry about that... It was one of them looonnnggg days > (Not enough caffiene after an all nighter)... /etc/modules > won't help, as it's a PCMCIA radio.. I did try moving it up > in the list in syslinux.cfg, but.. I'm booting this from a > flash drive, so there's hardly any time for anything... I > appreciate the reply, and I'll try re-running dhclient from > the last thing run (this is my second LEAF setup, so I'm > still learning it's innards)... _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
