On 10/15/05, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> First, How much of a delay is discover really causing you ?
> On my laptop with discover (and not discover1), it hardly takes 3-4 seconds
> to figure out if any add-on module needs loading or not. I can bear that
> much time. And the reason to use discover is because it is one of the
> utilities similar to kudzu in RH. If udev misses to load something, chances
> are discover might detect and load it.
>
> Can you check and confirm if hotplug is able to detect both your ethernet
> cards ?
I wanted to avoid duplicate loading of modules. Below is the output of
various commands for 3com modules and results with and without
discover.
with discover
lvghomepc:~# cat /var/log/boot |grep 3c
Sun Oct 16 05:11:51 2005: Detecting hardware: agpgart ohci1394
forcedeth 3c59x i810_audio usb_ohci ehci_hcd
Sun Oct 16 05:11:52 2005: Loading 3c59x module.
Sun Oct 16 05:12:07 2005: 3c59x: already loaded
lvghomepc:~# cat /var/log/messages |grep 3Com
Oct 16 05:12:16 localhost kernel: 0000:02:01.0: 3Com PCI 3c920 Tornado
at 0xc000. Vers LK1.1.19
lvghomepc:/var/log# cat /var/log/kern.log|grep 3c
Oct 16 05:12:16 localhost kernel: 3c59x: Donald Becker and others.
www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
Oct 16 05:12:16 localhost kernel: 0000:02:01.0: 3Com PCI 3c920 Tornado
at 0xc000. Vers LK1.1.19
Oct 16 05:12:16 localhost kernel: ieee1394: Host added:
ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00e018000023c1ad]
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:54:0E:8E:C0
inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
======================================
without discover
lvghomepc:~# cat /var/log/boot |grep 3c
Sun Oct 16 05:36:43 2005: 3c59x: loaded successfully
lvghomepc:~# cat /var/log/messages |grep 3Com
Oct 16 05:36:50 localhost kernel: 0000:02:01.0: 3Com PCI 3c920 Tornado
at 0xc000. Vers LK1.1.19
lvghomepc:~# cat /var/log/kern.log|grep 3c
Oct 16 05:36:50 localhost kernel: ieee1394: Host added:
ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00e018000023c1ad]
Oct 16 05:36:50 localhost kernel: 3c59x: Donald Becker and others.
www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
Oct 16 05:36:50 localhost kernel: 0000:02:01.0: 3Com PCI 3c920 Tornado
at 0xc000. Vers LK1.1.19
lvghomepc:~# ifconfig
eth1 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
00-E0-18-00-00-23-C1-AD-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
==================================================
It clearly indicates module 3c59x which is module for 3Com is loaded
even without discover. But may be some option is not loaded by other
programs which is loaded by discover or order of loading affects.
Hence inspite of same /etc/network/interfaces file, I can't use 3com
with out discover. Any explantion for this behaviour is welcome
--
L.V.Gandhi
http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/
linux user No.205042
