On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 03:27:43PM -0700, Jonathan Stickel wrote: > On my gentoo box I have a file "/etc/hotplug/blacklist". Kernel modules > in there are not loaded when hotplug runs. If I had your problem, I > would put "eth1394" in that file. > > HTH, > Jonathan Thanks, Jonathan. That appears to have done the trick.
> Marc Elliot Hall wrote: > >My little mini-ITX Via-based Debian box is giving me spasms today. It > >seems that, on bootup, *sometimes* it finds an IEEE-1394 (AKA FireWire) > >port before the RJ45 (AKA Ethernet) connector. Networking is provided by > >Via Rhine II (in case there's a driver issue I don't know about). > > > >I'll spare you the gory details about dmesg | grep eth and so forth ;-) > > > >This would be no big deal, except Debian wants to call the FireWire > >port ETH0 and assign it an IP address. Okay, I can work around that > >by assigning the Ethernet jack ETH1 and giving it a different address > >using ifdown, ifup, ifconfig, etc. This is a pain, particularly if I > >do an unattended reboot and can't SSH in. > > > >To make matters more confused, at other boot times, Debian ignores the > >FireWire port and gives the network jack ETH0 and an IP. > > > >Now, I'm not particularly well-versed in Debian's boot process; but I > >*thought* that having an entry like this: > > > >auto eth0 > >iface eth0 inet static > > address 192.168.0.5 > > netmask 255.255.255.0 > > network 192.168.0.0 > > broadcast 192.168.0.255 > > gateway 192.168.0.1 > > dns-nameservers 192.168.0.4 151.164.1.8 206.13.28.12 > > dns-search hallmarc.net > > name Ethernet LAN card > > > >in /etc/network/interfaces should make the appropriate startup scripts > >find the network jack and assign it correctly. Obviously, I'm missing > >something. > > > >What else, and where, should I have configured to make Debian stop > >trying to run Ethernet-over-FireWire? > > > > > >This guy: > >http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/354537 > >had the same issue as I've got, and ended up with the same short-term > >fix I discovered, but nothing permanent. > > -- Marc Elliot Hall 621 River Moss Drive St. Peters, MO 63376 www.hallmarc.net _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
