On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:24:02AM -0500, stan wrote: > I replaced a PCI NIC with a USB one this weekend, adn when the machine > boots the networking does not come up any more. > > If I run the networking init.d script (stop and satr) then networking > comes up fine. My suspcion is that the networking init script is run > before the USB NIC is set up. > > dmesg is not a lot of help here, as this is all handled in the init > scripts _after_ teh kernel finishes booting. There doesn't seem to be > a log file that contains all the post kernel init boot stuff. Can I > cause one to be created? > > Anyone have any sugestiosn as to how to start troubleshooting this?
IIRC, by default networking starts at rcS.d/S40 and if you're using hotplug it's not started until rcX.d/S11 (where X is your runlevel). So, yes, networking does start before hotplug has a chance to load your USB modules. However, module-init-tools is run at rcS.d/S20 which is before networking. So, if you list the necessary modules for your USB NIC in /etc/modules, they should be loaded prior to network startup. -- Jamin W. Collins Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. --Aldous Huxley, "Proper Studies", 1927 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
