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Bug 64090 - Second network interface not recognized at boot
Summary: Second network interface not recognized at boot
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 121742
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: initscripts
Version: 9
Hardware: i586
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Brock Organ
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-04-25 16:04 UTC by Brian G. Anderson
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:27 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 18:48:47 UTC
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Description Brian G. Anderson 2002-04-25 16:04:57 UTC 
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Description of problem:
I have a Dell latitude c810 with an internal wireless card and a xircom cardbus
ethernet card.

When I boot the system with no cabel in the xircom, but the wireless within
range of a base station, the xircom appears on eth0 and the wireless as eth1,
but eth1 is not reporting an IP address. I even try dhcpcd -n for force a new
IP, but nothing.  Clearly the xircom should be inactive since it isn't plugged
in, but the wireless should be active.

Only when I do 'cardctl eject 0', 'cardctl eject 1', 'cardctl insert 0' does the
wireless come up with a valid IP.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot machine
2.do ifconfig eth0 and ifconfig eth1 to see that neither has an IP
3.
	

Actual Results:  the wireless card, eth1, doesn't have an IP

Additional info:

It seems that linux is having trouble recognizing the second interface.
Comment 1 Phil Knirsch 2002-04-29 12:51:21 UTC 
That sounds more like a problem in the hotplug/kernel/initscripts area.

Reasigning it to initscripts (which sounds the most likely source of the problem).

Read ya, Phil
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2004-08-02 19:51:19 UTC 
Please try to reproduce on a current OS.
Comment 3 Brian G. Anderson 2004-08-02 23:35:13 UTC 
I still can't get the second interface, but for slightly different
reasons.  I've since moved to a Dell C840 with a built in ethernet and
wireless.  When I boot with a stock Fedora 2, the wireless should be
at eth1, but it never appears.  I have to put a card eject and insert
into the rc.local to get it to appear. 

I recall there being some other bug reports about this being a init
scripts problem with the pcmcia system being started after the
network, but I don't recall the exact reason or bugzilla id: perhaps
121742
Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2004-08-03 03:01:49 UTC 
Yeah, that's bug 121742.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121742 ***
Comment 5 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:48:47 UTC 
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.
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