Bug 64090

Summary:	Second network interface not recognized at boot
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Brian G. Anderson <bikehead>
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	9	CC:	rvokal
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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.

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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.