Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 50971
network script fails to wait for pcmcia startup
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:22:19 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5-beta2va3.11-sg i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010607 Description of problem: on a system with pcmcia network card (IBM ThinkPad 570E), the network startup script fails to delay during boot for pcmcia startup. As a result, networking fails during boot. Identical hardware worked under 7.1. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot system 2.network script runs, fails to find ethernet card 3.pcmcia script runs, detects etherent card Actual Results: ethernet card detected but netwokring off. Expected Results: working network Additional info: can correct by manually rerunning network scripts. I consider this a high priority bug - networking on laptops is important!
The script ordering isn't really relevant; something else is broken. If you remove the calls to check_link_down from /sbin/ifup does that help?
commented out the check_link_down section in /sbin/ifup: 150,154c150,154 < if check_link_down ${DEVICE}; then < echo $" failed; no link present. Check cable?" < ip link set down ${DEVICE} >/dev/null 2>&1 < exit 1 < fi --- > #if check_link_down ${DEVICE}; then > #echo $" failed; no link present. Check cable?" > #ip link set down ${DEVICE} >/dev/null 2>&1 > #exit 1 > #fi Network start up still tries to run before pcmcia in the init scripts (runlevel 5) and reports a failure message. The GOOD news is that networking *is* up with a dhcp-assigned ip address once I log in. So I'd say there remains a usability issue in initscripts, but this fixes this functional problem. (No idea what it breaks, though)
What does /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 say?
We (Red Hat) really need to fix this defect before next release.
Was the ONBOOT=yes in the config file set by you, or by the installer?
This should be fixed in 6.12-1; the message should go away.