[gentoo-user] Error Message about network interfaces

[gentoo-user] Error Message about network interfaces

[twang.umn]

Hi all,

I own a Thinkpad T60 laptop. It has both wireless and wired network support. But when booting, if I just use wireless ( without plugging wire), it will give an error: eth0 network interfaces does not exists.

Actually, it was not a big problem before. But now I am using fbsplash. After swithing to graphic terminal, the booting will stop at the error message. I need to go back to tty, and then booting continues.

Does anyone know how to get rid of the error message. Since I use wire or wireless like 50 to 50, I don't want to remvoe net.eth0 from runlevel scripts.

Any suggestion is appreciated, and thank you in advance.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Error Message about network interfaces

[Dan Farrell]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:30:38 -0500
twang.umn@gmail.com wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I own a Thinkpad T60 laptop. It has both wireless and wired network
> support. But when booting, if I just use wireless ( without plugging
> wire), it will give an error: eth0 network interfaces does not exists.
> 
> Actually, it was not a big problem before. But now I am using
> fbsplash. After swithing to graphic terminal, the booting will stop
> at the error message. I need to go back to tty, and then booting
> continues.
> 
> Does anyone know how to get rid of the error message. Since I use
> wire or wireless like 50 to 50, I don't want to remvoe net.eth0 from
> runlevel scripts.
> 
> Any suggestion is appreciated, and thank you in advance.
> 
just a guess, but have you looked at RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING
in /etc/init.d/rc ? 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Error Message about network interfaces

[Zsitvai János]

Hi,

Try ifplugd, it "Brings up/down ethernet ports automatically with cable detection".

János Zsitvai
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Re: [gentoo-user] Error Message about network interfaces

[twang.umn]

On 08:55 Wed 24 Oct     , Zsitvai János wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Try ifplugd, it "Brings up/down ethernet ports automatically with cable detection".
Yes, I did use ifplugd. And it works great. But I still have the error message when booting. I have no clue how to get rid of it. I guess if I did not plug in the cable, eth0 cannot be activated. So I will always have that message. My quesion is: is there any config file related to this problem.
> 
> János Zsitvai
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Wed Oct 24 02:15:19 CDT 2007
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Re: [gentoo-user] Error Message about network interfaces

[twang.umn]

On 23:58 Tue 23 Oct     , Dan Farrell wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:30:38 -0500
> twang.umn@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I own a Thinkpad T60 laptop. It has both wireless and wired network
> > support. But when booting, if I just use wireless ( without plugging
> > wire), it will give an error: eth0 network interfaces does not exists.
> > 
> > Actually, it was not a big problem before. But now I am using
> > fbsplash. After swithing to graphic terminal, the booting will stop
> > at the error message. I need to go back to tty, and then booting
> > continues.
> > 
> > Does anyone know how to get rid of the error message. Since I use
> > wire or wireless like 50 to 50, I don't want to remvoe net.eth0 from
> > runlevel scripts.
> > 
> > Any suggestion is appreciated, and thank you in advance.
> > 
> just a guess, but have you looked at RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING
> in /etc/init.d/rc ? 

Yes, I did. Several days ago, I was bothered by ntpd and sshd, etc. I got the warning when starting up. So I set it to "lo". Is there anything else I can try?

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Wed Oct 24 02:18:01 CDT 2007
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Re: [gentoo-user] Error Message about network interfaces

[Neil Bothwick]

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Hello twang.umn@gmail.com,

> Yes, I did use ifplugd. And it works great. But I still have the error
> message when booting.

You don't need to "use" ifplugd,just install it. The network boot script
should use ifplugd without you starting or configuring it. Doing so may
cause a conflict.

However your message about the interface not existing may be caused by a
missing module. Is the module for your wired interface built into a
kernel or as a module? If a module, is it loaded at boot? You may need to
add it to /etc/modules.autoload.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Error Message about network interfaces

[twang.umn]

On 09:35 Wed 24 Oct     , Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Hello twang.umn@gmail.com,
> 
> > Yes, I did use ifplugd. And it works great. But I still have the error
> > message when booting.
> 
> You don't need to "use" ifplugd,just install it. The network boot script
> should use ifplugd without you starting or configuring it. Doing so may
> cause a conflict.
> 
> However your message about the interface not existing may be caused by a
> missing module. Is the module for your wired interface built into a
> kernel or as a module? If a module, is it loaded at boot? You may need to
> add it to /etc/modules.autoload.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Neil Bothwick
> 
> If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?

I re-compile my kernel, and now it works. I found that even I plug in the cable, it still show the error message. I compiled e1000 into kernel. I don't know why it failed. But now I compile it as modules.

Thank you for all your helps!

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