I've just added a NE2000 card to an ISA slot in a really old machine I have. Everything went smoothly, but the card depends upon having isapnp working before the module will load. The current default startup order of gentoo loads isapnp after net.eth0. This causes net.eth0 to fail. It is possible to fix this by adding isapnp to the use line in depend(). So we go from: # For pcmcia users. note that pcmcia must be added to the same # runlevel as the net.* script that needs it. depend() { use coldplug hotplug pcmcia usb isdn wlan to # For pcmcia users. note that pcmcia must be added to the same # runlevel as the net.* script that needs it. depend() { use coldplug hotplug pcmcia usb isdn wlan isapnp Whilst this is a small change that probably only affects a small portion of gentoo users, I would like to ask that it be included. "isdn" is currently in the list which is also not a universally used configuration. Including "isapnp" removes one small gotcha for Gentoo users. Thanks.
> It is possible to fix this by adding isapnp to the use line in depend(). So we > go from: > > # For pcmcia users. note that pcmcia must be added to the same > # runlevel as the net.* script that needs it. > depend() { > use coldplug hotplug pcmcia usb isdn wlan > > to > > # For pcmcia users. note that pcmcia must be added to the same > # runlevel as the net.* script that needs it. > depend() { > use coldplug hotplug pcmcia usb isdn wlan isapnp I didn't make this completely clear that the file this change is made to is /etc/init.d/net.eth0 (or whatever file this is symbolically linked to).
Fixed in baselayout-1.11.14-r5 and baselayout-1.12.0_pre16
