Bug 1319 – pcmcia net interfaces not shutdown correctly

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jim Nutt 2002-03-23 10:52:38 UTC]

PCMCIA network interfaces are not shutdown correctly. This is particularly true
in the case of dhcp controlled interfaces. See bug #1318 for problems with dhcp.
I have fixes that I will attach shortly

[Comment 1 Jim Nutt 2002-03-23 10:56:38 UTC]

Created attachment 435 [details]
/etc/pcmcia/network

This version /etc/pcmcia/network, combined with the net.eth0 attached to bug
#1318 fixes the dhcp release problem as well as properly shutting down pcmcia
interfaces.

[Comment 2 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-03-23 12:23:14 UTC]

The possible fix for bug 1318 is included in baselayout-1.7.5, fyi.

[Comment 3 Chad Huneycutt (RETIRED) 2002-03-24 22:37:47 UTC]

Yeah.  This was my bug in the init script.  Just a brain-fart.  I think I have
already corrected it and committed to CVS.

[Comment 4 Preston A. Elder 2002-03-27 11:03:16 UTC]

There is still a problem with PCMCIA, at least, 3.1.33.

The network script does not call net.eth0 stop, it just does an ifconfig eth0
down.  This means that if you try to use pcmcia to start the network interface
again, you get an 'net.eth0 is already started' error, and it wont start it.

Theres no reason to just ifconfig eth0 down instead of net.eth0 stop, so, we
should probably change the behavior of what happens when /etc/pcmcia/network
stop eth0 is recieved to be properly reciprocal with /etc/pcmcia/network start eth0.

[Comment 5 Chad Huneycutt (RETIRED) 2002-04-01 12:46:05 UTC]

I will assume that Preston's comments are based on the broken
/etc/pcmcia/network script, which has been fixed.  Closing