The problem is with a pcmcia prism2 based wireless network card using the linmux-wlan-ng drivers. The interface is not started at boot, but it works if I eject and re-insert. The problem as far as I can determine is as follows. 1. pcmcia starts and detects card. 2. cardmgr modprobes driver. 3. driver load fires hotplug event for net device calling /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 4. dhcpcd fails with dhcpcd[11844]: dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such de vice (this is because the wlan-ng pcmcia scripts has not finished setting up the card) 5. pcmcia continues setting up card, downloading firmware, configuring wireless settings from /etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng script 6. /etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng calls /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 7. /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 fails and the card is not brought up. (Wireless settings are correct though) The fail in /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 is because the script failed to start earlier. The second call to /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 fails at the call to service_failed() in file /lib/rcscipts/sh/rc-services.sh. service_failed() is called from /sbin/runscript.sh in svc_start() Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot with pcmcia prism2 wireless card and watch it fail 2. 3. Actual Results: network interface is not brought up Expected Results: network interface is brought up kernel-2.6.5 baselayout-1.8.11 I have a trace of some of the logs from boot (I changed the service order to start the logger before the other stuff) with a bunch of debugging enabled. The logs have a very early failure for /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start, and that has to be from the hotplug net.agent. I made net.agent and net.wlan0 print out the time it was called, and it corresponds to shortly after the driver is inserted. /var/log/hotplug: Wed May 5 12:27:59 EDT 2004: net.agent called for wlan0 Wed May 5 12:28:00 EDT 2004: net.wlan0 called Wed May 5 12:28:00 EDT 2004: net.wlan0 called Wed May 5 12:28:00 EDT 2004: net.wlan0 start called Wed May 5 12:28:06 EDT 2004: net.agent called for eth0 Wed May 5 12:28:06 EDT 2004: net.agent called for wlan0 Wed May 5 12:28:07 EDT 2004: net.wlan0 called Wed May 5 12:28:07 EDT 2004: net.wlan0 called Wed May 5 12:28:07 EDT 2004 net.eth0 start Wed May 5 12:28:08 EDT 2004: net.wlan0 called Wed May 5 12:28:08 EDT 2004: net.wlan0 called /var/log/message: May 5 12:27:58 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: watching 2 sockets May 5 12:27:58 beowulf cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean. May 5 12:27:58 beowulf cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean. May 5 12:27:58 beowulf cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x130-0x137 0x200-0x207 0x3b8-0x3df 0x4d0-0 x4d7 May 5 12:27:58 beowulf cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. May 5 12:27:58 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: starting, version is 3.2.5 May 5 12:27:59 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: socket 0: NETGEAR MA401RA 11Mbps 802.11 WLAN Card May 5 12:27:59 beowulf cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean. May 5 12:27:59 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: executing: 'modprobe prism2_cs' May 5 12:27:59 beowulf prism2_cs: no version for "p80211netdev_rx" found: kernel tainted. May 5 12:27:59 beowulf prism2cs_init: prism2_cs.o: 0.2.1-pre20 Loaded May 5 12:27:59 beowulf prism2cs_init: dev_info is: prism2_cs May 5 12:27:59 beowulf prism2_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0180-0x01bf May 5 12:27:59 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: executing: './wlan-ng start wlan0' May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' '!' -f /etc/wlan/shared ']' May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + . /etc/wlan/shared May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ '[' '!' -n '' ']' May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ ECHO=echo May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ '[' -x /sbin/modprobe ']' May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ MODPROBE=/sbin/modprobe May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ '[' -x /sbin/wlanctl-ng ']' May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ WLANCTL=/sbin/wlanctl-ng May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ '[' -x /sbin/wland ']' May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ WLAND=/sbin/wland May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + +++ cat /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ '[' -f /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug -a -x /sbin/hotplug -a -f /etc/hotplug/wlan.agent ']' May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ HAS_HOTPLUG=n May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ '[' -f /etc/conf.d/wlan.conf ']' May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ . /etc/conf.d/wlan.conf May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + +++ WLAN_DEVICES=wlan0 May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + +++ ChannelList=01:02:03:04:05:06:07:08:09:0a:0b:00:00:00 May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + +++ ChannelMinTime=200 May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + +++ ChannelMaxTime=250 May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + +++ WLAN_SCAN=n May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + +++ SSID_wlan0=vietnow May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + +++ ENABLE_wlan0=y May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ . /etc/wlan/shared.prism2 May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + +++ PRISM2DL=/sbin/prism2dl May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ FIRMWARE_DIR=/etc/wlan/ May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' 2 -lt 2 ']' May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' -f /etc/pcmcia/shared ']' May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + . /etc/pcmcia/shared May 5 12:28:00 beowulf dhcpcd[11844]: dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ '[' 2 -lt 2 ']' May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ ACTION=start May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ DEVICE=wlan0 May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ NEW_SCHEME= May 5 12:28:00 beowulf rc-scripts: Failed to bring wlan0 up May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + eval 'WLAN_ENABLE=$ENABLE_wlan0' May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ WLAN_ENABLE=y May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + is_true y May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' y = y -o y = Y -o y = yes -o y = YES ']' May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + is_true May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' '' = y -o '' = Y -o '' = yes -o '' = YES ']' May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + wlan_enable wlan0 May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + /sbin/modprobe wlan0 May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + ifconfig wlan0 May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ wlan_nsdname wlan0 May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ grep 'nsd name' /proc/net/p80211/wlan0/wlandev May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ sed -e 's/.*: \(.*\)_.*/\1/' May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + nsdname=prism2 May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + prism2_fwload wlan0 May 5 12:28:00 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' '!' -x /sbin/prism2dl ']' May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + /sbin/wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=fwload May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + message=lnxreq_ifstate May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ifstate=fwload May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + resultcode=success May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ /sbin/prism2dl -s wlan0 May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ grep 0x0008 May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ cut -c26-29 May 5 12:28:01 beowulf PDA Read from 0x007f0000 in NV space. May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + HARDWARE=800c May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + /sbin/prism2dl -r /etc/wlan//prism2_ak.hex -r /etc/wlan//prism2_rf.hex wlan0 May 5 12:28:01 beowulf PDA Read from 0x007f0000 in EXTDS space. May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + prism2dl: No such file or directory May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + prism2dl: Failed to read /etc/wlan//prism2_ak.hex, exiting. May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + Reading S-record file /etc/wlan//prism2_ak.hex... May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + return 0 May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ /sbin/wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable May 5 12:28:01 beowulf ident: nic h/w: id=0x800c 1.0.0 May 5 12:28:01 beowulf ident: pri f/w: id=0x15 1.0.7 May 5 12:28:01 beowulf ident: sta f/w: id=0x1f 1.3.6 May 5 12:28:01 beowulf MFI:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x01:var=0x01:b/t=1/1 May 5 12:28:01 beowulf CFI:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x02:var=0x02:b/t=1/1 May 5 12:28:01 beowulf PRI:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x03:var=0x01:b/t=4/4 May 5 12:28:01 beowulf STA:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x04:var=0x01:b/t=1/9 May 5 12:28:01 beowulf PRI-CFI:ACT:role=0x01:id=0x02:var=0x02:b/t=1/1 May 5 12:28:01 beowulf STA-CFI:ACT:role=0x01:id=0x02:var=0x02:b/t=1/1 May 5 12:28:01 beowulf STA-MFI:ACT:role=0x01:id=0x01:var=0x01:b/t=1/1 May 5 12:28:01 beowulf Prism2 card SN: 99SA01000000 May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + result=message=lnxreq_ifstate May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ifstate=enable May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + resultcode=success May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' 0 = 0 ']' May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + eval message=lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable resultcode=success May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ message=lnxreq_ifstate May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ ifstate=enable May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ resultcode=success May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' success '!=' success ']' May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + prism2_mibset wlan0 May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + return 0 May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + wlan_supports_scan wlan0 May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + is_true n May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' n = y -o n = Y -o n = yes -o n = YES ']' May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + return 1 May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' 1 = 0 ']' May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + wlan_source_config wlan0 May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + eval 'GOSSID="$SSID_wlan0"' May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ GOSSID=vietnow May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + wlan_source_config_for_ssid vietnow May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + DesiredSSID=vietnow May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + DesiredBSSID= May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' -n '' ']' May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' -f /etc/conf.d/wlancfg-vietnow: ']' May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' -f /etc/conf.d/wlancfg-vietnow ']' May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + . /etc/conf.d/wlancfg-vietnow May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ lnxreq_hostWEPEncrypt=true May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ lnxreq_hostWEPDecrypt=true May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ dot11PrivacyInvoked=true May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ dot11WEPDefaultKeyID=0 May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ dot11ExcludeUnencrypted=true May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ PRIV_GENERATOR=/sbin/keygen May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ PRIV_KEY128=false May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ PRIV_GENSTR= May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ dot11WEPDefaultKey0=<mywepkey> May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ dot11WEPDefaultKey1= May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ dot11WEPDefaultKey2= May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ dot11WEPDefaultKey3= May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ IS_ADHOC=n May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ AuthType=opensystem May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ BCNINT=100 May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ CHANNEL=6 May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ BASICRATES=2 4 May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ OPRATES=2 4 11 22 May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + wlan_user_mibs wlan0 May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + wlan_wep wlan0 May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' true = false ']' May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ /sbin/wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibget mibattribute=dot11PrivacyOptionImplemented May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + result=message=dot11req_mibget May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + mibattribute=dot11PrivacyOptionImplemented=true May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + resultcode=success May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' 0 = 0 ']' May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + eval message=dot11req_mibget mibattribute=dot11PrivacyOptionImplemented=true resultcode=success May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ message=dot11req_mibget May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ mibattribute=dot11PrivacyOptionImplemented=true May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ resultcode=success May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + eval dot11PrivacyOptionImplemented=true May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ dot11PrivacyOptionImplemented=true May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' true = false ']' May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ /sbin/wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_hostwep decrypt=true encrypt=true May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + result=message=lnxreq_hostwep May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + resultcode=no_value May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + decrypt=true May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + encrypt=true May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' true = true -a true = true ']' May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ /sbin/wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibset mibattribute=dot11WEPDefaultKeyID=0 May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + result=message=dot11req_mibset May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + mibattribute=dot11WEPDefaultKeyID=0 May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + resultcode=success May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ /sbin/wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibset mibattribute=dot11ExcludeUnencrypted=true May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + result=message=dot11req_mibset May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + mibattribute=dot11ExcludeUnencrypted=true May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + resultcode=success May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ /sbin/wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibset mibattribute=dot11PrivacyInvoked=true May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + result=message=dot11req_mibset May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + mibattribute=dot11PrivacyInvoked=true May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + resultcode=success May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' empty '!=' empty ']' May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ /sbin/wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibset mibattribute=dot11WEPDefaultKey0=<mywepkey> May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + result=message=dot11req_mibset May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + mibattribute=dot11WEPDefaultKey0=<mywepkey> May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + resultcode=success May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ /sbin/wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibset mibattribute=dot11WEPDefaultKey1= May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + result=mibattribute="data_string_too_short" May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + message=dot11req_mibset May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + mibattribute=data_string_too_short May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + resultcode=no_value May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ /sbin/wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibset mibattribute=dot11WEPDefaultKey2= May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + result=mibattribute="data_string_too_short" May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + message=dot11req_mibset May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + mibattribute=data_string_too_short May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + resultcode=no_value May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ /sbin/wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibset mibattribute=dot11WEPDefaultKey3= May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + result=mibattribute="data_string_too_short" May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + message=dot11req_mibset May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + mibattribute=data_string_too_short May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + resultcode=no_value May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + is_true n May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' n = y -o n = Y -o n = yes -o n = YES ']' May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + wlan_infra wlan0 May 5 12:28:01 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + sleep 5 May 5 12:28:06 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ /sbin/wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_autojoin ssid=vietnow authtype=open system May 5 12:28:07 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ sed 's/\([^=]*\)=\(.*\)/\1="\2"/' May 5 12:28:07 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + results=message="lnxreq_autojoin" May 5 12:28:07 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ssid="'vietnow'" May 5 12:28:07 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + authtype="opensystem" May 5 12:28:07 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + resultcode="success" May 5 12:28:07 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + eval 'message="lnxreq_autojoin"' 'ssid="'\''vietnow'\''"' 'authtype="opensystem"' 'resultcode="success"' May 5 12:28:07 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ message=lnxreq_autojoin May 5 12:28:07 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ ssid='vietnow' May 5 12:28:07 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ authtype=opensystem May 5 12:28:07 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ resultcode=success May 5 12:28:07 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' success '!=' success ']' May 5 12:28:07 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + WLAN_SCHEMESSID=vietnow May 5 12:28:07 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + wlan_set_ssid_schemefile vietnow May 5 12:28:07 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' -r /var/lib/misc/pcmcia-scheme ']' May 5 12:28:07 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' -d /var/state/pcmcia ']' May 5 12:28:07 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' -d /var/lib/pcmcia ']' May 5 12:28:07 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + WLAN_SCHEMEFILE=/var/run/pcmcia-scheme May 5 12:28:07 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' -r /var/run/pcmcia-scheme ']' May 5 12:28:07 beowulf linkstatus=CONNECTED May 5 12:28:07 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ cat /var/run/pcmcia-scheme May 5 12:28:07 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + WLAN_SCHEME=home May 5 12:28:07 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ date +%T May 5 12:28:07 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + cp /var/run/pcmcia-scheme /tmp/wlan_scheme_12:28:07.tmp May 5 12:28:07 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' '!' home ']' May 5 12:28:07 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + WLAN_SCHEME=home:vietnow May 5 12:28:07 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + echo home:vietnow May 5 12:28:07 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + ./network start wlan0 May 5 12:28:08 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + retval=0 May 5 12:28:08 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + rm -f /var/lib/init.d/net.wlan0-11995 May 5 12:28:08 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + return 0 May 5 12:28:08 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + opts=start stop restart May 5 12:28:08 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + source /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 May 5 12:28:08 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ set -x May 5 12:28:08 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + +++ date May 5 12:28:08 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ TIME=Wed May 5 12:28:08 EDT 2004 May 5 12:28:08 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ echo Wed May 5 12:28:08 EDT 2004: net.wlan0 called May 5 12:28:08 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' -z 'start stop restart' ']' May 5 12:28:08 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + shift May 5 12:28:08 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' 2 -lt 1 ']' May 5 12:28:08 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + RC_QUIET_STDOUT=yes May 5 12:28:08 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + svc_start May 5 12:28:08 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + local retval=0 May 5 12:28:08 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + local startfail=no May 5 12:28:08 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + local x= May 5 12:28:08 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + local y= May 5 12:28:08 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + local myserv= May 5 12:28:08 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + local ordservice= May 5 12:28:08 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + service_started net.wlan0 May 5 12:28:08 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' -z net.wlan0 ']' May 5 12:28:08 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' -L /var/lib/init.d/started/net.wlan0 ']' May 5 12:28:08 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + return 1 May 5 12:28:08 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + is_runlevel_start May 5 12:28:08 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' -d /var/lib/init.d/softscripts.old ']' May 5 12:28:08 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + return 0 May 5 12:28:09 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + service_failed net.wlan0 May 5 12:28:09 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' -z net.wlan0 ']' May 5 12:28:09 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' -L /var/lib/init.d/failed/net.wlan0 ']' May 5 12:28:09 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + return 0 May 5 12:28:09 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + exit 1 May 5 12:28:09 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' 1 = 1 ']' May 5 12:28:09 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + wlan_restore_schemefile May 5 12:28:09 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' -r /var/lib/misc/pcmcia-scheme ']' May 5 12:28:09 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' -d /var/state/pcmcia ']' May 5 12:28:09 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' -d /var/lib/pcmcia ']' May 5 12:28:09 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + WLAN_SCHEMEFILE=/var/run/pcmcia-scheme May 5 12:28:09 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ ls /tmp/wlan_scheme_00:01:13.tmp /tmp/wlan_scheme_12:28:07.tmp May 5 12:28:09 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + ++ tail -n 1 May 5 12:28:09 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + TMPFILE=/tmp/wlan_scheme_12:28:07.tmp May 5 12:28:09 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + '[' -r /tmp/wlan_scheme_12:28:07.tmp ']' May 5 12:28:09 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + cat /tmp/wlan_scheme_12:28:07.tmp May 5 12:28:09 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + rm -f /tmp/wlan_scheme_12:28:07.tmp May 5 12:28:09 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: + + exit 1 May 5 12:28:09 beowulf cardmgr[11761]: start cmd exited with status 1
Created attachment 30796 [details, diff] patch allowing a network service to be brought up if it has already failed This patch allows network interfaces to brought up more than once if they fail to be brought up. However, this could potentially be a bad idea. Can an infinite loop be started by this? Boot tries to continuously bring up an interface? Otherwise some provision needs to be made to allow an interface to be brought up since we can't really stop hotplug, can we?
Well, it turns out that the patch does not work. It did work when I had all of my debuggin output in place, but now it fails to bring up the interface... It appears that hotplug thinks it brings up the interface, enough to put net.wlan0 into ${svcdir}/started/. However, the interface did not get an IP address from dhcp. I have not finished investigating exactly what happened. A new work around is to modify hotplug's net.agent to skip specified interfaces. However, you have to specify the interface name, and that can be trouble. i.e. a USB wirless card and PCMCIA can both show up as wlan0 and USB needs net.agent to handle the interface.
Use udev to rename the interface name to something unique and then use the network scripts to properly init that interface.
