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Bug 73720 - Network init script broken.
Summary: Network init script broken.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] baselayout (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
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Reported: 2004-12-07 14:34 UTC by Pat Suwalski
Modified: 2005-04-27 21:33 UTC (History)
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Description Pat Suwalski 2004-12-07 14:34:10 UTC 
Upon emerging the latest updates this last weekend, the network init script appears broken with a cryptic error message:

inspiron ~ # /etc/init.d/net.ath0 start
 * Starting ath0
 *          essidnet: missing required function wireless_check_extensions

Upon further investigation, it is not limited to wireless as might be assumed by the message:

inspiron ~ # /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start
 * Starting eth0
 *          essidnet: missing required function wireless_check_extensions


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. /etc/init.d/net.xxx0 start

Actual Results:  
Cryptic error message, no network up.

Expected Results:  
Success, usable network.

Portage 2.0.51-r8 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0,
2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.7
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4,dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5 [2.3.4 (#1,
Jun 10 2004, 00:21:05)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4, 2.2.3-r5
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r1, 1.9.3
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.2-r7
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer
-funroll-loops -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf
/etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer
-funroll-loops -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/bmg-main"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aalib acpi alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dvd encode esd
ethereal f77 flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm ggi gif gpm gps gstreamer gtk2 guile
hal imagemagick imlib java jpeg junit ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif
mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pcmcia pdflib perl png python
quicktime radeon readline samba scanner sdl slang speex spell sse ssl svga tcltk
tcpd tetex tiff truetype x86 xine xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Comment 1 Pat Suwalski 2004-12-16 10:26:08 UTC 
This only happens with:

    modules=( "!wireless" )

or

    modules=( "!iwconfig" )

Otherwise it tries to use the Gentoo wireless scripts, and fails miserably due to lack of a supplicant. I suggest that the modules functionality is broken.
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2005-04-27 21:33:17 UTC 
was fixed a while ago ...