Bug 196026 – EhtX interface doesn't bring up from runscript

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

[Description Oleg S. Marin 2007-10-16 07:46:02 UTC]

I have two ethernet ports on my mainboard and both drivers compiled as modules.
And after reboot net.eth0 fails to start (eth1 i don't start), but modules are loaded (they loades before net.eth0, whith udev-events).

Reproducible: Always




I have wrote
alias eth0 via-rhine
alias eth1 skge
to the file /etc/modules.d/aliases, and have done update-modules. Manual bringing up of interface with ifconfig failes too, with "No such interface found". But after unloading modules, /etc/init.d/net.eth0 failes to but, manual bringing up of eth0 with ifconfig work fine, and after that /etc/init.d/net.eth0 begin work.
I wrote
blacklist via-rhine
blacklist skge
to the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklists, after that modules ended to load on udev-events on boot-level, but keep on loading on net.eth0 start with same error (No such interface found), and again works only after unloading modules and manual bring up with ifconfig.
Even after I have wrote a very simple runscript, it failes if started by #!/sbin/runscript.

[Comment 1 Roy Marples (RETIRED) 2007-10-16 10:55:59 UTC]

aliasing modules like that is no guarantee that the aliased name will be the one used.

You should make a udev rule for this
http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html#example-netif

[Comment 2 Oleg S. Marin 2007-11-29 16:17:02 UTC]

Sorry for long time out :( had less time :(
About problem, i don't think it is right solution. I sure theres a bug in baselayout, because even with one ethernet card and well configured aliases in modprobe.conf ifconfig brings up module and interface well ( if module unloaded before), but it loads module with error instead of bringing up of interface when it's called from a verry simple run-script (it's enough to write "#!/sbin/runscript" at begining).

[Comment 3 Roy Marples (RETIRED) 2007-12-03 15:46:14 UTC]

alias eth0 via-rhine
alias eth1 skge

With via-rhine unloaded and skge unloaded and eth0 and eth1 not reported by `ifconfig -a` do this
modprobe eth1
Now see that it is loaded as eth0 and realise that you probably do need to write a udev rule.

[Comment 4 Robin Johnson 2010-03-31 19:09:32 UTC]

Does this problem still exist? Please test and reopen if needed.

[Comment 5 Oleg S. Marin 2010-04-01 10:13:19 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Does this problem still exist? Please test and reopen if needed.
> 

Sorry for long time that bug was opened, I forgotten about it.
No I have another MB with different ethernet cards, but I sure now it configures with udev rules well.