PCMCIA network problems at startup
Running Debian Woody on a Gateway Solo 9100 laptop, with an Intel
Pro/100 CardBus II (eepro100_cb.o driver) network card, pulling a DHCP
address using dhclient.
When I boot the laptop, everything appears to get recognized correctly,
but I am unable to access the network. 'ifconfig' shows eth0 existing
with an address, but no traffic will pass.
However, I can log in and do a 'ifdown eth0' and then 'ifup eth0', and
suddenly everything will be working properly. I can also start the
laptop without the card, and then add it later - it comes up fine at
that point.
Any ideas where to look? It's running my custom Kernel 2.4.18, plus
latest PCMCIA modules. This problem also occurred using original Debian
bf2.4 kernel.
/etc/pcmcia/network.opts is unchanged from original.
/etc/network/interfaces shows 'iface eth0 inet dhcp', which was added by
the installation program.
/var/log/syslog shows that 'dhclient' is being run on bootup. It says
the following:
: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
: receive_packet failed on eth0: Network is down
: DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.254
: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.254
: bound to 192.168.1.232 -- renewal in 900 seconds
Is that 'receive_packet' failure possibly a problem?
Any other ideas?
--Josh
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