Re: Kernel 2.6.8-powerpc problems (cdrom, battery notification, dhclient)
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 07:41:06AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Mannequin* writes:
>
> > It found on ETH1 a Sub GEM (PCI) 10/100/1000 BaseT Ethernet. When I
> > lsmod, it shows a modules called sungem, sungem_phy, and crc32 as
> > loaded... So I put 'sungem' above 'firewire-eth thingy' and it works
> > on boot now.
> >
> > I am interested in fixing it the right 'hotplug' way, should I just
> > wait for an update, or is there a fix you know of that I can do
> > right now?
>
> You could put the eth1394 module in /etc/hotplug/blacklist, so it will
> never get loaded at boot. You could also teach ifupdown to check the
> hardware address of your ethernet card; look for the example involving
> the get-mac-address.sh script.
We need a proper solution though, i think it needs to be handled by
hotplug/discover, but a general discussion about this needs to be done. The
debian-installer folk somehow solved this though.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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