At boot time, when everything is being loaded, both my eth0 and wlan0 lag a long time before failing. If I'm plugged in, eth0 doesn't lag so bad and of course, passes OK. What I'm wondering is if I can have these loads not care whether or not they are connected on the network yet, so I can worry about that later. It's just a pain at boot time, especially if I don't plan on using my networks. Any clue?
dmesg log:
dmesg
Linux version 2.6.3-4mdk (nplanel@n3.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version 3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux 10.0 3.3.2-6mdk)) #1 Tue Mar 2 07:26:13 CET 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003ffe2800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000003ffe2800 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000feda0000 - 00000000fee00000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Warning only 896MB will be used.
Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.
896MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 229376
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
Dell Inspiron with broken BIOS detected. Refusing to enable the local APIC.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL ) @ 0x000fde50
ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL CPi R 0x27d30510 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fde64
ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL CPi R 0x27d30510 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fde90
ACPI: DSDT (v001 INT430 SYSFexxx 0x00001001 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=305 devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent
bootsplash: silent mode.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order 12: 32768 bytes)
Detected 1196.557 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Memory: 904224k/917504k available (1815k kernel code, 12536k reserved, 846k data, 272k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 2359.29 BogoMIPS
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 136k freed
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 3febf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 3febf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: After all inits, caps: 3febf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000080
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU#0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU#0: Thermal monitoring enabled
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz stepping 04
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
NET: Registered protocol family 16
EISA bus registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbfee, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040211
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
PnPBIOS: Disabled
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
PCI: Discovered primary peer bus 08 [IRQ]
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/248c] at 0000:00:1f.0
PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:1f.1 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1d.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:02:00.0
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe0000000, mapped to 0xf8800000, size 16384k
vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=2
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:f120
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
ikconfig 0.7 with /proc/config*
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Initializing Cryptographic API
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
bootsplash 3.1.3-2003/11/14: looking for picture.... silentjpeg size 14856 bytes, found (800x600, 14808 bytes, v3).
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 92x32
pty: 1024 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:1f.6
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1f.5
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH3M: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1d.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:02:00.0
ICH3M: chipset revision 2
ICH3M: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xbfa0-0xbfa7, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbMA
hda: HITACHI_DK23EB-40, ATA DISK drive
hdb: TEAC CD-RW CD-W224E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Using anticipatory io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 78140160 sectors (40007 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 < p5 p6 p7 >
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 92x32
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio1
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa0
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
BIOS EDD facility v0.12 2004-Jan-26, 1 devices found
Please report your BIOS at http://linux.dell.com/edd/results.html
PM: Reading pmdisk image.
PM: Resume from disk failed.
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Mounted devfs on /dev
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 272k freed
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usbfs
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hub
drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.1
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:1d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:01:00.0
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 11, io base 0000bf80
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:1d.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:02:00.0
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 11, io base 0000bf20
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
EXT3 FS on hda5, internal journal
Adding 510512k swap on /dev/hda6. Priority:-1 extents:1
SCSI subsystem initialized
imm: Version 2.05 (for Linux 2.4.0)
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
ppa: Version 2.07 (for Linux 2.4.x)
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel i845 Chipset.
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 816M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe8000000
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda7, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
NTFS driver 2.1.6 [Flags: R/O MODULE].
NTFS volume version 3.1.
ohci1394: $Rev: 1097 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:02:01.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:02:01.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:02:01.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:02:03.0
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[11] MMIO=[f8fff000-f8fff7ff] Max Packet=[2048]
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[464fc00015c47421]
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:02:00.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1d.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1f.1
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
0000:02:00.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0xec80. Vers LK1.1.19
Linux Kernel Card Services
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:02:01.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:02:01.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:02:01.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:02:03.0
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:01.0 [1028:00d4]
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x06b8, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000006
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:02:01.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:02:01.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:02:01.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:02:03.0
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:01.1 [1028:00d4]
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x06b8, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000006
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
inserting floppy driver for 2.6.3-4mdk
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
hdb: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 1280kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ndiswrapper: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.
ndiswrapper version 0.6 loaded
ndiswrapper adding bcmwl5.sys
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:02:03.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:02:01.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:02:01.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:02:01.2
ndiswrapper: error log: C000138D, length: 1 (00000017)
ndiswrapper: error log: C000138D, length: 1 (0000001b)
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:90:4b:80:b2:b4 using driver bcmwl5.sys
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:1f.5
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1f.6
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
MC'97 1 converters and GPIO not ready (0xff00)
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 32856 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
bootsplash 3.1.3-2003/11/14: looking for picture.... found (800x600, 11943 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.3-2003/11/14: looking for picture.... found (800x600, 11943 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 1 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.3-2003/11/14: looking for picture.... found (800x600, 11943 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 2 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.3-2003/11/14: looking for picture.... found (800x600, 11943 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 3 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.3-2003/11/14: looking for picture.... found (800x600, 11943 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 4 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.3-2003/11/14: looking for picture.... found (800x600, 11943 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 5 changed to on
nvidia: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-5336 Wed Jan 14 18:29:26 PST 2004
atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: This is an XFree86 bug. It shouldn't access hardware directly.
atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: This is an XFree86 bug. It shouldn't access hardware directly.
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c035fa20(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using address 2
drivers/usb/input/hid-ff.c: hid_ff_init could not find initializer
input: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft Trackball Explorer®] on usb-0000:00:1d.2-1
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usbmouse
drivers/usb/input/usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver
ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
ndiswrapper version 0.6 loaded
ndiswrapper adding bcmwl5.sys
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:02:03.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:02:01.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:02:01.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:02:01.2
ndiswrapper: error log: C000138D, length: 1 (00000017)
ndiswrapper: error log: C000138D, length: 1 (0000001b)
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:90:4b:80:b2:b4 using driver bcmwl5.sys
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present

Notice I'm running ndiswrapper at startup...is this even necessary? Can I remove it and just run it once I know what networks are available? Is it ticking off my eth0 startup?