So I recently put a MA311 Netgear card in my machine so I don't have to run a wire across the room. Its works fine, till I reboot and eth0 fails to initialize. If I go to the command line and type "modprobe orinoco_pci", everything works just fine. So I did a bit of poking around and found this in my /var/log/messages file:

Jul 12 21:15:42 myserver network: Setting network parameters: succeeded
Jul 12 21:15:43 myserver network: Bringing up loopback interface: succeeded
Jul 12 21:15:43 myserver ifplugd(eth0)[1701]: ifplugd 0.25 initializing.
Jul 12 21:15:43 myserver ifplugd(eth0)[1701]: Using interface eth0
Jul 12 21:15:44 myserver ifplugd(eth0)[1701]: Failed to detect plug status of eth0
Jul 12 21:15:44 myserver ifplugd(eth0)[1701]: Executing '/etc/ifplugd/ifplugd.action eth0 up'.
Jul 12 21:15:44 myserver ifplugd(eth0)[1701]: client: /bin/true
Jul 12 21:15:44 myserver ifplugd(eth0)[1701]: client: 3c59x device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.
Jul 12 21:15:44 myserver ifplugd(eth0)[1701]: Program execution failed, return value is 1.
Jul 12 21:15:44 myserver ifplugd(eth0)[1701]: Exiting.
Jul 12 21:15:45 myserver network: Bringing up interface eth0: failed
Jul 12 21:15:45 myserver portmap: portmap startup succeeded

ok... the 3c59x is my OLD 3Com card which is no longer in the machine. That explains why the operation failed. However, I'm still too much of a Linux n00b to know where to look to fix this. Can anyone give me some hints?

Thanks

BTW, i'm using Mandrake 10.1

Try adding the orinoco_pci module to your modprobe.conf (if you are using a 2.6 kernel) or you modules.conf (if you use 2.4). Seems to me that the module for the other device is being loaded, not the new one. Delete the lines for the old one, but not until you copy the structure - replacing the old with the new.

Let me know if this works, if not please reply with the results of lspci and lsmod before and after you issue the modprobe command.


EDIT: the modprobe.conf is found in the /etc folder....figured I should at least assume you didn't know where it was.

It worked! ... I think...
I changed the line at the top of my modprobe.conf file from "alias eth0 3c59x" to "alias eth0 orinoco_pci". Rebooted, and I'm connected. But if I check the messages file, I see something interesting:

Jul 15 18:25:16 myserver network: Bringing up loopback interface: succeeded
Jul 15 18:25:16 myserver ifplugd(eth0)[1714]: ifplugd 0.25 initializing.
Jul 15 18:25:16 myserver ifplugd(eth0)[1714]: Using interface eth0/00:09:5B:40:B8:06
Jul 15 18:25:16 myserver ifplugd(eth0)[1714]: Using detection mode: wireless extension
Jul 15 18:25:16 myserver ifplugd(eth0)[1714]: Initialization complete, link beat not detected.
Jul 15 18:25:16 myserver network: Bringing up interface eth0: failed
Jul 15 18:25:16 myserver portmap: portmap startup succeeded

Different error message than before, but it still failed. But now I get THIS following it:

Jul 15 18:25:16 myserver portmap: portmap startup succeeded
Jul 15 18:25:19 myserver partmon: ^[[65G
Jul 15 18:25:19 myserver partmon: [^[[1;32m
Jul 15 18:25:19 myserver partmon: OK
Jul 15 18:25:19 myserver partmon:
Jul 15 18:25:19 myserver rc: Starting partmon: succeeded
Jul 15 18:25:19 myserver kernel: eth0: New link status: Connected (0001)
Jul 15 18:25:23 myserver dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Jul 15 18:25:23 myserver dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1
Jul 15 18:25:23 myserver kernel: martian source 255.255.255.255 from 192.168.0.1, on dev eth0
Jul 15 18:25:23 myserver kernel: ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:09:5b:4d:ab:d4:08:00
Jul 15 18:25:23 myserver dhclient: bound to 192.168.0.3 -- renewal in 116121 seconds.
Jul 15 18:25:23 myserver ifplugd(eth0)[1714]: client: Determining IP information for eth0... done.
Jul 15 18:25:24 myserver kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:0d.0
Jul 15 18:25:25 myserver alsa: succeeded
Jul 15 18:25:26 myserver ifplugd(eth0)[1714]: Program executed successfully.


o...k.... so first it failed, but then came up anyway. Oh well, guess I shouldn't complain

thanks xpromisex

If it works, it works. May not be perfect - but you could post from Linux right?

glad to hear that it worked.