Re: [gNewSense-users] Lemote: network interfaces down at startup

[Federico Bruni]

On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 23:04 +0200, Sam Geeraerts wrote:
> Federico Bruni schreef:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have the following problem:
> > 
> > when I start the system network interfaces are all down (except for lo).
> > I'm not using any network manager.
> > 
> > I used rcconf to disable /etc/init.d/networking, in order to avoid waste
> > of time at startup (because interfaces are down so DHCP makes several
> > tries in vain).
> 
> I had a quick look at this. The wifi chip is switched on by 
> /etc/init.d/yeeloong-base. The boot sequence starts with runlevel S 
> (including networking), followed by runlevel 2 (including 
> yeeloong-base). So it tries to bring up the network while it is still 
> unavailable.
> 
> This is my unconfirmed suspicion. If this is true then you should be 
> able to get it working by linking /etc/init.d/yeeloong-base in 
> /etc/rcS.d/ before networking.
> 

Could you please tell me how to achieve that?
Should I just use a symbolic link?

ln -s /etc/rcS.d/yeeloong-base /etc/init.d/yeeloong-base

I'm not confident at all with rc...

Maybe this can help:

address@hidden:~$ ls /etc/rc*
/etc/rc.local

/etc/rc0.d:
K09apache2          K20yeeloong-base     S20sendsigs      S40umountfs
K20lpd              K25hwclock.sh        S30urandom       S60umountroot
K20nfs-common       K63mountoverflowtmp  S31umountnfs.sh  S90halt
K20openbsd-inetd    K90rsyslog           S32portmap
K20policycoreutils  README               S35networking
K20rsync            S15wpa-ifupdown      S36ifupdown

/etc/rc1.d:
K09apache2  K20lpd            K20policycoreutils  K81portmap  README
K11cron     K20nfs-common     K20rsync            K88dbus
S30killprocs
K16hal      K20openbsd-inetd  K20yeeloong-base    K90rsyslog  S90single

/etc/rc2.d:
README      S20lpd            S20policycoreutils  S24hal
S99rc.local
S10rsyslog  S20nfs-common     S20rsync            S89cron
S99rmnologin
S12dbus     S20openbsd-inetd  S20yeeloong-base    S91apache2
S99stop-bootlogd

/etc/rc3.d:
README      S20lpd            S20policycoreutils  S24hal
S99rc.local
S10rsyslog  S20nfs-common     S20rsync            S89cron
S99rmnologin
S12dbus     S20openbsd-inetd  S20yeeloong-base    S91apache2
S99stop-bootlogd

/etc/rc4.d:
README      S20lpd            S20policycoreutils  S24hal
S99rc.local
S10rsyslog  S20nfs-common     S20rsync            S89cron
S99rmnologin
S12dbus     S20openbsd-inetd  S20yeeloong-base    S91apache2
S99stop-bootlogd

/etc/rc5.d:
README      S20lpd            S20policycoreutils  S24hal
S99rc.local
S10rsyslog  S20nfs-common     S20rsync            S89cron
S99rmnologin
S12dbus     S20openbsd-inetd  S20yeeloong-base    S91apache2
S99stop-bootlogd

/etc/rc6.d:
K09apache2          K20yeeloong-base     S20sendsigs      S40umountfs
K20lpd              K25hwclock.sh        S30urandom       S60umountroot
K20nfs-common       K63mountoverflowtmp  S31umountnfs.sh  S90reboot
K20openbsd-inetd    K90rsyslog           S32portmap
K20policycoreutils  README               S35networking
K20rsync            S15wpa-ifupdown      S36ifupdown

/etc/rcS.d:
README               S12mtab.sh                S43portmap
S01glibc.sh          S18ifupdown-clean         S44nfs-common
S02hostname.sh       S20module-init-tools      S45mountnfs.sh
S02mountkernfs.sh    S30checkfs.sh             S46mountnfs-bootclean.sh
S03udev              S30procps                 S48console-screen.sh
S04mountdevsubfs.sh  S35mountall.sh            S55bootmisc.sh
S05bootlogd          S36mountall-bootclean.sh  S55urandom
S05keymap.sh         S36udev-mtab              S70x11-common
S08hwclockfirst.sh   S37mountoverflowtmp       S75sudo
S10checkroot.sh      S39ifupdown               S99stop-bootlogd-single
S11hwclock.sh        S40networking