From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Nottingham Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 17:01:02 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] Re: disabling nics using boot options. Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Roy Dragseth (Roy.Dragseth@cc.uit.no) said: > Further investigation shows that if I connect the Gbit interface to a 10Mbs > hub everything works ok, e.g. using the ksdevice=eth2 boot option works as > expected. > > I have narrowed this down to the following problem: When the init process > tries to configure the eth2 with dhcp it fail, but if I logon as root and run > > /etc/init.d/network start > > everything works ok. Subsequent reboots also works ok because now the > information is cached in /etc/dhcpc/. If I remove the cached info the > problem turn up again. So, it works post-install, but not in the installer? Hm. The dhcp client code is different in the two cases, but not in a way that should significantly affect this case. Bill