havok1977

I solved this inserting in /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0 : MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=1

Hi every1, I am using mandrake 9.1 and i{ve been using linux for almost three years now, but im having some trouble with my ethernet configuration and i was wondering if someone could help me out, i have a simple class c network on 192.168.0.xx with 255.255.255.0 mask on a 3Com 3c509 card and im using the appropiate kernel module, however when the startup script tries to bring it up, it fails every time, here is the startup script: #! /bin/bash # # network Bring up/down networking # # chkconfig: 2345 10 90 # description: Activates/Deactivates all network interfaces configured to # start at boot time. # probe: false ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: $network ### END INIT INFO # Source function library. . /etc/init.d/functions if [ ! -f /etc/sysconfig/network ]; then echo "NETWORKING=no" > /etc/sysconfig/network exit 0 fi . /etc/sysconfig/network if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia ]; then . /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia fi # Check that networking is up. [ "${NETWORKING}" = "no" ] && exit 0 # if the ip configuration utility isn't around we can't function. [ -x /sbin/ip ] || exit 1 # Even if IPX is configured, without the utilities we can't do much [ ! -x /sbin/ipx_internal_net -o ! -x /sbin/ipx_configure ] && IPX= # Even if VLAN is configured, without the utility we can't do much [ ! -x /sbin/vconfig ] && VLAN= # If IPv6 is explicitly configured, make sure it's available. if [ "$NETWORKING_IPV6" = "yes" ]; then alias=`modprobe -c | awk '/^alias net-pf-10 / { print $3 }'` if [ "$alias" != "ipv6" -a ! -f /proc/net/if_inet6 ]; then echo "alias net-pf-10 ipv6" >> /etc/modules.conf fi fi CWD=`pwd` cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts . network-functions # find all the interfaces besides loopback. # ignore aliases, alternative configurations, and editor backup files interfaces=`ls ifcfg* | LANG=C egrep -v '(ifcfg-lo|:|rpmsave|rpmorig|rpmnew)' | LANG=C egrep -v '(~|.bak)$' | LANG=C egrep 'ifcfg-[A-Za-z0-9.]+$' | sed 's/^ifcfg-//g'` # See how we were called. case "$1" in start) # IPv6 hook (pre IPv4 start) if [ "$NETWORKING_IPV6" = "yes" ]; then if [ -x /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/init.ipv6-global ]; then /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/init.ipv6-global start pre fi fi action "Setting network parameters: " sysctl -n -p /etc/sysctl.conf if [ -r /etc/ethers -a -x /sbin/arp ]; then action "Storing ARP mapping" /sbin/arp -f /etc/ethers fi # bring up loopback interface action "Bringing up loopback interface: " ./ifup ifcfg-lo case "$IPX" in yes|true) /sbin/ipx_configure --auto_primary=$IPXAUTOPRIMARY --auto_interface=$IPXAUTOFRAME if [ "$IPXINTERNALNETNUM" != "0" ]; then /sbin/ipx_internal_net add $IPXINTERNALNETNUM $IPXINTERNALNODENUM fi ;; esac # depreciated but we still use it. if [ -f /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ] && [[ "$FORWARD_IPV4" = "yes" || "$FORWARD_IPV4" = "true" ]]; then action "Enabling IPv4 packet forwarding" sysctl -n -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 fi case "$VLAN" in yes|true) if [ -d /proc/net/vlan ] || modprobe 8021q >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then action "Setting 802.1Q VLAN parameters: " /sbin/vconfig set_name_type DEV_PLUS_VID_NO_PAD else gprintf "No 802.1Q VLAN support available in kernel.n" fi ;; esac oldhotplug=`sysctl kernel.hotplug 2>/dev/null | awk '{ print $3 }' 2>/dev/null` sysctl -n -w kernel.hotplug="/bin/true" > /dev/null 2>&1 cipeinterfaces="" # bring up all other interfaces configured to come up at boot time for i in $interfaces; do eval $(LANG=C fgrep "DEVICE=" ifcfg-$i) if [ -z "$DEVICE" ] ; then DEVICE="$i"; fi if [ "${DEVICE##cipcb}" != "$DEVICE" ] ; then cipeinterfaces="$cipeinterfaces $DEVICE" continue fi if LANG=C egrep -q -L "^ONBOOT=['"]?[Nn][Oo]['"]?" ifcfg-$i; then # this loads the module, to preserve ordering is_available $i continue fi # If we're in confirmation mode, get user confirmation [ -n "$CONFIRM" ] && { confirm $i case $? in 0) : ;; 2) CONFIRM= ;; *) continue ;; esac } if [ "${DEVICE:0:3}" != "eth" -o ${DEVICE/:/} != ${DEVICE} -o ! -x /sbin/ifplugd ] || grep -q '^MII_NOT_SUPPORTED' ifcfg-$i; then action "Bringing up interface %s: " $i ./ifup $DEVICE boot else IFPLUGD_ARGS="${IFPLUGD_ARGS=-w -b}" action "Bringing up interface %s: " $i /sbin/ifplugd $IFPLUGD_ARGS -i $DEVICE fi done # Bring up CIPE VPN interfaces for i in $cipeinterfaces ; do if ! LANG=C egrep -L "^ONBOOT=['"]?[Nn][Oo]['"]?" ifcfg-$i >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then # If we're in confirmation mode, get user confirmation [ -n "$CONFIRM" ] && { confirm $i case $? in 0) : ;; 2) CONFIRM= ;; *) continue ;; esac } action "Bringing up interface %s: " $i ./ifup $i boot fi done sysctl -n -w kernel.hotplug=$oldhotplug > /dev/null 2>&1 # Add non interface-specific static-routes. if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/static-routes ]; then grep "^any" /etc/sysconfig/static-routes | while read ignore args ; do /sbin/route add -$args done fi # IPv6 hook (post IPv4 start) if [ "$NETWORKING_IPV6" = "yes" ]; then if [ -x /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/init.ipv6-global ]; then /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/init.ipv6-global start post fi fi touch /var/lock/subsys/network ;; stop) # If this is a final shutdown/halt, check for network FS, # and unmount them even if the user didn't turn on netfs if [ "$RUNLEVEL" = "6" -o "$RUNLEVEL" = "0" -o "$RUNLEVEL" = "1" ]; then NFSMTAB=`LC_ALL=C awk '!/^#/ && $3 == "nfs" { print $2 }' /proc/mounts` SMBMTAB=`LC_ALL=C awk '!/^#/ && $3 == "smbfs" { print $2 }' /proc/mounts` NCPMTAB=`LC_ALL=C awk '!/^#/ && $3 == "ncpfs" { print $2 }' /proc/mounts` if [ -n "$NFSMTAB" -o -n "$SMBMTAB" -o -n "$NCPMTAB" ] ; then /etc/init.d/netfs stop fi fi # IPv6 hook (pre IPv4 stop) if [ "$NETWORKING_IPV6" = "yes" ]; then if [ -x /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/init.ipv6-global ]; then /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/init.ipv6-global stop pre fi fi # shut down all interfaces (other than loopback) for i in $interfaces ; do eval $(fgrep "DEVICE=" ifcfg-$i) if [ -z "$DEVICE" ] ; then DEVICE="$i"; fi if ! check_device_down $i; then action "Shutting down interface %s: " $i ./ifdown $i boot fi done # kill all the ifplugd instances /usr/bin/killall ifplugd > /dev/null 2>&1 case "$IPX" in yes|true) if [ "$IPXINTERNALNETNUM" != "0" ]; then /sbin/ipx_internal_net del fi ;; esac action "Shutting down loopback interface: " ./ifdown ifcfg-lo if [ -d /proc/sys/net/ipv4 ]; then if [ -f /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ]; then if [ `cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward` != 0 ]; then action "Disabling IPv4 packet forwarding: " sysctl -n -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=0 fi fi if [ -f /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_always_defrag ]; then if [ `cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_always_defrag` != 0 ]; then action "Disabling IPv4 automatic defragmentation: " sysctl -n -w net.ipv4.ip_always_defrag=0 fi fi fi if [ -f /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies ];then if [ `cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies` != 0 ]; then sysctl -n -w net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies=0 fi fi # IPv6 hook (post IPv4 stop) if [ "$NETWORKING_IPV6" = "yes" ]; then if [ -x /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/init.ipv6-global ]; then /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/init.ipv6-global stop post fi fi rm -f /var/lock/subsys/network ;; status) gprintf "Configured devices:n" echo lo $interfaces gprintf "Currently active devices:n" echo `/sbin/ip -o link show | awk -F ": " '/UP>/ { print $2 }'` ;; restart|reload) cd $CWD $0 stop $0 start ;; *) gprintf "Usage: %sn" "$(basename $0) {start|stop|restart|reload|status}" exit 1 esac exit 0 And here is the portion of /var/log/messages that results from runing it: Jul 12 10:52:18 thor network: Shutting down loopback interface: succeeded Jul 12 10:52:18 thor network: Setting network parameters: succeeded Jul 12 10:52:19 thor network: Bringing up loopback interface: succeeded Jul 12 10:52:20 thor ifplugd[4391]: Using interface eth0/00:50:DA:C2:29:84 with driver 3c59x LK1.1.16 Jul 12 10:52:20 thor ifplugd[4391]: ETHTOOL_GLINK failed: Operation not supporte d Jul 12 10:52:20 thor ifplugd[4391]: ifplugd 0.13 successfully initialized, link beat not detected. Jul 12 10:52:20 thor network: Bringing up interface eth0: failed Oh and BTW, when i bring up the card via webmin, it DOES come up, so im guessing the problem is in the init script, but i cant tell where.