vashfish Posted June 1, 2004 Report Share Posted June 1, 2004 1: When I first installed MDK 10.0 Official, it used a certain mouse driver (I can't remember its name) and everything was fine. When I started up my computer for the second time, harddrake told me my mouse had changed, and installed a new driver (psaux). After that, my mouse behavior became quite frustrating. It got slower and less precise, and even with something as simple as one instance of gcc in the background, it gets very jumpy. How can I put it back the way it was? 2: I have a 3c905 TX. MDK installed it just fine. Each time I boot, though, it fails to start eth0. The weird part is that I can type ifup eth0 and that works just fine. Why doesn't it work when I boot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted June 1, 2004 Report Share Posted June 1, 2004 #1 Open up MCC and go to Hardware -> Mouse. Fix your mouse there. #2 I would be willing to bet that your internet still works, even though it reports as "FAILED" on boot. It's a bug. If you install the updates through MandrakeUpdate, everything should be fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vashfish Posted June 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2004 (edited) Well, it turns out that using the 2.6 kernel put the mouse back the way it was originally. It uses the Universal->Any PS/2 or USB Mouse driver instead of the PS/2->Automatic driver. As far as the ethernet thing goes, here is a quote from /var/log/syslog: Jun 2 06:31:00 bob ifplugd(eth0)[931]: ifplugd 0.21b initializing. Jun 2 06:31:00 bob ifplugd(eth0)[931]: Using interface eth0/00:60:97:B9:35:29 with driver <3c59x> (version: LK1.1.19) Jun 2 06:31:00 bob ifplugd(eth0)[931]: Using detection mode: SIOCGMIIPHY Jun 2 06:31:00 bob ifplugd(eth0)[931]: Initialization complete, link beat not detected. Jun 2 06:31:00 bob network: Bringing up interface eth0: failed Also, at this point--I intend to change this once I make sure some other programs are going to work--I don't have a subscription to MandrakeClub so I can't get the updates. Edited June 2, 2004 by vashfish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted June 2, 2004 Report Share Posted June 2, 2004 is the ethernet model one of those mutli BNC/AUI/10base-T ones. If it is it might be set to something other than 10base-T ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vashfish Posted June 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2004 (edited) No. Just a plain old RJ-45. The main thing that makes this weird is the fact that ifup eth0 from the command line works just fine. I even tried the hack from RedHat 9.0 and above where you put check_link_down() { return 1; } in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 Edited June 2, 2004 by vashfish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted June 3, 2004 Report Share Posted June 3, 2004 I'm guessing your using a cable modem to access the net. The cable modem takes some time to "hand shake" with the ISP and get a number to pass to you via DHCP. If you turn on the pc at the same time you turn on the modem try turning on the modem first then waiting 15 to 20 seconds then turning on the PC. This might give it time to connect fully then your boot message will clear up. I leave my cable modem on all the time. I used to have the same problem as you but now the pc always find the net at boot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vashfish Posted June 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2004 Well, you are partially correct. I am using a cable modem. However, it is always on. Also, it is hooked through a wireless router, so it always thinks there is an active connection, so this is unlikely to be the cause. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted June 3, 2004 Report Share Posted June 3, 2004 Sorry about the missunderstanding. Could you discibe your network setup please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vashfish Posted June 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2004 Success! (kind of). The excerpt from /var/log/messages I quoted above gave me an interesting clue: it used ifplugd instead of ifup. After a half an hour of newbieish wanderings through /etc, I finally came across /etc/init.d/network. It had the following: if [ "${DEVICE:0:3}" != "eth" -o ${DEVICE/:/} != ${DEVICE} -o ! -x /sbin/ifplugd ] || grep -q '^MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes' ifcfg-$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 Naively, I commented the whole thing out except for the line in the first if clause. To my amusement, it actually worked. Of course, that is probably not the best way to fix this problem, and I would be very interested to know what was causing it in the first place. But, for now, I don't have to open up a terminal every time I start up my computer just to go online... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted June 3, 2004 Report Share Posted June 3, 2004 My GUESS is you could put it back and in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth0 change the ^MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes' since it looks like its set wrong for YOUR card! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vdubjunkie Posted June 3, 2004 Report Share Posted June 3, 2004 I had this same problem on my server running 9.1 for a long time. I use 3c905's. My fix was replacing that particlar nic with another. I don't know why, but it worked for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted June 3, 2004 Report Share Posted June 3, 2004 I had this same problem on my server running 9.1 for a long time. I use 3c905's. My fix was replacing that particlar nic with another. I don't know why, but it worked for me. if you do this put the lines back!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vashfish Posted June 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2004 Thanks, everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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