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[Treeve Jelbert <treeve AT scarlet.be>]

On Thursday 12 January 2006 18:43, Eric Sandall wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Pieter Lenaerts wrote:
> > hi all,
> >
> > I got a very strange issue that started with my update to 2.6.15
> >
> > my wireless interface doesn't come up from the first attempt.
> >
> > it's mostly there at the third try.
> >
> > there's nothing exceptional in the output of udevmonitor, except that at
> > success there is a line about the interface coming up.
> >
> > I solved this in the most ugly way with a loop until eth1 shows up in
> > `iwconfig`
> >
> > I thought the removal of hotplug may have to do with it... not sure
> > though
> >
> > any clues anyone?
> >
> > pieter
>
> I've noticed that my USB devices are not automatically loaded with
> 2.6.15 as well, perhaps it's a similar issue?
>
> -sandalle


there seems to be a general problem whereby modules are not loaded for 
hardware which is present at start-up (usb, i1394, pcmcia, sound,... ).  Once 
the system is up, plugging in a new device creates the device nodes and the 
udev rules load the modules as expected.

I have checked various kernel options and played with the init scripts, but 
so 
far I can't get things to happen automatically. I have some entries 
in /etc/modules at present.

I think that there may be a missing environment variable when udevd starts

-- 
Regards, Treeve