ifconfig freezes sys after booting live cd (ibm thinkpad)

dispanser

Hi,

short problem description:

booting "gentoo dopcmcia" (i have a card that works with axnet_cs module)
ifconfig eth0 -- nothing happens.
next console: killall ifconfig
killall -KILL ifconfig

ifconfig still running.... unkillable. ps shows a "D" as process state (uninterruptible sleep).

of course, i cannot configure the device (using net-setup gives same result, after all it just calls ifconfig anyway). according to /proc/net/dev, eth0 is there. and of course, i can't install w/o net access.

i believe that the dhcp is the key, but the nodhcp option does not seem to work for pcmcia cards (it gets started anyway). I tried booting w/o the dopcmcia option and manually loaded the necessary modules, but when i do this the eth0 interface does not show up (not even in /proc/net/dev, and even though i can't find any module missing that deals with net).

i even mounted my redhat root partition and used that systems ifconfig, but of course that didn't change anything.

so, does anyone have an idea? i already played around with bootoptions (nodetect nohotplug, and about everything else that made at least a little bit sense).

Is there a way to manually download the necessary packages and do a stage1 install without internet access?

Deathwing00 · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 9:56 pm Post subject:

First of all... do you need or not dhcp? If

dispanser · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 10:07 pm Post subject:

i know how to configure network devices, and i don't need dhcp.

the point is: ifconfig simply does not do anything.

i can type "ifconfig eth0" and go drink a coffee, and when i return still nothing happened.

btw, i just booted again a few minutes ago and managed to have eth0 (according to /proc/net/dev) w/o dhcpcd running, but still ifconfig just freezes, so dhcp has nothing to do with it.

btw, i tried killing dhcpcd (on another boot) and it behaved the same way as ifconfig: it did not go away, but instead the process state was changed to "D - uninteruptable sleep".

is there a way to use a different kernel for installation?

Deathwing00 · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 10:14 pm Post subject:

Have you tried running

dispanser · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 10:21 pm Post subject:

Deathwing00 · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 10:29 pm Post subject:

dispanser · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 10:42 pm Post subject:

Deathwing00 · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 10:55 pm Post subject:

agent_jdh · Veteran Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 1783 Location: Scotland

You can boot the LiveCD with dhcp disabled, then use net-setup eth0 to manually configure your ethernet card, although you may have to manually install the driver for your specific card first e.g.

insmod eepro100

For an Intel-based nic

tcpga · n00b Joined: 04 Jun 2003 Posts: 5

I have had the same problem with ifconfig with the new 1.4 release on my laptop. My friend has had it as well. ifconfig just freezes the system. I believe it has something to do with PCMCIA. I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 and he has a slightly newer laptop.

dispanser · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 6:06 am Post subject:

Xyzzy · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2003 Posts: 6

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26027

I ended up using the P3 GRP CD1 and just did the stage 1 instructions with it...

dispanser · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 11:01 am Post subject:

orengutan · n00b Joined: 13 May 2003 Posts: 15 Location: Ottawa Canada

i have the exact same issue with my machine (not a laptop tho)

dhcpd, dhcpd eth0, ifconfig, ifconfig eth0, net-setup eth0 and so on. all hang and then move out to D...

i've never had this problem before with any of the previous gentoo installers, or any other distro for that matter...

i see the bug has been listed: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26091

*oy* i really do not want to download a whole live cd....

brain · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 1:39 pm Post subject:

Hey guys, I'm having the same trouble with a Latitude C800. Seems like the offender is the hotplug service.

Boot off your 1.4_final cd with the kernel option nohotplug (e.g. "gentoo nohotplug") and your ifconfig, dhcpcd, etc. will work fine.

I've had this exact problems with various Compaq servers in the past, which is the only reason it dawned on me

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torque2k · n00b Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 29 Location: MI

If I may ask, are all of your problems happening with ALL versions of the FULL CD1 install disc, or just the BASIC disc?

I ask because I was not impressed with the stage 3 install on a full CD1 i686 disc, so I downloaded the new 0806 version of the BASIC disc to do a stage 1 install (on a Cel 400 notebook, not what I wanted to do, but hoping to use distcc and a few extra machines), and that's when I started having the same problems.

This makes me wonder if it's NOT a hotplug problem, as hotplug works perfectly on my 0803 version of the i686 CD1 LiveCD...

Any thoughts?
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RockHound · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 11:04 am Post subject:

Got the same prob ... ifconfig freezes and goes to D...

Oh well, i guess they didn't check for this one while building the basic CD.

Greetz,

Martin

SLH · n00b Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 58 Location: Newark, DE

Help for searchers on this same topic....

Installing on a Latitude C640 showed the same problem with ifconfig freezing the terminal. In addition, I couldn't get networking going at all with the onboard NIC or a wireless nic that I had on hand. Booting the livecd with "gentoo nohotplug" them using "modprobe 3c59x" and "dhcpcd eth0" got networking up and running.

Thanks again, Gentoo Userbase!!!! You guys rock!

-SLH

Quick edit: I was using the 1.4 basic livecd to install.
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