2.5 module loading problem data

2.5 module loading problem data

[Thomas Molina]

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Rusty,

I am enclosing some data which I hope will be of some use in diagnosing my 
module loading problem.  Feedback would be appreciated.

To recap:  My laptop is a Compaq Presario 12XL325 with a PIII-650 
processor.  The ethernet card is a wireless SMC2632W PCMCIA card.  

The tarball contains the following files

I started with the stock redhat kernel 2.4.18-18.8.0.  I have installed 
Keith Owens rpm of modutils 2.4.22-1

trace24-2422pcmcia - strace service pcmcia start
On a stock RedHat 8.0 system inserting the card starts the service, brings 
up the ethernet device, and runs dhclient to get a dynamic ip address from 
my router.  I unloaded everything and issued the above command to 
reproduce and trace the process.  At the end, I had a fully configured net 
connection.

trace24-2422orinococs - strace modprobe orinoco_cs
I downed the ethernet device and unloaded the orinoco_cs, orinoco, and 
hermes modules.  I then issued the above command and again, I ended with a 
fully configured net connection.

I then installed mod init tools 0.9-alpha and rebooted into a 2.5.50 bk 
kernel which had been compiled with all of the 2.5.50-patches you put up 
on kernel.org.  I booted with the SMC card already in the slot, but the 
modules didn't autoload.  I then inserted the required modules in order 
and got the following strace outputs:

trace25-09apcmciacore - strace modprobe pcmcia_core

trace25-09ayentasocket - strace modprobe yenta_socket

trace25-09ads - strace modprobe ds

trace25-09ahermes - strace modprobe hermes

trace25-09aorinoco - strace modprobe orinoco

trace25-09aorinococs - strace modprobe orinoco_cs

trace25-09adhcp - strace dhcp
dhcp is a bash script which runs the following command:
/sbin/dhclient -1 -q -lf /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-eth0.leases -pf 
/var/run/dhclient-eth0.pid -cf /etc/dhclient-eth0.conf eth0
(the above is all one line)

Hope this helps


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