[arch-general] A little weirdness at boot time

[Juan Diego]

about the network card problem, have you tried adding:

QUIRKS="predown"

to your netcfg config file

On 8/29/09, Andre Ramaciotti da Silva <andre.ramaciotti at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> This email is divided in two parts: a curiosity and a problem. They are
> somewhat
> related, so I'm writing both together.
>
> The curiosity:
> Since I've installed Arch Linux in this notebook (in March), the time it
> takes
> to load the modules highly varies. With the current archinit scripts, it
> ranges
> from incredible 150ms to incredible 10 000ms. With the older archinit
> scripts,
> the time weren't exactly the same, but it did vary a lot, too.
>
> At first I thought a "cold boot" would take more than a reboot, but both
> things
> are completely unrelated: a cold boot can take only 150ms and a reboot 9
> 500ms
> and vice versa.
>
> I don't see this as a big problem, I'm just curious to know why. If anyone
> thinks I should report a bug, tell me what other kind of piece of
> information
> would be useful and I'll do it.
>
> The problem:
> Completely unrelated to the question above, the wireless card sometimes
> works,
> sometimes doesn't. It's unrelated because if the boot takes 150ms, the
> wireless
> may or may not work. The same applies if the boot takes 10 000ms. When I say
> it
> doesn't work, I mean that netcfg will fail and print an error:
> 'eth0: interface doesn't support scanning'
>
> Yes, I know it's weird, but I'm using the broadcom-wl module, and it sets
> eth0
> as the wireless card. My cards:
>
> 09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E
> Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 12)
> 0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
>
> and my MODULES array in /etc/rc.conf:
> MODULES=(!b43 lib80211_crypt_tkip wl ...)
>
> TIA,
> Andre
>