[arch-general] On module blacklisting

[Philipp Überbacher]

Excerpts from Tom Gundersen's message of 2011-06-17 11:22:35 +0200:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Philipp Überbacher
> <hollunder at lavabit.com> wrote:
> > I'm trying to make the switch to netcfg but it fails in mulltiple ways.
> >
> > 1) apparently a warning only when connecting to wlan:
> > nl80211: 'nl80211' generic netlink not found
> >
> > The module is indeed not loaded, but not blacklisted either, it simply
> > isn't there (can't modprobe it manually).
> >
> > 2) Ethernet seems to only work in debug mode:
> > $ sudo NETCFG_DEBUG="yes" netcfg ethernet-dhcp
> > DEBUG: Loading profile ethernet-dhcp
> > DEBUG: Configuring interface eth0
> > :: ethernet-dhcp up                                                                                                                                    [BUSY] DEBUG: status reported to profile_up as:
> > DEBUG: Loading profile ethernet-dhcp
> > DEBUG: Configuring interface eth0
> > DEBUG: ethernet_iproute_up ifup
> > DEBUG: ethernet_up dhcpcd -qL -t 10 eth0
> > DEBUG:
> > DEBUG: ethernet_iproute_up hostname eris
> >                                                                                                                                                       [DONE] $ sudo NETCFG_DEBUG="yes" netcfg -d ethernet-dhcp
> > DEBUG: Loading profile ethernet-dhcp
> > DEBUG: Configuring interface eth0
> > DEBUG: status reported to profile_down as: ethernet-dhcp
> > :: ethernet-dhcp down                                                                                                                                  [BUSY] DEBUG: Loading profile ethernet-dhcp
> > DEBUG: Configuring interface eth0
> > DEBUG: ethernet_down dhcpcd -qx eth0
> > DEBUG: ethernet_down if_down
> >                                                                                                                                                       [DONE] $ sudo netcfg ethernet-dhcp
> > :: ethernet-dhcp up                                                                                                                                    [BUSY]  > DHCP IP lease attempt failed.
> >                                                                                                                                                       [FAIL] 3) static ethernet doesn't work at all:
> > $ sudo NETCFG_DEBUG="yes" netcfg ethernet-moheim-static
> > DEBUG: Loading profile ethernet-moheim-static
> > DEBUG: Configuring interface eth0
> > :: ethernet-moheim-static up                                                                                                                           [BUSY] DEBUG: status reported to profile_up as:
> > DEBUG: Loading profile ethernet-moheim-static
> > DEBUG: Configuring interface eth0
> > DEBUG: ethernet_iproute_up ifup
> > DEBUG: ethernet_iproute_up ip addr add 143.205.216.123/24 brd + dev eth0
> > DEBUG: ethernet_iproute_up ip route add default via 143.205.216.255
> > RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
> >  > Adding gateway 143.205.216.255 failed
> > DEBUG: profile_up connect failed
> >                                                                                                                                                       [FAIL]
> >
> > Pretty disappointing, considering that rc.conf and a really dumb bash script just works.
> > The dhcp config is straight from the examples, the static one looks like
> > this:
> > CONNECTION='ethernet'
> > DESCRIPTION='A basic static ethernet connection using iproute'
> > INTERFACE='eth0'
> > IP='static'
> > ADDR='143.205.216.123'
> > GATEWAY='143.205.216.255'
> > DNS=('143.205.64.51','143.205.64.52','143.205.176.16','143.205.176.17')
> >
> > Any ideas what's wrong?
> 
> I don't have time to look at this in the next few days, so please file
>  bug report and it will not be forgotten.
> 
> -t

Thanks Tom, I'll do so.

Philipp