[driverloader] Driverloader: Some improvements

[Stéphane]

Hi,

I have tried this new release for 3 days and it seems to have fixed
all the problem on my system as well.

Thank you!


On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 12:18:27 -0500, Linuxant support (Jonathan)
<support at linuxant.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we have received the emails you have sent to support at linuxant.com but
> unfortunately, we have tried to contact you back but all our attempts to
> contact you failed because of the problem with your email account you had.
> 
> We have implemented the suggestions you have provided in DriverLoader
> 2.25 and it seems to have fixed the problems you have reported on our
> development systems. Please try this new release of DriverLoader and
> please report if it fixed all the problems on your machine as well.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jonathan
> Technical specialist / Linuxant
> www.linuxant.com
> support at linuxant.com
> 
> Bols wrote:
> >  Hi,
> >
> > Last month I sent you a mail to support at linuxant.com but I had also some
> > problems with my email address and I don't know if you received it.
> > Meanwhile I dicovered this mailing list, so here my mail...
> >
> >
> >
> > Fisrt, I wanna thank all your team for the driverloader... you did and
> > still do a great job!
> >
> >
> > I use it for months on Gentoo with my ACX111 based wireless card and I
> > just wanted to suggest you some improvements:
> >
> > 1. On Gentoo (I dunno with the other distros), there are some minor
> > conflicts in the init scripts (boot scripts) after having installed the
> > driverloader:
> >
> > * Services 'driverloaderbuild' and 'checkroot' have circular
> > * dependency of type 'ibefore'; continuing... [ ok ]
> >
> > This isn't a serious problem, it's just very annoying cause you get this
> > avertissement at each boot and after each "emerge".
> >
> > If you check out the two services mentioned
> > (/etc/init.d/driverloaderbuild and /etc/init.d/checkroot) you'll notice
> > that in the "depend()" section, which tells the system what order things
> > need to be loaded in, they both have "before *", so the files are
> > telling the system they both need to be loaded first - before each other
> > - hence the circular dependancy.
> >
> > I got around this by editing the depend() section of
> > /etc/init.d/driverloaderbuild from "before *" to "before net" - since
> > driverloaderbuild only needs to be loaded before the net service is
> > loaded, not before _everything_ else.
> >
> > Note: I dunno what checkroot is but it's installed by default in Gentoo.
> >
> > References on Gentoo's forum <http://forums.gentoo.org>:
> >
> > - When compiling from stage2, there's a circular dependency
> > <http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1741441#1741441>
> > - Circular Dependency???
> > <http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=238785&highlight=driverloaderbuild>
> >
> > - What is a circular dependency how to fix it
> > <http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=238455&highlight=driverloaderbuild>
> >
> >
> >
> > 2. Still on Gentoo, there is an random issue with the runlevel of the
> > driverloader init script which prevents some net related process to works:
> >
> > If you check out the runlevel (rc-update show) of the driverloader
> > script and the one of your net device (net.eth0, net.eth1, net.wlan0,
> > ...) script, you'll notice that they both have the same runlevel set to
> > "default" (Gentoo's handbook says to set the runlevel of your net device
> > script to "default"). So... randomly, the driverloader init script can
> > be started *after* the  net device script... and the net configuration
> > (dhcpcd, ...) fails cause the driverloader is not yet loaded.
> >
> > The only way to solve this problem is to set the runlevel of the
> > driverloader init script to "boot"... this way it'll *always* be loaded
> > before the net init script and you are sure the net configuration will
> > always suceeds.
> >
> > More explanations here:
> >
> > - dhcpcd randomly fails at boot
> > <http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=288583>
> >
> >
> > You can get some documentation about the initscripts here:
> >
> > Gentoo's Handbook: 4. Initscripts
> > <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-hppa.xml?part=2&chap=4>
> >
> >
> > I Hope these short explanations will help you to solve these issues
> > quickly.
> > If you need more information, feel free to mail me!
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> >
> > Bols
> >
> >
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