[driverloader] Have to rerun dldrconfig after re-boot. SUSE 9.1 Driverloader 2.04

Kevin Leighton kevinleighton at blueyonder.co.uk
Wed Aug 18 01:11:28 EDT 2004 

I know this one appears from time to time but the resolutions I have 
seen do not help with this issue so please bear with me.

I have SUSE 9.1 professional and have just upgraded the kernel from 
2.6.4-52-default which worked fine with Driverloader to 2.6.5-7.104. I 
upgraded  Driverloader to match and ever since I have mostly had to run 
"dldrconfig" after booting to get my Belkin Wireless Network card to 
work properly.

I have tried versions 2.03 and 2.04 both specific rpm and generic 
versions with the same result. I thought I had cracked it with 2.04 
because after the first reboot of the PC it worked fine but on the 
second I am back to square one and have had to run dldrconfig again. I 
have run the tests prescribed in the FAQ and mostly everything seems to 
be OK however the output from /sys/var/messages repeatedly has the line 
"kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: wlan0: transmit timed out"

I did try putting the string "alias wlan0 driverloader" (without the " 
"'s) into modprobe.conf and modprobe.conf.local but this hasn't made any 
difference.

I have put the results of the various queries below and I hope somebody 
can help me out now as I am feeling somewhat mystified after it worked 
so well with the previous kernel.

Many thanks in anticipation

Kevin ..


*Upstairs:~ # lsmod*
Module                  Size  Used by
edd                     9368  0
joydev                 10304  0
sg                     35616  0
st                     39196  0
sd_mod                 20224  0
sr_mod                 16292  0
scsi_mod              108876  4 sg,st,sd_mod,sr_mod
nvram                   8456  0
usbserial              29040  0
parport_pc             35520  1
lp                     11044  0
parport                37832  2 parport_pc,lp
snd_seq_oss            31232  0
snd_pcm_oss            57512  0
snd_mixer_oss          18944  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_midi            9120  0
snd_seq_midi_event      7680  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_opl3_synth         16388  0
snd_seq_instr           7808  1 snd_opl3_synth
snd_seq_midi_emul       7936  1 snd_opl3_synth
speedstep_lib           3712  0
snd_seq                54928  9 
snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_opl3_synth,snd_seq_instr,snd_seq_midi_emul
snd_ainstr_fm           2944  1 snd_opl3_synth
freq_table              4612  0
snd_es1938             21672  4
snd_pcm                97032  2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_es1938
snd_page_alloc         11528  1 snd_pcm
snd_opl3_lib           11008  2 snd_opl3_synth,snd_es1938
snd_timer              25860  3 snd_seq,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib
snd_hwdep               9860  1 snd_opl3_lib
gameport                4736  1 snd_es1938
snd_mpu401_uart         8064  1 snd_es1938
snd_rawmidi            25508  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          8456  6 
snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_opl3_synth,snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd                    61444  26 
snd_seq_oss,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_opl3_synth,snd_seq_instr,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq,snd_es1938,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore               9056  1 snd
ipv6                  237440  15
af_packet              20872  2
ohci_hcd               19332  0
sis_agp                 7424  1
agpgart                30888  1 sis_agp
driverloader          275816  0
evdev                   9856  0
usbcore               103644  5 usbserial,ohci_hcd,driverloader
ide_cd                 36740  0
cdrom                  36764  2 sr_mod,ide_cd
subfs                   7424  3
dm_mod                 50300  0
reiserfs              241360  1


*Upstairs:~ # ifconfig -a*
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:47 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:47 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:3196 (3.1 Kb)  TX bytes:3196 (3.1 Kb)

sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
          NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:BD:F1:60:5C
          inet addr:192.168.2.3  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::230:bdff:fef1:605c/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:42 errors:59 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:2059 (2.0 Kb)  TX bytes:4846 (4.7 Kb)

*Upstairs:~ # iwconfig*
lo        no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"wireless1"  Nickname:"BelkinCardUpstairs"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.432GHz  Access Point: 00:30:BD:F5:41:EB
          Bit Rate=54Mb/s   Tx-Power=14 dBm
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:100/100  Signal level:-35 dBm  Noise level:-68 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:147   Missed beacon:0

sit0      no wireless extensions.


*messages*

Aug 17 22:24:10 Upstairs kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: wlan0: transmit timed out
Aug 17 22:24:42 Upstairs last message repeated 8 times
Aug 17 22:25:46 Upstairs last message repeated 16 times
Aug 17 22:26:46 Upstairs last message repeated 15 times
Aug 17 22:27:46 Upstairs last message repeated 15 times
Aug 17 22:28:46 Upstairs last message repeated 15 times

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