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Herd-5 rt73 module / modules.dep

Asked by Yigal Weinstein

installed Herd-5 with regular "feisty-desktop-i386.iso". Install went well. On reboot everything was incredibly slow so I killed GDM, and used top and found Networkmanager was using 98% of the CPU. So pkill -9 NetworkManager* and CPU usage went down 0-3% - good. But I need wireless and I see Herd-5 already has rt73 from rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/ installed by default (which is very nice as my only connection to a desktop is upstairs using wireless getting the machine down to use the ethernet is challenging.).

So upon asking my wifi to come up the pain begins. This is how I do it.
mount /dev/"edgy" /media/edgy
sudo cp /media/edgy/etc/network/interfaces /etc/network/interfaces
ifconfig -a | grep rausb0
rausb0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

So it has the same name as edgy's did - as would make sense because we got the drivers from the same place.

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

I am in GNOME unfortunately because at this time the CPU usage is at 98% and the culprit this time is ifconfig.

Of course I in vain attempt to: pkill -9 ifconfig which results in a for all sense and purposes frozen system.

After 10 minutes of waiting its Alt+PrintScr+b . On reboot
/lib/modules/2.6.20-9-generic/modules.dep is empty and of course nothing except for GDM works at this point. So no mouse, no wifi and seemingly a completely broken system.

I have ideas on what the culprit is but I have reinstalled Herd-5 twice and I can't take anymore pain right now.

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Yigal Weinstein (yigal) said : 		#1

note the method:
mkdir edgy
mount /dev/"edgy" /media/edgy
sudo cp /media/edgy/etc/network/interfaces /etc/network/interfaces
sudo /etc/init.d/networking

works on the live CD but not on installation.

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Yigal Weinstein (yigal) said : 		#2

ooh, I am sorry I didn't tell you what kind of computer I have. Very simple P4 1.8GHz 512Mb ram GeForce FX 5200 graphics card for Beryl :-) 2 hard drives 1 80Mb and the other 40Mb.

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Yigal Weinstein (yigal) said : 		#3

ok, so
#depmod -a

brought back my modules. So I have a mouse, and rt73 module but the problem is still there. I am updating everything through chroot from edgy right now and hopefully this will solve my problem.

Has something to do with iface ?

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Best Yigal Weinstein (yigal) said : 		#4

I solved my problem. Two drivers were being loaded when I stuck my usb stick in, rt2570 and rt73. I blacklisted rt2570 as I had already set up Edgy with rt73 and don't want to worry about changing my /etc/network/interfaces file.

I found this out by of course the only sensible command I should have used at the beginning namely,

dmesg | tail