Re: [PATCH] Console: fall back to /dev/null when no console is availlable

From: Jan-Benedict Glaw
Date: Thu Oct 07 2004 - 09:42:16 EST


On Tue, 2004-10-05 21:27:12 +0100, Russell King <rmk+lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message <20041005212712.I6910@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 08:52:14PM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> It's rather annoying because it currently means that, when my PCMCIA net
> interface on the firewall comes up, the IPv4 configuration works fine
> but IPv6 configuration falls dead on its nose without any explaination
> why.
>
> And, like I say, redirecting fd0,1,2 fixes it.

I see this at home, too, but here, I use radvd to distribute a working
IPv6 configuration. However, the root cause seems to be different: this
card (some cheap NE2k clone driven by pcnet_cs) seems to ignore the
router advertisements. If I 'ifconfig eth0 promisc' the interface right
after insertion (before the timer for interface IPv6-auto-configutation
expires), it works as expected...

MfG, JBG

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