Yet another failure to network problem

[greggd]

I acquired an RCA DVR40 and upgraded it to 6.2 via PTVUpgrade. Have my serial bash access and am trying to get my AirLink101 USB 2.0 adapter working. I didn't have any luck of the standard install, so I installed the latest backport drivers. I added the usb.map entry for the pruduct id, see the expected "...0xb95/0x7720 not claimed..." message at boot and then nothing more. I tried manually unloading and reloading all the modules but still can't get dhclient to work and ifconfig -a only shows the loopback interface (no lights on the adapter either). Any ideas where I've gone wrong or what to investigate next.

Thanks.

[eastwind]

You have serial access, so post the boot log. ew

[greggd]

I think my problems are solved (at least part). I don't know if the init scripts for 6.2 are stardardized or not, but the PVT upgrade scripts were playing games on me. In the script at boot, it copies drivers from some other directory into /lib/modules overwriting the backport drivers I had placed there. Once I blocked this copying, and reloaded the modules, everything worked.

I did lose my serial shell when the usb connection became active. Is there any reason I can't have both?

[PlainBill]

I think my problems are solved (at least part). I don't know if the init scripts for 6.2 are stardardized or not, but the PVT upgrade scripts were playing games on me. In the script at boot, it copies drivers from some other directory into /lib/modules overwriting the backport drivers I had placed there. Once I blocked this copying, and reloaded the modules, everything worked.

I did lose my serial shell when the usb connection became active. Is there any reason I can't have both?
Nope.

PlainBill