Dealing with Unreliable Serial Bus (USB NIC)

From: Linnix (me_at_linnix.info-for.us)
Date: 08/27/04 

Date: 27 Aug 2004 08:38:20 -0700

We are trying to setup KDE thins clients over USB. The bare-bone
system is on a 64M Flash Drive and the rest is loaded over USB (over
400MB). Loading takes several minitues. But once loaded, every thing
works fine. The problem is with the USB NIC. Sometimes, it would not
run without one or more power recycles. The driver module is
automatically reloaded. However, "dhcpcd" would have timed-out.
"dhcpcd" is not expecting unreliable network devices.

What would be a reasonable hack?

1. Hacking dhcpcd to not timeout or fail?
2. Merging the dhcpcd function into the NIC driver?
3. Building additional monitoring process?

Comments and/or suggestions are welcome. Thanks.

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