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That being said, I've had a bit of an opportunity to research this. Initramfs-tools is responsible for updating the initramfs and including modules in the initramfs. Unfortunately I don't think that adding usbnet and cdc_ether to the default initramfs produced by the distro is the correct course of action on this case. That being said, it may be possible to create the maas images with all network modules in it as that would make more sense, in my opinion. I guess this is why Andre originally opened this against maas-images. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1639202 Title: Cannot enlist/commission machines in MAAS 2.1 with usb network adapter Status in MAAS: Incomplete Status in maas-images: New Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: After upgrade from MAAS 2.0 to MAAS 2.1: Cannot enlist/commission client machines via network boot (or pre- staging machine) when using usb-c network adapter D59GG (e.g. Precision 5510). This was working ok with MAAS 2.0. Using the Xenial 16.04 base image for enlist/commission (no minimum kernel set). Enlist/Commission/Deploy works fine with other laptop and desktop models which have a built in NIC. From an already deployed Precision 5510 system (16.04.1) I can see the following module is loaded when the usb-c adapter is connected (and working): $ lsmod usbnet 45056 1 cdc_ether Errors received on client during enlisting with MAAS: no /run/net-bootif.conf lvmetad is not activated ...invalid path for logical volume. gave up waiting for root device common problems: boot args (cat /proc/cmdline) check rootdelay = (did system wait long enough) check root = (did the system wait for the right device?) missing modules (cat /proc/modules) ALERT! /dev/disk/by-path/ip-<ipaddress>:3260-iscsi-iqn,2004.05.com.ubuntu:maas:ephemeral-ubuntu-amd64-generic-xenial-daily-lun-1 does not exist. Dropping to shell! usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid usbhid: USB HID core driver - cat /proc/cmdline shows mac address that of usb-c network adapter. - cat /proc/modules includes “usbnet 45056 cdc_ether, Live 0xffffffffc009c000” - cat /proc/modules | grep usb … includes “ usbnet 45056 and usbhid 49152” I've tried enlisting with older boot image and different kernel versions (14.04 and 16.04 with ga-16.04, hwe-16.04 set) but get the same problem. It seems like the usb-c network adapter isn't loading properly or maybe just not quickly enough? Please let me know if you require any more info. I can provide info from /var/log/maas/* and dpkg -l '*maas*'|cat if need be. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/maas/+bug/1639202/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
