Re: Tibook Wireless Card dissapeared

[Josh Narins <josh@narins.net>]

> On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 02:06:57PM -0400, Josh Narins wrote:
> > > Josh Narins <josh@narins.net> writes:
> > > 
> > > > Is there a way I can just tell the pci subsystem that 0002:24:0f.0 is
> > > > actually a perfectly valid wireless card, perhaps?
> > > 
> > Paul> I get such a device listed, as well as my wireless card, here on my
> > Paul> AlBook.  It's probably just some unrelated Apple weirdness.
> > > 
> > 
> > Is there anyone who might suggest a way I can find out why iwconfig no
> > longer thinks my wireless card is a wireless card? 
> 
> 
> Modules (airport?) loaded?

Thanks, Wolfgang, I did this.

> Wrong kernel version? Did you try booting with another kernel? 
> Broken udev/hal/whatever userland settings?
> Output of dmesg/syslog/kern.log when loading the wireless module(s)

And then I checked dmesg.

Ny wireless card is now eth2. It works as eth2.

How in heck did it become eth2?

I remember, oh, about a year ago, eth0 and eth1 (wire and wireless) once
swapped places, I figured that one out myself.

Any explanations appreciated,

Josh, wireless again