Bug#488267: lenny-beta2-netinst: wifi interface renaming causes big glitch on first reboot
Barry Tennison <barry.tennison@googlemail.com> writes:
> MAIN PROBLEM: wifi (Prism2) nicely detected, install goes fine till main
> reboot. On reboot, no wifi network. REASON:
> * /etc/network/interfaces was written accurately, but with eth1 as wifi
> interface name
> * on reboot, the interface is called wlan0_rename
> A hand edit of /etc/network/interfaces cured the problem - but not many
> "ordinary" users would be capable of diagnosing or curing this.
Could you send us the following files:
/proc/net/dev
/etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules
And the output of ifconfig
> FAIRLY MINOR PROBLEM: This Vaio laptop has no built-in CD drive, but
> uses one in a docking station - I think it appears as a firewire
> (ieee1394) device at boot time.
> * The installer CD booted fine
> * at CD detect, the installer said no CD drive was present, so unable to
> proceed with install.
> WORKAROUND for this: at CD detect, I plugged in a usb CD drive, which
> was detected fine and installation then proceeded normally.
[...]
> lspci -knn: 02:02.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) [104c:8023]
> lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci
> lspci -knn: Kernel modules: firewire-ohci
[...]
I've started a build adding the firewire-core-modules on the image to
check if they fit now. If they do, I'll ask you to test it.
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