Bug#488267: lenny-beta2-netinst: wifi interface renaming causes big glitch on first reboot

[Barry Tennison <barry@ukph.org>]

Thanks - further info as requested given below.
Shall try to test daily build for the firewire/CD over the weekend.

Barry

> > 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

As requested:

~$ cat /proc/net/dev
Inter-|   Receive                                                |  Transmit
 face |bytes    packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes    packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
    lo: 2187830    5500    0    0    0     0          0         0  2187830    5500    0    0    0     0       0          0
  eth0:       0       0    0    0    0     0          0         0        0       0    0    0    0     0       0          0
  eth1:719541800  483942    0    0    0     0          0         0 21922817  249012    0  578    0     0       0          0
wlan0_rename:710830844  483942    0    0    0     0          0         0 21922817  249012    0    0    0     0       0          0

~$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules
# This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_net_rules
# program run by the persistent-net-generator.rules rules file.
#
# You can modify it, as long as you keep each rule on a single line.

# PCI device 0x8086:0x1031 (e100)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="08:00:46:77:ce:be", NAME="eth0"

# PCI device 0x1260:0x3873 (orinoco_pci)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:d0:59:bd:d5:c5", NAME="eth1"

~$ sudo ifconfig
[sudo] password for bari:
eth1      Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-D0-59-BD-D5-C5-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:485935 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:250096 errors:0 dropped:578 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:722244272 (688.7 MiB)  TX bytes:22014027 (20.9 MiB)
          Interrupt:9

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:5589 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:5589 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:2216904 (2.1 MiB)  TX bytes:2216904 (2.1 MiB)

wlan0_rename Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:d0:59:bd:d5:c5
          inet addr:192.168.137.75  Bcast:192.168.137.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::2d0:59ff:febd:d5c5/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:485935 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:250096 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:713497442 (680.4 MiB)  TX bytes:22014027 (20.9 MiB)
          Interrupt:9


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