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

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

reassign 488267 udev 0.114-2
retitle 488267 Wireless NIC gets renamed to wlan0_rename
thanks

On Saturday 28 June 2008, Barry Tennison wrote:
> I hope you can make something of this.  I'm still at a loss to
> understand where wlan0 gets renamed to wlan0_rename and "by whom" - it
> does seem to be some part of the kernel, rather than userspace (?).

The problem is clearly in udev. You've already found some similar reports, 
here's another: http://bugs.debian.org/465775.

The only thing we can do here is to reassign your report to udev.
As a possible solution, I suggest you change
/etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules as follows:
- change the rule for your wired NIC so that it gets named as eth0
- remove any rules for your wireless NIC

Then adjust /etc/network/interfaces as needed and reboot. From reading 
#465775 that may solve the issue.

Cheers,
FJP