Bug#589778: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: prism2.5: hostap loads 90s
Hi Ben,
Thanks for your reply. The laptop with this wireless network card was replaced in the meantime, so this issue is solved for me.
Sten
-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:26:33 +0000
> Von: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> An: Sten Heinze <sten.heinze@gmx.de>
> CC: 589778@bugs.debian.org
> Betreff: Re: Bug#589778: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: prism2.5: hostap loads 90s
> On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 10:10 +0200, Sten Heinze wrote:
> >
> > On Wednesday 21 July 2010 01:32:38 Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 01:04 +0200, Sten Heinze wrote:
> > > > Package: linux-2.6
> > > > Version: 2.6.32-15 and 2.6.32-17
> > > > Severity: minor
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > After upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze loading the hostap* modules
> > for the
> > > > built-in prism2.5 wireless network card need ~90s to load (I think
> > > > loading is done by udev) and thus extend the boot process by this
> > time.
> > > > It is quite annoying to have to wait twice as long as the boot
> > process
> > > > usually takes, e.g. if the orinoco module for this card is loaded
> > (but
> > > > no connection is possible with the orinoco module).
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > Please send the file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules from
> > this
> > > system.
> >
> > Attached.
> >
> > Sten
>
> I'm sorry about this ridiculously belated reply. I think the problem is
> this entry:
>
> > # PCI device 0x1260:0x3873 (orinoco_pci)
> > SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:20:e0:8d:ea:db",
> NAME="eth2"
>
> which now matches two different network devices, initally created as
> 'wifi0' and 'wlan0':
>
> > [ 7.831480] hostap_pci 0000:02:02.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKC] -> GSI
> 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
> > [ 7.833476] hostap_pci: Registered netdevice wifi0
> > [ 7.833487] wifi0: Original COR value: 0x21
> > [ 8.038478] prism2_hw_init: initialized in 200 ms
> > [ 8.039317] wifi0: NIC: id=0x8013 v1.0.0
> > [ 8.039530] wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.1
> > [ 8.039735] wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.5.6
> > [ 8.044622] wifi0: Intersil Prism2.5 PCI: mem=0xec000000, irq=11
> > [ 8.053279] wifi0: registered netdevice wlan0
> > [ 8.094549] udev: renamed network interface wifi0 to eth2
>
> udev's net device naming script is a bit dumb: when it deals with
> 'wlan0' it assumes that the device already named 'eth2' (originally
> 'wifi0') is being dealt with in parallel and is going to get renamed to
> something else. Eventually it gives up waiting.
>
> The simple thing to do is just to delete that entry; the current version
> of udev should automatically generate new entries with the appropriate
> qualifying attributes in addition to the MAC address. Unfortunately I
> don't think there's any good way to make this happen automatically on
> upgrade.
>
> Ben.
>
> --
> Ben Hutchings
> When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson
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