Re: Tibook Wireless Card dissapeared
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 06:05:13PM -0400, Josh Narins wrote:
> > 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.
That's not so unusual. Probably. ... :)
>
> How in heck did it become eth2?
IIRC we had a long thread several months ago on that: As long as you
permanently get eth2 for your WLAN card, you'll have no problem.
Hopefully. You'll have one if you get another name for the card each
time it's loaded via its driver. Because, e.g., you cannot write
permanent rules in your /etc/network/interfaces file for the cards
under such circumstances.
I think (I'm not sure tho') I got rid of that
each-time-another-name-for-the-card-hassle by removing most dhcp
routines from my system. I try avoiding dhcp anyway because it seems
impossible to me to me writing firewall or nfs or, more generally,
networking rules if NIC's get another address each time they're loaded
(You can't predict the address dhcp will assign to your card, IINM).
But perhaps it's just some older 2.6 kernel version that helps for
that here ... :)
Best Regards
Wolfgang
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