On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 07:24:28AM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: >I am having a small problem with the networking on the Debian Etch >system I have installed on my Fujitsu P7120 notebook... > >The notebook has both wired and a wireless, with the wireless interface >sometimes showign up as eth1, and sometimes as eth2. > >I just booted with /etc/network/interfaces specifying eth2 as the >device to be configured with DHCP, but it didn't work because eth1 was >the wireless interface. I edit the file to change it to eth1 and >reboot, and sure enough now the wireless interface has changed to eth2 >:-/ >I change /etc/network/interfaces back and on my third attempt am >successful, but it is a bit of a tedious way to boot the system. > >Does this indicate a problem, or have I omitted some aspect of the >configuration? There is no problem, it has happened to others on the list. There was a post on the list on solving it not so long ago. I solved it by having my wireless turn up as wlan0. For my card that's controlled with an option to the driver. I just stuck the line options rt2500 ifname=wlan%d in a file in /etc/modprobe.d/. I'm not sure if other drivers support doing the same. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus@therning.org http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. Good powers of observation are frequently called "cynicism" by those that don't have them.
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