Wireless interface stopped working in Etch
My Edimax EW-7108pcg PCMCIA wifi card (rt2500 driver) works perfectly in
my constantly upgraded version of Etch (Testing). I installed the rt2500
driver some weeks ago. The same driver, built in the same way, will not
work in a fresh install of Etch in a new partition on the same machine
(Thinkpad T20).
In both cases I built the rt2500 module from the rt2500-source package
using module assistant. The resulting modules package was the same version:
rt2500-modules-2.6.17-2-686 version 1.1.0+cvs20060620-3+2.6.17-9
On the fresh install I have also tried the rt2x00 module. On the fresh
install I have also tried ndswrapper for the Edimax card and another
card (D-Link DWL-G650), but no luck. The interface will not come up
(using ifup).
With the rt2500 module, the card is detected and the rt2500 module loads
OK in both cases. The only difference that I can find between the two
systems is that the name allocated to the wireless interface is
different. On the working system, the command iwconfig gives wlan0 for
the wireless interface:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
irda0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 RT2500 Wireless ESSID:"essid-of-my-modem/router"
[...]
sit0 no wireless extensions.
On the fresh install, the interface's name has been changed from wlan0
to eth1. (Also, irda0 and sit0 are not detected):
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 RT2500 Wireless ESSID:""
[...]
When I installed ndiswrapper on the fresh install, the wireless
interface appeared as wlan0_rename
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0_rename RT2500 Wireless ESSID:""
[...]
Does anyone know what might be causing the wireless interface to have
different names on the fresh install of Etch? Any suggestions gratefully
received.
--
Chris.
Reply to: