On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 09:31:00PM +0100, Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 22:07 +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > > Hans du Plooy, 12.04.2007 22:00: > > > When I load my wireless driver, be it ndiswrapper or bcm43xxx, the > > > interface comes up as eth0_rename or wlan0_rename, and I see this in > > > dmesg: > > > > > > ndiswrapper: changing interface name from 'wlan0' to 'wlan0_rename' > > > usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper > > > > > > Anybody know why? It's not too much of a problem, the interface still > > > works, it just looks out of place. > > > > Do you have ifrename installed? If yes, just get rid of it and run > > /lib/udev/write_net_rules instead; this will generate udev-based persistent > > naming rules for your network devices; you can modify them by editing the file > > /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules. > > Hi Thanks. I have looked at /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules > before - the devicenames in there were correct but for some reason they > were getting renamed. It seemed not to be reading that file but nothing > turned up in the logs. And I don't have ifrename installed. > > I deleted the z25_persistent-net.rules before and > ran /lib/udev/write_net_rules all_interfaces - it generated a new file > with the device names as they currently were (with _rename). Edited the > file, restarted udev and now it's right. Not sure why it didn't work > right in the first place. > Is it still working after : /etc/init.d/networking restart ? -- Franck Joncourt http://www.debian.org http://smhteam.info/wiki/ GPG server : pgpkeys.mit.edu Fingerprint : C10E D1D0 EF70 0A2A CACF 9A3C C490 534E 75C0 89FE
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