Re: kernel versus broadcom wlan
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:21:19 +0100
Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> wrote:
[snip]
> The problem with the broadcom chip appears to be that the firmware is
> not present at the first boot of a Debian system, so only the master
> device is detected and added to z25_persistent-net.rules. This seems
> somehow to block correct name assignment for the "real" (usable) device
> (later, when the firmware has been installed).
>
> The bugzilla links suggest that you can simply delete or rename the
> persistent-net.rules file and reboot. With the firmware present udev
> obviously creates the rules for the two interfaces at once and
> correctly.
I had this problem; I was also told to reboot, but I believe
that simply commenting out the rule(s) in persistent-net.rules and then
doing 'udevtrigger' is sufficient to generate a correct rewrite of the
rules.
> Florian |
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