Re: How to tell the system to load right name for wireless card?

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>]

Hi, this may be a problem on the kernel level having nothing to do with 
debian.  Reason I write this is the computer I use has a ralink adapter 
card attached to it which is wireless and it's talkingarch linux and I 
have situations where sometimes the card gets loaded properly on 
talkingarch and sometimes it does not.  Thanks for the lspci -k info, 
I'll use that when I reboot and the card does not get attached correctly 
next time and see if the system like yours finds no network card when 
that happens.  In my .bashrc I put ping -c 5 www.google.com|grep % to 
test if I have a network connection on reboot or power up because of 
this situation now I'll do a little more testing and report what I find 
here.

On Wed, 17 Feb 2016, German wrote:

> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 02:31:45
> From: German <gentgerman@gmail.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: How to tell the system to load right name for wireless card?
> Resent-Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 07:32:00 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> Hi list,
>
> A couple of days ago I asked why my pc changes the wireless card name.
> It switches between AR9285 ( right) and AR5008 ( wrong). Someone
> suggested  that this is because another kernel module is loaded by
> mistake. Well, it is not the case. When system identified with AR9285,
> it loads ath9k and I can connect to the router. When system identifies
> my card as AR5008, no kernel module is present at all ( lspci -k). The
> wrong card name occurs only when system rebooted. If I gracefully shut
> down the system, it always comes up with a right name for the card
> ( AR9285). So, how to force the system identify my card right no matter
> if I reboot or shut down? Thank you.

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