Re: Laptop wireless problem - very slight tangent

[deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com>]

David Wright wrote:

> This laptop works perfectly well with eth1. It justs needs you
> to change wlan0 to eth1 in wicd when you install it (Shift-P and
> type eth1 in the appropriate box).

Ah yes might have been the easier way.
The naming is set in
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

I couldn't find out why and when it changed. Perhaps eth* is typical for
ipw2200 (However https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=78419)

Thanks for helping Lisi. I also suspected the wpa_supplicant for the
problems she had.

I found those articles pretty interesting and useful

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html#_the_basic_network_infrastructure
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch03.en.html#_the_udev_system
https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi

regards