Re: Laptop wireless problem - very slight tangent
On Tue 05 Jul 2016 at 18:20:15 +0200, deloptes wrote:
> 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)
There is a complex interaction between the kernel and the modules it
loads. Naming of interfaces is the very least of the problems the OP
faces here and is a sideshow.
> Thanks for helping Lisi. I also suspected the wpa_supplicant for the
> problems she had.
The supplicant has been well and truly exonerated.
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