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

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>]

I've had two kinds of instances over here when a wireless wifi adapter 
wasn't picked up correctly.  One of them happened when I accidentally 
changed the usb port the adapter was in and the network profile no 
longer matched.  The second happened as a result of a brown out 
preparatory to a black out of power.  A third instance happened and 
maybe this effects you too.  I run different operating systems on the 
same hardware by swapping out hard drives.  I had run KaliLinux on the 
machine for a little while and returning to talkingarchlinux, on the 
first boot of the machine the wireless wifi adapter wasn't picked up 
correctly.  A subsequent reboot of the machine got a correct connection 
though.  Had this been windows I would have had to reboot more often and 
perhaps would have found this stuff out sooner but we're dealing with 
Linux which is loads more stable especially for those of us who use 
screen readers and accessibility environments like emacspeak.

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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