On Nov 12, 2007 4:38 PM, Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> evan foss wrote:
> > On Nov 12, 2007 2:05 PM, Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> evan foss wrote:
> >>> I can wlist wlan0_rename scan but it has issues and seems to alter
> >>> eth1. Now I haven't yet tried this at a location with good signal
> >>> quality. I just want to understand what is happening with the
> >>> interface name(s).
> >> The device renaming is probably handled in directory /etc/udev/rules.d by
> >> a rule with "persistent"
> >> and "net" in its name. On my openSUSE 10.3 system, it is called
> >> 70-persistent-net.rules. On 10.2, it
> >> was 30-xxxxxxx. In this file, you should see statements like
> >>
> >> # PCI device 0x10de:0x0269 (forcedeth)
> >> SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:16:d3:17:07:2e",
> >> NAME="eth0"
> >>
> >> # PCI device 0x14e4:0x4311 (b43, b43legacy, b43legacy)
> >> SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:1a:73:04:1d:e5",
> >> ATTR{type}=="1", NAME="eth1"
> >>
> >> Your rule for the wireless device should have your MAC address
> >> (00:14:a5:b7:54:15) in the address
> >> field. These rules leave the name of wmaster0 alone, at least on the
> >> version of udev that I'm using.
> >>
> >> Larry
> >>
> >
> > Mine was under 70-persistent-net.rules
> > I commented out the following line.
> >
> > # PCI device 0x14e4:0x4311 (bcm43xx)
> > #SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:14:a5:b7:54:15",
> > NAME="eth1"
> >
> > Then reloaded the module. Which caused udev to add this.
> >
> > # PCI device 0x14e4:0x4311 (b43-pci-bridge)
> > SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:14:a5:b7:54:15",
> > ATTR{type}=="1", NAME="wlan0"
> >
> > Which seems to work fine. Except that I still get wmaster0 with wlan0.
> > wlan0 gets the correct mac address but won't let me set essid. It does
> > scan (iwlist). But I think wmaster0 is causing problems it has the
> > same mac address as wlan0 only with a few extra zeros at the end. I
> > suspect that wmaster0 is interfering with wlan0.
>
> Whatever problems you are having, they are not caused by wmaster0. It is a
> "feature" of mac80211,
> and we all have wmaster0 and a separate wlan0, or eth1. It does not get in
> the way.
Oh. Thanks for clearing that up.
> Are you running iwconfig as root when you are trying to set essid? Setting
> anything requires
> privilege. If you are root, what is the error message?
Yes I have been using root. I must have messed up something else. Give
me some time to exhaust my debugging skills.
> Larry
Evan
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