Hi Ben, Thanks for your reply. The laptop with this wireless network card was replaced in the meantime, so this issue is solved for me.
Sten -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:26:33 +0000 > Von: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> > An: Sten Heinze <[email protected]> > CC: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: Bug#589778: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: prism2.5: hostap loads 90s > On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 10:10 +0200, Sten Heinze wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 21 July 2010 01:32:38 Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 01:04 +0200, Sten Heinze wrote: > > > > Package: linux-2.6 > > > > Version: 2.6.32-15 and 2.6.32-17 > > > > Severity: minor > > > > > > > > > > > > After upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze loading the hostap* modules > > for the > > > > built-in prism2.5 wireless network card need ~90s to load (I think > > > > loading is done by udev) and thus extend the boot process by this > > time. > > > > It is quite annoying to have to wait twice as long as the boot > > process > > > > usually takes, e.g. if the orinoco module for this card is loaded > > (but > > > > no connection is possible with the orinoco module). > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > Please send the file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules from > > this > > > system. > > > > Attached. > > > > Sten > > I'm sorry about this ridiculously belated reply. I think the problem is > this entry: > > > # PCI device 0x1260:0x3873 (orinoco_pci) > > SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:20:e0:8d:ea:db", > NAME="eth2" > > which now matches two different network devices, initally created as > 'wifi0' and 'wlan0': > > > [ 7.831480] hostap_pci 0000:02:02.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKC] -> GSI > 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 > > [ 7.833476] hostap_pci: Registered netdevice wifi0 > > [ 7.833487] wifi0: Original COR value: 0x21 > > [ 8.038478] prism2_hw_init: initialized in 200 ms > > [ 8.039317] wifi0: NIC: id=0x8013 v1.0.0 > > [ 8.039530] wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.1 > > [ 8.039735] wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.5.6 > > [ 8.044622] wifi0: Intersil Prism2.5 PCI: mem=0xec000000, irq=11 > > [ 8.053279] wifi0: registered netdevice wlan0 > > [ 8.094549] udev: renamed network interface wifi0 to eth2 > > udev's net device naming script is a bit dumb: when it deals with > 'wlan0' it assumes that the device already named 'eth2' (originally > 'wifi0') is being dealt with in parallel and is going to get renamed to > something else. Eventually it gives up waiting. > > The simple thing to do is just to delete that entry; the current version > of udev should automatically generate new entries with the appropriate > qualifying attributes in addition to the MAC address. Unfortunately I > don't think there's any good way to make this happen automatically on > upgrade. > > Ben. > > -- > Ben Hutchings > When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
