Hi, On Don, 11 Jän 2007, Mauro Darida wrote:
> after upgrading from sarge to etch and switching from kernel 2.6.10 to > self-compiled 2.6.19 my wireless cisco card is not working properly, because > I need to configure it manually at every reboot: > # iwconfig eth2_rename essid "*******" > # iwconfig eth2_rename key s:******* thats clearly a bug of UDEV. I suggest you purge ifrename udev and delete the /etc/udev /etc/hotplug (a backup is always nice) and then make a fresh reinstall of udev. and .. for laptops the network-manager is really nice addon. > Besides, I would like to know a way to change the interface name > from "eth2_rename" to a normal "eth2"...(It was configured as "eth1" in sarge > and worked flawlessy). > I am using the kernel cisco driver and the yenta-socket module in a sony vaio > FX-802; the following is what the kernel says at boot-up: > airo(): Finished probing for PCI adapters > pcmcia: request for exclusive IRQ could not be fulfilled. > pcmcia: the driver needs updating to supported shared IRQ lines. > airo(eth2): cmd:111 status:7f11 rsp0:2 rsp1:0 rsp2:0 > airo(eth2): Doing fast bap_reads > airo(eth2): WPA unsupported (only firmware versions 5.30.17 and greater > support WPA. Detected 5.02.19) > airo(eth2): MAC enabled 0:f:f8:4e:0:43 > eth2: index 0x05: , Vpp 5.0, irq 10, io 0x0100-0x013f > > I don't know why, but after that ifconfig reports only an "eth2_rename" > wireless interface. -- Florian Reitmeir
