Ethernet works fine on my laptop. Wireless works fine on my laptop. Usually.
However, occasionally wireless does not work right after boot up because
something in Linux has swapped device associations between Ethernet and
wireless.
That is, if previously wireless was associated with eth0 and Ethernet
with eth1, on next boot-up, wireless will be associated with eth1 and
Ethernet with eth0. While this may not sound like a problem, it confuses
the heck out of Fedora's system-config-network tool, which won't let me
activate wireless because the MAC addresses are swapped between devices.
Sometimes ifconfig shows both eth0 and eth1 as Ethernet. At the same
time, iwconfig shows wireless at eth1 (for example).
How can I permanently associate a system device with its hardware?
Note: this laptop has Gigabit Ethernet capability. Though it has only
one physical port, I'm not sure if Linux thinks of the hardware as
actually two Ethernet devices (10/100 and 1000) with wireless as a third
device.
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~DJA.
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