On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, DJA wrote:
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.
In /etc/modules.conf:
alias eth0 e1000
alias eth1 orinoco_pci
(or whatever the appropriate drivers are).
-Deke
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