On Mon, January 8, 2007 10:27 pm, Gus Wirth wrote:
> Lan Barnes wrote:
>> I hope the following attachment speaks for itself.
>
> There is a lot of weirdness here.
>
> Do this to see what the real interface names are:
>
> Blacklist all the ethernet and wireless modules. Then reboot the system
> into single mode. After the system has rebooted, take a look in the
> following directory:
>
> # ls /sys/class/net/
> lo
>
> If the blacklisting worked properly the only directory you will see is
> for the loopback interface, lo.

When I do this, I get both wifi0 and wlan0 as well as lo. I cannot find
out what is creating them. I've renamed network-scripts and networking,
but they still get created.

I'm doing a grep -R wifi from the root right now (long running). Something
must be creating those.

>
> Now manually load the orinoco-pci driver:
>
> # modprobe orioco-pci
>
> Now check the /sys/class/net/ directory again. What do you see?
>
> Poke around and you will be able to see all kinds of information about
> the network interfaces. Use cat to read the files.
>
> 1) There seems to be a difference between wifi0 and wlan0. I'm not sure
> why there are two interfaces showing up when there should only be one. I
> think that wifi0 is some sort of alias for wlan0. Look at the hardware
> address that pops up in ifconfig:
>
> HWaddr 00-05-5D-EE-E7-E1-88-83-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
>
> That's not a real hardware address.

Yeah, I saw that.

So is this a MythDora problem? Maybe I need to ping on them.

>
> 2) You seem to be doing everything with wifi0 and nothing with wlan0.
> I'm stating to think that wlan0 is actually the right name, especially
> since I see more information show up for wlan0. What happens when you
> use wlan0 for all your actions? Rename the ifcfg-wifi0 script to
> ifcfg-wlan0 and see what happens. It may be that you are inadvertently
> aliasing wifi0 to wlan0 and the system is getting confused.
>

Already tried that. No joy. Both still exist, still doesn't work.

-- 
Lan Barnes

SCM Analyst              Linux Guy
Tcl/Tk Enthusiast        Biodiesel Brewer


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