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 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
