By the way, have you tried the madwifi driver from Scientific Linux?
madwifi-0.9.3.1-10.sl4
kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.9-55.0.2.EL-0.9.3.1-10.sl4
kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.9-55.0.2.EL-0.9.3.1-10.sl4
Urs
Ken Teh wrote:
I thought I'd ask before looking further into what happened. The symptom
is this: I upgrade madwifi from atrpms after the recent kernel upgrade
in SL4x. Now, the /etc/rc.d/init.d/network scripts hangs spewing the
following message (doing this from memory so it may not be exact)
cannot change name ath0 to devXXXX: File exists
where XXXX is some random number. Each spew is a different number. The
following are true:
(1) To get init.d/network to complete during bootup, I simply remove
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wifi0.
(2) madwifi works fine if I activate it via 'ifup wifi0'
(3) All my network devices are set to ONBOOT=no (It's my laptop). The
message comes from init.d/network which is enabled to activate the lo
device. The 'cannot change name' message comes from the
is_available
function which is found in the 'start' case. is_available is loaded from
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions
Actually, the problem comes from the
rename_device
function (found in the same functions script) which is called by
is_available.
I'm not keen to know the whys and wherefores so if anyone has a quick
solution, I'd be much obliged. But, if not, some background as to what
these functions do might help me unravel what's going on and how to fix it.
Ken
