Re: How to tell the system to load right name for wireless card?
I've had two kinds of instances over here when a wireless wifi adapter wasn't picked up correctly. One of them happened when I accidentally changed the usb port the adapter was in and the network profile no longer matched. The second happened as a result of a brown out preparatory to a black out of power. A third instance happened and maybe this effects you too. I run different operating systems on the same hardware by swapping out hard drives. I had run KaliLinux on the machine for a little while and returning to talkingarchlinux, on the first boot of the machine the wireless wifi adapter wasn't picked up correctly. A subsequent reboot of the machine got a correct connection though. Had this been windows I would have had to reboot more often and perhaps would have found this stuff out sooner but we're dealing with Linux which is loads more stable especially for those of us who use screen readers and accessibility environments like emacspeak. On Wed, 17 Feb 2016, German wrote: Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 02:31:45 From: German To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: How to tell the system to load right name for wireless card? Resent-Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 07:32:00 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Hi list, A couple of days ago I asked why my pc changes the wireless card name. It switches between AR9285 ( right) and AR5008 ( wrong). Someone suggested that this is because another kernel module is loaded by mistake. Well, it is not the case. When system identified with AR9285, it loads ath9k and I can connect to the router. When system identifies my card as AR5008, no kernel module is present at all ( lspci -k). The wrong card name occurs only when system rebooted. If I gracefully shut down the system, it always comes up with a right name for the card ( AR9285). So, how to force the system identify my card right no matter if I reboot or shut down? Thank you. --
Re: How to tell the system to load right name for wireless card?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 07:02:07AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > [...] In my .bashrc I put ping -c 5 > www.google.com|grep % to test if I have a network connection on > reboot or power up [...] Hint: ping tells you with an exit status of 0 that all's dandy, so perhaps you don't need the grep. Ex. # 8 sec deadline if ping -c 2 -w 4 ; then echo "yay" else echo "nay" fi Add option -q and others to taste. Of course, if you are just displaying (and not firing off other scripts) grep is fine :-) regards - -- t -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlbEXXkACgkQBcgs9XrR2kaiVgCfSHGgS7BmG7PmdQfSXH1OAVPa XTIAn27Oyy8/f9C/Gbl2jq4WUWR4Vj6Z =VT2Z -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: How to tell the system to load right name for wireless card?
Hi, this may be a problem on the kernel level having nothing to do with debian. Reason I write this is the computer I use has a ralink adapter card attached to it which is wireless and it's talkingarch linux and I have situations where sometimes the card gets loaded properly on talkingarch and sometimes it does not. Thanks for the lspci -k info, I'll use that when I reboot and the card does not get attached correctly next time and see if the system like yours finds no network card when that happens. In my .bashrc I put ping -c 5 www.google.com|grep % to test if I have a network connection on reboot or power up because of this situation now I'll do a little more testing and report what I find here. On Wed, 17 Feb 2016, German wrote: Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 02:31:45 From: German To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: How to tell the system to load right name for wireless card? Resent-Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 07:32:00 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Hi list, A couple of days ago I asked why my pc changes the wireless card name. It switches between AR9285 ( right) and AR5008 ( wrong). Someone suggested that this is because another kernel module is loaded by mistake. Well, it is not the case. When system identified with AR9285, it loads ath9k and I can connect to the router. When system identifies my card as AR5008, no kernel module is present at all ( lspci -k). The wrong card name occurs only when system rebooted. If I gracefully shut down the system, it always comes up with a right name for the card ( AR9285). So, how to force the system identify my card right no matter if I reboot or shut down? Thank you. --
How to tell the system to load right name for wireless card?
Hi list, A couple of days ago I asked why my pc changes the wireless card name. It switches between AR9285 ( right) and AR5008 ( wrong). Someone suggested that this is because another kernel module is loaded by mistake. Well, it is not the case. When system identified with AR9285, it loads ath9k and I can connect to the router. When system identifies my card as AR5008, no kernel module is present at all ( lspci -k). The wrong card name occurs only when system rebooted. If I gracefully shut down the system, it always comes up with a right name for the card ( AR9285). So, how to force the system identify my card right no matter if I reboot or shut down? Thank you.
