Thu, 12 Jun 2008
Wireless interface renaming fun on Hardy...
As I mentioned in in
my last post I was having problems with wireless.
As the drivers for the rt2500 chipset have been a problem in the past, I
assumed it was the same issue rearing it's ugly head again. I was wrong.
My system had a wlan0_rename interface as well as the expected ra0 interface.
$ sudo iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. ra0 no wireless extensions. wlan0_rename IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"XXXXXXXX"
Hmmmmm... looks like some udev fun! I'd come across the udev replacement for /etc/iftab after we swapped out a network card at $work[0] and the interfaces came up in an odd order. I figured it was something similar here.
$ sudo vim /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules :%s/ra0/wlan0/g $ sudo vim /etc/network/interfaces :%s/ra0/wlan0/g $ sudo rmmod rt2500pci rt2x00pci rt2x00lib $ sudo modprobe rt2500pci $ iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. wmaster0_rename no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"XXXXXX"
Bingo!
