On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:09:26 -0800
Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michael Buesch wrote:
> > On Friday 14 December 2007 01:05:00 Ray Lee wrote:
> >> Okay, I had to modprobe rfkill-input and rfkill by hand, didn't
> >> realize that. Hopefully that'll be automatic soon. Regardless, upon
> >> doing so, and loading ssb and b43, it sees my card, but is still not
> >> fully functional. iwconfig sees:
> >>
> >> lo no wireless extensions.
> >> eth0 no wireless extensions.
> >> tun0 no wireless extensions.
> >> eth1 no wireless extensions.
> >> wlan0_rename IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
> >> Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
> >> Tx-Power=0 dBm
> >> Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
> >> Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
> >> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> >> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
> >>
> >> (eth0 is ethernet, eth1 doesn't exist -- usually it's the wireless.)
> >>
> >> `ifconfig` doesn't see eth1 or wlan0_rename.
> >>
> >> What else might I be doing wrong?
>
> Your udev rules are screwed up. In /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules,
> you should have a line
> that looks like
>
> SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:1a:73:6b:28:5a",
> ATTR{type}=="1", NAME="eth1"
>
> with the MAC address for your device. You probably have the ATTR{type}=="1"
> clause missing.
I have a 4318, which I've been using for some time with ndiswrapper
(bcm43xx doesn't work very well with it, you know and as I've reported
on this list). I finally decided to take the plunge and try b43, so I
installed 2.6.24-rc4 (vanilla from kernel.org), and began getting
chaos, similar to the OP's. I pretty much gave up, when I saw your
suggestion that the problem is broken udev rules. Sure enough, here is
(was) my persistent-net.rules:
# This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_net_rules
# program, probably run by the persistent-net-generator.rules rules file.
#
# You can modify it, as long as you keep each rule on a single line.
# MAC addresses must be written in lowercase.
# PCI device 0x14e4:0x4318 (bcm43xx)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:19:7d:06:a5:44",
NAME="eth0"
# PCI device 0x14e4:0x170c (b44)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:16:d4:5e:1e:9c",
NAME="eth1"
# PCI device 0x168c:0x0013 (ath_pci)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:40:f4:e5:07:7e",
ATTRS{type}=="1", NAME="ath0"
The two Broadcom lines (wired and wireless cards builtin to my Acer
Aspire 3690-2672 laptop) don't contain the 'ATTRS{type}=="1"' clause,
while the Atheros line (for a PCMCIA card) does. Adding the clause to
the Broadcom wireless line fixed the problem, and it now seems to be
working perfectly (no screen flicker, which I had seen with bcm43xx),
so thanks.
My questions:
A) I have only a very basic understanding of udev; what does that
clause mean? I couldn't figure it out by googling or looking in the
basic udev docs.
B) I'm running Debian Sid; I assume the installer wrote the builtin
cards' lines and the running system the subsequently inserted PCMCIA
line. Is this a bug? Do you know where I should report it? I have
never (until my addition of your clause) touched the ruls file.
C) I wasn't seeing this device naming problem with my old kernels
(2.6.18 - 2.6.22) and bcm43xx / ndiswrapper. Is this a 2.6.24 thing,
or a b43 thing, or some combination thereof, or something else entirely?
Thanks to you and all the devs for all your Broadcom work!
> Larry
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