Re: wireless interface name changes across reboots

2009-06-20 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: This shouldn't be necessary for such a trivial issue. Sure. :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: wireless interface name changes across reboots

2009-06-18 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Girish Kulkarni wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: >> Which package is responsible for this madness? I am guessing udev >> but removing udev also wants to remove the kernel (linux-image) >> package(s). So are there any other work arounds? > > Yes, this is udev. See if http:

Re: wireless interface name changes across reboots

2009-06-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,18.Jun.09, 18:49:22, Girish Kulkarni wrote: > Yes, this is udev. See if http://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi helps you. > In the worst case, a clean reinstall of Lenny cures this! This shouldn't be necessary for such a trivial issue. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don'

Re: wireless interface name changes across reboots

2009-06-18 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: Which package is responsible for this madness? I am guessing udev but removing udev also wants to remove the kernel (linux-image) package(s). So are there any other work arounds? Yes, this is udev. See if http://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi helps you.

Re: wireless interface name changes across reboots

2009-06-18 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Jeffrey Cao wrote: > Do you boot into the same OS with the same kernel? > It's the driver who is responsible for the interface name. Yes. Same OS, same kernel. raju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: wireless interface name changes across reboots

2009-06-18 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi writes: > When I reboot my laptop, my wireless card sometimes gets recognized as eth2. > Other times it gets recognized as wlan0_rename. I don't know the exact reason, but best to my knowledge udev finds different hardware attributes to the network inter

Re: wireless interface name changes across reboots

2009-06-18 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2009-06-18, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > When I reboot my laptop, my wireless card sometimes gets recognized as eth2. > Other times it gets recognized as wlan0_rename. > > Because of this, sometimes I end up with a booted machine with no network. > > Using Debian Lenny (stable), > > $dmesg

wireless interface name changes across reboots

2009-06-17 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
When I reboot my laptop, my wireless card sometimes gets recognized as eth2. Other times it gets recognized as wlan0_rename. Because of this, sometimes I end up with a booted machine with no network. Using Debian Lenny (stable), $dmesg | grep -i wireless [7.493507] iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wi