Re: [Server-devel] Exploding wireless interfaces on your laptop

2008-12-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > How do you debug this thing? Can you give me a hand? ;-) Right, so I've told udev to get into debug mode, and what it tells me is *very* interesting. When I plug in the antenna (which will trigger 2 device-add events) the first device wor

Re: [Server-devel] Exploding wireless interfaces on your laptop

2008-12-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > Or you could edit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and rename > the offending device to be something else, and rename/edit the ifcfg- > file to match the new device name. Yes, could do that too. Anyway - here's an interesting problem

Re: [Server-devel] Exploding wireless interfaces on your laptop

2008-12-17 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 11:12 -0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > It was, however, something a lot more mundane. > > This test machine is a laptop, and sports its own wifi gear > (centrino). Our device naming scheme for the pair of devices that the > Libertas appears as is wlanN/mshN. However, the buil

[Server-devel] Exploding wireless interfaces on your laptop

2008-12-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
I spent a good part of yesterday trying to diagnose why an active antenna was failing to work on my test mauhine. Not only it was failing, over time stranger and stranger messages would appear in dmesg, random strings, chunks of hex. The machine would get less and less stable, things would fail str