[ATrpms-users] Re: ipw2200 not working

[Florin Andrei]

On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 16:38 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:

> Funny, just before reading your message, i noticed that ipw2200 was
> really assigned as eth1. This is really strange, since kudzu created
> everything (line in modprobe.conf, or the ifcfg- file) as eth2.
> I think i know why: i also plugged an Atheros card into the system.
> Kudzu probably thought that Atheros was eth1, thence assigned the 2200
> to eth2. But Atheros is actually ath0! :-(
> I will nuke the system then re-install without plugging the Atheros into
> the port and see what happens.

Yup, sure thing, it was kudzu's fault.
I reinstalled the system but didn't plug in the Atheros card until i
actually installed the madwifi drivers (at the very end). This time, the
Pro/2200 got detected as eth1.

See kudzu bug report here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=156761

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/