On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 00:00 -0400, Erik Hemdal wrote: > I encountered a really strange issue tonight on an FC2 laptop. I'm > looking to hear if anyone else has had a similar experience, or if > anyone could see if I did something stupid. > > I maintain two network profiles, one for work and one for "everywhere > else". Tonight after returning home, system-network-config crashed upon > trying to switch profiles. My work profile uses only the wired > interface; my Common profile includes both wired and wireless. > > After restarting s-n-c, I was unable to operate my wireless network, > even though the device was shown as 'Active' in the GUI. > > My system has two interfaces, a hardwire Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet > interface and a Netgear MA401 wireless PCMCIA card. Checking the > configuration revealed that no matter what I tried, the system would not > recognize my wireless card, deciding instead that the Broadcom was the > only live interface (it was not connected to anything). > > Here's what I had to do to clear the error: > > 1. Remove all devices in both network profiles. > 2. Save the settings in system-network-config. > 3. Shutdown the system (I suppose that stopping the network would have > sufficed, but I was not taking chances). > 4. Restart and let the system find the Broadcom interface as eth0. > 5. Insert the wireless card and reconfigure it as eth1 from scratch. > > I'm now up and running, but with only the Common profile. I have the > crash dump from s-n-c saved on disk. > > Thanks for the help. Erik > I have seen this in FC2. My fix was to go to "services" and restart pcmcia for the wireless nic to reappear. Hope that helps. -- =Guy 23:10:49 up 1 day, 1:35, 2 users, load average: 2.56, 2.20, 1.85
