I had almost the same thing with pcmcia card and usbnet device. Solution was to restart the whole network service after system has booted. Eg. when network service started in bootup it failed but after this I've typed service network restart and erything went well. Anyway it's really stupid workaround :( On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 23:11 -0500, W. Guy Thomas wrote: > 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 > -- RAT <rat@xxxxxxxxxx>
