Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
Hello people,
Since I installed FC6 I'm experiencing some problems with my ipw2200.
Sometimes, when I boot, the wireless card is not properly detected.
The output for ifconfig -a is:
__tmp2093065627 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:35:FD:AA:0F
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1284 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1284 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3144632 (2.9 MiB) TX bytes:3144632 (2.9 MiB)
Interrupt:16 Memory:54020000-54020fff
while usually is eth1.
If I try to use that name with for example dhclient, I get:
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth1: unknown interface: No such device
eth1: unknown interface: No such device
Bind socket to interface: No such device
The problem only disappears after rebooting (sometimes I have to
reboot twice)
I can not find any pattern here.
I looked for in bugzilla and I couldn't find any bugs about this so, I
would like to know if more people has this problem (or if it is
solved) before reporting a bug.
Thanks in advance
Check /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 for:
HWADDR=
If not set, set it. If set incorrectly, set it correctly.
Also check your firmware version:
# ls -l /lib/firmware
...
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191142 Mar 7 2006 ipw2200-bss.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 185660 Mar 7 2006 ipw2200-ibss.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 187836 Mar 7 2006 ipw2200-sniffer.fw
...
Symptoms are exactly as you describe. Workaround is to:
# ifdown eth1
# rmmod ipw220
# modprobe ipw2200
# ifup eth1
That should work every time, but indicates that the firmware may be bad,
or HWADDR is wrong in the ifcfg-eth1 file.
Good luck!
