Problems with Thinkpad R52

davalex · 2006-07-07 07:20:44

I have this wired problem with a imb thinkpad r52. The wierd and wireless network card dosent seem to deside witch is eth0 and eth1. When i reboot my wired card can eth0 and next time I reboot the wireless are. Why does this happend? Is it possible to force the wired card to be eth0.

There is no differese when the TP-cabel is plugged in...

Thanks in advandce, Alexander

PenguinFlavored · 2006-07-07 10:17:11

This is udev loading the modules for your network cards in a different order on each boot.

Manually load the modules in the correct order using the MODULES array in your /etc/rc.conf file.

PeteMo · 2006-07-07 10:39:26

Or see this for an alternative method using udev.rules
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ude … _Each_Boot

davalex · 2006-07-07 10:40:49

thanks, hope this fixes it.

PenguinFlavored · 2006-07-07 10:56:10

I never liked the wireless cards being named ethX. Fortunately I haven't run into that problem, as the Madwifi driver names it's if's athX.

So yeah, like the udev rules idea. Too bad my linksys doesn't run udev

tmadhavan · 2006-07-14 08:57:29

I have this problem too. I just put two network settings in the rc.conf, but of course that's not very reliable.

Also, am I right or wrong in thinking that with the Thinkpads (I have a T40, fairly old) you can't have wireless and wired up at the same time? I'm sure I had it working on my desktop. Or at least I was able to have two network devices (eth0, ath0) which I could switch between easily.

I'll check out those links above, cheers.

PenguinFlavored · 2006-07-14 17:33:48

I've got a T30 and I can use wireless and wired at the same time. My wired is the onboard NIC, and my wireless is a cardbus card.

tmadhavan · 2006-07-15 00:55:55

Sorted me right out, cheers

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Problems with Thinkpad R52

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