Network profile bind to mac address, possible?

roland · 2006-08-30 00:33:43

Hello,
I use ipw2100 to enable my wireless and have also a ethernet card on my laptop. However, even I configured the rc.conf as follows

lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
#eth0="dhcp"
eth1="dhcp"
#INTERFACES=(lo eth0 eth1)
INTERFACES=(lo eth1)

Well, it seems that sometimes eth1 corresponds to the wireless and sometimes to the ethernet card. I notice this by the time lag when the computer boots up. So, I started using the network profiles but no luck. I am not able to bind eth1 to the wireless card and was wondering wether it was possible to enter in the network-profiles a line that would bind eth1 to the wireless mac address.

Thanks,

Roland

kill · 2006-08-30 03:38:14

You have two options. The first is to create a udev rule to assign the correct device the correct number. The second is to add an alias to /etc/modprobe.conf
for example:

alias wlan0 ndiswrapper

tomk · 2006-08-30 06:19:38

More on the udev option here.

roland · 2006-09-02 06:41:20

Sorry to reply so late but I've been really busy.

Thanks so much for your help. Works like a charm now.

Roland

roland · 2006-09-04 20:54:38

Sorry guys... it seems that the udev thing doesn't quite work.
Sometimes it picks the right card and sometimes it doesn't. Any suggestions?

sebcactus · 2006-09-05 14:16:51

Have you changed the name of the interfaces (e.g. lan0 and wlan0 instead of eth0 and eth1)?

An other solution is to disable module auto-loading /etc/rc.conf at in MODULES(): prefix your modules with a !
Then you can load them in the order you want.
For example:
MODULES(!ipw2100 !tg3 tg3 ipw2100). tg3 will be mapped to eth0 and ipw2100 to eth1.

hugin · 2006-09-05 17:41:17

solution++

use the iftab file... it's like your fstab except for network devices. I had the same problem, and this is how i fixed it.

the sytax is like this:

 device   mac 00:00:00:00:00:00

where device is something like eth0 and obviously make the mac addy yours.

man iftab for more info.

/jhs

Snarkout · 2006-09-09 20:56:45

hugin wrote:

solution++
use the iftab file... it's like your fstab except for network devices. I had the same problem, and this is how i fixed it.
the sytax is like this:
 device   mac 00:00:00:00:00:00 
where device is something like eth0 and obviously make the mac addy yours.
man iftab for more info.

/jhs

SWEET! Thanks for the tip - I'd been using udev and modules.conf - this is much simpler.

byte · 2006-09-09 22:28:33

Cool.

Now I like my /etc/*tab even more

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#1 2006-08-30 00:33:43

Network profile bind to mac address, possible?

#2 2006-08-30 03:38:14

Re: Network profile bind to mac address, possible?

#3 2006-08-30 06:19:38

Re: Network profile bind to mac address, possible?

#4 2006-09-02 06:41:20

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#5 2006-09-04 20:54:38

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#6 2006-09-05 14:16:51

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