Arch Linux

xtypestereotype

Member

From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2005-05-30

Posts: 4

Network profile insists on eth0 - Won't accept nothing but eth0! Bug?

Hi there.
I've just got a Thinkpad X60s and, after a few years away from Arch, I decided to come back...
I have just wiped windows off using dd (no mercy) and have installed Arch via the ~30MB iso off an usb stick...
Arch is running all fine except for the wireless config.
I have an ipw3945 card in this laptop and a WPA connection, and I can get it working via the net profiles IF and ONLY IF my connection is set to eth0

If i I try using eth1 or wlan0 it doesn't work at all...

I have been reading these wikis below but nothing here works.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wpa_supplicant
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_Setup
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ndi … supplicant

I tried both the stardard network config and via the network profiles.
With the standard way, I can connect via eth1, but then I need to run wpa_supplicant via the command line
That works fine and I can connect to the internet all good.
(BTW, can I set WPA to work without a network profile? - that would probably be one solution - although not an answer to the problem)

But with the network profile way, I can only connect via eth0...
So I am wondering, is there a hidden config somewhere setting my wlan to eth0, not mentioned on those wiki pages?

I tried changing /etc/rc.conf /etc/network-profiles/myprofile /etc/conf.d/wireless /etc/modprobe.conf to no avail...
Also looked at /etc/wpa_supplicant - although it works when invoked via the command line...

I could leave my wireless connection on eth0, but that would be giving up, and I wanna know what's happening...

No matter what I change, after I boot up and log in, iwconfig ALWAYS gives me eth0....
Also, I get error messages from the network process during boot if i'm trying a network profile and i'm trying something other than eth0
And no matter what the error message, iwconfig always gives me eth0

Anyone has any ideas?

Thanks, and keep up the good work! Feels good to be back

Peace

luca

Member

From: Rome

Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 280

Re: Network profile insists on eth0 - Won't accept nothing but eth0! Bug?

Hi xtypestereotype,
take a look at

/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules