[SOLVED - I think] Wireless interface aliased with different names

milasch · 2009-06-01 13:53:43

I have a laptop with 2 different interfaces:

Wired Ethernet and a wireless one.

The wireless interface is a broadcom BCM4312 which I had to install broadcom-wl drivers from AUR.

I configured it using netcfg on boot following arch linux wikis. My broadcom drivers load the device and it receives eth0 alias... Usually... My LAN interface receives eth1.

Sometimes though, it swaps and the wireless receives eth1. So my netcfg configuration ends up not loading on boot.

I work remotelly a lot and sometimes I need to boot my system remotelly too. Then I cant access it anymore.

Also, sometimes my wireless device isnt even loaded on boot. So I have to reboot it again. It is quite inconsistent.

I havent found fixes nowhere.

Can I set its alias to WLAN0 instead to avoid problems like this?

Last edited by milasch (2009-06-01 17:01:12)

u_no_hu · 2009-06-01 14:04:26

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ude … _Each_Boot

karol · 2009-06-01 14:09:59

Maybe you could tie eth0 to the hardware address of your broadcom?

milasch · 2009-06-01 17:04:37

I did a combination of loading modules in a specified order manually and created /etc/udev/rules.d/10-network.rules binding the mac address to the name. I wanted to reinforce wl module is properly loaded (sometimes when the system crashes the module doesnt get loaded next boot), and also have my wireless interface have wlan0 alias always so its easier to remember and manipulate its configuration files. If I have any problems I'll post new reply. Thank you all

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#1 2009-06-01 13:53:43

[SOLVED - I think] Wireless interface aliased with different names

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