Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 16:38:50 +0000, Chris Lale wrote:
My Edimax EW-7108pcg PCMCIA wifi card (rt2500 driver) works perfectly in
my constantly upgraded version of Etch (Testing). I installed the rt2500
driver some weeks ago. The same driver, built in the same way, will not
work in a fresh install of Etch in a new partition on the same machine
(Thinkpad T20).
In both cases I built the rt2500 module from the rt2500-source package
using module assistant. The resulting modules package was the same version:
rt2500-modules-2.6.17-2-686 version 1.1.0+cvs20060620-3+2.6.17-9
On the fresh install I have also tried the rt2x00 module. On the fresh
install I have also tried ndswrapper for the Edimax card and another
card (D-Link DWL-G650), but no luck. The interface will not come up
(using ifup).
With the rt2500 module, the card is detected and the rt2500 module loads
OK in both cases. The only difference that I can find between the two
systems is that the name allocated to the wireless interface is
different. On the working system, the command iwconfig gives wlan0 for
the wireless interface:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
irda0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 RT2500 Wireless ESSID:"essid-of-my-modem/router"
[...]
sit0 no wireless extensions.
On the fresh install, the interface's name has been changed from wlan0
to eth1. (Also, irda0 and sit0 are not detected):
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 RT2500 Wireless ESSID:""
[...]
When I installed ndiswrapper on the fresh install, the wireless
interface appeared as wlan0_rename
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0_rename RT2500 Wireless ESSID:""
[...]
Does anyone know what might be causing the wireless interface to have
different names on the fresh install of Etch? Any suggestions gratefully
received.
The usual suspect for issues with the names of network devices is
/etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules.
As far as the general problem with the device is concerned: It seems
that eth1 in the new install is accepted as a wireless network device,
so it should work.
I think you must be right - this is not the problem. I substituted wlan0
for eth1 in /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules and rebooted
(there must be a better way). iwconfig now reported wlan0. I also
modified /etc/network/interfaces, substituting wlan0 for eth0, but the
interface still would not work.
Did you adjust the data in /etc/network/interfaces to
match the new name of the device? Ifup needs this information to set the
ESSID, encryption key, etc.
Yes, this all looks OK:
iface wlan0 inet static
address 192.168.1.3
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
wireless-essid solarsystem
wireless-key 0123456789
It seems that the kernel modules are different. lsmod reports what looks
like a difference in size:
original system:
rt2500 149988 1
fresh install:
rt2500 151748 1
Is it possible to copy the module over from the original system to the
new system? Which files are involved?
--
Chris.
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