David Wright wrote: > This laptop works perfectly well with eth1. It justs needs you > to change wlan0 to eth1 in wicd when you install it (Shift-P and > type eth1 in the appropriate box).
Ah yes might have been the easier way. The naming is set in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules I couldn't find out why and when it changed. Perhaps eth* is typical for ipw2200 (However https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=78419) Thanks for helping Lisi. I also suspected the wpa_supplicant for the problems she had. I found those articles pretty interesting and useful https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html#_the_basic_network_infrastructure https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch03.en.html#_the_udev_system https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi regards
