On Tue 05 Jul 2016 at 18:20:15 +0200, deloptes wrote: > 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)
There is a complex interaction between the kernel and the modules it loads. Naming of interfaces is the very least of the problems the OP faces here and is a sideshow. > Thanks for helping Lisi. I also suspected the wpa_supplicant for the > problems she had. The supplicant has been well and truly exonerated.
