Bug#495676: hw-detect: hw-detect new device detection misbehaves with wlan* devices

2008-08-24 Thread Frans Pop
> I tried to dig the history of the repository in order to figure out why > snapshot_dev() used "sort" in the first place, but I was not able to > get any meaningful result. Do anyone have an idea? The reason for the sort is probably to make the dialog show: eth0: . eth1: . wlan0:

Bug#495676: hw-detect: hw-detect new device detection misbehaves with wlan* devices

2008-08-19 Thread Otavio Salvador
Jérémy Bobbio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I see two possible fixes here: > > * Stop sorting devices in snapshot_devs() anymore. I don't see why >the kernel would reorder the content of /proc/net/dev when new >modules are inserted. From my tests, this nicely solved the issue. > * Ma

Bug#495676: hw-detect: hw-detect new device detection misbehaves with wlan* devices

2008-08-19 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
Package: hw-detect Version: 1.65 Severity: important Hi! While testing a daily image on a Lenovo R61 with a manually updated 2.6.26 image, I was puzzled when I was asked "Do you intend to use FireWire Ethernet?" on a machine which has both wired and wireless LAN cards. 2.6.26 kernels re-introduc