Strange behaviour with boottime loading of ipw2200

Denis Leroy denis at poolshark.org
Fri Nov 3 14:50:52 UTC 2006


Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Rubin (rubin at xs4all.nl) said: 
>> It used to work without a problem for a couple of days but suddenly I'm
>> getting very weird interface names. Instead of "eth1", I'm getting
>> "__tmp437329847239" where the number behind tmp is random.
> 
> Do you have an ifcfg file with the proper HWADDR for the device?

I suffer from the same problem too. In some cases, it's the wireless 
that doesn't come up properly, and i have to restart things manually 
until it picks it up right. Yes, in my case i have the correct HWADDR 
lines in the ifcfg files.




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