Wireless card detection

[Fernando Apesteguía]

On 1/22/07, Phil Meyer <pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com> wrote:
> Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
> > Hello people,
> >
> > Since I installed FC6 I'm experiencing some problems with my ipw2200.
> > Sometimes, when I boot, the wireless card is not properly detected.
> > The output for ifconfig -a is:
> >
> > __tmp2093065627 Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0E:35:FD:AA:0F
> >          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >          RX packets:1284 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >          TX packets:1284 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> >          RX bytes:3144632 (2.9 MiB)  TX bytes:3144632 (2.9 MiB)
> >          Interrupt:16 Memory:54020000-54020fff
> >
> > while usually is eth1.
> >
> > If I try to use that name with for example dhclient, I get:
> > SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> > eth1: unknown interface: No such device
> > eth1: unknown interface: No such device
> > Bind socket to interface: No such device
> >
> > The problem only disappears after rebooting (sometimes I have to
> > reboot twice)
> >
> > I can not find any pattern here.
> > I looked for in bugzilla and I couldn't find any bugs about this so, I
> > would like to know if more people has this problem (or if it is
> > solved) before reporting a bug.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
>
> Check /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 for:
> HWADDR=
>
> If not set, set it.  If set incorrectly, set it correctly.

Not set at all. I set the value. I hope this fixes the problem.
>
> Also check your firmware version:
>
> # ls -l /lib/firmware
> ...
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191142 Mar  7  2006 ipw2200-bss.fw
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 185660 Mar  7  2006 ipw2200-ibss.fw
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 187836 Mar  7  2006 ipw2200-sniffer.fw
> ...
>
> Symptoms are exactly as you describe.  Workaround is to:
>
> # ifdown eth1
> # rmmod ipw220
> # modprobe ipw2200
> # ifup eth1
>
> That should work every time, but indicates that the firmware may be bad,
> or HWADDR is wrong in the ifcfg-eth1 file.
>
> Good luck!
>
>
>
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