Strange behaviour with boottime loading of ipw2200

Ralf Ertzinger fedora at camperquake.de
Fri Nov 3 15:53:14 UTC 2006


Hi.

> 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.

I get this from time to time, too, on an iBook (airport driver, so no
firmware involved).

> NetworkManager gets sort of confused by this. The interface does work
> though when configged by hand.

NM seems to work, dhclient does not like those ifnames.




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