Strange behaviour with boottime loading of ipw2200

[Rubin]

Hi.

I started the thread. Someone responded that setting HWADDR
in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 might make the problem
disappear. 

And it did! After setting HWADDR with the MAC for the wireless card, the
problem has not been encountered since.

I guess it still is a problem, but it works. Not very nice for mom and
pops at home trying out a user-friendly linux distro though.

Greets,


Rubin. 

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 12:34 -0700, Tyler Larson wrote:
> darrell pfeifer wrote:
> > The random name seems to be created (by udev?) when the firmware
> > doesn't load. I suspect it is a timing problem (or the 'failed'
> > timeout needs to be just a bit longer).
> >
> > The issue was there for a while a about two months before FC6 release,
> > disappeared for a bit and got worse just about FC6 release time.
> FWIW, this issue is not limited to FC6; I've seen it fairly consistently 
> on FC5 as well (HP dv1000 laptop). I always thought it had something to 
> do with initscripts, but I guess that's not the case.
>