system-config-network confuses devices
W. Guy Thomas
mrguytx at austin.rr.com
Tue Oct 26 04:11:35 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 00:00 -0400, Erik Hemdal wrote:
> I encountered a really strange issue tonight on an FC2 laptop. I'm
> looking to hear if anyone else has had a similar experience, or if
> anyone could see if I did something stupid.
>
> I maintain two network profiles, one for work and one for "everywhere
> else". Tonight after returning home, system-network-config crashed upon
> trying to switch profiles. My work profile uses only the wired
> interface; my Common profile includes both wired and wireless.
>
> After restarting s-n-c, I was unable to operate my wireless network,
> even though the device was shown as 'Active' in the GUI.
>
> My system has two interfaces, a hardwire Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet
> interface and a Netgear MA401 wireless PCMCIA card. Checking the
> configuration revealed that no matter what I tried, the system would not
> recognize my wireless card, deciding instead that the Broadcom was the
> only live interface (it was not connected to anything).
>
> Here's what I had to do to clear the error:
>
> 1. Remove all devices in both network profiles.
> 2. Save the settings in system-network-config.
> 3. Shutdown the system (I suppose that stopping the network would have
> sufficed, but I was not taking chances).
> 4. Restart and let the system find the Broadcom interface as eth0.
> 5. Insert the wireless card and reconfigure it as eth1 from scratch.
>
> I'm now up and running, but with only the Common profile. I have the
> crash dump from s-n-c saved on disk.
>
> Thanks for the help. Erik
>
I have seen this in FC2.
My fix was to go to "services" and restart pcmcia for the wireless nic
to reappear. Hope that helps.
--
=Guy
23:10:49 up 1 day, 1:35, 2 users, load average: 2.56, 2.20, 1.85
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