system-config-network confuses devices

[W. Guy Thomas]

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.

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=Guy
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