[FC4] wlan interface broke down after update

Marko Asplund marko.asplund at kronodoc.com
Mon Feb 27 19:46:18 UTC 2006


hi

i updated FC4 with yum a few weeks ago and after the update my wlan 
interface stopped working. it's a dual boot system and wlan works fine 
on Windows XP so it shouldn't be a hardware issue.

when i boot the system here's what happens:
...
Shutting down interface eth0:                              [  OK  ]
Shutting down loopback interface:                          [  OK  ]
Bringing up loopback interface:                            [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface eth0:
Determining IP information for eth0... done.
                                                           [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface eth1:  cannot change name of wlan0 to eth1: File 
exists
cannot change name of wlan0 to eth1: File exists
cannot change name of wlan0 to dev5346: File exists
cannot change name of wlan0 to dev370: File exists
cannot change name of wlan0 to dev17832: File exists
 ... the last line is repeated over and over

the problematic update included the following packages among others:
    kernel-2.6.15-1.1831-FC4
    udev-071-0.FC4.2
    module-init-tools-3.2-0.pre9.0.FC4.1
    libselinux-1.23.11-1.1

any ideas on how to fix this problem?


br. aspa




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