Various recent threads about networking issues

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Ambrogio wrote:

> Il giorno mar, 27/06/2006 alle 09.06 -0400, Matthew Saltzman ha scritto:
>> I've seen a number of threads in the last couple of days about networking
>> problems after installing kernel-2.6.17-1.2139_FC5.  If you are having
>> problems and you have more than one NIC, please try the following and
>> report back whether it works:
>>
>> (1) Install initscripts-8.31.2-1 from updates-testing.
>> (2) If you have an ipw2100 or ipw2200, install the latest appropriate
>> firmware RPM from livna.
>> (3) Open system-config-network and delete all interfaces from the
>> interfaces tab and all devices from the hardware tab.
>> (4) Edit /etc/modprobe.conf and remove aliases for network devices.
>> (5) Reboot.
>> (6) Open system-config-network and verify that your devices are correctly
>> configured.  (Note that the device order may have changed.  After this, it
>> will not change again.)
>> (7) Check /etc/modprobe.conf.  If you use an ipw2200, the following
>> options are recommended:
>>
>>  	options ipw2200 hwcrypto=0 associate=0
>>
>> (7) Test your interfaces.
> done.
> It works, but I think it worked also before.
> The problem is that change in naming interface is not good.

That's right.  But the initscripts fixes the apparently random 
reassignment that people are seeing.  It has to pick an order, and if that 
wasn't the last one you saw, it will change.  From now on, though, it 
won't change any more.

>
> Bye
> Ambrogio
>
>
>

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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