FC5t2: Intel ipw2200 listed as dev19623 instead of eth1?

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Thu Jan 19 07:03:21 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 02:00 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Jurgen Kramer wrote:
> 
> >After a very smooth install of FC5t2, using the i386 DVD iso image over
> >NFS, on my tablet PC I noticed that my wireless LAN card (mini-PCI Intel
> >ipw 2200) was automatically configured as dev19623 instead of a more
> >logical and useful eth1 (eth0 is my onboard ethernet).
> >
> >Is this a new feature of t2? system-config-network shows my wireless
> >network card twice:
> >
> >Description: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG
> >Type: Wireless
> >Device: dev19623
> >
> >Description: ipw2200
> >Type: Ethernet
> >Device: eth1
> >
> >For the rest no complaints, very nice.
> >  
> >
> Kindly file a bug report against the kernel in http://bugzilla.redhat.com

I suspect that's the effect of kudzu not writing a
new /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 , not a kernel bug.
-- 
  Peter




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