Re: wireless puzzle, Lenovo T60, 2.6.24

[Stuart Prescott <debian-expires2007@nanonanonano.net>]

Hi Jim,

This is an increasingly common occurrence as people are migrating from the 
etch kernel with the horrendously non-free ipw3945 driver to the shiny new 
iwlwifi driver that is in the Debian kernels as of 2.6.23.

The cure is to edit /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules and remove the 
line that is associating your wireless device with the ipw3945 driver.

Further instructions are at:

http://www.nanonanonano.net/linux/debian/ipw2iwl

or

http://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi#head-c9ab967d827d9e5de52656b78edab5f349bc70f6

>    udev: renamed network interface wmaster0 to wlan

BTW you don't want to rename wmaster0 -- just leave that one as it is. The 
device to use is the wlan0 device.

For anyone else who is curious, it seems that network-manager doesn't like the 
wlan0_rename device and refuses to work with it. Fixing up 
your /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules file will allow 
network-manager to once again manage your wireless device.

cheers
Stuart



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