wireless, Broadcom & jaunty

[Derek Broughton]

Sorry if this shows up twice - I started writing and the message just 
disappeared.  I don't _think_ it got sent...

NoOp wrote:

> Typically it will be wlan0 and the first ethernet wired port will be
> eth0. There were some issues with Ubuntu mixing the mac assignements &
> even incrementing the ethx. There is a way to clear it, but I can't put
> my finger on it just now (it's here in the archives). 
I'm pretty certain you just delete the udev .rule file (actually, rename it 
to anything without a .rule suffix - that way when I'm wrong you can just 
name it back), and (as with CD/DVDs) it will rebuild the ruleset when it 
doesn't find any rules.

> The fact that udev
> is reassigning wlan0 to eth0 is a bit of a puzzle (to me) & worth
> looking into further.

I think this is pretty much guaranteed if you have the same MAC address 
assigned, which is pretty easy to do (though hardly likely to be 
accidental).  Otherwise, I'm pretty sure I have actually had a broadcom NIC 
given an eth* name, though it's quite some time since I've used a broadcom.

>> By the way, I never use /etc/init.d/<any_service parameter> but sudo
>> service <any_service parameter>. Service is a small wrapper utιlity in
>> /usr/bin. I used it always in Fedora.
> 
Well, ain't that kewl!  I defined an alias for "service" ages back.  I never 
even noticed that it has been added in the sysvinit-utils package.