Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 167991
RFE: Add consistency check for aliasing
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:13 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050827 Fedora/1.1-0.2.8.deerpark.alpha2 Firefox/1.0+ Description of problem: My wireless network interface ath0:1 is not started or shut down by the network init script. Maybe it's because it contains a colon... my old ath0 interface was started up just fine. This name was chosen by the system-config-network script. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-8.12-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Reboot. Additional info:
ath0:1 would be an alias device; that's not a primary interface name. Assigning to system-config-network, but it looks like just a configuration error.
Well, I think the way this happened was that I added a second interface for my wireless card, before erasing the first one... then I erased the first one, leaving myself in this situation. I suppose it's a rather dumb thing to do, and maybe the bug should be closed. On the other hand, the problem is that I didn't know this was an alias name - there's nothing to indicate this - I shouldn't be expected to know the naming patterns of Linux ethernet cards. On the other hand I do know that I set "Start device on boot" to yes, and my device isn't being started. Perhaps UI design should anticipate the user to do something dumb, and deal with it...
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/system-config-network/ticket/45