Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 97196
RFE: parse /etc/modprobe.d/*
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:31 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: I have Compaq Multiport W200 radiocard. The driver was downloaded from http://ranty.ddts.net/~ranty/orinoco/ The driver installed without any problems. Now if I run ifconfig, I have the devices lo, eth0 and wlan0. iwconfig recognizes wlan0 as a wireless lan. Neat does not recognize this wireless lan. (Bug ?) I created manually an ifcfg-wlan0, and I could start up the wireless lan with "ifup wlan0". If I create network profiles involving wlan0 manually, network profiles work as it should. But if I start up neat and choose to edit the wlan0 device, wlan0 is replaced by ethX and ifup doesn't work anynore. [If I try to configure the wireless lan with neat, then choosing other network card -> card that loads the driver (lucent/orinico), I get the message that the device isn't present when I try to activate. If I rename ifcfg-eth1 to ifcfg-wlan0 and replacing eth1 with wlan0, then "ifup wlan0" works. "ifup et1" never worked] Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure wlan0 device manually, since neat doesn't recognize wlan0 2. Edit device with neat. Actual Results: The files ifcfg-wlan0 are renamed to ifcfg-ethX. The files are edited and the DEVICE=wlan0 is replaced with DEVICE=eth1 Expected Results: Neat should recognize wlanX devices and treat the similar to ppp0 , eth0 devices Additional info:
I have the same problem with some different environment items. I have a ThinkPad with a built-in Prism-based wireless card. I use the "hostap" driver, which also provides a wlan0 device. It is neat's naming convention of "ethx" that causes the problem. It is not prepared to create wlan0 devices. I can make the system work without neat. If I edit the config with neat, it changes the device name and renames the ifcfg file to ethx. Then I can't run "ifup wlan0" anymore.
It's still not fixed in FC-2 - I cannot config wlan* devices with system-config-network.
I have quite a bit of experience with configuring wlanx devices with system-config-network. Please post a copy of the ifcfg-wlan0 file you started with. We use ndiswrapper with the Broadcom wireless cards and system-config-network will change the config in ifcfg-wlan0 in that setup. Visit www.zd7000forums.com and look under Linux. There is a wireless HOWTO there that works well.
This is with FC5. I'm also using ndiswrapper and it works. But only if I put "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper" in /etc/modprobe.conf instead of /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper (where the ndiswrapper prog puts it) So aparently the module scanning of neat is broken. Tobias
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/system-config-network/ticket/12