Bug 354141

Summary: wlan interface is called wlan0_rename_re
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0 Reporter: Andreas Jaeger <aj>
Component: NetworkAssignee: Kay Sievers <kasievers>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None CC: casualprogrammer, farmerfc, kerekfyp
Version: Alpha 2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
Whiteboard:
Found By: --- Services Priority:
Business Priority: Blocker: ---
Marketing QA Status: --- IT Deployment: ---

Description Andreas Jaeger 2008-01-16 13:44:44 UTC
on my factory installation, my wlan interface is now called wlan0_rename_re.  This looks broken.
Comment 1 Kay Sievers 2008-01-16 15:40:05 UTC
What's the content of:
  /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
?
Comment 2 Andreas Jaeger 2008-01-17 08:15:04 UTC
# PCI device 0x8086:0x5227 (ipw3945)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:1b:77:6d:a0:67", NAME="eth1"


Note: I use iwl3945!

dmesg shows:
wmaster0 renamed to eth1
udev: renamed network interface wmaster0 to eth1
wlan0 renamed to wlan0_rename
Comment 3 Kay Sievers 2008-01-17 08:20:42 UTC
The line misses: ATTR{type}=="1"

When you delete the file from the old installation and reboot, all works and the recreated file looks correct, right? 
Comment 4 Andreas Jaeger 2008-01-17 12:47:36 UTC
Indeed, if I delete the line everything looks fine, the file contains now:

# PCI device 0x8086:0x4227 (iwl3945)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:1b:77:6d:a0:67", ATTR{type}=="1", NAME="wlan0"

and the interfaces are wmaster0 and wlan0
Comment 5 Casual J. Programmer 2008-03-13 18:53:57 UTC
See Bug 342183
Comment 6 Casual J. Programmer 2008-03-13 18:59:19 UTC
As well as Bug 366459    	
Comment 7 Michal Zugec 2008-03-13 19:21:29 UTC
*** Bug 366459 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 JP Rosevear 2008-03-26 15:59:54 UTC
*** Bug 372926 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 JP Rosevear 2008-03-26 16:00:52 UTC
Bumping to major, this can break networking in some cases.
Comment 10 Kay Sievers 2008-03-27 20:38:41 UTC
A %post script to add KERNEL== match to existing persistent net rules, created by earlier installations, added. This hopefully fixes it.
Comment 11 Katarina Machalkova 2008-04-03 16:02:07 UTC
*** Bug 332138 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 Carl Farmer 2008-07-11 16:32:31 UTC
After switching to OpenSuSe 11 from 10.3 I also could not connect to wireless.
I read this bugfix and found that the actions here were necessary, but did not actually get a working connection. I could use KWiFiManager to see the networks and Kwlan would do a number of things but not connect. WPA-Supplicant would not start. I found that if I would disable networking service, which also shut down Bluetooth, nfs, syslog, and autoyast, then start it back up, then I could run Kwlan and the WPA-Supplicant seemed to work. I got a connection that reported as working and got an ip assignment from my router, but it still would not actually transfer data.
Today I tried out using KWiFiManager and then running netgo that I got from Packman. It is a CLI application, and I had to enter a valid static ip, netmask, gateway, and nameserver, as well as the security codes, but now it looks like it works.
It is not a thing that just turns on and works when you boot, so I hope someone is working on this wifi function for SuSe 11?