Package: debian-installer Followup-For: Bug #288522
As requested, I spent some time researching the issue. If examine dmesg when booting into the 2.6 kernel, I see the following pertinent information about network initialization: ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394' ohci1394: $Rev: 1223 $ Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:01.2[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[11] MMIO=[f8fff000-f8fff7ff] Max Packet=[2048] ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[424fc00020434021] ip1394: $Rev: 1224 $ Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ip1394: eth1: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (fw-host0) NET: Registered protocol family 17 cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x170-0x177 0x370-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7 cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean. NET: Registered protocol family 10 Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c02fd020(lo) IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver orinoco.c 0.13e (David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others) orinoco_cs.c 0.13e (David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others) eth2: Station identity 001f:0001:0008:000a eth2: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 8.10 eth2: Ad-hoc demo mode supported eth2: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported eth2: WEP supported, 104-bit key eth2: MAC address 00:02:2D:69:7A:28 eth2: Station name "HERMES I" eth2: ready eth2: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 11, io 0x0100-0x013f As can be seen, it appears that the 1394 firewire interface is enumerated as eth1, and my wlan is enumerated as eth2. If I examine dmesg when booting the 2.4 kernel, I see that the 1394 firewire device is not enumerated as an interface and my wlan is enumerated as eth1, which is the same configuration that the debian-installer set up during its first boot seqeuence: ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[11] MMIO=[f8fff000-f8fff7ff] Max Packet=[2048] ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[424fc00020434021] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5 shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5 pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5 pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5 hw_random: misc device register failed uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1 cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x170-0x177 0x370-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7 cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: excluding 0x800-0x817 0x828-0x837 0x840-0x84f 0x860-0x877 0x880-0x88f 0x898-0x89f 0x8a8-0x8cf 0x8e0-0x8ff cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean. hermes.c: 4 Dec 2002 David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> orinoco.c 0.13d (David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others) orinoco_cs.c 0.13d (David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others) eth1: Station identity 001f:0001:0008:000a eth1: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 8.10 eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key eth1: MAC address 00:02:2D:69:7A:28 eth1: Station name "HERMES I" eth1: ready eth1: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 11, io 0x0100-0x013f eth1: New link status: Connected (0001) Notice above that the 1394 device is not given an interface name. Ok, so now that I know that my wlan is called eth2 during a 2.6 kernel boot, all I needed to do was duplicate the settings for eth1 in /etc/network/interfaces (which includes ssid and wep settings) as eth2. Now, wireless networking works flawlessly for both the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. So I think that this all boils down to the fact that during the 2.6 kernel boot process, the system decides to enumerate firewire devices as interfaces whereas during a 2.4 kernel boot the system does not. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
