Try to load prism54 after eth0

zhoul · n00b Joined: 09 Jun 2005 Posts: 12

I have two wired cards(eth0,eth1) and one wireless card (eth2).
It seems every time my prism54 is loaded to the first network card it sees
no matter if the network card is a wireless card or not.

starting eth0
Configuring wireless network for eth0
But eth0 is not my wireless card. I am wondering if anybody knows how to fix this problem.
I tried udev frename, but it does not work. I think there must a file that controls how wireless
network is loaded.

Thanks in advance.

UberLord · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 8:42 am Post subject:

So change all occurances of eth0 to eth2 in your config

zhoul · n00b Joined: 09 Jun 2005 Posts: 12

UberLord, Thank you for answering my question.

I am new to gentoo. I am just wondering if you could give me a little bit detail on how to change
occurances in my config, like what files I should look into and just briefly
what I should change. Hope this would not take you a lot of time.

Thank you so much.

UberLord · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 5:25 pm Post subject:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=2
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=4

Basically, /etc/conf.d/net has defaults like

zhoul · n00b Joined: 09 Jun 2005 Posts: 12

I just checked my /etc/conf.d/net and wireless.
In /net, it has

iface_eth0="10.10.1.151 broadcast 10.10.1.255 netmask 255.255.255.0"
iface_eth1="10.100.20.10 broadcast 10.100.10.255 netmask 255.255.255.0"
routes_eth1=("......")
gateway="eth0/10.10.1.254"

I changed eth0 to eth2. When I reboot, it still gives me

Starting eth0
Configuring wireless network for eth0
eth0 connected to.....
Bringing up eth0
10.10.1.151
adding routes.....
Starting eth1.......

I think there must be a similar file somewhere controlling the sequence. I have been looking
for similar config files for two hours. I do not know where I should look. Sorry for bothering you
again. Could you tell me where the problem could possibly be?

Thank you so much.

UberLord · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 3:25 pm Post subject:

Oh sorry - I think I misunderstood your problem.

eth0 is your wireless card - but you want it to be eth2 instead? Is that correct?

If so, look into ifrename, part of wireless-tools and ensure your wireless driver is compiled as a kernel module and not builtin.

zhoul · n00b Joined: 09 Jun 2005 Posts: 12

It works now. I am so excited. Thank you Uberlord.
It turns out that I loaded prism54 as a builtin instead of a module.
Thank you so much!!!!